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THE MAGAZINE February 17, 2003

Cover Story

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Thoughts For The Pathless

One option is for all public discourse to be single-minded about issues of governance, in the hope that the topic can be changed.

Feb 17, 2003

| Pratap Bhanu Mehta
A Time For Nic Pic-king

The dormant National Integration Council gives way to a new body. Can it deliver?

Feb 17, 2003

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A Leaf Out Of Nehru's Book

He wouldn't brook communalism in any form, says Bipan Chandra. A lesson there?

Feb 17, 2003

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Worship is Work...Pray, What's That?

In pre-poll mode, most Congress states are more into symbolism than local issues

Feb 17, 2003

| Bhavdeep Kang
Cover Story

Three Horns Of A Dilemma

From lip-service to Nehruvian idealism to card-holding Hinduism, the wheel has come half-circle for the Congress. How will it complete the arc?

Feb 17, 2003

| Ranjit Bhushan

STATES OF THE NATION

State Gazette

The four pillars of grandeur and their unstable ground; Reckoning's vicious circle; Tipped by land lines; A sweeping survey; Breaking the sound barrier and The capital extravaganza

Feb 17, 2003

| Bhavdeep Kang
ayodhya

Wooing The Law

Is the government doing the VHP's work in the courts? More Coverage

Feb 17, 2003

| Saba Naqvi

iraq

Clutch No Straw

Endnotes from a nation and people poised on the edge of a seemingly inevitable war

Feb 17, 2003

| Nahlah Ayed
us

When Hawks Soar And Doves Cry

It's you're either with us or against us again. And nobody wants to be against the US. More Coverage

Feb 17, 2003

| Shiraz Sidhva
Columbia crash

Fireballs In The Sky

Initial investigations suggest the insulation that came off during lift-off may be responsible More Coverage

Feb 17, 2003

| Davinder Kumar
crime

The Company's Stock Takes A Hit

The Dubai police finally decide on a clean-up, but only after blood is spilled and with some external pressure from neighbours More Coverage

Feb 17, 2003

| Priyanka Kakodkar V.R. Reddy
- Dawood's Decline
OPINION

Man On The Dartboard

The 1998 attack on Kurds that gave Saddam his 'monster' tag has now been shown to have been an act by the Iranian army.

Feb 17, 2003

| Prem Shankar Jha
impressions

The Siphon On Top

Living standards and corruption are directly related to each other. India ranks 124 on the HDI index, in the corruption ranks it scores a lowly 2.7 out of 10.

Feb 17, 2003

| Anita Pratap
bangla migrants

Estranged Pilgrims

The fuzzy border on the east again crackles with acrimony, but it all ends quietly. Or does it? More Coverage

Feb 17, 2003

| Ashis K. Biswas Nitin A. Gokhale
- Birds On Wires

dairy

The Day After The Cheese-Off

Mother Dairy floats joint ventures with state cooperatives—and its 'progenitor' Amul isn't just crying over spilt milk either

Feb 17, 2003

| Arindam Mukherjee
- Patel's Spiel
- Kurien's Spin

fashion

Li'l Tweenie Learns To Bop

They are seven going on 18...leapfrogging from crayons to perfumes and tattoos. What gives?

Feb 17, 2003

| Charubala Annuncio B.R. Srikanth Mallica Singh

TVS Victor Profiles

Playing For Six & Out

Even if he is no McGrath, there is a certain exactitude to his bowling these days in that he uses a tape measure to mark a run-up of 21.3 metres.

Feb 17, 2003

| G. Rajaraman
- G(lee)nings
Captainspeak

Tripping On Potholes

If the Kiwis refuse to play Kenya, Carl Hooper's boys may edge past them for the Super Six round. Statistically speaking, it will only help India.

Feb 17, 2003

| Sourav Ganguly
Mark My Words

Speaking Stage Fright

As an observer of cricket, Waugh shows the same depth that made him one of the finest batsmen. He will cover the World Cup exclusively for Outlook.

Feb 17, 2003

| Mark Waugh

sahitya akademi

Writers' Blocs

Politics maligns the literary world of the Sahitya Akademi as elections to its top post divide the writers into rival camps

Feb 17, 2003

| Sheela Reddy
OPINION

In Her Own Orbit

Did that touring moon-rock ever make it to Karnal? I doubt it but it stays with me—she made it closer to the moon than I ever will.

Feb 17, 2003

| Ruchir Joshi
Review

Triple Sundae

This engaging novel, unselfconscious of barriers, definitions and changing boundaries, is a coming-of-age of Indian diaspora writers.

Feb 17, 2003

| Namita Gokhale
Review

Odd Accents

Part II of this novel is so superior to Part I that I would prefer to think of it as a separate narrative altogether.

Feb 17, 2003

| Manjula Padmanabhan
Review

The Mother Complex

The man who claims to be hard on facts is poor on judgement

Feb 17, 2003

| Khushwant Singh

Art & Entertainment

news channels

Reality Bites With Images

Television in India is on the threshold of its second boom. And this time news will call the shots.

Feb 17, 2003

| Charubala Annuncio Arijit Barman Gauri Bhatia
- Counting Eyeballs, Every Hour, On The Hour
- Anchors Away
UK

Mohandas Gandhi, Who?

India's freedom was chosen not by the satyagrahis, but the Americans, suggests a new TV series

Feb 17, 2003

| Sanjay Suri

Baghdad Diary

Ashen Sands

Feb 17, 2003

| Paul Danahar

Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

Letters

Published feedback from our readers: rants, raves, bouquets, brickbats

Regulars

10 Questions

Ajay Jadeja

On the court ruling lifting the ban on him from playing cricket

Feb 17, 2003

| Bobby John Varkey
Gossip

Bibliofile

"Anyone heard of Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy and Upamanyu Chatterjee?" RSS chief K.S. Sudershan asked the Sangh members.

Feb 17, 2003

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Opinion

Bull's Eye

In one sense the assessment of the post-poll fallout of the Gujarat elections made in this column has gone horribly wrong. As predicted, Prime Minister ...

Feb 17, 2003

| Rajinder Puri
Making A Difference

A school learns to supplement its staple with common slum sense

Feb 17, 2003

| K.S. Shaini
Showtime

Shubho Muhurat

A refreshing change in the arid world of Bengali cinema, particularly for a clash of histrionic skills between Sharmila and Rakhee.

Feb 17, 2003

| Manjira Majumdar
Glitterati

The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news

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