Ex-unionists head state units. But can they pull up labour, push up productivity?
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COVER STORY
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The <i>Tehelka</i> spy who caught them red-handed, on his new thriller, Bunker 13 (<i>Farrar, Strauss & Giroux</i>), which is making waves abroad
The earth's blazing sigh; Rare stripes; The Jat algebra; Amid dikkuphobia; Fragments of a struggle; The milk of human kindness
There is cynicism on the world's most formidable battlefield as India and Pakistan talk peace once again. For the troops, Kargil is still fresh on their memories.
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The <i>Tehelka</i> spy who caught them red-handed, on his new thriller, Bunker 13 (<i>Farrar, Strauss & Giroux</i>), which is making waves abroad
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Health experts are flummoxed by Sushma Swaraj's moral turn on AIDS awareness
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The earth's blazing sigh; Rare stripes; The Jat algebra; Amid dikkuphobia; Fragments of a struggle; The milk of human kindness
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There is cynicism on the world's most formidable battlefield as India and Pakistan talk peace once again. For the troops, Kargil is still fresh on their memories.
OTHER STORIES
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The rupee marches on. But can India's exports cope with a weakening dollar?
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Prehistoric sites in Tamil Nadu battle nature, but granite quarries may yet kill them
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The royal government's call to arms through an ad gives India reason to worry
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Musharraf will have proof of the pudding when Bush hosts him at Camp David
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Inhabitants of a poor Calcutta slum learn about hygiene and health care from their kids
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Al Qaeda is back, London shudders. But for the people, hit by 'intelligence fatigue', it's all in a day's work.
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An HC judge's missive to colleagues urges a clean up of the higher judiciary
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Business as usual. India's going all out to 'lend a hand' in rebuilding Iraq, but there's a long queue already.
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What do you say of a film that makes a cracker of a start and then just ends in a disappointing whimper?
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Post-Khalistan prosperity in Punjab has its flip side: a generation hooked to drugs
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Celebrity-owned foodcourts to schmooze in
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The food business is in full flavour, tickling Indian taste buds and keeping the cash tills jingling like never before
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Is it Iran's turn now to be shocked and awed? Uncle Sam has some 'evidence'.
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Now both the Congress and the BJP are competing for forward caste votes by seeking reservation for the poor among them. This makes the Mandal formula ...
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Book-Shook, anyone? Firangis turn desi, or is that the Future of Freedom?
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Old wine in a new bottle? But, then, some vintage wines are so superb that one cannot tire of savouring them
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The deconstructing of an Indian prince and an English cricketer
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With the assembly polls closing in, the party's hunting hard for a vote-worthy issue
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In an industry that sells virginal love, why is it that our greatest Romeos these days are all around 40?