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Splitting The Waters

Advani's 'Sindhu Darshan' is now a symbol of his hold over the party

Jun 16, 2003

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Cover Story

The Day Of The Old Fox

Neither tired nor retired, Vajpayee emerges winner in the latest bout of shadow-boxing with his deputy Updates

Jun 16, 2003

| Saba Naqvi

STATES OF THE NATION

State Gazette

A calender of old wounds, Life-saving nexus, A grain of truth, Hill air through AC vents, Bitter aftertaste of sugar, A tottering house of stars

Jun 16, 2003

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reservation

A Fly In The Gravy

Experts claim that upper caste quotas will stand social justice on its head

Jun 16, 2003

| Priyanka Kakodkar Bhavdeep Kang
- Distribution Of Brahmin Population
- 'Quotas Are A Craze Now'
andhra pradesh

Merciless Celsius

Poverty, drought and now the heat plunge Andhra in a macabre dance of death Updates

Jun 16, 2003

| Savitri Choudhury
- Heat And Dust, Revisited
gujarat

The Wheel's Turning

Dalits who bloodied their hands for Hindutva last year are turning to the Buddha

Jun 16, 2003

| Darshan Desai

iraq

That Blairing Music

The British PM is gung-ho, but his future depends on whether Iraq yields WMD or not

Jun 16, 2003

| Sanjay Suri Ashish Kumar Sen
jehadi outfits

Looking Down The Barrel

Terror's poster boys, JeM's Azhar and Hizb's Salahuddin, find they are out of favour

Jun 16, 2003

| Amir Mir
- 'Vajpayee Is Too Shrewd'
iran

Across The Persian Gulf

After Iraq, the US has put Iran on notice. Trouble for India is, it cannot ignore either.

Jun 16, 2003

| V. Sudarshan
opinion

The Peace Impasse

Indo-Pak talks may depend on the latter's ability to manoeuvre on lesser issues Updates

Jun 16, 2003

| Prem Shankar Jha
impressions

Fun, Fear...And Faith

The Church has hit a lean patch in Europe, the welfare system replacing God

Jun 16, 2003

| Anita Pratap
EXCLUSIVE

Uncle's Grand Slam!

The top brass fumes at a secret American report which calls the Indian army arrogant and protocol-obsessed

Jun 16, 2003

| Ranjit Bhushan
- Sweeping Swipes

electronic goods

A White Hot Feeling

Marketing chutzpah, a mass product range put yesterday's po or cousins, the Koreans, on top

Jun 16, 2003

| Gauri Bhatia
- Boom Time
Television

Inside The Boxing Ring

The politics of CAS will determine its success or failure. The pluses or minuses don't count Updates

Jun 16, 2003

| Charubala Annuncio Arindam Mukherjee

society

Mercury Rising

A life on the edge. Too many people, too little time and space. Urban India is suffering from bouts of rage that are translating into serious crime.

Jun 16, 2003

| Ashis K. Biswas Chander Suta Dogra S. Anand Pramila N. Phatarphekar Manu Joseph B.R. Srikanth

Cricket

The Mid-Off Blues

The SC allows Ajay Jadeja to play domestic cricket. But is time running out on him to get into the national side? Updates

Jun 16, 2003

| V. Krishnaswamy

Films

The Horror Show

Fear has a new face in Bollywood: no more of the hackneyed shock tactics.

Jun 16, 2003

| Namrata Joshi

10 Questions

Javed Miandad

The former Pakistani cricket captain on his autobiography, Cutting Edge. Excerpts from an interview with Agha Akbar, sports editor, The Nation, Lahore

Jun 16, 2003

| Agha Akbar
Gossip

Bibliofile

Introducing Zafar Rushdie, son of His Salmanness, PR Executive, while Midnight's Children is recently voted one of Britain's all-time favourites.

Jun 16, 2003

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Opinion

Bull's Eye

Last week, the prime minister in Berlin said that if talks with Pakistan did not succeed this time he would resign. This reflects his confidence. There ...

Jun 16, 2003

| Rajinder Puri
Delhi Diary

Telling Tete-a-Tete

Jun 16, 2003

| Vinod Mehta
making a difference

A Few Elementary Adventures

A retired chemist inspires kids to unravel the simple mysteries of the magical elements

Jun 16, 2003

| Priyanka Kakodkar
review

Small Town Savoury

A bitter-sweet tale of a small, down-at-heel town, Pipalnagar, and its inhabitants

Jun 16, 2003

| Jill Lowe
Review

Sex, Spies And Red Tape

Suspend your disbelief and zip through this sometime intriguing, sometime shocking read

Jun 16, 2003

| Vikram Chandra
review

Up Parkes Street

This is not a book to be read cover to cover. It's an ideal bathroom read, made for dipping into at random

Jun 16, 2003

| Anita Roy
Showtime

X-Men 2

Director Bryan Singer carefully positioned X2 not "as a sequel but the next adventure in a saga -- an evolution from the first film".

Jun 16, 2003

| V. Venkatesan
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