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THE MAGAZINE SPECIAL ISSUE August 18, 2003

Surviving India

Surviving India

SURVIVING INDIA

One & Only

It's a tough country, but we are a tougher people. Tales of triumph and resilience

Aug 18, 2003

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SURVIVING INDIA

The 'Can Can' Twirl

At a mass psychological level, the reforms decade has given India a rush of energy

Aug 18, 2003

| Gurcharan Das
SURVIVING INDIA

Residence On Earth

Harmony peeps out of some friendly windows in Gujarat

Aug 18, 2003

| Darshan Desai
- Embers
SURVIVING INDIA

Gulliver's Travails

A Kerala club tries to fulfil the most ardent desire of tall men: to melt into a crowd

Aug 18, 2003

| Vaishna Roy
SURVIVING INDIA

The Spirit Bolts

Womenfolk in this village are saying 'enough'. Drunks are now pariahs.

Aug 18, 2003

| Saumya Roy
SURVIVING INDIA

How Many Legs In A Square Foot?

Half of Mumbai lives in chawls. The most historical of them—207 identical buildings with 16,000 one-room homes!

Aug 18, 2003

| Manu Joseph
- Watch This Space
SURVIVING INDIA

Square Deals

Threatened yes, but the straight hasn't wiped out the cryptic yet

Aug 18, 2003

| Raju Bharatan
- What's A Cryptic Clue?
SURVIVING INDIA

No More Hookey

Indian hockey has come out of its dreamless slumber—despite penury and cricket

Aug 18, 2003

| Anand Philar
- Poor Cousins
SURVIVING INDIA

Kuch Kuch Hota Tha

Movies used to be magic. But was it worth it, all that time and money?

Aug 18, 2003

| Sandipan Deb
Photoessay

Signs of India

No we did not make these up. More than roadside diversions, here they are - in black, white and even colour.

Aug 18, 2003

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SURVIVING INDIA

Travelling Light

Eleven transfers in 11 years. On the trail of an IAS officer in Bihar.

Aug 18, 2003

| Faizan Ahmad
- Babuji, Dheere
SURVIVING INDIA

Ol' Blighty, My Pind

How are the Brits surviving India? By getting the hell out of London.

Aug 18, 2003

| Sanjay Suri
SURVIVING INDIA

Gotra Of Love

The story of Ashok and Anjali: you've heard it before, you'll hear it again

Aug 18, 2003

| Sanghamitra Chakraborty
- Enduring Love
SURVIVING INDIA

The Drifters

They're not on terra firma. But life in these phumdis is coming to a standstill.

Aug 18, 2003

| Nitin A. Gokhale
- Home Sick
SURVIVING INDIA

What's Left Of Nehru?

The People's Prince has slipped in esteem; his legacy, democracy with diversity, can't

Aug 18, 2003

| Ramachandra Guha
SURVIVING INDIA

You Call This Surviving?

The poor can't afford the notion of deferred pleasure. But even the rich behave as if there's no tomorrow. Why this cult of poverty?

Aug 18, 2003

| Kiran Nagarkar
- Write To The Prime Minister!
SURVIVING INDIA

Mudpond Blooms

Witness the persistence of life—where surviving birth itself is a battle half-won

Aug 18, 2003

| Soma Wadhwa
- Birth Marks
SURVIVING INDIA

Only In India

The Breast Baba, Pickpocket as Ms Bobbitt, inadvertently, National Anthem as peacemaker, the essay on cow and the sanctified cigarette butt. And more. Nah, we didn't make these up.

Aug 18, 2003

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- Numbers
- Sweet Pils
Tallisman Wanted

Aug 18, 2003

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STATES OF THE NATION

State Gazette

The Mandal sword-arm catches up; A dressing down; Sunshine nights; Train to Pakistan; Strong medicine and An accidental incident

Aug 18, 2003

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Elections

The Bend Is Nigh...

BJP signals are for early general polls, in 2004 spring. The EC may cut that down Updates

Aug 18, 2003

| Saba Naqvi
- Beware, Mr Lyngdoh
- A Lame Duck Can Still Quack

afghanistan

Kabuliwala's Bag Of Goodies

The Indo-Pak match is on a new pitch now: Afghanistan

Aug 18, 2003

| Sanjeev Srivastava

maruti

Samurai Jack

Rid of government control, Maruti is shifting gears to launch new models, up marketshare and cut costs.

Aug 18, 2003

| Suveen K. Sinha
- Cruise Control
cola row

The Fizz And Hiss Of It

The pesticide brouhaha exposes fatal gaping holes in our food and beverage standardisation norms Updates

Aug 18, 2003

| Sanghamitra Chakraborty

delhi

From Chalk To Cheese

Mahashweta Devi and Ruskin Bond writing in textbooks? Yes, for Delhi schools next year.

Aug 18, 2003

| Poornima Joshi
- 'All Parties Must Back It'
impressions

Strike Against Hunger

MGR was rebuked for it 20 years ago. Now his midday meal-scheme is India's ideal.

Aug 18, 2003

| Anita Pratap

Art & Entertainment

bollywood

Hangman, Stay A While

Work's tough for SFX assistants, the pay low and others get the kudos

Aug 18, 2003

| Saumya Roy

Independence Diary

The Great Survivors

Aug 18, 2003

| Vinod Mehta

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

Siddhartha Basu

The quizmaster on his latest programme on BBC, the University Challenge (UC)

Aug 18, 2003

| Namrata Joshi
Opinion

Bull's Eye

Fourteen people died in the Best Bakery carnage. Twenty-one persons were accused. All were acquitted. The judge who acquitted them blamed the prosecution. ...

Aug 18, 2003

| Rajinder Puri
Showtime

Hungama

Do not go looking for logic, just keep your feel for sheer frivolity intact

Aug 18, 2003

| Namrata Joshi

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