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The First Cardinal Sin

The Congress is frittering away the opportunity the people's mandate gave it

Jun 21, 2004

| Prem Shankar Jha
Profile

Reams Of History Sheets

Is he Robin Hood or just a plain goon? Whatever, he's a minister now.

Jun 21, 2004

| Faizan Ahmad Subodh Mishra
Cover Story

The Life And Times Of Your MP-At-Large

Your representatives solemnly owned up to these cases in the affidavits filed by themselves at the time of nominations. Tainted out of 100 : BJP 26 (19%), Congress 15 (10%), SP 11 (31%), RJD 10 (40%), BSP 7 (37%), NCP 5 (56%), CPM 5 (12%)....

Jun 21, 2004

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Cover Story

Catch Me If You Can

Experts and social activists feel that the test for excluding those charged with criminal offences from public life should include three categories at least.

Jun 21, 2004

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Tainted MPs

The Law Vs The Legislator

Murder, rape, criminal conspiracy, theft. It's all in a day's work for some of our more colourful MPs.

Jun 21, 2004

| Poornima Joshi Rajesh Sinha Bhavdeep Kang

uttar pradesh

Awadh At War

Lucknow Shias retaliate against the defiling of religious sites in Iraq

Jun 21, 2004

| Sutapa Mukerjee
maharashtra

Sweet Truth Bared

The sugar cartel's skeletons are out of the cupboard

Jun 21, 2004

| Smruti Koppikar
NEWSBAG

State Gazette

The Son Will Lead The Battle; Have Gun, Will Shoot; Water Marks; Seating Trouble; Wet Weather

Jun 21, 2004

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Shares

A Share In Power?

Here's the surprise. Over a third of the current Lok Sabha members are enthusiastic followers of the equity cult. A ready reckoner of who owns what in which company

Jun 21, 2004

| Alam Srinivas
opinion

A Billion Gandhis

Down the ages, a natural tolerance—tinged with faith—has been our subsoil. Why do my friends foist a dry import like secularism upon this rootedness?

Jun 21, 2004

| Ashis Nandy
IIC

See You On Saturday

It's exclusive, it's elitist. And many from this thinktank are in the government now.

Jun 21, 2004

| Sheela Reddy

Shipping

Death At Sandheads

Why are ships queuing up to die in the Bay of Bengal? Gets their owners easy money.

Jun 21, 2004

| Ashis K. Biswas
bangladesh

In Bangla Bhai's Emirate Of Terror

A rabid Mullah Omar clone wreaks havoc on the country's 'moderate Islamic' image

Jun 21, 2004

| Hena Khan

reservation

Skill On Skid Row

Industry rejects private sector reservation plan, say services, FDI will be hit bad

Jun 21, 2004

| Arindam Mukherjee
- Everyone Loses Out
indo-US business

In Nervous Anticipation

The American industry reps are assuaged but not assured about the new government's policy intent

Jun 21, 2004

| Seema Sirohi

drugs

The Naked Lunch

Booze, coke, designer drugs. Meet the frequent fliers of yuppiedom's not-so-velvet underground.

Jun 21, 2004

| Hari Menon Charubala Annuncio
- That First Step
- The High And The Low Of It
MISCELLANY

Details

Drugs Redux, Culture Vulture, Luis Figo, and Bandicoot

Jun 21, 2004

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impressions

TV And The Nonsensex

Oh, the cacophony of hysterical 24/7 reporters, yuppie stockbrokers and callow FIIs!

Jun 21, 2004

| Anita Pratap

hockey

Whither, Magic Wand?

This team's our best ever in terms of talent, but what it needs is brains to bring home the gold Updates

Jun 21, 2004

| Sundeep Misra

profile

Lakshya, By Chance?

Nouveau hip? No problem...but filmdom's cool dude still has to prove he's no fluke

Jun 21, 2004

| Namrata Joshi

10 Questions

Waheeda Rehman

Classical beauty and legendary actress on her role in the crossover film Brides Wanted

Jun 21, 2004

| Sugata Srinivasaraju
Gossip

Bibliofile

With a new PM installed, can books on him be far behind? But publishers lament that 24/7 news channels are killing off the quickies.

Jun 21, 2004

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Opinion

Bull's Eye

Natwar Singh is a man in a hurry. He seems to be carrying out an agenda. Does Natwar Singh himself know whose interests he would be serving if his ...

Jun 21, 2004

| Rajinder Puri
Delhi Diary

Project Kalahandi

Jun 21, 2004

| Vinod Mehta
making a difference

Wanted: Fools Like Pugazhendi!

A village clinic where patients pay anything between Rs 5-Rs 25 for treatment and medicines

Jun 21, 2004

| S. Anand
Review

Wanna Disco?

The arrhythmia of the narrative reflects the staccato nature of a life of lazy moments interspersed with frantic activity. If it strikes the right chord in JEE qualifiers, it could achieve cult status.

Jun 21, 2004

| Devangshu Datta
Review

Vir...Nom De Epicure

Who'd be rude to India's best food writer? Even if he occasionally lands you in a rice soup.

Jun 21, 2004

| Bhaichand Patel
Review

Won't Dingo On You, Jim

Johnsingh trails the area where Jim Corbett worked, and while not in the same class, there are some amazing descriptions of his early years and his study on the wild dogs of Bandipur.

Jun 21, 2004

| Valmik Thapar
Showtime

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

It is the best one so far, but there is hardly any Quidditch

Jun 21, 2004

| Samit Basu
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