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INDIA TODAY ARCHIVE

CURRENT ISSUE JANUARY 13, 2003

THE ACHIEVERS

Up and Away

Twenty million people of Indian origin are spread across 110 countries. Here are the stories of those who surmounted the pangs of dislocation to become the people the world looks up to — statesman, entertainers, industrialists, writers.

NRI Achievers


	Naga leaders Swu, Muivah in Delhi for talks with PM

	143 posts of judges vacant in 21 High Courts in country

	Bangladeshi human rights activist Shahriar Kabir released after Court order

	VHP: Remove pilgrim tax at Gangasagar mela

	Citizen's identity card in 13 Indian states from April 1

	No progress on mediation process between ICC, BCCI

	Dawood associate 'Lambu' Shakeel arrested in Mumbai

	Supreme Court committee begins probe on petrol pump allotments


	Olympic Council of Asia clears runner Sunita Rani

	Cold wave worsens in India; more than 150 dead

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Zee and Sony vie to buy the latest films to revive their sagging fortunes. India Today's Nidhi Taparia Rathi reports. FILM WARS

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INDIA TODAY HINDI

ESSAY			CHUTNEY CULTURE

The past decade has seen the Indian diaspora come into its own. They are now viewed as the new, vibrant face of India. As force multipliers that could leverage the country's gorwth.			India is having its say in globalisation - desi music blared in Moulin Royge, Monsoon Wedding became a hit in the US, Bend it Like Beckham scored in the UK and India-inspired fiction discovered ever-new stars.
TRIUMPHS AND TRAVAILS			THE FUTURE

In the Gulf, the Indian expats shed the ABC - ayah, butler, cook - image for that of a smart techie and assiduous industrialist, Elsewhere, diasporic Indians rose to positions of political power though some were dislodged by ethnic chauvinists.			As the Generation Next of the diaspora becomes comfortable with its biculturalidentity, the current crop of professionals are ready to pay back, Can India tap this as yet not fully realised potentials?



LETTERS
From The Editor In Chief Editorial			Letters


CRICKET WORLD CUP			BOOKS
Upsets big and small define one-day cricket. Ever since India won the World Cup in 1983 the unfancied outsiders have regularly managed to stun the favourites.			Nayantara Sahgal displays the reasoned approach of a historian as she dramatises the freedom movement in her comeback novel, Lesser Breeds.
GUEST COLUMNS
Dipak Jain, Mira Nair, Farrukh Dhondy, Bhikhu Parekh, Rajat Gupta, Swraj Paul

EYECATCHERS
Political Affair, Picture Perfect, Hot Item, Noisy Performance

NRI DIARY


As clubbers fall in rhythm with the beats of electronic music, bands like Midival Punditz find takers worldwide.			Finally Moving Entertainment Travel In the News