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India Tomorrow 2003: Global Giant or Pygmy? Take
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CURRENT ISSUE JULY 28, 2003
COVER STORY: CENSUS SURVEY
How we Live
The
first ever and the largest survey of household amenities
and assets conducted by the Census of India paints a
never-before profile of India.
The
construction of an Ayappa shrine at the Idukki reservoir site
in Kerala triggers an unlikely row. India Today's M.G. radhakrishnan
reports. TEMPLE
TROUBLE
The chief
minister may have drawn flak from the minorities but his caustic
remarks have won him new friends who feel he is only speaking
sense.
With a nearly
sixfold rise in tunover and 10 times increase in distributor
network in the past five years, it is boom time for direct selling
businesses in India.
BUSINESS: MOBILE PHONES
DIPLOMACY: EXTERNAL ECONOMY
The Sonic Boom
For
a Few Dollars no More
In a crowded
cell-phone market, the ringtone is the new differentiator for
users. The zanier the better.
India pitches
for a bigger global role by leveraging, for the first time,
its growing economic clout.
MEDIA: MURDOCH
LAW: JUVENILE PREGNANCY
Boss
of the World
Child
vs Child
Rupert Murdoch's
Star TV has become the centre of attention in recent weeks,
but the country's second largest media house is still a tiny
drop in his vast ocean.
An underaged
pregnant girl rescued in a raid on traffickers in Haryana insists
on giving birth to her baby, raising serious moral and legal
questions.
ENVIRONMENT: ECO CREDITS
SPORTS: VOLLEYBALL
Green
Bucks
Second
Spike
Indian companies earn money even as they help industrialised
nations meet their anti-pollution targets.
More countries
play volleyball than any other sport. How come India's under-19
team got to be so good?
LIVING: THE OCCULT
SOCIETY AND TRENDS: CLUBBING
Charmed
Circle
Swivel
& Sizzle
As more and
more urban rationalists use black magic as a short cut to solving
personal and professional problems, the chamber of secrets has
only just opened.
Transvestite
nights.Chandni Bar evenings. Clubbing across metropolitan India
reaches raunchy extremes as party organisers pull out the sensual
stops.
FASHION: INDIA FASHION WEEK
CINEMA: HOLLYWOOD MOVIES
Cutting
Edge
In
Top Gear
Some designs
are pretty, some pretty vacuous. As the annual sartorial extravaganza
gets under way, separate the clever from the chaotic.
At just Rs
165 crore in India, Hollywood is not as big as it likes to be.
But it is trying.
OFFTRACK: BANGALORE, KARNATAKA
Class
Apart
College students
fund, teach and inspire underprivileged youngsters.
"We had become Delhi's voice in Kashmir rather
than Kashmir voice in Delhi" OMAR ABDULLAH, National Conference
chief, after breaking away from the NDA
REGULARS
BOOKS
Future
Scholock
The
crippled prime minister of a nuked India is
trapped inside a bunker. Bounty hunters are
closing in on Osama. And post-9/11 thrillers
come nearer home.
CURRENT ISSUE JULY 28, 2003
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As
a champion of the developing world, the newly-appointed IMF
chief is set to spearhead a radical change.