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CURRENT ISSUE SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
COVER STORY: SEX SURVEY
Sex and the Indian Woman
INDIA
TODAY-AC NIELSEN ORG-MARG SEX SURVEY: India's first
ever, comprehensive, all-female survey that looks at
a woman's basic instincts involved interviews with unmarried,
married and separated women between 19 and 50 years
of age from 10 cities. In Ahmedabad, women placed sex
at 4, the highest in the country, on the 0-5 importance
scale. But for 25 per cent of women nationwide, sexuality
is still a problem area, treating it as they do with
inexplicable indifference.
Seven
decades after it was established by the British to train army
officers, the Indian Military Academy (IMA) at Dehradun keeps
pace with the times while retaining the quaint ambience of the
past. India Today's Ramesh Vinayak looks at the new order. CRADLE
OF VALOUR
Desperately
Yours The Congress can do better than march to railway tracks.
OTHER STORIES
THE NATION: KASHMIR
STATES: UTTAR PRADESH
Hardselling a Hotspot
Crown
of Thorns
By
holding the Inter-State Council and other high-level meetings
in Srinagar, the Centre and the Mufti Government want to send
the message across that peace and normality are back in the
state.
Mulayam's third
avatar as the chief minister of the state may turn out to
be his most difficult with the coalition drama brewing instability.
ECONOMY: REFORMS
DIPLOMACY: INDO-ISRAELI TIES
Singh on Song
Shalom
India
Taking tough
and brave decisions seems to have paid dividends. There is a
feel-good factor and a new optimism. But much remains to be
done and the finance minister has miles to go before he sleeps.
India and
Israel want to highlight Ariel Sharon's visit as a watershed,
intended to broadbase bilateral relations?
CRIME: MUMBAI BLASTS
SPORTS: MIGRATION RACKET
The
Iceberg's Tip
The
Stool Pegeons
Within a week
of the blasts, Mumbai Police arrest four people. But two prime
suspects are still at large and nobody knows who the mastermind
was.
Punjab's migration mafia includes the police, sports officials
and politicians.
SPORTS: ANJU BOBBY GEORGE
CINEMA: POLICE THRILLERS
Leap
of Faith
Tour
De Force
The country's premier athlete wins
a medal at the World Championships, giving India a reason
to believe.
The police force seems to be the order of the day in Bollywood.
An array of films parades khaki-clad actors—from a Union
minister to a superbrat.
CINEMA: NETAJI: THE LAST
HERO
OFFTRACK: POKHRAN, RAJASTHAN
Making
History
Peace
March
Shyam Benegal's
new biopic, his most controversial yet, rediscovers the quintessential
freedom fighter.
A
unique 10 day fair celebrates the brotherhood of man.
"I know you float news but do you concoct it
also? This is not fair. Don't you see I am bhala changa
(hale and hearty)?" A.B. Vajpayee, prime minister, on
a media report that he was unwell
REGULARS
BOOKS Deception Plaza
BOOKS Books of Angst
This
bittersweet tale draws on the mythology of
childhood where nothing is as it seems.
CURRENT ISSUE SEPTEMBER 15, 2003
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