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 CURRENT ISSUE MAY 03, 2004

E2004 COVER STORY: YOUNG VOTERS

   

What the Youth Really Want

The youngest voters in the world's biggest democracy are rocking the ballot. Those in the 18-to-24 age bracket want performance, not promises; ideas, not ideologies.


 
Bihar - Attack on Aurangabad police station, 1 dead
Television exit polls predict hung Parliament
India-Pak issues record 30,000 visas in 3 months
HR activist calls for retrial in Godhra case
THC Scam - UP Govt submits inquiry report to SC
Car finance market races ahead with 30% growth
Indian Bank's FY-04 net jumps to Rs 406 crore
Japan auto Cos go full throttle, global output up
Shoaib will undergo a bone scan test today
Football - Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-1
 
 
 
Will the absence of Dhanraj Pillai affect the Indian hockey team's chances in the Olympic qualifiers at Madrid?
 
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It could not be better for Telugu Desam Party supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu. As the first day of the five-phase polling in the country, when half of Andhra Pradesh went to vote on April 20, coincided with his 55th birthday, he made a final fervent appeal for votes.
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E-2004 COVER STORY:
KEY CONSTITUENCIES
    E-2004 COVER STORY:
RAJASTHAN CAMPAIGNS
Keen Contests     Empowering Sons
These are elections that are voted locally, but the interest in them is nationwide. Laloo Yadav takes on Rudy in Chhapra in one of the most decisive electoral battles of his political career, Kamal Nath desperately tries to hold on in Chhindwara, Ram Naik falls back on both experience and campaigning skill to neutralise Govinda's star value ad appeal among the middle class in North Mumbai and Lalitha attempts to keep the Kumarmangalam family flag high in Pondicherry.
   

In Barmer, Manvendra is loved not just for being Jaswant Singh's son. Dushyant Singh learns the Chemistry of politics in Jhalawar, formerly his mother's seat. Sachin Pilot, who is a candidate from his late father Rajesh Pilot's constituency Dausa, has picked up the politics of caste.

E-2004 COVER STORY: POLL MALL     E-2004 COVER STORY: GANDHI SCIONS
"The EC is united and works
as a team"
    The Charm Troopers
The CEC reserves comments on the
sari episode; a BSP candidate ropes
in duplicate stars for his campaign while
the real stars dole out their
pollspeak.
    Rahul and Priyanka believe it is their duty to do all they can for India. A surname unites them. It also divides them from Feroze Varun, the son of Indira Gandhi's estranged daughter-in-law.
       
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 OTHER STORIES
BUSINESS & ECONOMY: HLL     THE GLOBAL INDIAN
Lever's Travails     Down the Aisle to New Chapter

Last week's top level reshuffle in HLL is an unprecedented move to rejuvenate the company besieged by an army of small brands, a global competitor-turned-price warrior and the burden of its past

    It was a curious blend of fiction and reality as the thrice-divorced writer and the New York model tied the knot at a celebrity-studded ceremony
SPORTS: CRICKET     SPORTS: CRICKET
The Incredible Inside Story     Interview: John Wright

The incredible inside story of how an inspired band of cricketers overcame fears and setbacks to score an epochal, first-ever Test series win over its arch-rival Pakistan.

   

John Wright who has coached the Indian team for over three years spoke to Senior Editor Sharda Ugra in Islamabad after the series win.

SPORTS: GUEST COLUMN     PHOTO FEATURE: WOMEN DACOITS
Rebuilding is Painful     Lipstick Among the Bullets

Pakistan can learn a thing or two from
the powerhouse performance of the
Indian team.

   

Inspired by outlaws like Phoolan Devi, young girls join the gangs of dacoits operating out of the Chambal ravines. These women are energetic, ruthless-and feminine

SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS     SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS
Memory on the Beachfront     Song of a Salesman

The layered past of Goa and all its
lingering sorrows come alive in this
literary homecoming.

   

Through the maidservants and memsahibs at an Amritsar sari shop, a first novel unravels the complex reality of urban India.

SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS     OFFTRACK: AURANGABAD
Rain Chaser     High Water Mark

A quirky itinerant goes in search of the wettest place on earth.

   

Barren acres become lush oases as an engineer shows an ingenious way to
harvest ranwater

SOCIETY & THE ARTS: INDIA FASHION WEEK      
The 2004 Look      

Raunchy is out. Romantic is in. The Ivory League is scoring over colours purple. As the grand show begins, this season's runway trends could well be in your wardrobe tomorrow.

     
       
YOUR WEEK
Arts & Entertainment; Medicine & Health
       
 INDIASCOPE
THE P FACTOR ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS
 
THE BUZZ OF THE WEEK

So confident is Rahul Gandhi of a landslide win in Amethi that even before the April 26 election, he will be moving out to campaign in eastern Uttar Pradesh. But Priyanka will stay put in Rae Bareli.

 
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