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| COVER STORY: CONGRESS |
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COVER STORY: ECONOMY |
| Sonia's Choice |
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Burden or Boon? |
Manmohan
Singh's acceptability and
ability led Sonia Gandhi to anoint him.
Now he and his regime must survive the contradictions of coalition
politics for his party to thrive.
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With a record of turning around India's
worst-ever economy in 1991, Manmohan Singh should not resent-and
in fact relish-the economic legacy of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee
government
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| COVER STORY |
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COVER STORY: LEFT PARTIES |
| The Red Alert |
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Spectre Haunts Sceptor |
The
Left is caught between the need to safeguard its bastions and
the compulsion to support the Congress.
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Why
the suddenly active comrades are characters in a ghost story
India can do without.
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| COVER STORY: OPPOSITION |
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| Birth Pangs |
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Indian
politics saw an unprecedented episode as the opposition went
all out to stop a prime minister-elect from taking office by
playing the foreign-origin card.
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| EDITORIAL |
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LETTERS |
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From
The Editor In Chief
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To
The Editor |
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| OTHER STORIES |
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| NATION: FIRST-TIME MPs |
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STATES: GUJARAT |
| The
Class of 2004 |
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In Disgrace Mode |
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The 14th Lok Sabha has a cross-party collection of young
first-timers who are media savvy, articulate and want to bring
back decency to politics.
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The
farmers' wrath, anti-Sonia tirade, internal fights and dilution
of the Hindutva agenda in the communally polarised state made
the BJP pay as it posted a victory that tasted as bad as a defeat
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| STATES: TAMIL NADU |
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STATES: KERALA |
| Amma
Goes Pop |
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Fall From Grace |
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Chastened by the electoral debacle, Jayalalithaa embarks
on a populist drive rolling back all her anti-people policies.
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The Congress' rout in Kerala in the
Lok Sabha elections spurs the demand for the removal of the
chief minister.
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| EDUCATION: ALUMNI EFFORTS |
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HEALTH: TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH |
| For
Old Time's Sake |
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The
New Weapons |
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The medical colleges in Punjab get a facelift as its affluent
and committed NRI alumni pitch in to rebuild their alma maters,
donating time, money and their expertise in generous measure.
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Even as tuberculosis attacks with great ferocity than ever
before, there is hope as a range of new drugs, diagnostic
tools and vaccines infuses zeal into the war against this
highly infectious disease.
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| SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS |
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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS |
| Doomsday
Doyens |
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Run
Gregory Run |
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Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins return, via Jaisalmer
and Mumbai, with a nuclear bomb.
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A philosopher-criminal with a toy gun from Down Under discovers
his soul in Mumbai's underworld.
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| SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS |
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SOCIETY & THE ARTS: CINEMA |
| Feminine
Fetish |
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Crouching
Tiger |
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The female form gets a spiritual spin as writers search
for Indianness in art.
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How India came up trumps at Cannes without the crutches
of an official screening or big names.
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COVER
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CURRENT ISSUE MAY 31, 2004
