COVER
STORY: KANCHI
CONTROVERSY MURDER
AND
THE MONK The inside story of the sensational murder of Shankar Raman
and the subsequent arrest of Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati
that has sent shockwaves across the country FULL
STORY
As Mayawati welcomes Brahmins into her essentially Dalit
fold and blames a lawyer for her party’s electoral disaster
in Maharashtra, India Today's Farzand Ahmed looks at the
changing contour of the Bahujan Samaj Party and its compulsions.
The Government is all set to unveil a comprehensive hostage
policy that would prevent terrorist outfits from arm-twisting
the administration and allow the authorities to take tough
decisions while handling a kidnapping situation FULL
STORY
STATES:
PUNJAB
Green
Revocation
The state's first Human Development Report debunks the myth
of its prosperity. With a declining economy, despairing farmers
and rising unemployment, the state is on the verge of a crisis FULL
STORY
BUSINESS
& ECONOMY: INVESTMENT BOOM
Destination
India
A booming stock market, rising rupee and globally ambitious
corporate mergers and takeovers have placed India on the global
investors' radar. The story of India unlimited is suddenly
real FULL
STORY
DIPLOMACY:
INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS
Pakistan's
Manmohan
Shaukat Aziz is widely seen as the financial whiz behind Pakistan's
economic revival. Will the Pakistan prime minister be able
to replicate the success in bilateral ties with India? FULL
STORY
SPORTSWATCH:
CRICKET
Captain's
Knocks
It is Ganguly's moment of reckoning. He must choose either
self-improvement or self-preservation FULL
STORY
SOCIETY
& THE ARTS: BOOKS
Temur
The Terrible
The indomitable spirit of Tamerlane and the history of his
brutal hordes return in a thrilling biography FULL
STORY
SOCIETY
& THE ARTS: SECOND CAREERS
Freedom
Runners
An increasing number of Indians are saying goodbye to fat
salaries and fancy designations to pursue their dreams.
For them, satisfaction and freedom are incentive enough
to opt out of the daily grind FULL
STORY
SOCIETY
& THE ARTS: CINEMA
Family
Planning
Coppola's The Godfather inspires two more Bollywood films
and a TV serial as the legacy of the 1972 Hollywood movie,
centred on the patriarch of a crime family, endures through
time FULL
STORY
NATION:
PM'S KASHMIR VISIT
Playing
the Peace Card
Manmohan's bold gambit of scaling down troops in the Valley
and the offer of a Rs 24,000 crore investment package signals
Delhi's keenness to regain the initiative on the Kashmir issue FULL
STORY
INTERVIEW:
JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN
"We
have confidence in India"
He brings with him the wealth of nations. When the president
of the World Bank, which has 184 member countries, made a
two-day visit to New Delhi in mid-November, he was not just
one of the thousands of global bankers flying to India, charmed
by the country's great-though mostly unachieved-economic potential. FULL
STORY
BUSINESS
& ECONOMY: TOURISM
Welcome
Signs
With 35 lakh foreign tourists expected this year, tourism
in India gets a cheerful boost. But poor infrastructure, if
left unchecked, may kill the joy FULL
STORY
THE
GLOBAL INDIAN: FORCED MARRIAGES
To
Honour And Obey
Marriages by coercion have been the UK Asians' best-kept secret
but now the British Government has decided to get tough FULL
STORY
CONTROVERSY:
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
An
Experiment With Untruth
Crucial entries found in the earlier edition are missing,
names are misspelt and the index is confusing. The revised
edition of Mahatma Gandhi's collected works is an insult to
scholarship FULL
STORY
SOCIETY
& THE ARTS: BOOKS
Batting
for Ireland
Ranji's life is well-documented but this book unearths a little-known
period of the prince's life, as owner of a castle hideaway
in Connemara FULL
STORY
SOCIETY
& THE ARTS: SEX RACKET
The
Seedy Drive
For many girls with neon dreams, only a thin line separates
fame and notoriety. As technology becomes accessible and
the Mallika Sherawat effect multiplies aspirations, pornographic
scams claim their victims FULL
STORY
