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  COVER STORY: RESERVATIONS
Casting For Votes

The UPA Government's push for reservations in education and private sector jobs may be billed as affirmative action but it's actually aimed at garnering votes. As past experience shows, it will neither uplift the underprivileged nor deliver votes.

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FAIR PLAY

An ordinance providing 50 per cent reservation for women in the ensuing panchayat elections in Bihar has already led to role reversals in families. India Today's Sanjay Kumar Jha reports.

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  NATION: PARMOD MAHAJAN

Farewell To A Hero

With the death of the BJP's most dynamic leader, the party now has to come to terms with the loss of a skillful parliamentarian, smart strategist and charismatic campaigner

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  STATES: GUJARAT

Razing and Rioting

When a dargah in Vadodara is demolished as part of a civic drive, a law and order situation turns into a political and communal one

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  ELECTION 2006: RAE BARELI

Family Matters

As Sonia Gandhi campaigns with her children Rahul and Priyanka in tow, her opponents blame her for imposing an election on the constituency

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  INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK: P. CHIDAMBARAM

"People Have To Pay For The Oil Price Hike"

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram took time off from campaigning in Tamil Nadu and cleaning up the IPO market to speak with Managing Editor Shankkar Aiyar and Principal Correspondent Puja Mehra on the politics of economics.

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  DIPLOMACY: TALIBAN KILLING

Terror And Tragedy

The killing of a Hyderabad engineer in Afghanistan by the Taliban poses a serious challenge to the Indian Government, even as the family tragedy turns into a farce back home in India

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  SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS

General Testament

The former army chief makes an admirable attempt to set the record straight and refurbish his reputation

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  SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS

Family Mystique

It's everything you wanted to know about the great Indian institution

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  SPORTS WATCH: CRICKET

Money and Muscle

'Asia' gets the 2011 World Cup-but wouldn't some other country benefit more by hosting it?

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  NATION: INDO-PAK EXCHANGES

Culture of Conflicts

One man's remark puts a crimp on a special India-Pakistan moment, but the relationship is exactly where it was before the screening of Taj Mahal: lots of promise, little performance

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  STATES: JAMMU & KASHMIR

The Doda Deathtrap

The massacre of 19 villagers in the remote J&K district aims at driving out the minorities and uncannily echoes Pakistan President Musharraf's blueprint for a religious division of the state

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  ELECTION 2006: POLL MALL

POLL MALL

A candidate in Nagapattinam who promises to physically stop the next tsunami, a media empire that cares a hoot for objectivity and a film actor who campaigns for both sides in Kerala. Election wonders never cease.

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  BUSINES & ECONOMY: IPO SCAM

Cleaning Up

Sebi's probe may not have unravelled the scam fully, but investors will benefit from its corrective measures

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  CONTROVERSY: SARDAR SAROVAR PROJECT

Reaping Rewards From Rehab

The Narmada Bachao Andolan's push for rehabilitation has the Government scrambling to clean up its act even as the oustees rake in the benefits

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  SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS

The Last Romantic

A star-struck biographer's panegyrical narrative fails to capture Manjit Bawa in his colourful wholeness

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  SOCIETY & THE ARTS: BOOKS

How Kaavya Lost It

A young Indian-American author's rise to fame turns into a tabloid circus as questions about packaging in the publishing industry get glossed over

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