Welcome to India Today, June 22, 1998

India Today
June 22, 1998

The Bomb Makers
The inside story of India's nuclear blasts and the men behind them.

Carving Controversy
A Congress determined to bring up the issue. VHP workshops humming with activity. Vajpayee negotiated this one but there may be choppy waters ahead.

The Indian Roadshow
Finger-wagging has given way to finding solutions as India's post-nuclear tests damage control gets underway.

Unheeded Death Knell
Despite early warning, the Gujarat government reacts with fatal sloth as hundreds die needlessly in a cyclone.

Amma gets Impatient
AIADMK leaders mount fresh on the BJP to dismiss the DMK government in Tamil Nadu.

Familiar Trap
Tardy progress on the LDF government's unique decentralisation programme sparks a row.

Hopes Belied
A year after the Uphaar fire, the probe has got nowhere.

Crisis Comes Calling
The rupee-slide though expected -makes borrowings more expensive as interest rates rise, sending industry and the markets into a tizzy.

Race Course Road by Prabhu Chawla
The Usual Suspects by Swapan Dasgupta
Mani Talk by Mani Shankar Aiyar
Fifth Column by Tavleen Singh
Flipside by Dilip Bobb
Kautilya by Jairam Ramesh
Economic Graffiti by Kaushik Basu

Role Reversal
Teachers become the taught in a novel programme.

Stuck with Flops
Panic sets in among filmmakers as several big-budget movies crash. Estimated losses; Rs 65 crore.

Damocles' Sword
Ruling In-laws
Cellular Distraction
Deceptive Immunity
Back to the Front
Sweet Revenge
War Within
Judge as Politician
Charges for Prosecution
Hi-tech Babus
Beating Out a Different Tune

Second Partition
Visits to Islamabad would once unlock the gates of hospitality. Post Pokhran, open hostility rents the air. A first person account.

The Drying Of India
Rampant corruption in irrigation projects and the relentless pumping out of groundwater drag India towards a parched future.