Cover Story

Battles within Sangh Parivar
by Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
Advani in Pakistan
by B. Muralidhar Reddy
Playing peacemaker
Setback to strategy
Image and reality
by V. Venkatesan
Interview: Sudheendra Kulkarni
NDA partners' concern
by Purnima S.Tripathi
Sangh Parivar strikes
by K.N. Panikkar
Jinnah's secularism
by A.G. Noorani

India & Pakistan
Hurriyat leaders in Pakistan

Politics
BSP's Brahmin rally
Another government in Goa

The Bofors Case

The end of the case
Interview: Prashant Bhushan

POTA
Godhra: A blow to conspiracy theory
Points of concurrence

Legislation
A Bill on communal violence

Sri Lanka
War by other means
A controversial acquittal
Politics of reconstruction

World Affairs
Afghanistan's slow progress
A U.S. game plan for Asia
Local resistance
Bangladesh remembers
Lt. Gen. Arora
A spectre haunting Europe
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An oligarch's fall in Russia
Politics of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline
The saga of Shanghai
by Sujan Chinoy

Archaeology
Iron Age site at Adichanallur
A rare inscription
Past excavations

Media
`Deep Throat' speaks
The final surprise
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Essay
Kashmir and the Alands:
by A.G. Noorani

NCERT
For a holistic curriculum

Theatre
A website for socially committed theatre groups

Cinema
Matrubhoomi: A world without women: by Maithili Rao

Spotlight
Journals of resurgence

Power Sector
MSEB broken up

Climate
Heat wave in Orissa

Issues in Focus

Smoking ban in movies
Interview: Murli Deora
Film industry's response

Economic Perspectives
IT-services as locomotive:
by C.P. Chandrasekhar

Tamil Nadu
Entrance tests abolished
A deadline for schools

Energy Security
Promise of a pipeline from Iran

Travel
Falling in love with Iguazu

Column
Bhaskar Ghose: Changing world of communiction
Praful Bidwai: Jinnah's ghost haunts the Parivar
R.K. Raghavan: The 'Tiger' and the blackbuck
Jayati Ghosh: Saving forests and people

Books
The future of Pakistan
review by Praveen Swami
A slice of Shakespeare
© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

Also
The English Language
Letters

Update
Sonal Mansingh's ouster
Assault on yatra
Towards full democracy