Cover Story

Paying the price
Gone with winds of liberalisation
Slipping on oil
Global trends
Hoarder's delight
Interview: Utsa Patnaik, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

River Water Dispute

The Hogenekkal row
Protests in Karnataka

The States
Orissa: Speaker in controversy

Social Issues
Tamil Nadu: Conflict in church

Sri Lanka
Demonising India
Managing the media

World Affairs
Bhutan: Royal democracy
Interview: Bhojraj Pokharel, Chief Election Commissioner, Nepal
Taiwan: Vote for stability
Iraq: A nation ruined

Art
Mountain magic

Essay
Justice with a fine balance

Theatre
"Year one of the Empire"

Cinema

"Jodhaa Akbar": Glitz and taste

Spotlight
Breaking free
Making news
In the driver's seat

Government
Loans and limits

Focus: NALCO
Nalco: Setting standards

Racism
Forty years after Martin Luther King
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Party Affairs

Left agenda
Interview: Prakash Karat, general secretary, CPI[M]
Interview: A.B. Bardhan, general secretary, CPI

Column
Praful Bidwai: Rooted in prejudice
Bhaskar Ghose: Flying high
R.K. Raghavan: Battling child abuse

Books
Trapped in legacy
review by Venkitesh Ramkrishnan
New dilemmas
review by Stuart Jeffries
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Inquest on the Raj
review article by A.G. Noorani

Update
Bear's collapse
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