The Hindu :Sunday, May 25, 2003

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Sunday, May 25, 2003

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Comrades, friends, rivals
It was a pity that Rajaji, Nehru and Patel, considered the `head, heart and hands of Gandhiji', could never really function together. In an essay on the Nehru — Rajaji relationship, RAMACHANDRA GUHA looks at how the two leaders, separated by upbringing and ideology, eventually fell out.

Book Review

COMMENT
The moral 'overstanders'
Robert Jensen's book is a provocation to the academic to adopt the role of being useful in a big, violent, noisy world outside the library and the seminar room, writes SHELLEY WALIA.

Spotlight

SOCIETY
Lessons in transformation
The annual festival of Aravan at Koovakam gives the hijras a way of asserting themselves. The others who throng the occasion — wrapped in many secrets — must learn from this openness, writes TISHANI DOSHI.

Media

Signals from the skies
Is television a medium of expression or communication or a public utility? SASHI KUMAR ponders over this question in the light of emerging trends in the second of his three-part article.

Issues

HIV/AIDS: It's our business ....
ACROSS the world, the march of this pandemic continues relentlessly. Everyday there are 14,000 new infections, or someone becomes infected every six seconds. And, as we enter the third decade of this epidemic, the evidence of its impact is ...

Columns

LOOSE CANON
By Rukun Advani
The state of India PAST & PRESENT
By Ramachandra Guha
Public-spirited Indians

MEDIA MATTERS
By Sevanti Ninan
Will the cable be cut? THE SHASHI THAROOR COLUMN
Putting back the pieces

Urban Edge

Mumbai

Lifestyle

URBAN SPACES
Singapore shows the way
One can learn a few things about the restoration of heritage architecture and the preservation of monuments from Singapore, says SHARAN APPARAO.

EVENT

Saluting the queen of craft
The restoration of the remarkable self expression of our handicrafts sums up the essence of Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay's craft philosophy, says PUSHPA CHARI, in connection with the celebration of her birth centenary held recently.

AVIATION
Farewell Speed bird
It's time for the end of Concorde's dream run. T.S. SHANKAR writes.

LIFE
Westward bound
As their options in West Asia dry up, nurses from Kerala are looking at other foreign destinations. SHWETHA E. GEORGE examines this new trend.

THEATRE

Victim or victor?
GEETA DOCTOR in conversation with Naomi Ackerman, the Israeli performer whose one-woman show focuses on one of the strongest social taboos, domestic violence.

A great little country
Ethiopia, though mired in material poverty, has a rich cultural inheritance, say JEROO and GUSTASP IRANI.

Health

ASK THE DOC...
It's in the heart
This month, our panel of doctors offers advice and suggestions to readers' queries on pain and discomfort.

Books

FICTION

Vivid narrative
A PEEK into the lives of successful Indians in the Silicon Valley reveals wealth, emptiness and unhappiness and their never-ending quest for identity. Bharathi Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters begins with the wedding of Tara Lata, in Dacca. ...

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SUN SIGNS
By Laurie Baum
The week ahead

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