The Hindu :Sunday, June 29, 2003

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Sunday, June 29, 2003

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Chowkidar to the Empire?
Should India send troops to Iraq? Support for such a move fills the media. Terms like "rent-an-army" and "lucrative contracts" pop up time and again. But sacrificing our troops to serve American interests and the greed of Indian elite will not be just morally reprehensible. It will be the most dangerous and provocative act of folly, writes P. SAINATH.

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Eye of a needle
Artist Surekha's output in the last seven years has been prodigious. She clinically sums up what she has seen or heard, while her stitches encapsulate — in oblique ways — wars, weavers, wishes, worries. RAGHAV SHREYAS on a show held at Sakshi Art Gallery recently, which moves to Sweden in September 2003.

Issues

Marriages of convenience
MOHINI GIRI argues for an integrated approach to laws on marriage, dowry, divorce, property rights and maintenance.

Focus

Personal memoir or political biography?
A promotional book for self-serving ends is M.S. NAGARAJAN's verdict on Hillary Clinton's Living History.

In her own words
In her only British newspaper interview, Hillary Clinton admits she has had to take `a long hard look at my marriage, my husband and myself'. Is she now ready to run for President? NIGEL FARNDALE talks to the former First Lady.

Columns

LOOSE CANON By Rukun Advani The hills are slowly dying		FIRST STRIKE By Anil Dharker No Pied Piper, this

By Kalpana Sharma A culture of silence		CAMBRIDGE LETTER By Bill Kirkman A royal holiday

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH By Vichitra Sharma No release from bondage		SLICE OF LIFE By V. Gangadhar Heroes forever

POTTERMANIA By Hasah Suroor The Phoenix breaks records		With inputs from Ziya Us Salam, Malathy Mahadevan and R. Krithika Going, going, gone

POTTERMANIA By Mukund Padmanabhan Harry reinvented

Urban Edge

Mumbai

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Sport

Who is the second-best?
Rod Laver was undoubtedly the best post-war tennis player. But who comes next? Most people would plump for Pete Sampras but ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN argues for Bjorn Borg.

Lifestyle

Progressive royals
LEAFING through a tabloid on the flight to Baroda (Vadodara), you come across the photograph of a handsome couple, the stately lady in the royal "uniform" of flowered chiffon and pearls, and the man, tall and distinguished, smiling at guests at a ...

A clan of warriors
Unlike the royals in Rajasthan, the Gaekwads, one of the wealthiest in the country, are not into tourism as yet. KAUSALYA SANTHANAM talks to the scion.

Astrology

SUN SIGNS
By Laurie Baum
The week ahead

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