Vol. 16 :: No. 04
February 13 - 26, 1999

India's National Magazine
From the publishers of THE HINDU

Highlights Table of Contents


Cover Story

A disintegrating coalition
By Sukmar Muralidharan
To appease Jayalalitha
By T.S. Subramanian
A question of survival
By T.S. Subramanian
The coalition experience
By V.K. Madhavan Kutty
Hindutva and 'moth-eaten' governance
By Praful Bidwai
The struggle within the BJP
By V. Venkatesan
Interview: Madan Lal Khurana
Interview: K.L. Sharma
Orissa killings: A bitter aftermath
By Sukmar Muralidharan
A tenuous peace in Gujarat
By V. Venkatesan

Pre-Budget Review

Worrisome economic realities
The Finance Minister's fallacy
Pre-Budget window-dressing
Opprobrious tax amnesty schemes
Tinkering with PDS prices


Politics
Congress(I)'s changing strategy
Moves to revive Third Front
Interview: Mulayam Singh Yadav

Excellence
Bharat Ratna for Ravi Shankar

The States
Exit Manohar Joshi
The real face of the Shiv Sena
Interview: Gopinath Munde
Massacre in Shankarbigha
New worries for the TDP
Karnataka: Panchayats and politics

India & The U.S.
For broad-based ties

World Affairs
Concerns and hope in Havana
Israel: Waiting for elections
The East Timor question
The passing of King Hussein
Angola: Undermining a ceasefire
Sri Lanka: Victory for People's Alliance
A landmark judgment
U.S: Impeachment and some questions

Symposium: Sri Lankan Culture
State of Sri Lankan art
Aspects of English theatre
Between Home and the World
Of rewards and remembrances
Debunking ethnic labels
Changing fortunes of Sinhala poetry
Tamil cinema and search for an identity

Nuclear Issues
A destabilising misadventure

Defence
For reforms in management
Waiting for a trainer jet

Aviation
Questions of control and viability

Economic Issues
The real face of financial liberalisation

Labour Issues
A controversial commission

The Election Commission
Interview: M.S. Gill, CEC
For state funding of elections

Impressions
The pain killer

Obituary
Ashok Kumar Jain
D.C. Kizhakkemuri

Writer and Society
Salman Rushdie: A welcome visa

Cricket
Twin victories
Anil Kumble's feat

Cinema
Mixed response to IFFI '99

Also
World in Brief
Books
Letters
The English Language

Archives

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