Cover Story

Assembly results and BJP's big trouble
by Sukumar Muralidharan
Impact on NDA
by V. Venkatesan
Editorial
A drubbing in Uttar Pradesh
by Purnima S. Tripathi
Uttaranchal: Congress(I)'s clear win
Manipur: Fractured verdict
by Kalyan Chaudhuri
Punjab: A BJP wipe-out
by Praveen Swami
Jayalalithaa's victory
by T.S. Subramanian
N.C.'s triumph in Jammu
Deve Gowda's return
by Parvathi Menon
Narendra Modi's election

Elections
The E.C. and voter identity

The Judiciary
The law and delays

Institutions
ICHR and an ideological agenda

Ayodhya
Upping the ante

World Affairs
Nepal - Emergency and a crisis
by Rita Manchanda
The trial of Milosevic
U.S. plan for information war
In Fiji, surprise verdicts
by Shubha Singh
Sri Lanka - Hope on the horizon
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Shades of vendetta in Bangladesh

Opinion
For progressive internationalism
by Peter Hain

Spotlight

Gulf of Khambat finds, an expose

Policy Issues
Conservation and an action plan
by Ashish Kothari

Public Health
Pharmaceutical Policy 2002

Perspective
Human rights and human development
by C. Raj Kumar

Education
IT education
by P.K. Srivastava
Amitabha Mukherjee
JNU's questionable proposals

Enron
A business model of the times
A demand from the project-affected

Controversy
Marketing the Mahatma

Analysis
A flawed MPLADS
by Era Sezhiyan

India and Pakistan
Battle-ready, still
Musharraf's new high
Romancing the U.S.
Back from the brink?
Essay by Aijaz Ahmad
Delhi tea and Agra breakfast
by A.G. Noorani

Labour
Worrisome reforms

Events
An international literary festival
A unique conclave
by Paul Zacharia

Cinema
New crew, new view

Column
K. Natwar Singh: An institution-builder
Jayati Ghosh: Privatisation of A.P.
R.K. Raghavan: London's hysteria
Praful Bidwai: An ominous stand-off
C.P. Chandrasekhar: The foreign threat

Books
Weak premises, flawed arguments
review by D. Sampathkumar
A witch-hunt in the U.S.
review by Govind Talwalkar