Cover Story

India & China: Taking a new road
by Amit Baruah
Editorial
A new phase:
by Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea
Moving in tandem
by P.S. Suryanarayana
Right signals, positive moves
by John Cherian
Routes of promise
by Kalyan Chaudhuri

Spotlight

The use and abuse of the Army
Fidayeen terror

Ayodhya
The temple stand-off

Politics
The schism in the Sangh Parivar

Communalism
Mumbai: A decade after the riots
Rebuilding mutual trust

Foreign Policy
The debate on troops for Iraq

Essay
The road to Iraq:
by Nayantara Sahgal

World Affairs
Evolving resistance in Iraq
Students' protest in Iran
Afghanistan: Fundamentalist revival
Tales from Guantanamo Bay
A British reshuffle:
by Michael Hindley
A blow for affirmative action
A peasant struggle in Pakistan:
by Mohammad Shehzad
Interview: Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy

Meseums
Chennai Museum: 151 years old but new

Books
Restrained accounts
review by Sashi Kumar
Images of Hindi cinema
review by Sudhanva Deshpande
A perspective on Marx
review by Badrinath Rao

Review Article
Justice Dixon - mediator and Judge:
by A.G. Noorani

Focus: MTNL-Delhi
Towards total solutions
Interview: K.H. Khan, Executive Director

Education
NCERT row over a manuscript

Special Feature: Kerala Kaleidoscope

Picture-perfect State
Tasks on the economic front
Taking IT into the big league

Sri Lanka
Conflicting signals
LTTE's killing spree:
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj

Cricket
Should India play Pakistan?:
by Kanta Murali

Column
Bhaskar Ghose: In search of an audience
Harish Mander: Victim as volunteer
Praful Bidwai: Courting disaster in Iraq
K. Natwar Singh: Threat to the Taj Mahal
Jayanti S. Ravi: Seeds of development
Jayati Ghosh: Cambodia's unending woes
R.K. Raghavan: The third degree