Cover Story

A flop show in Ayodhya
by Sukumar Muralidharan
The taming of the VHP
by Purnima S. Tripathi
Interview: Mulayam Singh Yadav
Interview: Kalyan Singh
Waqf Board's objections
The ASI report - a review:
by Sushil Shrivastava

Assembly Elections
A test for new reforms

Politics
CBI charge-sheet against Ajit Jogi

Defence
Indo-U.S. naval exercises

World Affairs
India at ASEAN summit
Vajpayee in Bali, Bangkok
Now, targeting Syria
Iraq: Occupier's travails
Sri Lanka's troubled east
Missing boys of Batticaloa
Stateless no longer
Chechnya's new President
Schwarzenegger's choice in California:
by Vijay Prashad
The Vietnam Syndrome
Behind 9/11, some questions:
by Prashant Bhushan
Cancun and U.S. vendetta:
by Walden Bello

Cinema
Ayodhya, a picture of diversity

Books
Facts about Dravidian languages:
review by E. Annamalai
The house that Jinnah built:
review by A.G. Noorani

Reports
State of the World Population, 2003

AIDS
A patent war in Thailand

Environment
World Parks Congress

Natural Resources
Chhattisgarh: People's battle for a river

Education
NCERT's saga of plagiarism

Special Feature: Oceans in 21st Century

India reaching the final frontier
Interview: Dr. Harsh Gupta
Pioneering power research
A dedicated player

Economic Perspectives
Stock market as casino:
by C.P. Chandrasekhar

Space

Successful launch for Resourcesat
Future missions
China's feat

Column
K. Natwar Singh: Remembering Rajiv Gandhi
R.K. Raghavan: Is the U.S. losing focus?
Praful Bidwai: The nuclear thick-skins
Jayati Ghosh: The waning of the market myth