Welcome to Frontline : Vol. 21

Vol. 21 :: No. 10
May 08 - 21, 2004
India's National Magazine
from the publishers of THE HINDU

Highlights

Cover Story

The battle for Uttar Pradesh
by Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
The BJP blitz in Lucknow
by Purnima S. Tripathi
Rae Bareli: Waiting for the VIP tag
Interview: Mulayam Singh Yadav
Amethi decides
Congress(I): Signs of a revival
The Muslim factor
Choices before Muslims, Dalits
Bihar: A new social alliance
M.P.: Mixed feelings about the BSP
by Siddharth Narrain
Punjab: Social boycotts, segregation
by Naunidhi Kaur
Rajasthan: Defying vote-bank stereotypes
by T.K. Rajalakshmi
Chhattisgarh: A change of preference
by Amulya Gopalakrishnan
Haryana: Oppressed and marginalised
by T.K. Rajalakshmi
Karnataka: Fragmented vote
by Parvathi Menon
Maharashtra: Without leadership
by Lyla Bavadam
Anupama Katakam
Gujarat: Silenced into submission
by Dionne Bunsha
West Bengal: Bastion of secularism
by Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
Sikkim: Advantage SDF
Kerala: A minority power crisis
by R. Krishnakumar
Hoping against hope
Tamil Nadu: Political isolation
by S. Viswanathan
Victims as voters
by T.S. Subramanian
S.Viswanathan
Pondicherry's new experience

Education
A historic ruling on schools

Sri Lanka

Interview: Lakshman Kadirgamar
A parliamentary battle

World Economy
IMF and manufacture of consent
A trade blow to the U.S.

World Affairs

At the receiving end in Iraq
Privatising a war
Iraqi resistance and its impact:
by Walden Bello
Refugees forever, in Palestine
Vanunu's freedom
Murder as state policy
ANC victory in South Africa
The North Korean train blast
Arms haul at Chittagong
Blair's volte-face:
by Michael Hindley
Think tank war machine in the U.S.:
by Vijay Prashad

Elections 2004
In Poonch, voting against all the odds
The largest democracy at work

Books
An elixir of logic
review by Venkatesh Athreya
The disinvestment debate
review by C.T. Kurien

Review Article
Discipline and decision-making:
by A.G. Noorani

Biotechnology
Bt cotton, again
Interview: Dr. Suman Sahai
Losing resistance

Astronomy
Sedna swirls in:
by Kanthi Tripathi

Science
In the shadow of bio-terrorism
Danger zones
(Guardian News Service)

Review
Faith, fact and fiction:
by Anand Parthasarathy

Pollution
A distillery and some damages

The States
The truth about the Veeranam project
Viable alternatives

Sardar Sarovar Project
Dam as a political platform

Economic Perspectives
Exit polls and stock markets:
by C.P. Chandrasekhar

Defence
INS Tarangini's epic voyage

Communalism
Deepening divide in Dakshina Kannada
Voices against communalism

Judiciary
A crisis in Punjab
The case of a golf club

Column
K. Natwar Singh: Polls, pollsters and politics
Jayati Ghosh: How MPs have spent their money
Praful Bidwai: A tilting of the scales?
R.K. Raghavan: SIT's exemplary work

Also
The English Language
Letters

Update
Naga ceasefire
Enron's ownership

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