Cover Story

The heat is on
Himalayan concerns
Interview: Dr.R.K. Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC
On Indian response
Dangerous denial
Interview: Dr. Saleemul Huq
Director, International Institute for Environment and Development

The States
Rajasthan: Tension around a temple

Events
In step with Europe
FAIR deal
Interview: Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research
Interview: Dr. Annette Schavan, German Minister of Education and Research

Life & People
A race in Vidarbha

Film
Screening "Parzania"
The hit list

Science
Pluto demoted

Gender Issues
Faraway brides of U.P.
Dowry in disguise

Government
MPLADS under fire

Focus: Guntur

On the fast track
Leading the way
Smarter chillies
Literacy race
Quality degrees
Silent revolution

India & Pakistan
Fragile fence

Politics

U.P.: Tactical blunder
Interview: Mulayam Singh Yadav
Defining a split

Column
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Of inflation and interest rates
Jayati Ghosh:
The love song of Ashok Mitra
Praful Bidwai: Mulayam's real Achilles' heel
R.K. Raghavan:
A police station for the people

Books
Acts of resistance
review by Shelly Walia
Slaves of the mines
review by S. Viswanathan
Foreign policy
review by A.G. Noorani
Nehru vs Nehru
review article by A.G. Noorani

Also
The English Language
Letters
Update: A death sentence in Tamil Nadu