ANNIVERSARY
INSIDE
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
4
AROON PURIE
Bylines
8
India Today Years
BEHIND THE NEWS 12 DILIP BOBB
THE INDIA TODAY ETHOS 166 SALIL TRIPATHI
FLASHBACK 180 VIR SANGHVI
INVISIBLE INDIA 192 RAJ KAMAL JHA
Politics
JANATA PARTY IN POWER
POLITICAL HUMOUR
RISE OF THE BJP
MAKING OF THE BOMB
THE VAJPAYEE YEARS
THE POLITICS OF RELIGION
POLITICAL COMMENT
CENTRE vs STATE
THE HEARTLAND HAS ITS REASONS
WEST BENGAL
SOUTHERN STORY
14
40
62
72
82
88
108
112
118
130
136
S. VENKAT NARAYAN
AJIT NINAN
SWAPAN DASGUPTA
RAJ CHENGAPPA
PRABHU CHAWLA
MINHAZ MERCHANT
RAVI SHANKAR
SHANKKAR AIYAR
FARZAND AHMED
SUMIT MITRA
SAM RAJAPPA
The Gandhis
THE LEGEND OF INDIRA GANDHI
THE INDIRA GANDHI ERA
IF SANJAY GANDHI HAD LIVED
THE RAJIV GANDHI YEARS
THE DELHI DYNASTY
16
22
30
44
57
S. NIHAL SINGH
RAGHU RAI
SUNIL SETHI
SHEKHAR GUPTA
TAVLEEN SINGH
Terror and Turbulence
TERROR IN PUNJAB 34 SHEKHAR GUPTA
THE SIEGE WITHIN 78 MANOJ JOSHI
THE JUDICIARY 88 MANOJ MITTA
KILLING FIELDS OF KASHMIR 124 RAMESH VINAYAK
THE NORTH-EAST 142 CHAITANYA KALBAG
Foreign Affairs
INDIA AND AMERICA 50 INDERJIT BADHWAR
INDIA AND PAKISTAN 68 M.J. AKBAR