Frontline Vol. 17 :: No. 03
February 5 - 18, 2000

India's National Magazine
from the publishers of THE HINDU

Highlights


Cover Story

Strategic games
By Sukumar Muralidharan
Capitulation all the way
By Sukumar Muralidharan
Interview: Prakash Karat
Interview: I.K. Gujral
Interview: K. Natwar Singh
Interview: N.N. Jha
To counter a covert aggressor
By B. Raman
Pressures on Pakistan
By Amit Baruah
Renewed hostilities
By Praveen Swami
An offensive strategy
By Praveen Swami

Spotlight
A presidential intervention
A wake-up call
Iron in the soul, decay in the brain
Republic Day honours

Religion and Politics
The clergy vs the SGPC

Politics
Janata Parivar's predicament

The States
New line-ups for Assembly elections
An uneasy alliance in Haryana
In a quandary over clemency
The Uma Bharati furore
An experiment in Madhya Pradesh
The creamy layer controversy
Srikrishna report resurrected
A significant tie-up in Tamil Nadu

World Affairs
A crackdown in Thailand
Going for the Golan
Sri Lanka: For a politics of consensus
Against the Confederate flag
Turkish turnaround
Peace initiatives in Algeria
A socialist victory in Chile

Essay by Arundhati Roy

The cost of living

Review
Gandhi on CD-ROM

Broadcasting
Governing the airwaves

Science
Black holes on the loose

Special Feature: Armour for Defence
The driving force
From Vijayanta to Ajeya
A variety of ordnance
Engines with accuracy

Terrorism
The LTTE and suicide terrorism

Power Sector
Ramifications of a strike
Who will absorb the shock?

Obituary
M.A. Chidambaram, 1918-2000
T.N. Kaul, 1918-2000
P. Lankesh, 1935-2000

Trade Issues
Seattle and beyond

Telecom
The TRAI trail

Cinema
IFFI in Delhi
Interview: Fernando Solanas

Column
Praful Bidwai: Limits of the
information 'revolution'
Jayati Ghosh: Reform, resistance
and repression in Ecuador

Books
The story of merchant capitalists
Broadcasting and citizens' rights

Also
The English Language
Letters
Update


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