Cover Story
The importance of Chomsky's ideas  (In pdf format)
by N. Ram
Chomsky In First Person  (In pdf format)
Interview by V.K. Ramachandaran
An event in Kolkata  (In pdf format)
by Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
Kalyan Chaudhuri
Understanding human language
The response in Pakistan
by B. Muralidhar Reddy

Afghanistan
War and talks
by Ahmed Rashid
Great expectations
The teams in Bonn
A deeper, wider war
Growing contradictions
An alliance in the making
The Benazir mission

Legislation
93rd Constitution Amendment Bill

Centre-State Relations
Inter-State Council meeting

The States
A chance for peace in Kashmir
The Resettlement Bill
U.P.: Tussle in the BJP
Interview: Mulayam Singh Yadav
Veerappan and a journalist's arrest
End of an airport project
Laloo's ride to Ranchi
In quest of fishing rights
by Archana Prasad
Child workers: Karnataka's progress
In Tamil Nadu, the price of reforms

World Affairs
Maoist violence in Nepal
India-Nepal: Trade and politics
From Bhopal to Toulouse
by Usha Ramanathan
Vote and volte-face in Kosovo
Hard times in Fiji
by Shubha Singh
Interview: Laisenia Qarase
Interview: Mahendra Chaudhry
Peace process in Burundi
Climate change meet
Sinking Tuvalu
A chronology

Advertiser's Feature
Karnataka's industrial growth
Interview: Chief Minister S.M. Krishna
Priority for poverty eradication
BDA breaks new ground

Health Policy
Ills of the draft policy

Planning
For decentralised development
by M.A. Oommen

Nuclear Issues
A nuclear wedge
by M.V. Ramana

Controversy
NCERT censors textbooks

Health
An ill-fated Vitamin A programme

Architecture
The Aga Khan Award
by Jagan Shah

Analysis
The truth about POTO
by A.G. Noorani
Perverting the Constitution
by Era Sezhiyan

Events
AIDWA conference
Interview: Sahar Saba

Civil Services
The Alagh Committee report

Ayodhya
Of the Congress and the demolition

Cricket
The BCCI-ICC row

Column
K. Natwar Singh: Order out of chaos
R.K. Raghavan: IPS, an insider's view from the outside
Praful Bidwai: Hindutva ire
Jayati Ghosh: The collapse of Enron
C.P. Chandrasekhar: The disingenuous Minister

Books
Nuclear weapons and imperialism
review by Sukumar Muralidharan
A master chronicler
review by Parvathi Menon
Debating modernism
review by Suneet Chopra