Have you booked your table for the millennium party?

The world is getting ready to party! Many countries will welcome the year 2000 with extravagant celebrations. We have no such grandiose plans at the national level. But the popular momentum should pick up towards the close of 1999. People can’t help getting excited about a change of millennium and would want to celebrate, observes Mohinder Singh

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• Reaching out through parables, by Usha Bande
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• An adventure in the wilds of Africa, Divya Sharma
• The enchanting Great Glen of Scotland, by Suchita Malik

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