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Young investors strike it rich

THE run-up to the first full budget of the UPA government has built up huge expectations among the young as major reforms initiatives are expected. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram knows he will be the centre of focussed attention of the whole nation for the papers in his briefcase will carry the keys to unlock the door to myriad opportunities.

Asia gets its act together
Visualised as an annual national theatre festival, Bharangam, held in New Delhi, last month had an international resonance and the array of plays was techno-savvy. A report by Chaman Ahuja
IN 1999, when Bharat Rang Mahotsava was started at NSD as an annual national theatre festival, a hope was in the air that soon it might graduate into an international event and claim a seat beside the festivals of Edinburgh, London, Avignon, etc.

Treachery of images
Randeep Wadehra
THE Iraqi elections were the ultimate in knavery that the Anglo-American combine has come to practice so brazenly. No matter what spin Christiane Amanpour & Co. give to this perversion of democracy it was starkly clear that while Iraqi expats in Europe and the USA exercised their franchise waving V gestures towards obliging cameras – and Kurd-dominated areas of Iraq too voted – Shias and Sunnis sulked albeit for different reasons.

Stage-Struck
Many filmstars seek the theatre for creative satisfaction, writes V.Gangadhar
THE Mumbai stage is facing an invasion from Bollywood stars, some forgotten, some fading and others still bright. The Raj Kapoor discovery, Padmini Kolhapure who hit the headlines some years back when she kissed Prince Charles during an Indian visit, is the latest, playing a call girl in the play Kaash.