Age of Destruction And Creation
By Chaman Ahuja

AS the world moves into the 21st Century, the people are so excited about the dawn of the new millennium. After all, mankind shall have to wait for full thousand years before a momentous day like this appears again. In fact, it is only to be doubted if a new millennium was ever hailed with this sense of elation: there has been only one such occasion in history and that was during the Dark ages when people had neither our sense of history nor the media to build up a comparable hype.

• Fortifying a resplendent past,
  by Saikat Neogi
  
  
• The courtesan was also a scholar,
  by Pran Nevile
  
  
• Saying bye-bye to bureaucracy
  by P. Lal
  
  
• Tagore’s voyage of discovery
  by Vijayan Kannampilly
  
  
• She shocked with her style,
  by Anjali Majumdar
  
  
• Act responsibly, get results,
  by M.R. Pai
  
  
• The man who suffers and the mind that creates,
  says Y.P. Dhawan
  
  
• Tricks that memory plays,
  by Roshni Johar
  
  
• From the Dalai Lama, with peace,
  by Chanchal Sarkar
  
  
• Punjabi films on the precipice,
  by Surinder Malhi
  
  
• Legend called Dilip Kumar,
  by M.L. Dhawan
  
  
• City of global trade fairs,
  says Kanika Sharma

• TIME OFF: Updating national images,
  by Manohar Malgonkar
  
  
• YOUR OPTION: Building resilience,
  by Taru Bahl
  
  
• SUGAR 'N' SPICE: Soups from the Far East,
  by Harkiran Sodhi
  
  
• NATURE: Snakes and snakebites,
  by Nutan Shukla
  
  
• FAUJI BEAT: Looking at Army-police relationship,
  by Pritam Bhullar
  
  
• FEEDBACK: He who laughs... lasts
  
  
• FILM & TV: Games people like to play,
  by Mukesh Khosla
  
  
• BOLLYWOOD BHELPURI: All eyes on Kareena Kapoor!
  by Madhur Mittal