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18 January 1998
  For electronic toy makers, innovation brings success
Toys have always enchanted children. And electronic toys remain a hot favourite. With increasing disposable income demand for such toys is on the rise. But stiff competition has left the Indian electronic toy manufacturers struggling for survival. Low profit margins and regular launching of new products seem to be the only way by which the units can remain afloat.
  Love in the time of want
Sadhanatai Amte, wife, confidante and companion of Baba Amte, is a frail, unassuming woman. But when she says that she has lived many lives in her lifetime, you realise her resilience. Today, she is always by her husband's side, nursing his spirit as well as his body.

Anti-Moody stance is essentially jingoism
You can expect the country's politicians for making statements attacking the global credit rating agency Moody's Investor Services for threatening to downgrade India's credit rating. What is really alarming, however, is that a large number of academics and journalists, not normally known for being jingoistic, have decided to support the political class.
Inside Track
It is not Sonia Gandhi who may be responsible for pipping the BJP at the post, but the in-fighting within the party as well. At 72, this is probably Atal Behari Vajpayee's last chance to become Prime Minister and he is aware that the way to victory is to tone down the hardliners' shrill public speak.


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Tears for the onion
There's something truly disquieting and peculiarly apt about the twin tragedies unfolding before our very eyes: the declining rupee and the disappearing onion. These, after all, are two institutions that have bound this nation together, its towns and its villages, it rich and its poor, its heart and its stomach.

Back to the pavillion
One of Pakistan's most exciting cricket team captains Wasim Akram, sat in the sidelines as the national team played in Bangladesh. Ostensibly, Akram is not available for the three-nation event because his bowling shoulder flared up. This impression, however, seemed to contradict his statement that this problem was not that bad and he should be back in action.