development ministry run by Kamal Nath 18 INTERVIEW J.S. Verma 20 COLUMN Chandan Gowda 22 GUJARAT Can Rahul Take on Modi 26 BJP L’affaire Gadkari 45 HYDERABAD Heralding the Deccan Age, An English Daily for Muslims 46 Slick Dealing Instructed to keep out corporate influence when he took over as petroleum minister, a brief Jaipal Reddy stuck to faithfully, it’s this very corporate influence that is now deemed to be behind his being shifted to the science and technology ministry 50 AIRPORT METRO Off to Arbitration 58 PROFILE Kalanidhi Maran 54 ‘Gandhi was inconsistent on satyagraha’ Praful Bidwai interviews Marxist historian, UCLA professor and New Left Review editor PERRY ANDERSON, whose new book The Indian Ideology demolishes a few ‘myths’ F E AT U R E S B U S I N E S S