18 JOURNALIST MURDERS Killed Instinct 21 HAMID ANSARI A Soft Target 22 S. JAISHANKAR A Foreign Secy First Among Equals 24 LALIT MODI Only More Dirt FEATURES 128 APPRAISAL Praful Bidwai 130 BOOK EXCERPT 1984: The Anti-Sikh Violence and After by Sanjay Suri 134 COLUMN Shajahan Madampat on the Kerala lamp-lighting controversy