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Focuses on Lal Bihari, founder of the Association of Dead People in Azamgarh, India. Experience of Bihari, which took 19 years to resurrect himself legally, after being certified as dead in official record in India's bureaucracy; Impact of Bihari's association in the legal system; Corruption in India that makes it easy to declare someone dead and inherit the person's property.

Reports on the popularity of the television game show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' in India. Details regarding the amount of poverty in the country; Amount of time that it would take the average Indian to earn one million dollars; How the show has connected Eastern and Western cultures.

Discusses the potential of India's high-technology industry to affect the lives of the poor. Chasm between the educated elite and the impoverished; Concern about economic and social conditions; Debate over the taxation of the computer software industry.

Discusses the study of political leadership at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and how it reflects changes in Indian society.

The article reports on the call of the militant group Maoists to restructure the political, social and economic order in India through radical way.

Looks at the changing social conditions of women in India as of 1999. Constitutional amendment passed in 1993 that allows women, including women of the lowest castes, to hold seats on village councils; Increase in the social freedoms of women.

Announces the burning of 150 to 250 Christian family homes in Orissa, India in March 1999. Mention of the days of building tension before the incident; Number of villagers who are roaming the countryside in a heat wave that claimed several lives; The plan of India's Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh to address increasing international pressure over what has been an anti-Christian campaign in rural villages.

Reports Sushil Bharati who is part of a medicine-man marketing network in India known as Butterfly which is trying to revolutionize the way the country curbs its soaring population. What he receives for advocating a formalized birth-control program; The philosophical shift that this represents regarding India's government; India's projected population by May 2000; The hurdles that the Butterfly network must overcome.