Tabloids are in for trouble. Broadsheets will look as flashy and frivolous.

Page 3 will have an identity crisis. Glamour, gloss and greasepaint will take over Page 1.

And the Movies section will soon have to fight with the News pages to hold on to its stories and photographs.

Move aside, politicians. Your blabbering will not make front-page headlines automatically anymore. Fashionable female actors, beauty queens and television starlets will take your place. The face of Indian politics is changing.

As the world's largest democracy readies for Election 2004, Anjum N takes a tongue-in-cheek (my tongue in my cheek; no place for any un-Parliamentary ideas here), look at the increasing oomph on the campaign trail.

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