Economic liberalisation and globalisation in the last ten years has changed our lives in ways most people would not have imagined. Rising income surpluses, changing work culture, investment bankers, cable television, post- Nehru family eras politics, software exporters, Coke, Pepsi, McDonald's, the Internet, Jet Airways, Shah Rukh Khan, Laloo Yadav and cell phones have all helped churn the 1990's into a whirlwind of a decade. Urban Indians were forced to free their minds, broaden their horizons and become in many ways, global citizens.

With the WTO, Palmtops and Internet telephony breathing down our necks, the next decade promises to be even more cataclysmic. And at the centre of all this is the modern Indian urban male---responsible for all this change and yet irrereversibly transformed by it. As he strives to adjust, adapt and enjoy--both work and leisure---and prepares to take on the challenges of a new century we think he would do well with some help to lead his life to its fullest. Man's World is a magazine that provides this help as a friend, philospher and guide.