Articles by Amaresh Misra

within the Congress(l) and outside and opened up new options tor the parties and the people. It has, as foreseen, led to a destabilisation of some kind of the Narasimha Rao leadership within the Congress and adversely affected the creeping process of consolidation of the Congress(l) regime. This in turn has given rise to hopes for the emergence of a new centrist alternative to the Congress regime.

Amaresh Misra One of the main themes of the mass peasant rally in Patna on March 18 organised by the CPI(ML) was the revival of the JP movement on a new basis under a Left leadership.

The entirely expected assertiveness on the part of the Dalits and the aggressive response to this, from the backward castes especially, poses a challenge to the SP-BSP government, both with regard to fulfilling the aspirations of its most important social support base and maintenance of the fragile backward-Dalit alliance.

Supreme Court substituted the terms of reference to the tribunal by indicating that the reference should now read: ''Whether the contract workers engaged and paid by the management of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, Ltd, Jamshedpur in the permanent and regularly nature of work before 11.2.1981 are entitled to permanent employment in regard to Items 1,2 and 4 under the Principal Employer''.

Benares represents in microcosm the story of the decoying of an ethos which encouraged the development of a plurality of cultures and religions and the submergence of the rich and diverse movements in culture, politics and religion under a single identity-nationalism and dominant Hinduism AFTER Ayodhya, with its rigid categories and social divisions, Benares, the preeminent Hindu religious centre, is well- worth a visit. Even a casual boat ride on the Ganga reveals the broken minarets of the Panchganga ghat-based Aurangzeb mosque set amidst the amazing maze of temple sites sporting the usually plain and cold shikbara curves, soaring stairways and majestic platforms. Its brooding elegance even today presents, by no means, an isolated instance. It blends in well both with, the forbidden fires of the adjoining Manikarnika Ghat and the springlike air of life around the rows of havelis and palaces along the river.