PUNJAB Communal Tensions and Left Forces Bharat Dogra AS on March 23 every year, this year too a large number of people had gathered at Hussainiwala, on the banks of the Sutlej near the Indo-Pak...
From Our Correspondent
April 5, 1986 The other issues on which educational policy is going to stay silent are those of child labour and infant mortality. Both these issues are directly relevant to education; indeed, no...
CENTRAL AMERICA Broad Coalition against US Domination Firduus Jhahvala THE ongoing conflict in Central America in general, and Nicaragua in particular, is a good example of how the Third World is...
affect the land and life of millions and millions of peasant families all over the countryside, their village communities and ultimately the nation itself. Does G V K Rao suggest the liquidation of...
SOVIET UNION Gorbachev's Diagnoses and Prescriptions R G Gidadhubli THE political report of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) delivered by the General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to the...
an autonomous corporation
WEST BENGAL Helpless Bailiff of a Decadent Lord Ajit Roy THE West Bengal budget for 1986-87 presented by Jyoti Basu is not particularly striking in any respect except perhaps for its contrivance to...
SIKKIM Controversial Land Reform Sarajit Majumdar SIKKIM, a multi-ethnic state, is prone to frequent inter-ethnic tensions. The recent amendment of the Sikkim Agricultural Land Ceiling and Reforms...
abominable squalor; they are the scavengers and cleaners of foul-smelling drains, and to India's shame they are the ones who still carry buckets of human excreta on their heads. The continuity of...
Into breaking with the group, telling them that their children had been sent to leper colonies, that they would have to pay Rs 5,000 to 'free' them and so on. The women were naturally scared a prey...
Cost of Development Projects Women among the 'Willing Evacuees' Amiya Rao LAJWANTI sits dreaming while making her roti on the smoking chulha in her miserable jhuggi by the city's putrid drain. Back...
Prostitution in Pune and Bombay A Report Anil Awachat THE Pune Mandai is its biggest vegetable market. Right at the heart of this busy marketplace is Dane Alley, the Prostitute Lane. The street is...
development inputs. This phenomenon has tended in recent years, and particularly in the current financial year, to become more marked. It signifies that incomes and standards of living of the...
financial matters. Thus a university cannot institute a new professorship or open a new laboratory on its own without first obtaining the consent of the state government and, quite often, that of...
PRICES Lower Inflation Rate Brings Little Relief to People (By a Special Correspondent) JUDGING by the trend in the wholesale price index, there was a reduction in the intensity of inflationary...
