NEW DELHI Pitfalls of 'Soft' Budgetting BM THE more the Prime Minister tumbles in handling complex and difficult problems, the more aggressive and defiant his public postures and speeches seen to...
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Notes. * Composite index of food articles, sugar group and edible oils. ** Composite index of fibres, oilseeds, other non-food articles and mineral ores. @ Composite index of petroleum crude,...
March 1, 1986 operation went on for two days
March 1, 1986 of political forces will be able to stand up in this kind of confrontation. The coalition of independent forces which emerges in the movement against slum eviction, in the ecological...
light on only some of the flaws and lapses in design and operation policies while other larger issues are clearly beyond its scope. Even within its own domain it abounds in glaring omissions; the...
GUJARAT Communal Violence and Police Terror Asghar Ali Engineer THE atmosphere in Ahmedabad is highly communalised for number of reasons. The whole city is now divided on caste and communal lines...
EVER since the historic Supreme Court judgment of July 10, 1985 on the Bombay pavement and slum dwellers case (Olga Tellis and others vs the Bombay Municipal Corporation) and the Tamil Nadu slum...
Mahamaya Mines, 25 km away. This is an utterly Tughlak-like gesture. Being contractual workers, the RSP management, of course, has no obligation to provide even the barest of facilities, such as...
NEW DELHI Following the World Bank-IMF Line BM THE Union Finance Minister V P Singh, is desperately trying to regain his prestige and reputation as a forthright and forthcoming politician. He was...
did not think of conducting a forensic examination of the dress worn by Guntaben on the occasion of rape. It was nearly two weeks after the rape that they finally asked her for the dress. They...
BHOPAL Ill-Effects Persist Report of a Survey D Raghunandan MORE than a year after the world's worst industrial disaster, its perpetrator, Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) is sitting pretty. It has...
February 22, 1986 must, therefore, logically follow. What is required by the World Bank-IMF strategists is austerity, ruthlessly imposed from above, for the mass of the people and liberalisation for...
'historical inevitability'. Unlike the issue of citizenship rights, however, the Assam movement did not force this issue into the public arena: in a sense the Assamese shared the national...
Golana: Symptoms of Crisis Sudarshan Iyengar Sujata Patel ON the eve of Republic Day, five members of Wankar community, weavers from the Scheduled Castes, were shot dead and 17 were injured in...
HISTORY 'Subaltern Studies' at Crossroads David Hardiman THE second Subaltern Studies conference was held in Calcutta in January 1986, three years after the first such conference in Canberra (for a...
