Presidential Election: Prospects for Change? Badruddin Umar THE political process initiated by General Ershad to dress up his military rule in a pseudo-democratic garb is now passing through its...
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they only underscore the need for careful prior investigation. Also, where the percolation rate is high, there should also be some possibility of putting in an infiltration gallery, and get the...
and allowing for the emergence of new caste solidarities on a state-wide, even nation-wide basis. (Significantly, it was the so-called All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha which led the Lingayats in the...
to it (after this had been very consciously side-stepped during the NPE discussions). Not too much is heard by now of non- formal education programmes for working children or any major drive towards...
mothers and children, (iii) Minor forest produce collection centres in tribal areas, where pregnant mothers likely to come, (iv) In irrigated command areas a large number of pregnant women would be...
October 11, 1986 LATIN AMERICA Dialectics of Growth and Regression James Petras THE main feature of Latin American development' in the past six years has been economic and social regression in...
October 11, 1986 Requiem for Nuclear Power? S Srinivasan THERE has been an increasing demand for a critical debate on the fundamental questions relating to nuclear energy, culture, environment and...
Education Policy: What Next? Sureshchandra Shukla WHATEVER has happened in the past few months merely confirms our early critiques, viz, that the new education policy has nothing in it for the...
Nuclear Power Plant Larry Jagan MONTHS of speculation and debate were brought to an end last week when Beijing confirmed that its proposed Daya Bay nuclear-power station was going ahead as planned...
market-rates inside jails. Two matchboxes bartered with a litre of milk!" comments Haque. BREEDING GROUND FOR CORRUPTION Whatever scope of being linked with productive labour was there in jails,...
NEW DELHI Shadow-Boxing over Public Sector BM THE debate on industrial and commercial enterprises in the public sector had tended to become for some time quite heated. Privatisation of public sector...
October 4, 1986 takings with the government which, by virtue of being the representative of the public in a parliamentary system, is the owner of public sector undertakings. This relationship is not...
ANDHRA PRADESH Reservations: The Court Says No K Balagopal IN a judgment delivered on September 5 a full bench of the AP High Court held that the State Government's GO enhancing the Backward Classes...
September 20-27, 1986 LETTER FROM EUROPE Arms Negotiations Harish Kapur THE East-West arms negotiations are once again on the move. A flurry of new diplomatic activity is noticeable in Europe. The...
September 20-27, 1986 Oral History: Reconstructing Women's Role U Kalpagam WOMENS studies has forced a rethinking among social scientists on the, incorporation of the individual, including...
