Who Owns Third World Women's Knowledge? An Experience Everlyn Nicodemus THIS account of how 800 African women were cheated and the authors' rights of African women writers violated is a long,...
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Disquieting Trends THE Reserve Bank of India has published the details of India's Balance of Payments for the year 1982-83 in the February 1986 issue of its Bulletin. Bolstered by higher inflow of...
to the scheduling of the tea and ex-tea garden people. The provision for reservations for the indigenous tribals of Assam has been scuttled by the invidious distinction that has been made between...
The beginning of the present developments in the CPI(M) can be traced to the controversy on the Muslim personal law early last year, long before the enactment of the recent amendment of Section 125...
July 5,19.6 notorious Bhumi Sena, a private army of the Kurmi landlords, early this year. It set an example for the whole of Bihar. The 'sense of security
imports. This was obviously meant to be some kind of a 'counter-pressure' on the part of India on the Aid-India Consortium fund its manager, the World Bank.
ALBANIA Restructuring Centralised Authority Ramnath Narayanswamy WELL known for its strict ideological insulation from the outside world, the Albanian experience of economic reform has not received...
NEW DELHI The Aid-India Charade BM THE total quantum of World Bank and country credits which have been pledged at the meeting of the so-called Aid-India Consortium at Paris this year is 4.5 billion...
merited on a national level. In this connection it is heartening to note that the Central government is proposing similar amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act to cover the entire country.
ANDHRA PRADESH Drought: Lies the Government Tells K Balagopal 'WHERE have all our cattle gone?' It is not a farmer who asks the question, for the farmers know quite well where their cattle have gone...
Food Dependence Nita Sanghvi The Wheat Trap: Bread and Underdevelopment in Nigeria by Gunilla Andrae and Bjorn Beckman; Zed Books, London; pp xii + 180,
LABOUR Women in Drug Industry Sujatha Gothoskar A WHOLE range of industries have nearly always kept women out
is that for the last nearly 20 years the proportion, and very often even the number of women workers has declined in the pharmaceutical industry. This is borne out by the examples of Roche and Indo...
Delhi's Chemical Monster Ashish Kothari A MASSIVE gas leak took place in Den!' on the morning of December 4,1985. Several hundred, perhaps several thousand of people were injured by the leak, three...
Privatisation and the Tories Michael Jacobs WHAT do telecommunications, aerospace, defence equipment and weapons, nuclear submarines, shipbuilding, motor vehicles, oil, gas, water, electricity and...
