Congress 'Grief Takes Terrible Toll Rajiv Gandhi's assassination provided a handy excuse for Congress(I) heavyweights, including ministers and MLAs, to organise loot, arson, murder and general...
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Education: Muddying Troubled Waters Philip G Altbach President Bush and his education secretary have presented a number of ideas which are, for the most part, not bad. But these proposals have no...
Tripura Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar thought differently and, at a press conference, is reported to have asserted that the law and order situation in THpura was better than it was anywhere else in the...
blessings of the Kanchi Shankaracharya before launching her campaign. This, on the one hand. On the other hand, she constantly invoked the name of E V Ramasamy Periyar and thereby claimed the...
Moment of Truth for Janata Dal Anil Nauriya The Janata Dal had raised expectations of a possible social and political transformation. Its electoral performance, and the political mistakes and...
V Geetha S V Rajadurai Its many political compromises notwithstanding, the DMK had served as the focus in Tamil public life for a range of subaltern interests to come together and articulate their...
on Bhopal Gas Disaster Six years after the Bhopal gas disaster, not only do the victims continue to suffer, but several crucial issues, such as the manner in which injuries should be evaluated for...
P R K Rao Instead of exploring and critiquing the instability and the usur- pative drive of modern scientific enterprise, the media has allowed itself to bv appropriated by the ideology of modern...
in Maharashtra Meera Kosambi The series of international conferences on 'Maharashtra: Culture and Society' has, over the years, produced scholarship remarkable for its depth as well as breadth,...
Soviet Economy R G Gidadhubli Abhijit Bhattacharya In the context of the openly expressed view of the Soviet leadership that economic assistance from the West is critical to Soviet economic survival...
for the AGP government, it would be interesting to see how the government will talkie these problems, especially in the light of the repeated affirmations of Hiteswar Saikia that his first priority...
ASSAM Congress Returns to Brahmaputra Valley Kamarupee Rejected five years ago as a party hostile to the Assamese-speaking people of the Brahmaputra valley, the Congress(I) has scored notable...
T V Sathyamurthy Discussion at the second conference of the project 'Terms of Political Discourse in India' focused on the themes of State and Social Oppression; India's'Economic Policy in the...
Towards a Realignment of Social Forces Ajit Roy It is something of an irony that prospects, however vague, of the resuscitation of a Nehruvian perspective of development have opened up only with the...
objective of a Nehruvian model of (bourgeois- capitalist) growth, never failing to link these immediate and partial actions with the long-term objective of social transformation, in both material...
