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...
Reports
The big methodological fallacy in dealing with the 'national question' had not yet been overcome by all three communist parties. Conceding the right of every nationality to secede, the writings of...
Adivasi Struggles in South Rajasthan On April 2, 1990, the tribal village of Hadmatiya in south Udaipur district was subjected to a brutal police assault. Nearly a year later this village was...
North-East Kamarupee With the stakes in the present elections, especially those to the State assembly, being very high, and with every section of the people very highly politicised, it is unlikely...
S Nanjundan Is the 'new world order' a euphemism for Pax Americana or a real attempt to reshape the world order towards a. more equitable, more co-operative and more progressive system?
Indu Bharti Sustained people's protest may well result in the stalling of the Koel-Karo project. But several other similar projects continue to be constructed in the State with little concern for...
Nepali Election Results and Their Implications Anirudha Gupta While the Nepali Congress has won a convincing majority in the recent parliamentary elections, its near-total debacle in the Kathmandu...
far muted, may escalate on such issues as party policies and composition of the new ministry. If the past is any pointer, one may recall the 1952 split when Matrika Prasad Koirala headed a Congress...
and have become paupers. Though the government has been acquiring land from the tribals for a pittance, it has been filling its coffers by selling or leasing out land in the same locality and in...
candidates. It has allotted 25 per cent of its tickets to the forward castes and the rest to the OBC. Among the OBC the CPI has given 62.5 per cent tickets to Yadavas and the rest 12.5 per cent to...
in the control area in the same period. An estimated gas-affected population of 5,00,000 will require some kind of health care or other for the next 20 years. The total cost of such health care...
Electorates Issue DN The objective of Gandhi's "epic' Yeravada fast was to force the dalits, under Ambedkar, to accept their position of being subordinated to the politically dominant sections of...
Constraints on Economic Policy Price of Profligacy B Gopalakrishna Kumar While the short-term economic problems may at first sight look daunting, they are tractable compared to the longer-term...
would decide on who would be the dalit representatives. But by agreeing to proportionate representation for dalits Gandhi was admitting that there were divisions among Hindus which should have a...
The findings of the various studies undertaken by the Indian Council of Medical Research in Bhopal are beginning to produce medical evidence of the enormity of the Bhopal Gas Disaster.
