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...
Reports
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...
this time- While big money and muscle power wilI play a major role in the Andhra region, the gun will rule the roast in the Rayala- seema region. The portents are seen in the Cuddapah constituency...
Appropriating Sri Sankaradeva Kamarupee Why this desperate attempt by the pan-Indian cultural establishment to 'lndianise' Sri Sankaradeva, a figure considered by the Assamese people as the...
Impact of Disintermediation The trends in both deposits of commercial banks and credit to the commercial sector in 1990-91 showed the impact of growing financial disintermediation in the economy.
Asghar Ali Engineer The Press Council of India's two reports on the press coverage of the events in Ayodhya on October 30 and November 2 in some newspapers are harshly critical of such biased...
West Asia T V Sathyamurthy If the victory of the Iranian revolution over the regime of the Shah represented a climacteric moment in anti-imperialist and Islamic nationalist politics in West Asia,...
ANDHRA PRADESH Recurring Patterns M Shatrugna The choice of candidates by both the Congress(I) and the TDP, the two principal contestants in the coming elections, reflects the pattern of dominance...
Tripura and Election Commission A Correspondent Nine IAS officers in Tripura have submitted a letter to the Election Commission expressing their apprehension that 'concerted efforts' may be made by...
of their own. For instance Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, RPP (Thapa); and the Nepal Sadbhavana Party will bag many ieajs on their own and in many constituencies their presence will cause the defeat...
in Nepal Brahmanand Mishra None of the political parties, not even the well-organised Left, appears to have taken seriously the significant gains for democracy after the overthrow of the party-less...
Sangharsh Yatra Ashish Kothari A clear link between the government of Gujarat and the Gujarati media was revealed not merely by the fact that the latter periodically parroted everything that...
then, lies precisely here: in that she has managed to communicate directly with the woman voter in the State on a matter that is of existential and everyday concern to us. The current election...
to the holding of elections in the State could hardly have impressed the election commissioner. Since the Congress(I)-TUJS alliance forcibly captured power in the State in 1988, there have been four...
Ashok V Desai India's Mixed Economy: The Role of Ideology and Interest in Its Development by Baldev Raj Nayar; Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1989; The Political Econopiy of India's Public Sector:...
