Out of Alignment Currency movements in the world markets in recent months have not been in tandem with the movements in interest rates or the underlying economic conditions in the different...
Reports
EDUCATION Slowing Down Krishna Kumar The report of the Department of Education for 1989-90 shows that what little energy had gathered in the bureaucratic machinery of education in the wake of the...
Restoration of Corporate Monarchy? Madan Gopal Jajoo The charade of corporate democracy, which has been advanced as the justification for handing over Larsen and Toubro to the Ambanis a second time...
State's Response and Its Consequences Amita Baviskar The reasons behind the government's refusal to reply constructively to the Narmada Bachao Andolan's arguments and demands or to engage in a...
P G K Panikar Oil as a source of energy has certain unique characteristics which leads to periodic crises in the international oil market. How have different countries responded in the past? What...
James Petras The US war in the Gulf is, in its broadest contours, an effort by the US to define a new military-centred global order in which markets, income and resource shares are defined not by...
Land Grab, Bombay Style Urban Development in Vasai-Virar Hinterland of Bombay R N Sharma Urban development in India, especially in and around large cities, is today largely oriented to the expansion...
structure, by acknowledging the existence of OBCs could go against the interest of CPI(M). Interestingly while the CPI(M) in other states, particularly the Hindi States has been forcefully demanding...
Not only the industrialists, but the State and some of the Central trade unions are trying their best to break the workers' struggle in Bhilai ON February 4, the government of Madhya Pradesh...
While the CPI(M) has been vociferously demanding the implementation of the Mandal Commission report, particularly in the Hindi states, in West Bengal it denies the very existence of OBCs.
The migration of Indian workers to Gulf countries increased from a trickle in 1976 to reach a peak level of 2,72,000 in 1981 after which it declined slowly till 1986.
The relative decline of US economic investment and trade has increased the weight of the 'ideological and military' components of the US imperial state in shaping the priorities of policy and the...
DDA's Controversial Role Sipra Maitra The basic objective of DDAs land development and housing policy was providing maximum shelter to the urban poor. But the organisation's activities have in fact...
Sandip Bandyopadhyay Workers building Calcutta's prestigious Metro Railway Project who have had to put up with atrocious working conditions all these years have now been served unfair retrenchment...
The co-option of Ambedkar into the Hindu fold is being carried out with considerable sophistication by the Hindutvawadi forces. In addition some Buddhists groups are doing their best to strip...
