Understanding Deve Gowda James Manor Deve Gowda's past may turn out to be a poor guide to his premiership, but this account of a number of events, tendencies and recurring themes in his career may...
Prespectives
Neo-Liberalism and Daily Life James Petras Steve Vieux Data on the effects of unemployment, underemployment and low-paid employment in the US reveal a strong tendency for the downwardly mobile to...
Shrinking Democracy and Expanding Trade New Shape of the Imperial State James Petras Steve Vieux The new configuration of state power by neoliberalism depends upon the destruction of the chief '...
Political Situation in Kashmir Duped by Media and Government Gautam Navlakha Rita Manchanda Tapan K Bose While elections in the Kashmir valley were held in the massive presence of Indian army and...
Demographic Outcomes, Economic Development and Women's Agency INDIA is a country of striking demographic diversity. Even broad comparisons between different states within the country bring out...
Sahmat and Politics of Cultural Intervention Sudhanva Deshpande IN November 1988, the working class of Delhi went on a successful seven-day strike under the leadership of the Centre of Indian Trade...
Elections without Party System Rajni Kothari POLITICAL debate in the country seems to have got hung on the idea of a 'hung parliament' and the coming era of coalition government at the centre that...
Hospitalisation Insurance: A Proposal T N Krishnan By preventing erosion of their already low incomes, a health insurance plan is aim indirectly an income protection plan for the poor, This note...
On the Making of the Next Century THE 20th century arrived a little late, in 1905, when the Russian army was defeated by Japanese troops in the battlefield of Crimea. As if in apology, the 21st...
Uttarakhand Agitation and Other Backward Classes Emma Mawdsley IN July 1994, a mass movement began in the eight hill districts of Uttar Pradesh against the imposition of 27 per cent reservation for...
'Post-Communist' Societies: Return of the Reformed Natives Dawa Norbu THE velvet revolutions of 1989 and 1991 evoked more emotional response than critical reflection, and quite understandably so...
Chechnya: Russian Fiasco Rama Sampath Kumar THE administrative units of the Russian federation are composed of 55 provinces or regions, 2 cities (Moscow and St Petersburg), 21 republics, and 11...
How are women effected by the growing religious fundamentalism in the Muslim World? And how do they, in the national and international context resist what is imposed upon them in the name of...
Towards an Indian Agenda for the Indian Left Yogendra Yadav THIS note is addressed to all those who identify with one or another form of the Indian left today: the communist parties, 'naxalites',...
Psychology and Challenge of Postmodern Condition Ananta Giri Postmodern challenge to psychology is not confined to the reconceptualisation of the human need and the rethinking of the process of...
