New Series .... July 2003

Front Cover

Back Cover

 

EDITORIAL

No Indian Troos to Serve the US War in Iraq

COMMENTARY

Ayodhya:
Under the Ground, Behind the Curtain

Advani’s Latest Yatra

Negating Affirmative Action

STUDY

Debt Trap or Suicide Trap?
(Centre for Social Development, National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad has recently (April 2003) published a study "Farmers’ Suicides in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka" by RM Vidyasagar and K Suman Chandra. Here we produce excerpts from its Chapter IV, ‘Summary, Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Interventions’.)

ARTICLE

Decoding the Unorganised Sector Workers’ Bill, 2003

ECONOMIC NOTES

The Value Added Tax Controversy

VIEW POINT

Axis of The Apocalyptic

EXPOSURE

Guns, bombs and imperialist goals

BOOKS

Plan Colombia:
US Imperialist Offensive in Disguise

 

REPORTS

Explosion of Public Anger:
Thousands Gherao Cong(I)-led Karbi Council Office

‘Development’ in Bihar: Hostage to Delhi-Patna Complicity

Assault on Dalits in Talhan

‘Not a Single Indian Soldier to be Sent to Iraq!’
Left Parties Protest Against Troop Deployment to Iraq

District Party Conferences in UP

New Mantra of Bengal’s Buddha-ism

Heightened Temper of Mass Movement in Muzaffarpur

More about ‘domicile’ controversy and Saffron design in Jharkhand

AADHI ZAMEEN

terror of dowry extortion

HUMOUR

Atal Santa Lakki Banta –
A Wholesome Family Drama

 

MISCELLANY

Free Aung San Suu Kyi!

Letter of Protest by Scholars and Intellectuals Against the Attack on Romila Thapar

[Sent to the Library of Congress and released to the Press on 17 May 2003]