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TPDS: Weakening welfare
Interview:
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh
Dangers of narrow targeting
A case for expanding the PDS
Excluding the poor
On reforming the PDS
Maharashtra: Redefining
the poor
Pulling back the safety net
Kerala's successful system under
threat
Interview:
E. Chandrasekharan Nair
Interview: Dr. K.N. Raj
Foreign Policy

Gujral in South Africa:
by N.Ram
Figuring out Cairo
Personality

Interview:
Dr. Christiaan Barnard
Social Issues

Child labour in Punjab
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Space
PSLV success
Loss of INSAT-2D
Interview:
Dr. K. Kasturirangan, ISRO Chairman
Assam
Crackdown on the tea industry
Tata tapes: corporate lobbying
India-Pakistan
Initiatives and conflicts
Shelling of Kargil
Terrorism
Blasts in Ghaziabad, Sadar Bazaar
The States
Laloo Prasad in control
Cauvery: Karnataka
Cauvery: Tamil Nadu
Upper Krishna: Contracts of contention
Kerala's palmolein case
New light on Gulshan Kumar Murder
Gujarat: Survival strategy
BSP-BJP: Widening rift
Deepening social divisions
Interview: Amar Singh
Veerappan strikes again
Chamling gains upper hand
World Affairs
Controlled peace in Sri Lanka
The Government's balancing act
Institutionalising neo-liberalism:
by Mike Marqusee
Solidarity's surprise victory
On free market reforms:
by Michel Chossudovsky
U.S. action against terrorism
View from Colombo
Ban on the Harkat
Books
Akbar and His India:
review by Parvathi Menon
Insights into life in India:
review by V. Abdulla
A revolutionary life:
review by Suneet Chopra
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Nuclear Power
Interview:
Y.S.R. Prasad, NPC Chairman
Environment
South-East Asia:
Wrapped in a haze
A not-so-natural disaster:
by Lawrence Surendra
Science
AIDS research controversy
The Armed Forces
Gen. V.P.Malik, Army Chief
Public Sector Enterprises
The 'Navaratnas' and 'Mini-Ratnas':
by V. Sridhar
The Judiciary
A judicial standoff
Tribute
Justice William Brennan:
by R.K. Raghavan
Politics
Congress: Unwavering ambition
Economic Policy
Proposed changes in Customs evaluation
Columns
E.M.S. Namboodiripad:
Subverting self-reliance
A.G. Noorani:
The Westland scandal
Jayati Ghosh:
International inequality
Also
The English Language
Letters
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