Cover Story

West Asia: Violent backlash
by Kesava Menon
Anger and frustration
by John Cherian
India's changing stand
by John Cherian
Peace, and war
by Sukumar Muralidharan
Interview with Palestinian Ambassador to India

Party Affairs

CPI(M) special conference:
Continuity and change
The process and its significance
Considered reassertion

Investigation
Kargil: The tale documents tell

Sardar Sarovar Project
Supreme Court clears dam
The troubled course

The States
Punjab: Doubts over a death
Rebel trouble in Orissa
Tripura's agony
Karnataka: Janata Dal pointers
Surat: The politics of riots
Punjab's paddy crisis

World Affairs
Kumaratunga's victory
Obituary: Sirima Bandaranaike
Tallies and pointers:
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj
Estrada's gamble
A new era in the Balkans
In China, water power
A surprise move in Peru
A close race in the U.S.
Russia's strategy
Of Europe and Japan:
by Glyn Ford

Nature
Vanishing vultures:
by Harsh Vardhan
Enumerating vultures
A wealth of vultures

Media Studies
Looking for the real McLuhan

Prizes
Nobel Prize for Kim Dae-Jung
Literature prize for Chinese writer
World Food Prize winner

Interview
Arpad Pusztai on GM foods

Social Issues
Kangaroo courts in Haryana
Domestic violence: Resistance to a Bill

Spotlight
JMM case: Crime and punishment
The conviction and the party
The law and its potency:
by A.G. Noorani

Jammu and Kashmir
Ruling dilemma

Conclaves
RSS meet in Agra
VHP defers a conflict
Interview: Ramachandra Paramhans

Crime
Hostage crisis: Enter, more players
Desperate in Bangalore
Reining in a soft state

Column
Praful Bidwai: The Hindutva offensive
Jayati Ghosh: Brazilian paradoxes
C.P. Chandrasekhar: Recession the norm, growth the exception

Books
Sino-Soviet alliance and India
review by A.G. Noorani
Fighting terrors of finance:
review by C.T. Kurien
Dispute settlement in nomadic societies:
review by S.P. Udayakumar
Of declining sociability
review by John Harriss