Cover Story

World Social Forum in Mumbai
by Sukumar Muralidharan
Absence and dissent
Ecological debt
by Lyla Bavadam
Interview: Immanuel Wallerstein
The housing question
Interview: Jeremy Corbyn
Interview: Irene Khan
Mumbai Resistance 2004
Interview: Jose Bove

Jammu & Kashmir
Government-APHC dialogue
Killing of Ghulam Rasool Dar

Politics
BJP reworking strategies
Congress(I)'s new alliances

Ayodhya
Move to sabotage Liberhan probe?

Defence
The Gorshkov deal

Government
More sops for the elite

The States
Kerala: B.Ed. college controversy
Ban on book on Shivaji
Voters' list clean-up in A.P.
A chance discovery
Increasing 'honour killings'

World Affairs
A critical phase in Iraq
Nepal: Challenging the monarchy
SLFP-JVP alliance in Sri Lanka
Attack on a church
LTTE's history books
Setback for reforms in Iran

Travel

Splendour of Bukhara, Samarkand

Books
Globalised resistance
review by V. Sridhar

Review Article
Secrets of the Cold War:
review by A.G. Noorani

Interview
Taslima Nasreen, Bangladeshi writer

Art
In McWorld and of it also:
by Hans Mathews

Oragan Trade
Tamil Nadu order on kidney donation

Special Feature: Year of Scientific Awareness

Taking science to the masses
Interview: Prof. V.S. Ramamurthi
Interview: Dr. Narendra K. Sehgal
Messengers of science
Science in the media

Tribute
Ramakrishna Hegde, politician with elan
Krishna Raj, a committed journalist

Election Commission
A new CEC

Tamil Nadu
SPIC case: Jayalalithaa wins
Fire at wedding hall

Column
Bhaskar Ghose: The politics of new districts
K. Natwar Singh: A simple man and a great leader
R.K. Raghavan: Dealing with police misconduct
Praful Bidwai: For justice in Gujarat

Also
The English Language
Letters