Gear Up for the General Strike

THE Jail Bharo on August 9 and the week-long campaign preceding that against the New Economic Policy, sponsored by NPF has been an impressive success. In almost all major cities

Redraw the Federal Lines

THE Uttarakhand Hills are aflame. The longstanding demand of the Hill people for a separate state of their own within the Indian Union has now snowballed into an unprecedented popular

Hasten the Congress(I)’s Fall

OUT of the four states going to the polls in November-December, the outcome in the two major southern states — Andhra and Karnataka — have enormous national significance. The stakes

The Congress Crisis and the Left

AS the interval in the unfolding drama of internal crisis in the Congress(I) draws to a close, the steadily pouring in reports point to another roundof poll reversals awaiting the

Political Process in Kashmir

IT seems that what Rao government did in December 1992 in case of Babri Masjid by way of omission, it did the same thing in case of Charar-e-Sharief by way

In Search of A Third Front

COUNTDOWN for the '96 parliamentary elections has begun. In fast moving political developments men and events seem to be repeating themselves. The dialectic of the situation, however, makes them look

The Left on the National Scene

IN the pre-election year, Congress(I) is benumbed by its own crisis, BJP is heady with its own ambition and the centrists are caught in a web of their own internal