40^th anniversary issue

             symposium participants

• A LETTER FROM SEMINAR
  

• A NEW MISSION
  K.R. Narayanan, President of India

• THE INDEPENDENT JOURNAL OF OPINION
  Ramachandran Guha, writer and environmental historian, Bangalore

• THE PAST AS FUTURE
  Ashok Mitra, former MP, was Finance Minister Government of West Bengal, Calcutta

• DEMOCRACY WITHOUT DEMOCRATS?
  Krishna Kumar, writer and Professor of  Education, University of Delhi

• MEMORIES
  Jaswant Singh, Union Cabinet Minister of External Affairs, Government of India

• A QUESTION OF ISSUES
  Charles Correa, architect and town-planner, Mumbai

• PERSONALLY SPEAKING
  Rajni Kothari, political analyst, Delhi

• SHRINKING SPACES, NEW PLACES
  P. Sainath, author and journalist, Mumbai

• A PERSONAL REPRISE
  Gerson da Cuhna, social communicator, Mumbai

• BEYOND THE FACTION
  Pavan K. Varma, author and Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India

• THE SEARCH FOR A SOCIAL ETHIC
  Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus of History, Jawahal Nehru University, Delhi

• IN MEMORIUM
  Neelan Tiruchelvam, 1944 - 1999

• COMMENT
  Received from Baljit Malik, journalist, Kasauli

• BACKPAGE
  Harsh Sethi