Vol. 14 :: No. 16 Aug 9-22, 1997 Special Issue	India's National Magazine From the publishers of THE HINDU
The First Fifty Years	Table of Contents

Frontline Essay Persistent deprivation Income-poverty in India The Fortnight Laloo Prasad's latest manoeuvre Vice-Presidential election A court victory in West Bengal Furore over Gujral's statement Taliban goes on the defensive Sri Lankans dominate Asia Cup

Political India: an overview N. Ram, Editor, Frontline Aspects of foreign policy I.K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India The Congress after Independence Sharad Pawar, leading Congressperson The Opposition and the Left E.M.S. Namboodiripad, major Marxist thinker and leader The BJP's growth and ambition Atal Behari Vajpayee, BJP leader Dimensions of national security K. Subrahmanyam,defence and strategic affairs specialist Evaluating the civil services Madhav Godbole, former Union Home Secretary The judiciary and justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, former Supreme Court Judge How India has fared Tagore and today's India Amartya Sen, economist and philosopher Handling a modern economy Manmohan Singh, former Union Finance Minister On economic liberalisation Ashok Mitra, economist and economic policy expert Agricultural growth and sustainability M.S. Swaminathan, agricultural scientist Making India a force to contend with Ratan Tata, industrialist A rightful place for India Rahul Bajaj, industrialist Atomic energy and self-reliance M.R. Srinivasan, expert on nuclear energy affairs History as social science Romila Thapar, historian and Professor Emeritus, JNU History and interpretation Irfan Habib, historian and former Chairman, Centre for Advanced Studies, AMU Competing historiographies K.N. Panikkar, historian and Professor of Modern History, JNU Gandhi's legacy Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Indian High Commissioner to South Africa and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi The pangs of social change M.N. Srinivas, sociologist In retrospect B.K. Nehru, distinguished public servant Cultures in conflict Aijiz Ahmad, leading Marxist literary and cultural theorist

An artist and a movement M.F. Husain, India's best-known painter The press in changing times H.Y. Sharada Prasad, veteran journalist The Common Man: A companion of 50 years R.K. Laxman, India's finest cartoonist The Emergency and India's second freedom struggle Arun Shourie, journalist The publishing environment Ravi Dayal, publisher Milestone Kabir Street R.K. Narayan, India's greatest writer in English India and world literature Salman Rushdie, novelist of world renown A tradition of resistance in Hindi literature Namwar Singh, author and critic in Hindi A letter to Michael Foot Mulk Raj Anand, distinguished writer Carnatic music then and now Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, renowned vocalist A treasure of India's heritage Ustad Bismillah Khan, renowned shehnai artist The architecture of freedom Satish Grover, Professor of Architecture What can we do with a slum? Laurie Baker, architect Space science: onwards and upwards K. Kasturirangan, distinguished space scientist Combating blindness Tarun Sharma and S.S. Badrinath, ophthalmologists Cancer as a public health problem K.A. Dinshaw, oncologist and Director, Tata Memorial Centre Progress in cancer treatment V. Shanta, oncologist and Director, Cancer Institute, Chennai Advances in neurosciences B. Ramamurthi, pioneer in neurosurgery My allies in theatre Habib Tanvir, theatre personality Evaluating popular cinema Sunil Dutt, veteran Hindi film actor Cinema with a purpose Adoor Gopalakrishnan, leading Malayalam film maker

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