`Liberalisation is not going to help the poorest people in India'
In 1978 Nanaji Deshmukh, quit politics to work full time as a social worker. His Deen Dayal Uphadyay Research Institute has sponsored many innovative welfare schemes focussing mainly on the uplift of 500 villages in Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh.



The freedom and bondage of Madhavikkutty
Through her conversion to Islam, Kamala Das has crossed yet another frontier. Whether the conversion was spiritually inspired or matrimonially motivated is irrelevant. Religion is a matter of personal choice. As is the decision to marry at 67.



Straight Face
Can we as a nation, so perilously short of providing primary schooling for our children, afford to deprive ourselves of the free education that has come our way.



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Century Snapshots - 1984
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