Cover Story

Manipur on fire
by Sushanta Talukdar
Victims of crossfire
Insult upon injury
by Siddharth Varadarajan
Burdens of the past
by M.S.Prabhakara
The laws and the language
Dithering in Delhi
by Praveen Swami
The Army and special powers

Labour Issues
Left warning on EPF interest
An unkind cut
Interview: M.K. Pandhe,
general secretary, CITU

Education
Karnataka: Quota confusion
Tamil Nadu: Unfinished task
Transparency, the key
Kerala: The fear over fees

Social Issues
An edict on prayers
The talaq debate

Communalism
The chains of Pirana

World Affairs
A hat-trick in Venezuela
A decisive victory
(© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004)
Bangladesh: Militancy on the rise
A mysterious death
Fighting floods
Trouble in the Caucasus
The new Winter Soldiers:
by Vijay Prashad

WTO
Divide and triumph, in Geneva:by Walden Bello and Aileen Kwa

Environment
Beautiful Bhutan: by A.J.T. Johnsingh and Deki Yonten

Events
A literary confluence in Hyderabad

Theatre
Iraq on stage in Kolkata

Special Feature: Health care in Karnataka

Envisaging a healthy growth
Medical care redefined
A boon for childless couples
The role of NIMHANS
Combating AIDS

Science
An electrifying discovery in Bangalore

The States

Madhya Pradesh: A `tainted' Chief Minister
The legal trail
Tamil Nadu: Lawyers on the warpath
Gujarat: Cases of complicity
Internal indictment

Column
Bhaskar Ghose: What exactly is `being Indian'?
Jayati Ghosh: Rooting for Chavez
Praful Bidwai: No peace without civil society
R.K. Raghavan: The debate on death penalty

Books
Tracking the Indian elephant
review by S. Theodore Baskaran
In the tide country
review by Amulya Gopalakrishnan
Interview:Amitav Ghosh, writer
Is IT hype or hope?
review by Anand Parthasarathy
A monarch in the Kremlin
review by A.G. Noorani

Also
The English Language
Letters