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A golden harvest of wheat in Punjab. As the impetus to growth in the farm sector steadily weakened, agriculture in the 1990s was a crisis waiting to happen.

The farming crisis

Indian agriculture is facing a crisis. Globalisation and the structural adjustment programme and skewed policy approaches adopted by successive govern
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Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee addressing BJP supporters at his residence in New Delhi on May 15.

The BJP's Bombs

The nuclear tests by the BJP-led Government have irrevocably altered India's strategic doctrine, undermined its policy of constructive engagement with
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Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav outside the Parliament House after presenting the Railway Budget.-RAJEEV BHATT

On the popular track

Laloo Prasad Yadav presents a Railway Budget that reflects his core concerns as a politician who has not lost touch with his roots.
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Finance Minister P. Chidambaram arrives at Parliament House to present the Union Budget on July 8.-RAJEEV BHATT

An exercise in evasion

In an effort to make the appropriate signals to various sections, the Union Budget takes a risky path that could lead the United Progressive Alliance
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Food for all

The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food securi
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Freedom at the workplace

Organizing for Social Justice, Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work 2004; Internation
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CHALLENGES AHEAD

An unprecedented coalition of social forces that have lost out under the neo-liberal economic regime has given an unequivocal mandate for change and b
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN in New Delhi

For a new fiscal covenant

A concept paper from the Planning Commission suggests the waiver of all Central loans granted to the States. In a political context that demands a sha
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN in New Delhi

IMF and manufacture of consent

The economic realities are so complex that the orderly adjustment that the IMF seeks to construct in its latest World Economic Outlook could well end
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A trade blow to the U.S.

THE U.S. government, it is believed, hands out $4 billion as subsidies to cotton farmers, for produce that is valued at no more than $3 billion. At th
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BANKRUPT CAMPAIGN

A personality oriented electoral contest takes politics into the realm of the trivial and presents voters with a dilemma as they march to the polling
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Congress president Sonia Gandhi at a press conference in New Delhi.-SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY

The Lindstrom disclosures

The revelations made by former Swedish investigator Sten Lindstrom provide campaign ammunition for the NDA but its government will have to account for
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