Vol. 14 :: No. 16
Aug 9-22, 1997

Special Issue


India's National Magazine
From the publishers of THE HINDU

Frontline presents a substantial selection of articles from the Special Issue brought out to mark the golden jubilee of India's Independence.
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

About This Special Issue

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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