Cover Story: October 2007

Edit: Go, ask the people!
Governments come to grief when they start believing in the fiction they create about their performance. Invariably, those that have an exalted view of high economic growth and its magical powers to transform the lives of the people, suffer the most
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Seething Rage
Political parties are poised to face this ‘structural adjustment conflict’ in the next polls. So how are they going to represent the people’s aspirations in the face of such resistance? Will land become the main contradiction in the coming elections?
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi/Amit Sengupta Kalinganagar

Blinded by SEZs
As the tale unfolds, the big business beginning might not be as rosy as the end. The UPA and the Congresss-NCP know that fully well. Because the farmers in Maharashtra are not going to take it lying down
Hardnews Bureau Mumbai

For a few Acres more
As agricultural land disappears in Kerala, the vast majority of small land-holders and farm-workers are hit the hardest
Jeemon Jacob Thiruvananthapuram

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