Editorial: When People Assert by S.C., Elections and After by T.N. Kaul, Transparency in Government Expenditure by Kuldip Nayar, Special Article: Economic Policies for a Centre-Left Government by Ajit Mozoomdar, Impressions: Certain Uncertainty faces the Nation after the Polls by Som Benegal, Prime Minister by Rotation in NF-LF by Suman Sahai, Corporatisation of Indian Agriculture and Response of Farmers' Movement by Vandana Shiva, Farmers' Pledge to stop the Corporatisation of Indian Agriculture, Farmers' Charter, Russian Presidential Poll: Importance pf the Middle Vote by Masood Ali Khan, Afghanistan: Uneasy Lull in war-ravages Kabul by Harish Chandola, Document: Perspective of Sunderlal Bahuguna's Struggle, Woman's World: A Feminist Critique of the Family by Ellora Puri, Book Review: Agenda for Secular, Democratic and Civilised India by V.B. Rawat, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Striving for a Lasting Peace in Balkans by Svetozar Tomic
Elections; Prime Minister; Indian Agriculture; Russian; Kabul
Editorial: No room for despair by S.C., Elections: Trends and Projections by Nikhil Chakravartty, Indian Economy: Issues and Non-issues by Pradhan H. Prasad, Tribute: Rasheeduddin Khan by Abid Hussain, Civic Activism in defence of democracy bears fruit: Emergence of a Caretaker Government in Bangladesh by Rehman Sobhan, Coalition Pointers by Surendra Mohan, Minimum Programme for National Regeneration: A Critical Note by Kripa Shankar, Document: People's Agends: Elections 1996, Communication: George, Biju and Indian Army by Gangadhar Pandey, The Left's Natural Allies? Electoral Promises, Performance and Women by Soma Marik, Naseem: A Disturbing Coalesce of Understatements by Saraswati Haider, Communication: Bombastic and Impractical by Lata Agam Prasad, Indian Politics as "Democratic Authoritarian"? by Pushkar, Fan Clubs Network of Film Stars and Tamil Politics by C. Lakshmanan, China: A Tribute to the May Fourth Martyrs by Ravindra Sharma
Elections; Indian Economy; China; Politics; Indian Army; Tamil Politics
Editorial: Elections with a Difference by S.C., New Government, Economic Strategy and National Consensus by Nikhil Chakravartty, Constitutional Conventions by R. Venkataraman, Constitutional Contour of Presidential Power by Vijay Kumar, From Secularism to Bal Thackeray by K.G. Kannabiran, Right to Information: Profile of a grassroot struggle by Bunker Roy, Secularism and the Future of Indian Democracy by I.K. Shukla, Consumption of Distant in the Third World by Madhvi Gupta and Pushkar, Lenin and his Party: A Reappraisal by Shankar Sharan, Looking beyond the Radcliffe Line by Irfan Ahmed, Role of Literacy in Panchayati Raj by S.K. Jain, Communication: What Should President do with Front-runner?
National Consensus; Secularism; Vladmir Lenin; Economic Strategy; Constitutional Conventions; Indian Democracy
Editorial: The Verdict by S.C., Independent Initiative calls for National Consensus in Post-Election Scenario, If only another people could be elected.. by Dileep Padgaonkar, Russian Scholars mourn Rasheeduddin Khan's Demise, Affirmative Action in India by V.P. Singh, Unravelling the Nuclear Skein: Need for an Escape clause by Saumitra Mohan, Non-voters today: Voters tomorrow: Do we really care for our Children by Ekanshi Ganguly Thukral, Muslim Women: An attempt to a New Legislation by Asghar Ali Engineer, On Accountability of a Teacher of Visva- Bharati by Arun Majumder, Relevance of Amberkarism in India by Raj Kumar, Readjusting Vocational Education in Poland: Some Lessons for India by Jayshree Jalali, Book Review: Messiah in Veil for the Underprivileged by Nalini Satija, Communication: By Geroge!, Letter from Moscow: Moves to put off Presidential Poll in Russia by Fred Weir
Muslim Women; Legislation; Amberkarism; Russian; Fred Weir; National Consensus
Editorial: Challenge of the "Fractured Mandate" by S.C., In Search of Stability by Madhu Dandavate, On Post-Election Party Alignments by Balraj Mehta, Congress back in Business after Marxist Betrayal by Kuldip Nayar, Nehru for Today, Relevance of Jawaharlal Nehru by P.N. Haksar, India Tomorrow: What Kind of Left? Thomas Matthai, Bangladesh: Fundamentalism and Diatribes against India by Amitava Mukherjee, Book Review: South Africa: Past, Present and Future by Harish Narang, Society-Tradition symbiosis: Lord Jagannath Revisited by Subhakanta Behera, Governance in Africa: An Overview by Anirudha Gupta, International Dialectics anf Africa Development Strategy by K.K. Panda, State of the Nation: A Tamilian's misgivings- Proverbially by Parvatri
Post-Election; Congress; Marxist; Jawaharlal Nehru; Thomas Matthai; Fundamentalism; South Africa; Lord Jagannath