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No. 43: WHAT KEEPS DISPUTES ON RIVER WATERS ALIVE?
From the issue: "The ruling class parties, and assorted appendages of ruling class politics (regional chauvinist outfits, ambitious clerics, film stars and their fan clubs, opportunist trade unions/peasant fronts), choose to present the issue of the inter-state distribution of river waters as the most important problem of the peasantry." Plus: Suniti Kumar Ghosh on 1947; Dipankar Dey on FDI in India's retail trade.

No. 42: COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS?
From the issue: "'Wired' or 'postmodern' warfare, it was widely claimed, would transform the 21st-century battlefield and assure American supremacy for generations to come. ... US strategists are now re-learning the fundamental lessons of Vietnam: that guerilla war is a political, not merely a military, struggle; that technology cannot defeat a determined popular resistance; that resistance fighters draw their power from the sympathies and co-operation of the people." Plus: Wheat Imports: A Tool for Reshaping Indian Agriculture.

No. 41: 'GLOBAL POWER', CLIENT STATE: India’s Place in the US Strategic Order.
From the issue: "In recent years, successive governments at the Centre have actively promoted the notion that India is emerging as a 'global' or 'great' power, and that this is a matter of national pride. Now the United States has declared that it plans to "make India a world power". What sort of 'global power' is India in the process of becoming? What price is the US extracting for this label, and who will pay it?"

No.s 39 & 40: EXAMINING THE CURRENT BOOM
Plus: Budget 2005-06: Seeing through the Propaganda; The Story of Otis Elevators; more.

No. 38: THE UPA GOVERNMENT'S ECONOMIC POLICIES
Plus: Squeezing state finances; the US and conscription; foundations and imperialism; debate on the WSF; more.

No.s 36 & 37: THE REAL STATE OF INDIA'S ECONOMY
From the issue: “[T] the entire ‘India Shining’ campaign is a cheap statistical fraud. There is no significant turnaround in the economy as a whole. The actual condition of the people and their productive future — the only real measure of economic performance — is appalling.”

No. 35: THE ECONOMICS AND POLITICS OF THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
From the issue: “‘Globalisation’, a misleading word for the current onslaught by imperialism, can be resisted, and even defeated, by a combination of struggles at various levels, in various countries, in various forms. ... However, a careful analysis reveals that the World Social Forum is not an instrument of such struggle. It is a diversion from it.”

Nos. 33 & 34 (Dec. 2002): BEHIND THE INVASION OF IRAQ
From the introduction: “We are about to witness a major new development, with far-reaching consequences: the direct imperialist occupation of the whole of Iraq. Further, it is widely reported in the American press that the United States plans to use the invasion of Iraq as a launching pad for a drastic re-shaping of West Asia.”

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