Dialogue October- December, 2007, Volume 9  No. 2

Contents

• Editorial Perspective                                                                                   

               Nandigram and Taslima Episode

               Tackling Terror and Insurgency

               Caste and the Social Justice

• North-East Scan

                Contest to be Labeled Primitive - Pradip Phanjoubam

                Biologically Incorrect Sex

                Lived Democracy in India’s North East

                Election Commission and its role in Nagaland  - Patricia Mukhim

• Varna-âsrama Dharma and Caste - Ram Swarup

• Caste: from Imperial Invention to Trade Union - Rajeev Srinivasan

• Caste, Democracy and Reform  - Sri Aurobindo

• The Caste: A General Appraisal - B.B. Kumar

• Caste, Census, and the Colonial Interpretations -  Shashi Shekhar Sharma

• Caste in Medieval India: The Beginnings of a Reexamination - Dileep Karanth

• Castes, Politics and Votes in India - A. Surya Prakash

• Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Ideas of Social Justice and Just Society                                                           - Vivek Kumar                                                                                          

• Looking East Through India’s North East - Patricia Mukhim

• India’s Eastern Neighbourhood (IEN), Challenges in our Relationships and the Look East Policy       - Toki Blah

• The Stillwell Road and India’s Look East Policy - E. N. Rammohan

• Bangladesh Decoded - J.N. Roy

• The Critical Decade - Nirmala Joshi

• Poetry as Satyagrah: A Gandhian Reading of Les Murray's - "Walking to the Cattle Place"             - Sudhir Kumar

• Bio-Fuels Initiatives in Southeast Asia: Options  for India - Pankaj Kumar Jha