OUR CONTRIBUTORS PRAKASH KARAT is at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. KITTY R MENON is reader in economics, Delhi University, Delhi. BOB ROWTHORN is lecturer in economics in Cambridge University, Cambridge. M J K THAVARAJ is senior professor at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. GEORGE THOMAS is on the staff of the Indian School of Social Science^, working at New Delhi,