OUR CONTRIBUTORS VIJATKUMAR KANNAMPILLT is research scholar at the department of economics. University of Kerala, Trivandrum. MICHAEL T KLARE is staff member of the North American Congress on Latin America, Berkeley, USA, NARENDAR PANI is research student at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning^ Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. SHARAD PATIL is secretary^ Dhulia District Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sakri, Maharashtra. R PERIALWAR is research scholar at the Centre of Advanced Study in Linguistics, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Dr H C SRIVASTAVA is reader in sociology, Banaras Hindu University^ Varanasi. N VANAMAMALAI is editor, AARAAICHI, Tamil quarterly journal, Tirunelveli.