OUR CONTRIBUTORS KUMARESH CHAKRAVARTT is in the Department of Bengali, Delhi College, University of Delhi. T JAYARAMAN does postgraduate' studies in physics at Madras Christian College^ University of Madras, ANIL MAHAJAN is research scholar in social anthropology at the University of Delhi. JV RAM^ vice-president of the Students9 Federation of India, is a Ph D research student at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr M J K THA VARAJ is professor of financial administration and head, management consultancy at the Indian Institute of Public Administration^ New Delhi. Dr RAMA VARMA is an economic analyst from Cochin. Dr S C VARMA teaches sociology at Lucknow University.