CONTRIBUTORS DEB KUMAR BOSE works in the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. SANAT BOSE is with the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. MALAT HI DAMODARAN works in the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. ASHOK DHAWALE is a practising physician in Bombay. K L JULKA is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya. PRAKASH KARAT is Delhi State Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). SEKH RAHIM MONDAL is in the Anthropological Survey of India, Eastern India Region, Calcutta. SARA RAI is a journalist working on the editorial board of the "Kahani", Allahabad.