Education Old and New—A Perspective Badri Raina 4 The New Education Policy and the Teachers' Movement Interview with M.M.F. Singh 15 Autonomy for Whom? Sumeet Sarkar 27 Attending an Orientation Course Nivedita Menon and Saswati Sengupta 34 Humanities: Who Needs Them Anyway? Alok Rai 39 Science Teaching and Research and the New Education Policy Interview with Kamal Dutta 49 Equity and Excellence: Issues in Indian Education Geetha B. Nambissan and Poonam Batra 56 The New Dispensation and School Education—the Limits of Development without Democratisation N. Subramania and Rashmi Paliwal in74 Entrance Examinations: Iniquitous Instrument K. Ramaki •ishnan 86 Distant Learning and Distancing the Learner Anita Rampal 96 Book Reviews 100 196- 197