CONTRIBUTORS K BHARATAN is in the Madras Institute of Development Studies Madras. CHANDRALEKHA is a dance and art critic from Madras. DEEPAK M KAMBUJ is an architect and town planner from Delhi. ABANTI KUNDU is Fellow in Geography, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. C T KURIEN is the Director of Madras Institute of Development Studies, Madras, K RAMACHANDRAN NAIR is Reader in the Department of Economics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum. K BALAN PILLAI is Research Scholar in the University of Kerala, Trivandrum. HARISH K PURlis Reader in Political Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. VIRENDRA K ROY is Lecturer in English, Shambhu Dayal College, Gha^iabad (UP). RAAJ SAH is in the Economics Research Unit, University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia. RANJIT SAU is Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.