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July 28, 2007

VOL XLV No 32, New Delhi, July 28, 2007

A New Chapter Unfolds

A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM
– Second Freedom Movement

MUCHKUND DUBEY
– Democracy in Peril in Bangladesh

D. BANDYOPADHYAY
– Culpable Derelection of Duty by
Police Officers

DIPAK MALIK
– The Sociology of a Mandate

SHREE SHANKAR SHARAN
– 150 years of 1857

From N.C.’s Writings
– Lessons of Presidential Poll

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    29 July 2007, by Arup Kumar Sen

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