Book Review
Public Support for Human Security
INDEPENDENT India inherited a serious food problem. Low levels of foodgrain production, periodic droughts and scarcities forced planners and policy makers to address the food problem on a priority basis. To overcome problems of food s carcity, the government introduced the Public Distribution System, which was aimed at ensuring the availability of foodgrains to India's poor at reasonable prices. With original contributions from eminent economists and planners, this volume revie ws India's experience with the PDS and addresses a number of questions about the working of the scheme and the policies associated with it.

Staying power
FOR the past 2000 years in the history of humankind, the phenomenon of power has shaped and swayed good as well as worse course of events. In the traditional sense, power has been viewed as military might, political power, totalitarianism, economic w ealth.

Ancient wisdom shows the way
THE book under review is a compendium of the speeches delivered and articles indited by the author spanning over several years. The themes packed in this publication are refreshingly variegated

Reforms in perspective
THE 100-page monograph under review is a collection of lectures (revised for publication) the author delivered at the Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore two years ago, the basic thrust of each being to lay bare the movements in sectors su ch as industry, agriculture, fiscal developments, education and health, infrastructure, finance, and international trade and investment against the historical perspective.

Taxation
Lacking in punch -- II
V. K. Subramani examines the December 1999 CS (Final) paper on direct taxes

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