Articles by Balraj Puri


KASHMIR Abdullah vs Congress (I) Balraj Puri THE Congress(I) has emerged as the major opposition party in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir. The same role was played by the Janata in 1977. A substantial portion of the Janata joined the Lok Dal in July 1979 when Charan Singh became the Prime Minister. Workers and followers of the Janata and Lok Dal later started shift- ing their loyalty to the Congress (I) when that party came to power in New Delhi in 1980.

November 3, 1979 some task (say, to play chess, understand children's stories, write detective stories); one seriously concerned with constructing behaviour theories must ask oneself how such structures could be built up. Can they be built up at all? What primitive learning processes and what training sequences should be postulated to enable the building up of such structures? Are these postulated processes and training sequences tenable from the developmental viewpoint? The essential weakness of currently fashionable AI studies is that they do not concern themselves with such issues at all. In the absence of such concerns, modelling tends to be a series of ad hoc exercises.


May 20, 1978. The trade unions have been doing little more, however, than repeating what they did in 1977 all oyer again. Thus 'demands day' was observed from June 10 to 16, and then one-hour demonstrations were organised in front of factories and offices on June 16.

much. Now there is talk about the state government assuming managerial responsibility for the company. Still another move is to take over the West Bengal section of the Central Road Transport Corporation, a Government of India undertaking which is slated to be closed down because of recurrent losses.

JAMMU AND KASHMIR Students and Politics Balraj Puri A STUDY of the problem of unrest among students of institutions of higher education in Jammu and Kashmir has shown a striking correlation between such unrest and lack of political consciousness among the students and affluence of their parents. This was in sharp contrast to the views of the participants in a conference on the subject, convened last year at Srinagar by the Governor of the state, who generally held that the political affiliations of the students and their economic distress were the main causes of unrest. These views were an indication of the distance of the older generation from reality as also from the younger generation.