Articles by Vibhuti Patel

Thakor Shah AMAR JESANI, VIBHUTI PATEL ment and the ideological commitments of At a time when the nation needs people who could keep alive the secular conscience of Gujarat, the passing away of Thakor Shah on April 10, 2004 in Vadodara due to massive heart attack has come as a big jolt. He died while participating in the meeting of the network of social movements in Gujarat. Of the 76 years he lived, he spent over 60 years in public life, making personal sacrifices, fearlessly withstanding all attacks

The increase was mainly concentrated in the quarter July-September when time deposits rose by Rs 3,273 crore as against Rs 1,733 crore in the corresponding period last year. Bank credit which was increasing steadily in the first four months recorded a fall of Rs 123 crore in August 1985, due to a fall of Rs 441 crore in food procurement credit. it picked up thereafter and the expansion in the first six months amounted to Rs 2,086 crore or 4.3 per 'cent. During the corresponding period last year bank credit recorded an increase of R s 2,212 crore or 5.4 per cent. Credit-deposit ratio was lower at 64.5 per cent as against 66.1 per cent last year. The incremental credit-deposit ratio fell to 33.6 per cent from 42 per cent last year (Table 2). During the current year so far, food credit has contributed .hardly one per cent to the rise of Rs 2,086 crore in bank credit compared to its share of 38 per cent last year.

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In business it is the same, states Shephen Cruz, a Mexican-American who successfully went up the corporate ladder. He notes how each person and group has their own agenda, putting down others in the process of getting ahead. The American Dream, he thinks, is governed by this quest for upward mobility, power and selfishness, so that each person draws from the advantages made available (and minorities take the benefits of the civil rights movement) and answers in- dividualistically the society from which one emerged: "We owe nothing to anybody." It is a grim reminder that change comes hard in America and that dreamers must carefully calculate their alternatives. Utopian radicals like Helen and Scott Nearing have retreated to the hinterlands of America and want as little to do with money and the system of exchange as possible. Theirs Is the American Dream in isolation and near self- dependency. Others like former Cleveland Mayor, Dennis Kucinich, view themselves as still on the firing line, Law on Rape Vibhuti Patel Rape: Proposed Changes in the Law, Lawyers Collective, Bombay,