| NOTES AND COMMENTS | 03 | |
| THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND OBSTACLES TO PEACE IN SRI LANKA:SOME REFLECTIONS | N. Shanmugaratnam | 04 |
| THE ETHNIC CRISIS:POLITICS DEVOID OF ECONOMICS | Mano Rajya | 14 |
| FRACTIONAL POLITICS DISMANTLING INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRACY | Sunil Bastian | 16 |
| THE ECONOMICS OF LIFE AND DEATH | Amartya Sen | 18 |
| SOCIAL BASIS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Sumanasiri Liyanage | 23 |
| US ASSISTANCE POLICY TO SRI LANKA | Nira Wickremasinghe | 25 |
| THE IMMIGRANT LITERATURE OF SRI LANKAN TAMILS:SOME REFLECTIONS | Chitralega Maunaguru | 30 |
| IN PRINT | ||
| THAI WOMEN IN BUDDHISM,DR. CHATSUMARN KABILSINGH, PARALLAX PRESS, U.S.A.(1991) | 34 | |
| POEMS | ||
| UNTITLED-DREAMS? | 36 | |
| UNTITLED-THE LAST INTELLIGENCE | Sivaramani 1989 | 36 |
