Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

607	In this issue

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EDITORIAL

609	Credit and discredit
	P. Balaram

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CORRESPONDENCE

611	Desperately seeking a regret letter
	E. V. Divakara Sastry
611	Science is alive and kicking, but has not sci-fi fantasy done better?
	S. N. Balasubrahmanyam
612	Faculty are responsible for politicization of academics
	Y. K. Gupta
613	Why beat around the bush? It is time we took some risks to attract young ones to science research as a serious career
	S. K. Bhattacharjee
613	Science and technology policy documents
	P. J. Lavakare
615	Inaccurate information about SciDev.net
	David Dickson; reply by K. R. Rao

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NEWS

616	DST contact programme cum field workshop on the geology of Kachchh
	L. S. Chamyal
616	Physics at ultra-low temperatures
	P. Chaddah and T. S. Radhakrishnan

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RESEARCH NEWS

618	Behaviour of water at the nanoscale
	Ujjal Kumar Sur
619	Random selections

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COMMENTARY

620	GM crops – China shows the way
	G. Padmanaban
621	From the archives

SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE

622	Organic solvent-tolerant bacteria in mangrove ecosystem
	Yogita N. Sardessai and Saroj Bhosle
624	Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal composition in semi-arid soils of Western Ghats, southern India
	T. Muthukumar and K. Udaiyan
628	Effect of S-allyl cysteine sulphoxide on lipid metabolism and free radial scavengers in alcohol-fed rats
	M. P. Bindu, K. S. Sreekanth, P. T. Annamalai and K. T. Augusti

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GENERAL ARTICLE

632	Talukas can provide critical mass for India's sustainable development
	Anil K. Rajvanshi

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REVIEW ARTICLES

638	The biodiversity crisis: A multifaceted review
	J. S. Singh
648	Molecular pathways of glial tumorigenesis
	Kunzang Chosdol, Parthaprasad Chattopadhyay and Subrata Sinha

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RESEARCH ARTICLE

655	Proteomics of renal disorders: Urinary proteome analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
	Yadunanda Kumar, Nageshwar Rao Venkata Uppuluri, Kishore Babu, Kishore Phadke, Prasanna Kumar, Sudarshan Ballal and Utpal Tatu

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SPECIAL SECTION: RECENT ADVANCES IN EPILEPSY

664	Epidemiology of epilepsy
	R. Sridharan
671	Genetics of epilepsy
	Manjari Tripathi and Satish Jain
679	Recent advances in epileptogenesis
	Jayant N. Acharya
689	Imaging in epilepsy
	William H. Theodore
698	Newer antiepileptic drugs and recent advances in drug therapy of epilepsy
	Torbjörn Tomson
707	Surgical treatment of medically refractory epilepsy
	Kurupath Radhakrishnan and Girish Menon
720	Epilepsy and pregnancy
	Sanjeev V. Thomas

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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

732	Genetic analysis of rice blast fungus of southern Karnataka using DNA markers and reaction of popular rice genotypes
	Srinivasachary, Shailaja Hittalmani, S. Shivayogi, M. G. Vaishali, H. E. Shashidhar and K. Girish Kumar
736	Early Miocene cricetid rodent (Mammalia) from the Murree Group of Kalakot, Rajauri District, Jammu and Kashmir, India
	Kishor Kumar and Shashi Kad
740	Arsenic contamination in groundwater affecting major parts of southern West Bengal and parts of western Chhattisgarh: Source and mobilization process
	S. K. Acharyya
744	A precise U–Pb zircon/baddeleyite age for the Jasra igneous complex, Karbi–Analong Disrict, Assam, NE India
	Larry M. Heaman, Rajesh K. Srivastava and Anup K. Sinha
748	Estimates of coseismic displacement and post-seismic deformation using Global Positioning System geodesy for the Bhuj earthquake of 26 January 2001
	Sridevi Jade, Malay Mukul, Imtiyaz A. Parvez, M. B. Ananda, P. Dileep Kumar and V. K. Gaur

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BOOK REVIEWS

753	Sustainable Indian Fisheries
	reviewed by S. Z. Qasim
754	Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Current Methods and Future Directions
	reviewed by T. C. Anand Kumar

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