symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• INDIA FIRST
  Bharat Karnad, Research Professor in National Security Studies, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi

• FOREIGN POLICY DILEMMAS
  Kanti Bajpai, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• CRUMBLING EDIFICE
  Sitaram Yechury, Politburo Member, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Delhi

• BEYOND THE COLLAPSE OF THE STEEL FRAME
  Dilip Cherian, columnist and business analyst, Delhi

• THE MAKING OF A RIOT NARRATIVE 
  Mahesh Daga, Assistant Editor, "The Times of India", Delhi

• NEEDED BETTER GOVERNANCE
  Nikhil Kumar, IPS, former Director General, National Security Guard, and Police Commissioner, Delhi

• INTERVIEW
  with Digvijay Singh, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, by Anupreeta Das, doctoral student, London School of Economics, UK

• A MEDIA MANIFESTO FOR A WOUNDED CIVILISATION
  Tarun J. Tejpal, CEO, Tehelka.com, Delhi

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Sagarika Ghose, Harsh Sethi, Sandeep Sengupta, Govindini Shah, Ashley Tellis, Pampa Mukherjee, P. Radhakrishnan and Rajni Palriwala

• COMMENT
  Received from Madhu Sarin, Consultant, gender and environment, Chandigarh; and Romeet K. Watt, Editor, "The Kashmir Telegraph", Mumbai

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