symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• 'SHINING' IN RURAL INDIA
  Abhijit Sen,  Professor of Economics, CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• LABOUR: DOWN AND OUT?
  T.S. Papola, President, Indian Society of Labour Economics, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, Delhi and Alakh N. Sharma, Editor, 'Indian Journal of Labour Economics', and Director, Institute for Human Development, Delhi

• POST-REFORM REGIONAL VARIATIONS
  S. Mahendra Dev, Director, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad

• SHINING SOCIO-SPATIAL DISPARITIES
  K.P. Kannan, Fellow and Director, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram

• THE FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
  Dev Nathan, social scientist; Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Development, Delhi

• IS CIVIL SOCIETY THE PANACEA?
  Aseem Prakash, Fellow, Institute for Human Development, Delhi

• WHITHER WOMEN'S HEALTH
  Gita Sen, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

• ABDICATING RESPONSIBILITY
  Rama Baru, Associate Professor, Centre for Community Health and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 

• TAKING THE SHINE OFF INDIA
  Suhel Seth, CEO, Equus Red Cell, Delhi

• IT'S TIME TO DISCO
  Jamal Mecklai, CEO, Mecklai Financial, Mumbai

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Ravi S. Srivastava, Jeemol Unni, Rohan D'Souza, Anupreeta Das and M.S. Swaminathan

• COMMENT
  Received from Nisha, student, London School of Economics and Political Science

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