symposium participants

• The Problem
  A short statement of the issues involved

• LABOUR AND LONGING
  Vinay Lal, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

• dUSRA hINDUSTAN
  Vijay Prashad, International Studies Program, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

• FIRM OPINIONS, INFIRM FACTS
  Devesh Kapur, Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

• LUNCH WITH A BIGOT
  Amitava Kumar, Professor of English, Penn State University, Pennsylvania

• WHOSE IDENTITY IS IT ANYWAY?
  Shekhar Deshpande, Associate Professor and Director Communications Program, Arcadia University; Media Editor, 'Little India Magazine', Glenside, PA

• PROFILE OF A DIASPORIC COMMUNITY
  Sonalde Desai, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, MD and Rahul Kanakia, student, Stanford University, California

• ARTS AND THE DIASPORA
  Vidya Dahejia, holds the Barbara Stoler Miller Chair of Indian Art at Columbia University, New York, and is Director of Columbia's Southern Asian Institute, NY

• CONSTRICTING HYBRIDITY
  Rajika Puri, is an exponent of Bharatnatyam and Odissi; Contributing Editor, 'NewsIndia Times', New York

• THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
  Sangeeta Ray, Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, MD

• WASHINGTON'S NEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
  Robert M. Hathaway, Director, South Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC

• LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM
  Marina Budhos, author, Maplewood, New Jersey

• LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION
  Mira Kamdar, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute at New School University, New York

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Aloka Parasher-Sen, Ratnakar Tripathy and Rajat Khosla 

• COMMENT
  Received from Susan Visvanathan, JNU, Delhi

• IN MEMORIAM
  Komal Kothari

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