symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• THE END OF CHARISMA?
  Pratap Bhanu Mehta, political philosopher and commentator, Delhi

• THE DEBACLE AND AFTER
  Manini Chatterjee, Senior Editor, 'The Indian Express', Delhi

• ELECTIONS AS AUCTIONS
  Kanchan Chandra,  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA

• LEFT LUGGAGE
  Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Editor, Editorial Pages, 'The Telegraph', Kolkata

• DIVISIVE AND FRACTURED
  Kuldeep Kumar, journalist and writer, Delhi

• WHAT LIES BENEATH
  Sahabzada Yusuf Ahmad Ansari, political activist and commentator, Delhi

• REALITY AND PERCEPTION
  Mohan Guruswamy,   Chairman, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Delhi

• RITUAL OF POLITICAL RHETORIC
  Asha Sarangi, Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• REPRESENTATIONAL LEGITIMACY AND ELECTORAL REFORMS
  Jayaprakash Narayan, National Coordinator, Lok Satta Movement and National Campaign for Electoral Reforms, Hyderabad

• JOURNALISM AS HAGIOGRAPHY
  Sumanta Banerjee, political analyst, Dehradun

• POST-POLL TRAUMA AND THE END OF ANALYSIS
  P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor, 'The Hindu', Mumbai

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Niraja Gopal Jayal, Usha Ramanathan, Ashutosh Kumar and Harsh Sethi 

• COMMENT
  For the sake of our freedoms by Arunabha Ghosh, UNDP, New York; United progressive alliance by C.P. Bhambhri, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, JNU, Delhi and  Understanding polls and predictions by Koshy Tharakan, Department of Philosophy, Goa University 

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