symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement on the issues involved

• TABLET OF FIRE
  Prem Shankar Jha, commentator on national affairs and columnist, Delhi

• ILLUSION OF CONSENSUS
  Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Director, School of Convergence, and journalist, Gurgaon

• ENSURING EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE
  P. Vijayshankar, Member, Executive Committee, Samaj Pragati Sahyog, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, and C. Rammanohar Reddy, Associate Editor, 'The Hindu'

• DEREGULATING RURAL CREDIT
  Vijay Mahajan, Founder and Managing Director, the BASIX Grouo, Hyderabad

• BEYOND STATE AND MARKET
  PRAYAS (Energy Group), a public-interest organization working on policy issues in the electricity sector, Pune

• RESTORING SANITY IN WATER USE
  Himanshu Thakkar, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP), Delhi

• SOCIAL SECURITY THROUGH HEALTH INSURANCE
  Mirai Chatterjee, Coordinator, SEWA Social Security and Chairperson, Lok Swasthya SEWA Health Cooperative, Ahmedabad

• IMPROVING PROGRAMME DELIVERY
  Naresh C. Saxena, former Secretary, The Planning Commission, and Member, National Advisory Council, Delhi

• THE REDISTRIBUTION OF POWER
  Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), and activists with the Right to Information Campaign, Rajsamand, Rajasthan

• DOCUMENT
  Independence Day Address              Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Jyotirmaya Sharma, Abhik Ghosh, Kallol Bhattacherjee, Kanishka Singh, Mahesh Rangarajan and Harsh Sethi

• ESSAY
   Conflict and its Aftermath                   Kasturi Sen, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK; in collaboration with Abla Sibai, AUB, Beirut

• COMMUNICATION
  Received from Rajaram Tolpady, CSDS, Delhi

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