symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Maria Aurora Couto, writer, Aldona Bardez, Goa

• DEMOCRACY'S INCONVENIENT FACT
  Peter Ronald deSouza, Professor and Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• IMPACT OF DEMOCRACY AND FEDERALISM ON GOA
  Vishvanath Pai Panandiker, Founder President, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi (1973-2000), Panjim, Goa

• RURAL  SELF-GOVERNMENT GOAN STYLE
  T.D. Halarnakar, writer, ex-President All India Konkani Parishad and ex-editor Konkani Encyclopedia, Goa University, Porvorim

• THE GOAN ECONOMY
  Alban Couto, retired from the Indian Administrative Service, Aldona Bardez, Goa

• FOR A HUMANE TOURISM 
  Roland Martins, social activist, DESC Resource Centre, Mapusa, Goa

• THE JOURNEY OF GOAN FOOD
  Fatima da Silva Gracias, historian, author and President, Research Institute for Women, Panjim, Goa

• MOTHER TONGUE BLUES
  Madhavi Sardesai, linguist, Department of Konkani, Goa University, Taleigao, Goa

• REVIVING CULTURAL TRADITIONS
  Damodar Mauzo, writer and novelist; executive member of the Sahitya Academy, Margao and Xavier Cota, writer and translator; social activist, Goa

• FOLK CULTURE
  Pandurang R. Phaldesai, Member Secretary, Kala Academy, Panjim, Goa

• GOAN ARCHITECTURE
  Jose Pereira, Professor Emeritus in Theology, Fordham University, New York

• GOAN HOUSES
  Heta Pandit, writes on architecture and conservation; Secretary, Goa Heritage Action Group, Porvorim, Goa

• A PERSONAL VIEW
  Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar, scholar of comparative religion and writer, Benaulim, Salcete, Goa

• AN OUTSIDER IN GOA
  Bal Mundkur, founder, Ulka Advertising, now retired in Reis Magos, Tiswadi, Goa

• REMEMBERING ANTHONY GONSALVES
  Naresh Fernandes, Editor, 'Time Out', Mumbai

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Uday Bhembre and Xavier Cota

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