symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• CITY WITH A PAST
  Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Editor, Editorial Pages, 'The Telegraph', Kolkata

• AN EXILE'S VIEW
  Swapan Dasgupta, political commentator, Delhi

• RITUALS OF DISPOSSESSION
  Nilanjana S. Roy, freelance columnist and reviewer, Delhi

• CULINARY CULTURE
  Simon Parkes, food writer and broadcaster, London

• DURGA PUJA: A CONSUMING PASSION
  Anjan Ghosh, Fellow, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata

• OOPS, Kolkata
  Victor Banerjee, film director and actor, Kolkata

• TOLLYGUNGE CLUB
  Belinda Wright, wildlife conservationist, Delhi

• CALCUTTA AND THE LEFT
  Ashok Mitra, former Finance Minister, Government of West Bengal, Calcutta

• THE UNDERSIDE OF A CITY DIVIDED
  Sumanta Banerjee, political analyst and commentator, Dehradun

• RAY'S HOME, RAY'S WORLD: CALCUTTA
  Partha Chatterjee, film maker and critic, Delhi

• THE BENGALI TRAVELLER
  Santi P. Chowdhury, was a documentary film maker from Calcutta

• COMMENT
  Received from Kuldeep Kumar, journalist, Delhi; and Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General, Unesco, Paris

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