SEMINAR ISSUES 2006

SEMINAR 557: January 2006; INDIA 2005: a symposium on the year that was.

Ahamed, Meenakshi

The limits of US foreign policy

Baviskar, Amita

Water follies and frauds

Guha, Ramachandra

The dynasty in myth and history

Guruswamy, Mohan, Jeevan Prakash Mohanty and Ronald Joseph Abraham

Will India catch-up with China?

Jayal, Niraja Gopal

Democratic dogmas and disquiets

Lummis, Charles Douglas

The smallest army imaginable

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

Of law and politicians

Mohan, Rakesh

Managing metros

Muralidharan, Sukumar

The new dalit assertion

Naqvi, Farah

Constructing community

Ninan, T.N.

Big growth, bigger debates

Parmar, Chandrika

An invitation to a South Asian university

Patnaik, Ila

PSU disinvestment

Ramanathan, Usha

Crime and punishment

Rangarajan, Mahesh

Partners in conflict

Sanghvi, Vir

The last kamikaze

Singh, S. Nihal

Evolving a new consensus

Sobhan, Farooq

Estranged neighbours

Subrahmaniam, Vidya

Governance and politics

Varshney, Ashutosh

A new triangle: India, China and the US

SEMINAR 558: February 2006; DALIT PERSPECTIVES: a symposium on the changing contours of dalit politics.

Anand, S.

On claiming dalit subjectivity

Babu, D. Shyam

Ensuring liberalization: economic and social

Basu, Raj Sekhar

Dalit politics in Tamilnadu

Brueck, Laura R.

Dalit chetna in dalit literary criticism

Kutty, Omar

The Balmiki critique of modernity

Pinto, Sarah

More than a dai

Prasad, Chandra Bhan

The brown man’s counter-apartheid

Rao, Anupama

Representing dalit selfhood

Ravikumar

Re-reading Periyar

Rawat, Ramnarayan S.

The problem

UP Adi-Hindu Sabha

Document

SEMINAR 559: March 2006; SOUL CITY: a symposium on the many facets of Calcutta.

The problem

Banerjee, Sumanta

The underside of a city divided

Banerjee, Victor

Oops, Kolkata

Chatterjee, Partha

Ray’s home, Ray’s world: Calcutta

Chowdhury, Santi P.

The Bengali traveller

Dasgupta, Swapan

An exile’s view

Ghosh, Anjan

Durga Puja: a consuming passion

Mitra, Ashok

Calcutta and the Left

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu

City with a past

Parkes, Simon

Culinary culture

Roy, Nilanjana S.

Rituals of dispossession

Wright, Belinda

Tollygunge club

SEMINAR 560: April 2006; BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS: a symposium on India’s changed relations with the United States.

The problem

Ahamed, Meenakshi

The Indo-US nuclear deal (interview with Strobe Talbott and Robert J. Einhorn)

Bhadrakumar, M.K.

America’s energy diplomacy in a multipolar world

Karnad, Bharat

Blighted strategic future

Mansingh, Lalit

The nuclear deal and beyond

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

Five balancing acts

Menon, Raja

Burying the past

Mohan, C. Raja

Impossible allies

Muralidharan, Sukumar

The burden of partnership

Qadir, Shaukat

An outsider’s view

Rao, Jaithirth

A gossamer web

Singh, Manmohan

Document

Yechuri, Sitaram

Back to basics

Bush, George W.

Document

SEMINAR 561:May 2006; MEDIA MATTERS: a symposium on growth, diversification and challenges before our media.

The problem

Banerjee, Abhijit

Diversity and innovation through competition

Haroon, Hameed

Dualism, insulation and autonomy

Kumar, Sashi

Localisation of Indian broadcasting

Muralidharan, Sukumar

Freedom, responsibility and regulation

Ninan, T.N.

The changing Indian media scene

Ravindranath, Sushila

Confusing trends

Sardesai, Rajdeep

Pushing the boundaries

Seth, Suhel

The veiled glove

Sethi, Najam

Time for a South Asian Channel?

Thapar, Karan

A critique of television news

Trivedi, Shikha

Forays into the heartland

SEMINAR 562: June 2006; THE INDIA-CHINA THAW: a symposium on India’s changing relations with China.

Acharya, Alka

Regional imbalances in China

Abraham, Ronald J. and Shreyasi Bhaumik

Looking at FDI

Bedi, Vikram

The rhetoric of ‘China’

Debroy, Bibek

Inevitable comparisons

Deshpande, G.P.

Possible futures

Guruswamy, Mohan

The problem

Menon, Raja

China’s proliferation and India’s security

Ranganathan, C.V.

India in China’s foreign policy

Shekhawat, V.S.

Approach to sea power

Singh, Swaran

Impact of China’s energy security

Singh, V.K.

Resolving the boundary dispute

Sood, Vikram

Caught between China and the US in Asia

Yuxi, Sun

Report

SEMINAR 563: July 2006; EDUCATION AND LIVELIHOODS: a symposium on relating learning to the world of work.

The problem

Acharya, Damodar

Beyond formal education

Arulmani, Gideon and Sonali Nag

Capacity building for career counselling

Arulmani, Gideon

Privilege and disadvantage

Christo, Glenn G.

Training for the new economy

Kapur, Malavika

Context specific career counselling

Kumar, Krishna

Adolescent India

Quraishi, S.Y.

Youth and livelihoods

Raina, Vinod

Where do children go after class VIII

Ramachandran, Vimala

Learning and livelihood

SEMINAR 564: August 2006; THE FORSAKEN DRYLANDS: a symposium on some of India’s most invisible people.

Agrawal, Arun and Vasant K. Saberwal

Raika pastoralists in Rajasthan

Bharwada, Charul and Vinay Mahajan

Lost and forgotten: grasslands and pastoralists of Gujarat

Lele, Sharachchandra

Thinking about ecological sustainability

Madhavan, V.K.

From guar and bajra to apples and cauliflowers

Raina, Rajeswari S.

Researching the drylands

Ramdas, Sagari R. and Nitya S. Ghotge

India’s livestock economy

Ravindra, A., G.V. Ramanjaneyulu and Kavitha Kuruganti

Drylands: the way forward

Shah, Mihir

Better government is better

Shah, Mihir

The problem

Shankar, P.S. Vijay

Unlocking the hidden potential of dryland agriculture

SEMINAR 565: September 2006; THE ELUSIVE TRIANGLE: a symposium on access, equity and excellence in Indian education.

The problem

Bajpai, Kanti

The three A’s of higher education

Balakrishnan, Pulapre

Ensuring equity with excellence

Banerji, Rukmini

Dreaming for Manju

Basant, Rakesh

Reservation in higher education

Cheng, Kai-ming

Learning and society in a post-industrial era

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

Market, state and trust

Mohan, Peggy

Levelling the playing field

Muralidharan, Karthik

Public-private partnerships for universal quality education

Raina, Dhruv and S.P. Manikonda

Challenges for science education

Raina, Vinod

Killing the bill

Ramachandran, Vimala and Kameshwari Jandhyala

Nothing succeeds like success!

Sharma, Rashmi

Reforming institutional practices

Vasavi, A.R.

Re-imagining education

Vaz, Guilherme

Using technology for education

SEMINAR 566: October 2006; CULINARY CROSSINGS: a symposium on the globalization of Indian cusine.

Bhattacharyya, Sourish

Punjabi Chinese

Govinden, Devarakshanam

Food bytes: reflections from South Africa

Gulati, Roopa

Spicing it right: Britain’s love affair with curry

Holkar, Richard

Marijuana consommé

Housego, David

Cooking under the raj

Janer, Zilkia

The geopolitics of culinary knowledge

Janer, Zilkia

The problem

Kannampilly, Vijayan

Food as health, ethics and social marker

Malik, Ashok

Eat out, eat in

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu

Taking food seriously

Ray, Krishnendu

Feeding modern desires

Roy, Nilanjana S.

In the flesh

Sikka, Marut

Survival of the best

SEMINAR 567: November 2006; RE-IMAGINING PUNJAB: a symposium on the changing contours of a region in the age of globalisation.

Ahmed, Ishtiaq

The Lahore effect

Ali, Imran

Shackled potential

Gautam, Satya P.

Partitions, memories and reconciliation

Gill, Sucha Singh

A futuristic view

Jodhka, Surinder S.

The problem

Kapur, Devesh

Leveraging the diaspora

Kaur, Ravinder

Locating state in ‘non-state’ spaces

Malik, Iftikhar H.

Punjab, partition and Pakistan

McLeod, Hew

The Tat Khalsa and Sikh historiography

Purewal, Navtej K.

Borderland Punjab

Puri, Neel Kamal

The outsider

Singh, Gurharpal

Beyond Punjabi romanticism

Singh, Gurmail

The road ahead

Thandi, Shinder S.

Punjabi diaspora and homeland relations

SEMINAR 568: December 2006; SECURING THE INSECURE: a sym-posium on extending social security to unprotected workers.

The problem

Adhav, Baba

Some reflections

Bhowmik, Sharit K.

Social security for street vendors

Chakraborty, Achin

The primacy of politics

Gumber, Anil and Guljit K. Arora

Health insurance:still a long way to go

Jha, Praveen and Siba Sankar Mohanty

Raising resources

Jhabvala, Renana

Need to combine multiple schemes

Kannan, K.P.

Feasible and affordable

Kumar, A.K. Shiva

A human development perspective

Srivastava, Ravi S.

Through the prism of human rights

FURTHER READING

Dalit Perspectives

February 2006

The Forsaken Drylands

August 2006

COMMENT

Kuldeep Kumar

Secularism contested (March 2006)

Koichiro Matsuura

Towards knowledge societies (March 2006)

Supriya Singh

Western arrogance or intolerance of Islam? (April 2006)

Peter Ronald deSouza

Two women and public morality (May 2006)

Vikram Bedi

The rhetoric of ‘China’ (June 2006)

Anant Sudarshan

Waking the sleeping dog (July 2006)

Samit Kar

Fine tuning reservation policy(July 2006)

Rohan D’Souza

The OBC quota and the ‘new economy’(July 2006)

Anjali Mody

How diverse is our media? (July 2006)

Ratnakar Tripathy

From ennui to abyss (August 2006)

C.P. Bhambhri

Campus democracy (November 2006)

Koichiro Matsuura

Knowledge sharing (December 2006)

Sumit Chowdhury

What about the land dependant? (December 2006)

IN MEMORIAM

Pritam Singh

Nirmal Azad (May 2006)

Seminarist

Bhupendra Hooja 1922-2006 (May 2006)

Dhruv Raina

Amulya K.N. Reddy 1931-2006 (June 2006)

Urvashi Butalia

Ravi Dayal 1938-2006 (July 2006)

Walter Hauser

Remembering Kumar Suresh Singh (October 2006)

SEMINAR ISSUES

1. The Party in Power 2. Food for Forty Crores 3. Freedom and Planning 4. The Changing Village

5. Co-operative Farming 6. Two Sectors 7. Our Universities 8. Corruption 9. Films 10. Indians in Africa 11. A Language for India 12. Health 13. The Third World 14. Tribal India 15. Into Space 16. Artists and Art

17. Socialism Today 18. The Census 19. Our Foreign Policy 20. Waste 21. The Writer at Bay 22. Administration 23. North and South 24. Communalism 25. Philosophy 26. Science 27. Advertising 28. Music

29. Your Vote 30. Our Democracy 31. The U.N. 32. On Stage 33. Population Control 34. Election Analysis 35. India’s Defence 36. The Scientist 37. Our Neighbours 38. Indian Agriculture 39. Past and Present 40. Romanisation

41. The Emergency 42. The Press 43. Taxation 44. Crisis on the Campus 45. Non-Alignment 46. Gandhism 47. Censorship 48. India and Pakistan 49. Panchayati Raj 50. China 51. Emerging Leadership 52. The Indian Woman

53. The Coming Crisis 54. Worker’s Share 55. Scientific Attitude 56. India in the World 57. Needs and Resources 58. Kashmir 59. Jawaharlal Nehru 60. Prohibition 61. Energy 62. The Consumer 63. Nehru and the Ism 64. Our Changing Values

65. The Bomb 66. Parliament in Crisis 67. Secularism 68. Language 69. Goa 70. Caste 71. At School 72. Public Sector 73. Indo-Soviet Link 74. Money and Power 75. The War and After 76. Politics of Language

77. We and the World 78. The Plan 79. Our Cities 80. Elections and Power 81. Farms and Food 82. Science in Afro-Asia 83. India’s Defence Pattern 84. The I.C.S. 85. The Administrative Jungle 86. Aid or Trade 87. State Politics 88. Students in Turmoil

89. Your Vote 90. Our Union 91. The Economic Crisis 92. Our Brain Drain 93. The Cow 94. Election Outcome 95. Power Patterns 96. Asian Security 97. Books 98. Mass Communication 99. Design for Living 100. Seminar on Seminar

101. Prices 102. Unctad 103. Recession 104. The Future of Asia 105. The Budget and the Plan 106. Minority in Crisis 107. Politics and Society 108. Agricultural Revolution 109. Management Challenge 110. Our Security 111. The Centre and the States 112. Academic Colonialism

113. The New Left 114. Resources 115. Nationhood 116. Violence 117. Pakistan 118. Gerontocracy 119. Our External Relations 120. The Educated Unemployed 121. The Congress Party 122. Mahatma Gandhi 123. Conservation 124. Our Political Parties

125. Secularism in Crisis 126. Our Libraries 127. India’s Left 128. Modernisation 129. The Rural Base 130. Population Planning 131. Foreign Technology 132. Nation and Community 133. The Super Powers 134. The U.N. at 25 135. Two Neighbours 136. The Constitution

137. India 1970 138. Your Vote 139. Political Pointers 140. Land Hunger 141. The Blue Revolution 142. Bangladesh 143. The Economic Agenda 144. The 1971 Elections 145. China Today 146. A Nuclear India 147. Crisis in the Press 148. Acapolitics

149. India 1971 150. Impact of Bangaladesh 151. Secret Societies 152. West Bengal 153. State Elections 154. Permits and Licenses 155. India in Asia 156. Decentralisation 157. The Social Sciences 158. New Education 159. Clean Elections 160. The Mass Line

161. India 1972 162. Mass Housing 163. Calcutta 164. Federal Reorganisation 165. The Status of Women 166. Our Paralysed Universities 167. Garibi Hatao 168. A Committed Civil Service 169. Science Policy 170. No-Cost Reform 171. Mass Transport 172. The Indian Economy

173. India 1973 174. Indian Muslims 175. Population Threat 176. The Students Speak 177. The Untouchables 178. Marxism and India 179. The Multinationals 180. The Architect in India 181. The Indian Ocean 182. The Energy Crisis 183. Growing the Food 184. The Cinema Situation

185. India 1974 186. Foreign Policy 187. A Changed India 188. Inflation 189. Prices and Procurement 190. Medicines for the Masses 191. Urbanisation 192. The System 193. The Economists 194. The Legacy of Gandhi 195. Global Problems 196. Judgements

197. India 1975 198. The Economic Debate 199. New Trends 200. Life and Living 201. Changing Communism 202. A Military View 203. Where Do We Go From Here

seminar issues 204 to 209 were not printed because of censorship during the Emergency

210. Fear and Freedom 211. Images of the Emergency 212. The Elections 213. The Correctives 214. Atrocities 215. Rethinkings 216. The Janata Phase 217. External Alignments 218. The Police 219. Action Agendas 220. Bengal Scenario

221. India 1977 222. Indian Intellectuals 223. Economic Imperatives 224. Populist Politics 225. Defence and Detente 226. Federal Power Balance 227. The Rural Challenge 228. The Sixth Plan 229. New Dialogues 230. The Administrator 231. Trauma of the Triangle 232. Another TV

233. India 1978 234. Grassroots Democracy 235. The Village and the Communicator 236. Emerging Questions 237. Threatened Environment 238. Politics of Science 239. The Autonomy Myth 240. The Muslim Condition 241. The Election Business 242. Our Fractured Politics 243. Harijans 244. Economic Scenarios

245. India 1979 246. External Action 247. The Planets 248. Transition Politics 249. Development Dimensions 250. The Violent Present 251. Debating an Agenda 252. Policing 253. The Dangerous Decade 254. Studying our Society 255. Raw Power 256. Alternatives in Foreign Policy

257. India 1980 258. A Failed Science 259. The Politicians 260. Parliament 261. Concepts in Change 262. Levels of Consciousness 263. The World of Microprocessors 264. Search for Consensus 265. The Soviet Connection 266. Confusion in Economics 267. Peasants and Prices 268. Reservations

269. India 1981 270. The Arming of a Subcontinent 271. India: Seen from Abroad 272. The Campus Scene 273. Refocussings 274. Nepali Reflections 275. Childhood Today 276. Our National Character 277. Searching for Answers 278. The Future of Politics 279. Playing Games 280. A Confused World

281. India 1982 282. Three Hundred Millions 283. The Parallel Economy 284. Revivalism 285. Breakdown 286. Global Choices 287. Security 288. The Political Options 289. Federal Focus 290. Islam 291. Social Dilemmas 292. The Messy Media

293. This India 294. The Punjab Tangle 295. Marxian Shadings 296. Directions in Education 297. Values in Learning 298. Coalition Future 299. New Elites 300. The Sexist Media 301. A Federal Remedy 302. Lawless Laws 303. Pakistan Perceptions 304. Indira Gandhi

305. India 1984 306. Behind the Ballot 307. The National Condition 308. Using the Army 309. The Faces of Reality 310. A Warless World 311. Meditation 312. Architectural Pollution 313. The Hindus and Their Isms 314. Issues Within Issues 315. The Politics of Change 316. The Economy

317. India 1985 318. Purdah Culture 319. Freeing the Media 320. The Total State 321. Indian English 322. Divisive Currents 323. Scenarios for Change 324. Options in South Asia 325. The Judicial Jungle 326. Punjab Perspectives 327. Web of Censorship 328. Priorities

329. India 1986 330. The Politics of Ecology 331. Femicide 332. Urdu 333. Raj Thapar 1926-1987 334. Interventions 335. Our Institutions 336. A Second Republic 337. Sri Lanka 338. Past in the Present 339. Rethinking Theology 340. Romesh Thapar 1922-1987

341. India 1987 342. Sati 343. A Free Press 344. Integrity 345. Punjab 346. Drought 347. Right to Work 348. The Voluntary Option 349. New Dimensions in Science 350. Child Labour 351. Pakistan Scenarios 352. Farmer Power

353. India 1988 354. The Technology Missions 355. New Social Movements 356. Design and Aesthetics 357. Federalism 358. Foreign Policy in a Changing World 359. Literature and Society 360. The Panchayati Revival 361. Reflections 362. Parties and Politics 363. The Nehru Era 364. Mythifying History

365. Towards 2000 AD 366. The North East 367. Politics of the State 368. The People’s Verdict 369. Health for All? 370. Nuclear Power 371. Cricket Culture 372. Our Urban Future 373. Socialism in Crisis 374. Communal Divides 375. Reserved Futures 376. The Eighth Plan

377. India 1990 378. The Himalaya 379. City Nostalgia 380. Freeing the Economy 381. After the Gulf War 382. The Urban Woman 383. Defence Perspectives 384. New Writing in English 385. Beyond the Vote 386. Repercussions of Change 387. Identity 388. Politicians on Politics

389. India 1991 390. Making Waves 391. The Linguistic Landscape 392. Kashmir Today 393. The Soviet Experience 394. Dialogue 395. Real Concerns 396. aids 397. Wooing Japan 398. Understanding Punjab 399. Politics Today 400. Education and Ideology

401. India 1992 402. Ayodhya 403. Growing Up 404. The Telecom Revolution 405. Politics of Accountability 406. Managing Our Natural Resources 407. Left Dilemmas 408. Culture, Communication and Change 409. Our Scientists 410. Population Planning 411. Revivalism and Identity 412. Marginalised Tribals

413. India 1993 414. Managing Energy 415. Future of the Mind 416. Islam: Reform and Renewal 417. The bjp 418. Seeds of Discontent 419. Infrastructure 420. Memories of Partition 421. Looking Back 422. The U.S. and Us 423. Parallel Practices 424. Family Matters

425. India 1994 426. Parks, Protection and People 427. Living Treasures 428. The Politics of Health 429. Globalisation and the Unions 430. Justice For All 431. Voices From the Field 432. The Matter of U.P. 433. Food Security 434. Rules and Laws 435. The Limits of Tolerance. 436. Learning to Change

437. India 1995 438. Grassroots Governance 439. Prisons and Punishment 440. The Election Carnival 441. A Question of Rights 442. Nationalism 443. Little Voices, Big Issues 444. Nuclear Fallout 445. The Other City 446. Cultural Studies 447. Reproductive Health 448. Maritime Security

449. India 1996 450. The State of Bihar 451. Democracy and Development 452. Workers and Unions 453. Symbolic Spaces 454. Political Exhaustion 455. Alternatives in Communication 456. Rethinking Institutions 457. Empowering Women 458. Media Trends 459. Unity or Incoherence 460. Futures

461. India 1997 462. Childhood 463. Refugees 464. Right to Education 465. Power Play 466. Wildlife 467. Conserving our Heritage 468. Nuclear (In)security 469. Swadeshi 470. Gujarat 471. Dalit 472. External Challenges

473. India 1998 474. Continuing Concerns 475. Growing Intolerance 476. The Sikh Spirit 477. The Pursuit of Purpose 478. Floods 479. Something Like a War 480. Cruel Choices 481. The Idea of Seminar 482. Family Business 483. Policespeak 484. Multiculturalism

485. India 1999 486. Environment: Myth and Reality 487. Looking East 488. Ageing 489. Unhealthy Trends 490. African Transitions 491. Street Vendors 492. Protecting Nature 493. Redesigning Curricula 494. Unviable Universities 495. Situating Sociology 496. Frameworks For Peace

497. India 2000 498. Markets in Motion 499. Wastelands 500. Through the Decades 501. Culturescape 502. Our Corrupted Core 503. Globalization 504. Drug Abuse 505. Towards Equality 506. Reforming Politics 507. Economic Turmoil 508. Exclusion

509. India 2001 510. Porous Borders, Divided Selves 511. Beyond Numbers 512. States of Insecurity 513. Society Under Siege 514. Where People Matter 515. First City? 516. Shades of Green 517. Securing South Asia 518. The Aftermath of 9/11 519. Uncertain Futures 520. A World Without AIDS.

521. India 2002 522. Rewriting History 523. Celebrating Craft 524. Imagining Futures 525. Unsettling Cinema 526. A Party in Waiting 527. The Great Game 528. City of Dreams 529. Empire 530. Restoration and Renewal 531. Footloose Labour 532. Abortion

533. India 2003 534. Beyond the Verdict 535. Changing Chennai 536. Are We Learning? 537. India Shining 538. The Diaspora 539. A Mandate for Change 540. Celebrating Women 541. New Priorities 542. Working Conservation 543. Amchem Goem 544. Elusive Justice

545. India 2004 546. Reclaiming Childhood 547. Revitalising Science 548. Democracy Derailed 549. Redressing Disadvantages 550. Gateway to the East 551. Speaking Truth to Power 552. Forests and Tribals 553. Creative industries 554. India Revisited 555. Eye on Oil 556. 2010