SEMINAR ISSUES 2008

SEMINAR 581: January 2008; INDIA 2007: a symposium on the year that was.

Aiyar, Pallavi

China through Indian eyes

Banerjee, Sumanta

The new right and the old left

Chandhoke, Neera

The unfinished tasks of our times

D’Souza, Dilip

No similar values

Dasgupta, Swapan

The Modi phenomenon

Jodhka, Surinder S.

Of babas and deras

Mukhopadhyay, Partha

The promised land of SEZs

Ninan, T.N.

Boom and gloom

Nussbaum, Martha

Beyond toleration to equal respect

Palshikar, Suhas

Of democracy and diversity

Raja Mohan, C.

India’s great power burdens

Rangarajan, Mahesh

Why Mayawati matters

Shulman, David

Tuba

Suhrud, Tridip

Gandhi has gone

Trehan, Madhu

Watershed moment

Vanaik, Achin

Post cold war Indian foreign policy

Venkataraman, Geetha

Revitalizing undergraduate education

SEMINAR 582: February 2008; SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES: a symposium on the recent economic policy initiatives.

Asher, Manshi and Patrik Oskarsson

Se(i)zing the coast and the countryside

Batra, Lalit

Deconstructing the ‘world class’ city

Bhaduri, Amit

The imperative as an alternative

Citizen’s Research Collective

Factfile

Dhagamwar, Vasudha

Post Nandigram and Goa

Gopalakrishnan, Shankar

Signs of an impending disaster

Goswami, Bhaskar

Consequences for agriculture and food security

Goswami, Omkar

Why only a few will make it

Jones, Jonathan

India’s democracy has a heartbeat

Kasturi, Kannan

Of public purpose and private profit

Nath, Kamal

SEZs have nothing to do with land acquisition (interview)

Seminarist

Betting on growth

Shrivastava, Aseem

The problem

Shrivastava, Aseem

Towards corporate city-states?

Suchitra, M.

Prospects for labour

SEMINAR 583: March 2008; UNEQUAL STATUS: a symposium on new challenges before the women’s movement.

Basu, Asmita

Legislating on domestic violence

Bose, Brinda

When the towel drops: sexuality, censorship and cinema

Ghosh, Shohini

Decriminalizing sex work

Kaiwar, Apoorva

Meandering forward

Krishnan, Maitreyi and Ponni Arasu

Sexual harassment law

Lateef, Shahida

From Shahbano to Sachar

Mahajan, Shalini

Questioning norms and bodies

Mehta, Kalpana

Women’s movements in India

Menon, Pramada

Let’s talk sex

Palit, Chittaroopa

Combating displacement

Sen, Ilina

The livelihood crisis for women

Singh, Meeta and Kavita Srivastava

Saving the girl child

Singh, Prabeen

The problem

Viswanath, Kalpana and Surabhi Tandon Mehrotra

Safe in the city?

SEMINAR 584: April 2008; OUR TROUBLED NEIGHBOURHOOD: a symposium on a region in turmoil.

Ahmad, Talmiz

The Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline

Ahamed, Meenakshi

The great game continues

Jha, Prashant

Nepal at the crossroads

Khanna, Vinod C.

Stability through cooperation

Khosla, I.P.

Lost opportunities in Afghanistan

Mukharji, Deb

A return to democracy

Murari, S.

No peace in sight

Naqvi, Jawed

On the wrong side of history

Nawaz, Shuja

Pakistan’s army: fighting the wars within

Parthasarathy, G.

Opportunities and challenges

Raghavan, Srinath

The boundary dispute with China

Saran, Shyam

The challenge of proximity

Seminarist

The problem

Sharma, Pranay

Overcoming trust deficit

Singh, K. Natwar

Whither foreign policy and diplomacy

Thapar, Karan

Interview (with Asif Ali Zardari)

SEMINAR 585: May 2008; CITY OF HOPE: a symposium on Hyderabad and its syncretic culture.

Alam, Javeed

The burqa and the rickshaw

Banagiri, Vanaja

Hyderabadi tales

Baru, Sanjaya

Importance of the global

Dalrymple, William

Restoring heritage

Gujral, Feroze

A life less ordinary

Guruswamy, Mohan

There once was a Hyderabad

Kumar, Ritu

A story of sartorial amalgamation

Latif, Bilkees I.

The soul of Hyderabad

Luther, Narendra

Bridging two cultures

Sarma, Rani

Diwan Deodi

Seminarist

The problem

Sharma, Jyotirmaya

Shahar baaki hai mohabbat ka nishan baaki hai

Uzramma

Recovering the aesthetic

SEMINAR 586: June 2008; REDRAWING BOUNDARIES: a symposium on the fallout of the Fourth Delimitation Commission.

Ahmed, Hilal

Debating Muslim political representation

Alam, Mohd. Sanjeer

Intra-state parity and selection of reserved seats

Dhanda, Meena

Making room by adding seats

Khanna, Inderjit

Towards a common electoral roll

Seminarist

Holy cow of the constitution

Seminarist

The problem

Singh, Jasvir

Under-enfranchisement of the urban poor

Sivaramakrishnan, K.C.

A fear of change

Yadav, Yogendra

The paradox of political representation

SEMINAR 587: July 2008; MORTGAGING THE FUTURE: a symposium on reforming India’s higher education system.

Basant, Rakesh

Decoding access

Chowdhary, Rekha

Autonomy and dignity of teachers

Deshpande, Satish

Changing social composition

Jadhav, Narendra

Turning around public providers

Kapur, Devesh

The supply mix

Miri, Mrinal

Education and value

Mukherjee, Rohan

Towards a legitimate role for foreign institutions

Mukhopadhyay, Partha

Learning to work

Rajivlochan, M.

Reforming education for India, from England

Seminarist

The problem

Srivastava, Ravi S.

Regulating the private sector

Tilak, Jandhyala B.G.

Towards a national

university system

SEMINAR 588: August 2008; TALKING THEATRE: a symposium on theatre practices in India today.

Akshara, K.V.

Reversal of roles

Akshara, K.V. and Sudhanva Deshpande

The problem

Bajrange, Dakxin

Small efforts matter

Bandyopadhyay, Samik

Locales

Damodaran, Sumangala

Protest through music

Deshpande, Sudhanva

What is to be undone?

Dharwadker, Aparna

Criticism, critique, and translation

Gokhale, Shanta

Mapping Marathi theatre

Kapoor, Sanjna

A catalyst for theatre

Naregal, Veena

Marginality, regional forms and state patronage

Narrain, Siddharth

Censorship and the law

Sathe, Makarand

Violence, social pathology and theatre

SEMINAR 589:September 2008; UNFINISHED AGENDAS 1: a symposium on some continuing concerns over five decades.

Ahluwalia, Montek Singh

Planning then and now

Ghorpade, M.Y.

Success or failure

Gupta, Dipankar

The changing villager

Nath, Lalit M.

For a healthy Bharat

Padgaonkar, Dileep

A party adrift

Ranga, N.G.

What is wrong with official policy

Saksena, Mohanlal

Organizational challenge

Sengupta, Arjun

Ensuring complementarity

Seminarist

A letter from Seminar

Seminarist

Priorities in health care

Sen, Amartya Kumar

Why planning?

Swaminathan, M.S.

Beyond the green revolution

SEMINAR 590: October 2008; UNFINISHED AGENDAS 2: a symposium on some continuing concerns over five decades.

Agnihotri, Rama Kant

Multilinguality for India

Anand, Chetan

Films and films: a letter

Bery, Suman

The public and the private

Bhagwati, Jagdish N.

Uneasy co-existence

Desai, I.P., R.F. Kothari and I.S. Gulati

A question of priorities

Husain, S. Ehtesham

Multilingual aspect

Kripalani, J.B.

Deep roots

Masand, Rajeev

What’s wrong with our movies?

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

Obstacles to a new revolution

Seminarist

A letter from Seminar

Visvanathan, Shiv

The necessity of corruption

SEMINAR 591: November 2008; BATTLE FOR THE STATES: a symposium on the forthcoming state assembly elections.

Baruah, Sanjib

Assam: confronting a failed partition

Chowdhary, Rekha

J&K: once again on the brink

Jaffrelot, Christophe

The uneven plebeianisation of Madhya Pradesh politics

Mukherjee, Sanjeeb

A glimmer of change in West Bengal

Seminarist

The problem

Subrahmaniam, Vidya

A toss up in 2009?

Suri, K.C.

Andhra Pradesh: moving beyond linguistic lines

Tillin, Louise

Politics in a new state: Chhattisgarh

Vyas, V.S.

Rajasthan: moving towards the mainstream

Yadav, Yogendra and Suhas Palshikar

Ten theses on state politics in India

SEMINAR 592: December 2008; THE NEGLECTED TEACHER: a symposium on the need to reform teacher training and education.

Bhaskar, Swara

Remembering Chitra ma’am

Gupta, Latika

Making of a teacher

Kadyan, Sonia

My learning

Khan, Farida Abdulla

A time for change

Kumar, Frances

Why it doesn’t happen

Kumar, Krishna

The problem

Mili and Sunil M. Kumar

The need to focus on teacher education

Ramachandran, Vimala, Suman Bhattacharjea and K.M. Sheshagiri

Training! Training!

Srinivasan, Meera

Interview (with Ahalya Chari)

Van Cauwenberghe, Sister Valerie

Teachers and children

Winter, Penny

A teacher’s life

COMMENT

Salman Khurshid

My party and the fall of the tree(February 2008)

Sowmya Kidmbi and Karuna Vakati Aakella

Nothing ventured, nothing learnt (March 2008)

C.P. Bhambhri

Politics of history (March 2008)

Koichiro Matsuura

Can humanity still be saved? (May 2008)

Prahlad Singh Shekhawat

Development as happiness (May 2008)

C.P. Bhambhri

Foreign policy of an unnatural coalitional politics (June 2008)

Saeed Naqvi

The war on terror and the idea of Pakhtoonistan (October 2008)

N.R. Mohanty

Kandhamal: issues and challenges (November 2008)

Prahlad Singh Shekhawat

Economic crisis and opportunity for a good life(December 2008)

C.P. Bhambhri

A weak and flawed foundation (December 2008)

FURTHER READING

The Neglected Teacher

December 2008

IN MEMORIAM

Shiv Visvanathan

Footloose with P.K. Sethi (February 2008)

Bharat Karnad

Major General D.K. ‘Monty’ Palit, VrC (June 2008)

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 Multi-nationals 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

557. India 2005 558. Dalit Perspectives 559. Soul City 560. Building Partnerships 561. Media Matters 562. The India-China Thaw 563. Education and Livelihoods 564. The Forsaken Drylands 565. The Elusive Triangle 566. Culinary Crossings 567. Re-Imagining Punjab 568. Securing the Insecure

569. India 2006 570. Crafting an Education 571. Battleground U.P. 572. India Beckons 573. Envisioning Asia 574. Children First 575. Between Cultures 576. Experiments With Democracy 577. Nature, Wildlife, People 578. A Shifting Canvas 579. Transport for Liveable Cities 580. The Paradox That is Bihar