SEMINAR ISSUES 2009

SEMINAR 593: January 2009; INDIA 2008: a symposium on the year that was.

Ahamed, Liaquat

An intelligent person’s guide to the panic of 2008

Anand, Javed

Seize the moment

Baru, Sanjaya

Year of the power shift?

Dasgupta, Swapan

Good Pakistani, bad Pakistan

DeSouza, Peter Ronald

The parochial versus the universal

Jalal, Ayesha

Pakistan’s present in India’s future

Kannan, K.P.

Whatever happened to the aam aadmi?

Kumar, Rajiv

Way forward to inclusive growth

Mahajan, Vijay

Scaling up social innovation

Mohsin, Jugnu

Baba Farid’s kot is on google earth

Morrison, Kathleen D.

Beyond the battles

Ninan, T.N.

The great churn

Raina, Vinod

Right to education

Rangarajan, Mahesh

Alliances in transition

Sahni, Ajai

A triumph of form over content

Stepan, Alfred

Multiple secularisms

Varadarajan, Siddharth

Fusion and foreign policy

Varshney, Ashutosh

Obama and India

Visvanathan, Shiv

Reflections on the terrorisms of our time

SEMINAR 594: February 2009; EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT: a symposium on restructuring the Indian civil services.

Bedi, Kiran

Civil servants wear thick skins

Debroy, Bibek

Dismantling the steel frame

Habibullah, Wajahat

Corruption and the right to information

Mander, Harsh

Conscience, not obedience

Marwah, Ved

Police reforms

Moily, M. Veerappa

Transforming our system of governance

Mukhopadhyay, Amitabh

Bureaucracy and democracy

Narayan, Jayaprakash

Citizen, state and the bureaucracy

Panda, Baijayant ‘Jay’

Centre-state relations and the bureaucracy

Rao, Jaithirth

Ensure transparency

Seminarist

The problem

Sinha, Alok

Towards an impartial and responsive service

SEMINAR 595: March 2009; AGRA-RIAN TRANSITIONS: a symposium on the growing distress in agriculture.

Chopra, Suneet

At the edge of a precipice

Dogra, Bharat

Towards sustainable farming practices

Goswami, Bhaskar

The problem

Gupta, Anil K.

Learning from people

Kammardi, T.N. Prakash

Diversification: a ploy to reduce support to agriculture?

Kumar, Dharmendra

Pushing big box retail in agriculture

Kuruganti, Kavitha

Transgenic crops: a questionable option?

Prasad, C. Shambu

Coping with complexity

Sainath, P.

Ways of seeing

Sharma, Devinder

Reviving agriculture

Sharma, Kalpana

Media and the agrarian crisis

Singh, Sukhpal

Contract farming for agricultural development

SEMINAR 596: April 2009; CHANGING POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: a symposium on the subterranean shifts in Indian politics.

Seminarist

The problem

Aiyar, Mani Shankar

In defence of secular fundamentalism

Ansari, Yusuf

Dislocation, disconnect and dismemberment

Arun, K.N.

The Chiranjeevi factor

Bhalla, Surjit S.

How soon will the 2009 election be history?

Guha Thakurta, Paranjoy

Making sense of anti-incumbency

Kulkarni, Sudheendra

Why people desire change

Nandy, Ashis

Welcome, the age of fear

Sanghvi, Vijay

Interview (with Ram Vilas Paswan)

Seminarist

Caste politics and the future of BSP

Singh, Manvendra

From the bottom up

Tejpal, Tarun J.

Pink chaddis and toothless days

Tewari, Manish

Bridging the generational divide

Yechury, Sitaram

Shifting sands of Indian politics

SEMINAR 597: May 2009; KNOWLEDGE IN QUESTION: a symposium on interrogating knowledge and questioning science.

Balaji, V.

The fate of agriculture

Gowda, Chandan

Thin encounters with knowledge

Jasanoff, Sheila

Governing innovation

Prasad, Shambu

Knowledge and democracy: fables from SRI

Raina, Rajeswari S.

Questioning temperaments in agricultural science

Shah, Esha

Debating knowledge: new spaces of conversation

Stirling, Andy

Risk, uncertainty and power

Tallacchini, Mariachiara

From commitment to committees

Visvanathan, Shiv

The problem

Visvanathan, Shiv

The search for cognitive justice

Wynne, Brian

Daring to imagine

SEMINAR 598: June 2009; CIRCUITS OF CINEMA: a symposium on Indian cinema in the 1940s and ’50s.

Bhaskar, Ira

The limits of desire

Jhingan, Shikha

The singer, the star and the chorus

Krishnan, Rajan

From songs to speech

Mazumdar, Ranjani

Cosmopolitan dreams

Menon M., Bindu

Romancing history and historicizing romance

Mitra, Smita

Mahanayika madam

Mukherjee, Debashree

Good girls, bad girls

Raqs Media Collective and C.K. Muralidharan

Interview (with V.K. Murthy)

Sethi, Aarti

The currency of character

Sethi, Aarti

The problem

Taneja, Anand Vivek

Muslimness in Hindi cinema

re-examining strategic institutions and practices.

Seminarist

The problem

Chaudhuri, Rudra

Strategic partnerships

Hoyt, Timothy D.

India and crisis management

Kalyanaraman, S.

The challenge of terrorism

Kanwal, Gurmeet

Modernising the Indian Army

Kapur, S. Paul

Deterrence and asymmetric warfare

Karnad, Bharat

Habit of free-riding

Ladwig III, Walter C.

The challenge of changing Indian military doctrine

Mukherjee, Anit

The absent dialogue

Raghavan, Srinath and Rudra Chaudhuri

Strategic communication

Raghavan, Srinath

Intelligence failures and reforms

Rajagopalan, Rajesh

Insurgency and counterinsurgency

SEMINAR 600: August 2009; LITERARY LANDSCAPES: a symposium on language, power and recognition in Indian writing.

The problem

Butalia, Urvashi

Nationalism and Indian publishing

Dharmarajan, Geeta

The maya of education

Gokhale, Namita

Negotiating multilingual literary spaces

Imtiaz, Huma

Against all odds

Koul, Sudha

Holding on to paradise

Murari, Timeri N.

Writing in exile

Naidu, Vayu

Making storytelling work

Rao, Jaithirth

Mirroring their times

Roy, Sanjoy K.

Festival time

Sarkar, Chiki

Why Indian publishing is so much fun

Satchidanandan, K.

Mother tongue, the other tongue

Schwepcke, Barbara

An unusual publishing house

Varma, Pavan K.

International applause: truth and realities

Visvanathan, Shiv

The pundit and the babu

SEMINAR 601: September 2009; THE REPUBLIC OF IDEAS: a symposium on some concerns and concepts engaging our society.

A letter from Seminar

Anand, Dibyesh

Hindutva: a schizophrenic nationalism

Anand, S.

Resurrecting the radical Ambedkar

Chandra, Kanchan

Caste in our social imagination

Chaudhury, Shoma

Blowing bubbles, and living inside them

Deshpande, Rajeshwari

Breaking free of the post-Mandal deadlock

Devji, Faisal

Britain’s Muslim empire and its Indian future

Devy, Ganesh N.

Indigenous languages

Dubash, Navroz K.

Environmentalism in the age of climate change

Gandhi, Supriya

Troubled histories

Grewal, David Singh

What Keynes warned about globalization

Khilnani, Sunil

Freedoms now

Shah, Vidya

Staying in tune?

Sharma, Jyotirmaya

Emancipation without utopias

Suhrud, Tridip

Truth, justice and reconciliation

Tharoor, Shashi

21st century leadership

Vajpeyi, Ananya

Notes on swaraj

Yadav, Yogendra

Rethinking social justice

SEMINAR 602: October 2009; INDIA’S RELIGIOUS MINORITIES: a symposium on exclusion, identity and citizenship.

Abreu, Savio

The making of a Christian minority

Ahmed Hilal

Muslims as a political community

Deshpande, Satish

The moral meanings of majorities

Gowda, Chandan

New practices of affirmative action

Gupta, Dipankar

Citizens or victims?

Hasan, Zoya

Muslim deprivation and the debate on equality

Jaffrelot et al, Christophe

Understanding Muslim voter behaviour

Jodhka, Surinder S.

The problem

Jodhka, Surinder S.

What makes Sikhs a minority

Kirmani, Nida

From symbolic victims to political agents

Omvedt, Gail

The doubly marginalized

Rustagi, Preet

Employment among non-Muslim minorities

Sankaran, Kamala

Issues before the courts

Sheth, D.L.

Minority politics: the shifting terms of policy discourse

SEMINAR 603: November 2009; BANGLADESH TURNAROUND: A symposium on the country’s return to democracy.

DeSouza, Peter Ronald

The problem

DeSouza, Peter Ronald

Routine swing or tectonic shift?

Hashemee, Najia

Electoral reform and democratic outcomes

Hossain, Kamal

The promise of change

Mahmud, Wahiduddin, Sadiq Ahmed and Sandeep Mahajan

Explaining the‘development surprise’

Mehboob, Ahmed Bilal

Through a Pakistani lens

Pal, Bidhan Chandra and Rubayat Khan

Youth: struggles, aspirations, possibilities

Pereira, Faustina

Secularism to pluralism and beyond (Commnt)

Saleh, Asif and Mridul Chowdhury

Media and politics

Sikri, Veena

The geopolitics of Bangladesh

Uddin, Sufia M.

Engaging with Islamist parties

SEMINAR 604: December 2009; MATERNAL AND NEWBORN HEALTH: a symposium on strategies to improve mother and child care.

Bezbaruah, Supriya

Two Indias, two maternities

Datta Ghosh, Meenakshi

Neither Madonna nor child

Malik, Ashok

A catalyst role

Mavalankar, Dileep, Kranti Vora and Bharati Sharma

Strengthening midwifery services

Natarajan, Jayanthi

A crosscutting problem

Nayyar, Anjali and Rashmi Pachauri Rajan

The problem

Pachauri, Saroj

Safe motherhood is non-negotiable

Panda, Baijayant ‘Jay’

Breaking the malnutrition impasse

Rajan, Rashmi Pachauri and Ashok Malik

Interview (with Jeffrey Sachs)

Ramachandran, Vimala

Missing midwives

Visaria, Leela

PPP: the Gujarat experience

COMMENT

Ananya Vajpeyi

Festival diary: hi-jinks in Jaipur (March 2009)

C.P. Bhambhri

Competitive political democracy (April 2009)

Meeta Mohanty

Can knowledge be questioned? (June 2009)

Menaka Guruswamy

Countering terror or terrorizing the law? (July 2009)

Jandhyala B.G. Tilak

Private schools and fee hikes (August 2009)

C.P. Bhambhri

A national security state (August 2009)

R. Uma Maheshwari

What lies behind the veil? (October 2009)

Partha Chatterjee

An unstated political compact (October 2009)

FURTHER READING

Agrarian Transitions

March 2009

National Security

July 2009

Maternal & Newborn Health

December 2009

IN MEMORIAM

Rajeev Sethi

Move over Habib – here comes the legend! (July 2009)

Urvashi Butalia

Meenakshi Mukherjee: a woman for all seasons (October 2009)

Sumanta Banerjee

Bidding adieu to a comrade (November 2009)

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 Untouch-ables 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 Eco-nomics 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 Aesthe-tics 357. Federalism 358. Foreign Policy in a Changing World 359. Literature and Society 360. The Pancha-yati 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 Linguis-tic 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. Infras-tructure 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. Battle-ground 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

581. India 2007 582. Special Economic Zones 583. Unequal Status 584. Our Troubled Neighbourhood 585. City of Hope 586. Redrawing Boundaries 587. Mortgaging the Future 588.Talking Theatre 589. Unfinished Agendas-1 590. Unfinished Agendas-2 591. Battle for the States 592. The Neglected Teacher