SEMINAR ISSUES 2009

SEMINAR 605: January 2010; INDIA 2009: a symposium on the year that was.

Bakshi, Rajni

The storyteller’s swadharma

Baviskar, Amita

Between reason and resistance

Bhatt, Ela R.

Citizenship of marginals

Bijapurkar, Rama

The right to grow

Chakravarti, Sudeep

No end in sight

Dasgupta, Swapan

A ‘dying’ party?

Debroy, Bibek

Post crisis policy reform

Ghimire, Yubaraj

Stalemate

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu

On borrowed time

Nawaz, Shuja

Pakistan’s existential threat

Ninan, T.N.

Intellectual fashions and the financial crisis

Raghavan, Srinath and Mahesh Rangarajan

Engagement sansentanglement

Raja Mohan, C.

Diplomacy for the new decade

Sainath, P.

Paid news

Uyangoda, Jayadeva

Sri Lanka post the LTTE

Virmani, Shabnam

Walking with Kabir

Visvanathan, Shiv

The unmaking of an investigation

SEMINAR 606: February 2010; CLIMATE CHANGE CONUNDRUM: a symposium on global efforts towards sustainability in development.

Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta

Beyond the global warming imbroglio

Bhalla, Surjit S.

Kyoto is dead – India is changing (Comment)

Goyal, Anjali

Ultra low carbon mega rail projects

Gupta, Rajan, Harihar Shankar and Sunjoy Joshi

Development, energy and climate security

Joshi, Sunjoy

The shaping of a discourse

Kumar, K.S. Kavi

The challenge of adaptation

Narain, Sunita

Inconvenient truths

Noronha, Ligia

Inconclusive outcomes, uncertain futures

Rai, Varun

Climate change mitigation in India

Rajamani, Lavanya

Neither fish nor fowl

Ramesh, Jairam

Interview (by M.K. Venu)

Saran, Shyam

India at Copenhagen

Seminarist

The problem

Srinivas, K.R.

Technology transfer and IPRs

van Asselt, Harro and Fariborz Zelli

Interplay between climate and trade policies

SEMINAR 607: March 2010; RED RESURGENCE: a symposium on the Naxal/Maoist challenge to the state.

Apoorvanand

Violence and revolution

Banerjee, Prathama

What’s poetry got to do with it?

Bhadra, Sujato

In the wake of Lalgarh

D’Mello, Bernard

Spring thunder anew

de Souza, Hartman

The curse of Paikdev: a lament for water

Jha, Prashant

Maoism: the Nepal scene

Kannabiran, Vasanth

Scattered truths, bitter seeds

Kela, Shashank

War and peace

Kumawat, Mahendra

Responding to the Maoist challenge

Nigam, Aditya

The problem

Nigam, Aditya

The rumour of Maoism

Rana, Santosh

Interview (by Biswajit Roy)

Sahni, Ajai

The dreamscape of ‘solutions’

Sen, Arindam

Anarchism or revolutionary Marxism?

Simeon, Dilip

Permanent spring

Sundar, Nandini

Pleading for justice

SEMINAR 608: April 2010; THE ENDURING EPIC: a symposium on some concerns raised in The Maha-bharata.

Adluri, Vishwa

The perils of textual transmission: decapitation and recapitulation

Badrinath, Chaturvedi

Living with the Mahabharata

Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji

A critique of nonviolence

Bowles, Adam

The failure of dharma

Goldman, Robert P. and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman

Interpretive histories

Minkowski, C.

Nilakantha’s Mahabharata

Palshikar, Sanjay

The Asura and the Gita

Pandey, Rakesh

The mirror of epic

Pandey, Rakesh

The problem

Thapar, Romila

The epic of the Bharatas

SEMINAR 609: May 2010; FASHION-ING STYLE: a symposium on changing style and design in India today.

Abraham, David

Interivew (by Aruna Ghose)

Arora, Manish and Rajesh Pratap Singh

The magician and the monk (Interview by Jivi Sethi)

Bhattacharyya, Sourish

Food fads

Bhayana, Nitin

Collecting art for passion, not fashion

Chishti, Rta Kapur

The unstitched garment

Gujral, Feroze

Fashion’s fatal attractions

Jaitly, Jaya

Crafting fashion

Jha, Rathi Vinay

In step with style

Khanna, Nikhil

A long way to go

Kumar, Amrish

The Indian reality

Raje, Aparna Piramal

Bringing workspaces to life

Sahni, Vivek

The ‘brand’ new ‘fashionable’ Indian

Sangghvi, Malavika

Commerce and calculation

Seminarist

The problem

Singh, Prabeen

From shakkarpara to truffles

Singh, Vidyun

Films and fashion

SEMINAR 610: June 2010; LIVING TOGETHER: a symposium on inter-cultural dialogue.

Bauman, Zygmunt

Conversations III

de Gourdon, Côme Carpentier

One civilization, many cultures?

Hobsbawm, Eric

Conversations I

Hoffman, Eva

Engaging in cross-cultural dialogue

Jahanbegloo, Ramin

The intercultural imperative

Jahanbegloo, Ramin

The problem

Mayaram, Shail

Interculturality and the city

Sahni, Kalpana

Cross-cultural encounters

Toscano, Roberto

Conversations II

Visvanathan, Susan

Forestation and new educational practices

SEMINAR 611: July 2010; SOLDIERS AND STATES: a symposium on civil-military relations in South Asia.

Chaudhuri, Rudra and Srinath Raghavan

Spooks and states

Dasgupta, Sunil and Stephen Philip Cohen

Military modernization in India

Goswami, Namrata

The insurgency affected North East

Kadirgamar, Ahilan

Security, minorities and the Lankan polity

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir and Madhav Khosla

Military power and the constitution

Lomeli, Samantha

From party army to civil military in China

Muni, S.D.

State, army and the aam admi in Nepal

Raghavan, Srinath

Soldiers, statesmen and strategy

Seminarist

The problem

Shah, Aqil

Security, soldiers and the state in Pakistan

Sobhan, Zafar

Bangladesh: in the aftermath of 1/11

Yhome, Khriezo

Civil-military relations in Myanmar

SEMINAR 612: August 2010; KARNA-TAKA VIGNETTES: a symposium on emerging trends in contemporary Karnataka.

Ananthamurthy, U.R.

The idea of Karnataka

Benjamin, Solomon

The aesthetics of ‘the ground up’ city

Ganesh, Deepa

The musical worlds of Karnataka

Gowda, Chandan

The problem

Mahamud, P.

On the lighter side

Nikam, Girish

Intriguingly poised

Nugadoni, Amaresh

Placing North Karnataka

Parthasarathy, Balaji

Envisioning the future in Bangalore

Shobhi, Prithvi Datta Chandra

A new urbanism in Mysore?

Siddalingaiah

Village deities (in conversation with Chandan Gowda)

Tarikere, Rahmat

Food et cetera

Vasavi, A.R.

What’s love got to do with it?

Vyasulu, Vinod

Celebrating Karnataka

SEMINAR 613: September 2010; NATURE WITHOUT BORDERS: a symposium on innovative approaches to conserving nature and wildlife.

Agarwal, Ravi

Fight for a forest

Bhatnagar, Yash Veer

Project snow leopard

Ghotge, Nitya Sambamurti

Black sheep

and Sagari R. Ramdas

and gray wolves

Godbole, Archana, Jayant Sarnaik and Sameer Punde

Securing private forests (Comment)

Gopalakrishnan, Shankar

Conservation, power and democracy

Gopi Sundar, K.S.

Cranes, cultivators and conservation

Gubbi, Sanjay

Making governance effective

Kelkar, Nachiket and Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Keeping rivers alive

Kekati, Kashmira

Forest-farm frontiers

Lobo, Aaron Savio and Rohan Arthur

Trawling the shorelines

Madhusudan, M.D. and Mahesh Rangarajan

The problem

Nagendra, Harini

Maps, lakes and citizens

Ramanathan, Usha

On eminent domain and sovereignty

Reddy, G.V.

Managing parks across geography (interview by Mahesh Rangarajan and M.D. Madhusudan)

Roma

Forest justice movements (Comment)

Theophilus, Emmanuel

A river, for now

SEMINAR 614: October 2010; THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: a symposium on Bhutan’s strategy of promoting well-being.

Dukpa, Zangley and Lungten Z. Wangchuk

Health planning

Kumar, A.K. Shiva

Happiness matters

Lambah, Abha Narain

Cultural challenges

McDonad, Ross

Dialogue (with Karma Ura)

Namgyel, Singye

Reorienting classroom interaction

Pek-Dorgi, Siok Sian

Engaging in the realm of ideas

Sibal, Akhil

Ends and means

Thinley, Jigmi Y.

A vision of common purpose

Tshering, Sonam

A new economic agenda

Ura, Karma

Measuring happiness

Varma, Pavan K.

The problem

Wangdi, Chime Paden

One village at a time

SEMINAR 615: November 2010; WE THE PEOPLE: a symposium on the Constitution of India after 60 years, 1950-2010.

Austin, Granville

Coming into its own (Comment)

Baruah, Sanjib

AFSPA: legacy of colonial constitutionalism

Baxi, Upendra

The judiciary as a resource for Indian democracy

Burra, Arudra

The cobwebs of imperial rule

De, Rohit

Beyond the social contract

Khan, Maryam

Selective borrowings

Khurshid, Salman

Transforming equality in India

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir

Constitutional durability

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

What is constitutional morality?

Mehta, Uday S.

The social question and the absolutism of politics

Nariman, Fali S.

The way forward

Ramanathan, Usha

A constitution amid dire straits

Setalvad, Teesta

Whither our sovereignty?

Sibal, Amit

From ‘niti’ to ‘nyaya’

Siddique, Osama

Across the border

Sitapati, Vinay

The dalit contract with India

Vajpeyi, Ananya

The problem

SEMINAR 616: December 2010; FROM PROTEST TO POLITICS; a symposium on the struggle for democracy in India today.

Behdad, Sohrab and Farhad Nomani

Labour’s struggle for independent unions

Eshkevari, Yussefi

Religious life in a secular state

Fathi, Nazila

Women: a force for change

Hashemi, Nader

Strategies of hope

Khan, Ali

Qom: change from within

Khosrokhavar, Farhad

Revisiting the green movement

Memarian, Omid

A confident generation

Pourzand, Lily

Struggles over family law

Rahnema, Saeed

Left and the Iranian revolution

Ramin, Jahanbegloo

The problem

Vahabzadeh, Peyman

Civil society and repressive development

Vikram, Raghavan

The biographer of the Indian constitution (Comment)

Wahid, Siddiq

Kashmir conundrum – year 63 (Comment)

COMMENT

Peter Ronald deSouza

The IPCC debate: of science and politics (March 2010)

Abhishek Parakh and Subhash Kak

Challenges facing electronic voting (May 2010)

Jandhyala B.G. Tilak

A futile act (June 2010)

C.P. Bhambhri

Why democrats should worry (July 2010)

Shashank Kela

The tragedy, and the farce, of Bhopal (July 2010)

Shiv Visvanathan

Obituary for a new manifesto (August 2010)

Shashank Kela

The emperor’s new clothes (December 2010)

ESSAY

Shiv Visvanathan

The Bt. Brinjal goes politicking (October 2010)

Archana Varma

A ‘grand celebration’ of feminist discourse (December 2010)

FURTHER READING

Climate Change Conundrum

February 2010

Soldiers and States

July 2010

IN MEMORIAM

Shivshankar Menon

S.K. Singh 1932-2009 (February 2010)

K.P. Kannan

Arjun Sengupta 1937-2010 (November 2010)

T.N. Madan

Satish Saberwal 1933-2010 (December 2010)

Harsh Sethi

Laxmi Chand Jain 1925-2010 (December 2010)

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 Linguis-tic Landscape 392. Kashmir Today 393. The Soviet Experience 394. Dialogue 395. Real Concerns 396. aids 397. Wooing Japan 398. UnderstandingPunjab 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. Waste-lands 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

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-I 590. Unfinished Agendas-II 591. Battle for the States 592. The Neglected Teacher

593. India 2008 594. Effective Government 595. Agrarian Transitions 596. Changing Political Landscape 597. Knowledge in Question 598.Circuits of Cinema 599. National Security 600. Literary Landscapes 601. The Republic of Ideas 602. India’s Religious Minorities 603. Bangladesh Turnaround 604. Maternal and Newborn Health