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  symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Ananya Vajpeyi, Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• DESH KE BASHINDE? NATS AND THE POLITICS OF DOUBLE NAME
  Nonica Datta, Associate Professor of History, Miranda House, University of Delhi

• a CONVERSATION
  Manan Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Freie Universität Berlin; Rohit Chopra, Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University, California; and Aswin Punathambekar, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• RIYAAZ, SAADHANA, TAIYYARI: LIFE PRACTICES
  Neeti Nair, Department of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

• THE RISK OF WRITING
  Tarun K. Saint, Department of English, Hindu College, University of Delhi

• ON REVISITING KARACHI
  Sadia Shepard, writer and documentary filmmaker, currently working in Pakistan

• CHASING FIREFLIES
  Avtar Singh, former Editor, 'Time Out' Delhi; now freelance writer

• KAZI IN NOMANSLAND
  Naeem Mohaiemen, writer and visual artist (shobak.org), working in Dhaka and New York

• BROWN AS THE MOUTHS OF RIVERS
  Hasan Altaf was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and earned an MFA in fiction from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

• FAMILY CHRONICLES
  Jamal Kidwai, Director and founder member, Aman Trust, Delhi

• A SECRET SOUTH ASIAN META-UTOPIA
  Nauman Naqvi, Assistant Professor, University Planning, Habib University Foundation, Karachi

• REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
  Amitava Kumar, writer; Professor of English, Vassar College, New York

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Hilal Ahmed, A.R. Vasavi and Kuldeep Kumar

• COMMENT
  The Gulbarg House Manifesto

• IN MEMORIAM
  Jalal Alamgir 1971-2011
  A.K. Damodaran 1921-2012

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