symposium participants

• The Problem
  A short statement of the issues involved

• NEED FOR A DIFFERENT FOOD SECURITY LAW
  Suman Sahai, Gene Campaign, Delhi

• FOOD FROM THE COURTS
  Harsh Mander, social activist and writer; heads Aman Biradari and Centre for Equity Studies; Member, National Advisory Council; Special Commissioner to the Supreme Court of India on the Right to Food, Delhi

• POVERTY, TARGETING AND FOOD SECURITY
  Jean Drèze, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Allahabad

• ONE STEP FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK?
  Reetika Khera, Assistant Professor (Economics), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

• GROW FOOD IN ABUNDANCE 
  Bhavdeep Kang, freelance journalist and social activist, Delhi

• WHY NOT FOOD SECURITY? 
  Alok Sinha, IAS; former CMD, Food Corporation of India, Delhi

• NEED FOR NEW THINKING 
  Alok Shukla, IAS; former Secretary, Food and Civil Supplies, Government of Chhattisgarh; currently, Deputy Election Commissioner, Election Commission of India, Delhi

• FOOD SUBSIDY BILL: THE LARGER PICTURE
  Rajiv Kumar, Secretary General, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Delhi, and Soumya Kanti Ghosh, economist, Delhi

• BEYOND NUMBERS
  Amitabh Mukhopadhyay, commentator on social issues, Delhi

• DESIGNING APPROPRIATE SYSTEMS
  Yoginder K. Alagh, Professor Emeritus, Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad; former Union Minister of Power, Planning and Science and Technology, GOI

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Aniket Aga and Harsh Sethi

• COMMENT
  A Matter of Difference or a Different Matter by Shiv Visvanathan, social science nomad; Regional Leaders and Foreign Policy by Tridivesh Singh Maini, Associate Fellow, The Observer Research Foundation, Delhi; The Habit of Banning by Peter Ronald deSouza, Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla

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