SEMINAR ISSUES 2017

SEMINAR 689, January 2017; INDIA 2016: a symposium on the year that was.

Adhya, Tiasa, Shivona Bhojwani and Nandini Velho

Human-wildlife conflict: cull the cause, not the symptoms

Dutt, Barkha

A failure of imagination

Gandhi, Gopalkrishna

India versus India

Goswami, Omkar

A quarter century on

Jha, Praveen

Labour in neo-liberal India

Kamdar, Mira

The burkini bans

Kannabiran, Kalpana

Of law, resurrection and a future

Katyal, Anjum

The importance of being Mahasweta

Ketkar, Kumar

The Maratha ‘uprising’

Mehrotra, Deepti Priya

A light unto herself

Mohan, C. Raja

India’s troubled north western marches

Ninan, T.N.

Coming up: a crucial decade

Palshikar, Suhas

Diluting political equality

Raghavan, Srinath

Navigating uncharted territory

Sahni, Ajai

Trapped in past paradigms

Sharma, Mihir Swarup

Growth in 2017 and beyond

SEMINAR 690, February 2017; NATURE’S PRESENT: a symposium on understanding conflicts around nature in contemporary India.

Bose, Arshiya

Can a coffee company save forests?

Jayaraman, Nityanand

Disaster by design

Karnad, Divya

Managing fisheries from a migrant perspective

Kela, Shashank

Fallow soil: bringing political economy into conservation

Negi, Rohit

At nature’s end

Oommen, Meera Anna

Friction along the fringe

Ram, N.S. Mohan

Recycling end of life vehicles

Rangarajan, Mahesh, Rinki Sarkar and Ravi Agarwal

The problem

Saikia, Arupjyoti

Nature and Assam’s present

Sridhar, Aarthi

Historicizing mutinies against nature

Unnikrishnan, Hita, B. Manjunatha and Harini Nagendra

Urban commons in a globalizing city

Vaidya, Anand

Woh jangal hamara hai

Vikas, Mayank

Reimagining aesthetics of the wild in Delhi

SEMINAR 691, March 2017; CONTAINING VIOLENCE: a symposium on why strategies of pacification are failing.

Banerjee, Prathama

State (and) violence

Banerjee, Trina Nileena

‘Carceral’ or ‘sex-positive’?

Chakraborti, Senjuti

Fantasies from the prison: thinking with the Marquis de Sade

Choudhury, Soumyabrata

The idea of terror in a world without ideas

Dasgupta, Rajarshi

On student politics, state and violence

Dhar, Anup

What if there is violence in pleasure?

Ghose, Rajarshi and Maidul Islam

Struggle in the path of Islam: three moments

Majumder, Atreyee

Secret of the hills: Temsula Ao’s account of war as landscape

Ray, Manas

The challenge of violence

Ray, Manas

The problem

Rodrigues, Edward A.

Caste and the persistence of violence

S., Santhosh

Dalitization of politics and the suicide note of Rohith Vermula

Seminarist

The missing boys of Dhaka

SEMINAR 692, April 2017; THE MODERN MAGAZINE: a symposium on the magazine in modern India, its genre, form and political space.

Banerjee, Sumanta

Dissident journalism in Bengal

Edjobe, Ntone

Music is the weapon (in conversation with Achal Prabhala)

Farooqui, Adnan

The book review at 40

Gupta, Abhijit

Bismoy, the SF magazine

Jain, Madhu

From selfie to shelfie

Ketkar, Kumar

Literature, protest and action in Maharashtra

Nair, Rukmini Bhaya

Coming of age in Delhi

Nath, Anant

Preserving space for nuance and adventure

Reddy, C. Rammanohar

EPW: the little magazine that grew up

Singh, Avtar

Slow learner

Singh, Ritu

An intellectual space

Vajpeyi, Ananya

The problem

SEMINAR 693, May 2017; DEMOCRATIC AUTHORITARIANISM: a symposium on the fusion of authoritarianism and democracy in India and the world.

Baruah, Sanjib

AFSPA: the darker side of Indian democracy

Bhagavan, Manu

The age of authoritarianism and the end of the world as we know it

Chandra, Kanchan

Authoritarian elements in democracy

Chandra, Kanchan

The problem

Deshpande, Rajeev

Modi’s compassionate conservatism

Diamond, Larry

The authoritarian temptation

Hale, Henry

What it means to rule like Putin

Harriss, John

Living under Amma

Ikegame, Aya

Moral transcendence? The guru in democracy

Malcomson, Scott

The authoritarianism of Donald Trump

Michelutti, Lucia

The cult of the boss

Vaishnav, Milan

India’s democratic marketplace for criminality

Wyatt, Andrew and C. Manikandan

Karunanidhi and Tamil politics

SEMINAR 694, June 2017; BANGA-LORE’S ‘GREAT TRANSFORMA-TION’: a symposium on urbanization, ecological change and activism.

Adavi, Lekha, Darshana Mitra and Vinay Sreenivasa

Contestations over public spaces in Bangalore

Balakrishnan, Sai

Jurisdictional arbitrage at Bengaluru’s urban/rural edge

Chandran, Pinky

Nayandahalli: transforming waste into resource

Dhananka, Swetha Rao

Evictions from and invitations to the fast city

Dutt, Neesha

Being green?

Goldman, Michael

Interview by Leo F. Saldanha

Goldman, Michael, Vinay Gidwani and Carol Upadhya

The problem

Guha, Angarika and Prashant Parvataneni

Surface tensions: art in public spaces

Idiculla, Mathew

The transformation of governance in ‘India’s silicon valley’

M., Rashmi

The ‘digital others’

Rath, Sharadini

The city as dichotomy

Sunder, Sumithra

Fighting for a public space

Thomas, Bejoy K., Sharachchandra Lele, Veena Srinivasan and Priyanka Jamwal

Rethinking resilience in urbanizing river basins

SEMINAR 695, July 2017; LIVESTOCK LANDSCAPES: a symposium on how domesticated animals shape our lives.

Ghotge, Nitya Sambamurti

The problem

Ghotge, Nitya Sambamurti

What is good about milk, meat and eggs?

Karthikeyan, Aparna

Jallikattu, local breeds and more

Köhler-Rollefson, Ilse

Shifting camel cultures

Krätli, Saverio

Pastoralist landscapes and natural resources

Lenin, Janaki

Pastoralism in the Himalaya: Tarachand’s last walk?

McHugh, Paddy and Virginia McHugh

The Australian camel landscape

Murray, L.C.

Floods and revolutions: revisiting India’s dairy sector

Palat, Anisha

Cows, bulls and calendars

Rao, Revathi

Cattle and constitutional morality

Thorat, Ovee

Shaping landscapes through development interventions

SEMINAR 696, August 2017; INDIA AT 70: a symposium on India after 70 years of independence.

Anand, S.

The exclusions my inclusion demands

Bose, Sugata

Faith in India’s destiny

Dasgupta, Swapan

Challenging the Nehruvian consensus

Gandhi, Gopalkrishna

Counterfactual history

Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis

Solving endemic problems

Khurshid, Salman

Mother India to mother cow

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu

A tryst with darkness

Rangarajan, Mahesh

Nature’s nation

Seminarist

The problem

Srinivasan, Krishnan

Reflections on Indian foreign policy

SEMINAR 697, September 2017; FOUNDING LEGACY: a symposium celebrating the life and times of the founder-editors of Seminar.

Bajpai, K. Shankar

Those were the days – or were they?

Burra, Arudra

Freedom of speech and constitutional nostalgia

Chatterjee, Ashoke

Designing a better society

da Cunha, Gerson

A good season, a liberal education

Haksar, Nandita

All for the cause

Kumar, Krishna

Proofreaders of the nation

Lateef, Shahida

A continuing struggle for democracy and secularism

Menon, A.G. Krishna

The fork in the road

Mohan, Dinesh

Activist mentors

Mukherjee, Trilokesh

Reminiscences

Nandy, Ashis

The high noon of populism

Sanghvi, Vir

The progressives of yesteryear

Singh, Malvika

From the publisher

Thapar, Valmik

A personal tribute

Visvanathan, Shiv

Romesh Thapar: a man I never met

SEMINAR 698, October 2017; REVENGE AND FORGIVENESS: a symposium on healing society after violent conflict.

Abbasi, Shama B.H.

Overcoming the binary

Bilal, Maaz Bin

What the Old Testament God never forgives

Dhawan, Sachin

Racial revenge and the anti-Mormon ban on polygamy

De Gourdon, Come Carpentier

Doing justice, praying for it or taking revenge

Jahanbegloo, Ramin

Neither victims nor executioners

Jahanbegloo, Ramin

The problem

Kirchhoff, Gerd Ferdinand

Revengeful victims?

López, Gonzalo Restrepo

Reconciliation over revenge

Pandey, Rakesh

History’s revenge, memory’s forgiveness

Rehman, Mujibur

Rereading the past, reworking the present

Visvanathan, Shiv

The truth and reconciliation commission: a different look

SEMINAR 699, November 2017; A NEW INDIA: a symposium on the current political dominance of the BJP.

Ganguly, Anirban

A refreshing narrative

Gowda, M.V. Rajeev

A counter narrative

Kailash, K.K. and Sandeep Shastri

The contest in context

Kumar, Sanjay, Jyoti Mishra and Vibha Attri

Issues, performance and personality

Neyazi, Taberez Ahmed

Social media and political polarization in India

Palshikar, Suhas and Rahul Verma

The problem

Suri, K.C. and Rahul Verma

Democratizing the BJP

Uyangoda, Jayadeva

A dystopia in the making

Yadav, Yogendra

What is to be done?

SEMINAR 700, December 2017; CONTESTING IMPUNITY: a symposium on why sexual violence on women is unaddressed.

Butalia, Urvashi, Laxmi Murthy and Navsharan Singh

The problem

Guhathakurta, Meghna

Locating sexual violence and impunity

Hossain, Hameeda

Bringing women’s lives to order

Husain, Sahba

Breaking the silence

Hussain, Neelam

Moving beyond wartime violence

Mahindaratne, Prashanthi

The Krishanthi Kumaraswamy case(interviewed by Chulani Kodikara)

Sivamohan, Sumathy

A spoonful of sugar

Tamang, Seira

Contextualizing sexual violence and impunity in Nepal

Wasti, Harihar

Forensic investigation in sexual violence in Nepal(interviewed by Laxmi Murthy)

COMMENT

Amaan Shreyas

Disruption, demarcation and disclosure (March 2017)

Vithal Rajan

Why do people revolt? (March 2017)

Atreyee Majumder

Friends and enemies (April 2017)

Vithal Rajan

Crime and punishment in Syria (May 2017)

Justin Jos

Making lives tougher (June 2017)

P. Thirumal and Carmel Christy

Universities as spaces of disaffection (June 2017)

C.P. Bhambhri

Politics of ideological contestations (October 2017)

IN MEMORIAM

Jyotirmaya Sharma

Dileep Padgaonkar 1944-2016 (February 2017)

Kumar Shahani

Adieu Dileep (February 2017)

Sasheej Hegde

Javeed Alam 1943-2016 (February 2017)

Kiran Moghe

Sulabha Brahme 1932-2016 (February 2017)

Sopan Joshi

Anupam Mishra 1948-2016 (February 2017)

SEMINAR ISSUES 2016

SEMINAR 677, January 2016; INDIA 2015: a symposium on the year that was.

Bajpai, Kanti

Modi’s foreign policy of shanti and shakti

Baruah, Sanjib

Naga peace: road ahead still uncertain

Basant, Rakesh

No escape from minorityism?

Dasgupta, Swapan

Lineages of a conservative ethic

Desai, Santosh

Market spirituality and the agents of the divine

Deshpande, Satish

Caste in and as Indian democracy

Ghose, Sagarika

Murder by media

Guruswamy, Mohan

India: a nation in search of a state

Kapur, Devesh

Exit

Krishnaswamy, Sudhir

The surprising hullabaloo over the NJAC judgment

Mathur, Vikrom

Finding middle ground in Paris

Mukul, Akshaya

Crafting a Hindu nation

Ninan, T.N.

Resetting sights

Palshikar, Suhas

The ambivalence of India’s democracy

Pande, Suchi

The non-party left’s looming ‘war of position’

Raghavan, Srinath

Decoding the emergency

Ramachandran, Vimala

The misunderstood schoolteacher

Ramanathan, Usha

Of life and death

Ramdas, Sagari

Bovine politics

Vasavi, A.R.

The culture of government schools

SEMINAR 678, February 2016; THE BIHAR BALLOT: a symposium on the 2015 Bihar assembly elections.

Bagchi, Sarthak

The political campaign

Das Gupta, Chirashree

Social contestation in post-1977 Bihar

Farooqui, Adnan

The rise, decline and revival of the RJD

Fazal, Tanweer

Migrant speak

Fazal, Tanweer

The problem

Gupta, Shaibal

Resurrecting the state

Joshi, Poornima

Caste and aspiration in Bihar

Kailash, K.K.

Mahagathbandhan: victory against the odds

Naqvi, Saba

The message in the bandobast

Sajjad, Mohammad

Muslims between the communal-secular divide

Singh, Dhrub Kumar

Bihar and the nation

Verma, Rahul

How the grand alliance won

SEMINAR 679, March 2016; FERMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: a symposium on uncertainty and hope for the region.

Allam, Nermin

Activism amidst disappointment

Badamchi, Meysam

Turkey: a reluctance to compromise

Göle, Nilüfer

Interview (by Ramin Jahanbegloo)

Hashemi, Nader

The authoritarian roots of Muslim sectarianism

Jahanbegloo, Ramin and Mehrdad Loghmani

A diplomacy of hope

Jahanbegloo, Ramin

The problem

Khouri, Rami G.

Stunted citizenship, erratic statehood

Mahdavi, Mojtaba

The old is dying

Toscano, Roberto

From hope to chaos and back?

Vahabzadeh, Peyman

Sites of collective action

Vahdat, Farzin

Iran: some unintended consequences

SEMINAR 680, April 2016; SASIAN JOURNEY: a symposium on energizing a shared regional legacy.

Ahuja, Naman P.

Saving the South Asian antiques

Akoijam, A. Bimol

The marginal others and their aspirations

Asian Heritage Foundation Collective

The problem

Bhatt, Mihir

Disasters: a creative moment

Desai, Vishakha

Museums for a stable South Asia

Dixon, Annette

The challenge of economic integration

Gokhale, Namita and Malashri Lal

Beyond borders, across boundaries

Haroon, Hameed

To be Sasian

Marium, Lubna

Performing transformation

Massoudi, Omara Khan and Qudsia Zohab

Voices from Afghanistan

Nanda, Ratish

Conservation and communities

Nandy, Ashis

Politics of cultural survival

Narain, Sunita

Water conservation: a dying wisdom

Rai, Gurmeet S.

Grand Trunk Road

Sethi, Rajeev

Create in Sasia!

Shiva, Vandana

Diversity, empowerment and resilience

Wattal, Ameeta Mulla and Ankush Seth

Pedagogy and evolving knowledge systems

SEMINAR 681, May 2016; NOURISHING TRIBALS: a symposium on nutrition sensitive practices in Schedule V states of India.

Agnihotri, Satish B.

The ‘Lagaan’ approach

Atkuri, Ramani

Creches in tribal areas

Daniel, Abner E.

The challenge of delivery in extremism affected areas

Jain, Sachin Kumar

Malnutrition, tribes and media

Joshi, Rajashree

A farming systems approach

Krishna, Vandana

The Maharashtra nutrition mission

Madiath, Joe and Gobinda Dalai

A total sanitation initiative

Mahapatra, Saroj

Layering nutrition in agriculture

Mebrahtu, Saba

Interview

Mohan, Pavitra and Akanksha Dutta

Improving primary health care

Mukherjee, Rohini, J.C. Reddy and Manish Raikar

Malnutrition-free enclaves

Ojha, Arvind

Addressing water scarcity: the Urmul experience

Sarangi, Debjeet, Bihitra Biswal and Pradeep Patra

Forests as a food producing habitat

Saxena, N.C.

An effective bureaucracy

Sethi, Vani and Akanksha Dutta

The problem

Siddharth V. Patel

Improving drinking water services

Tripathy, Prasanta

Role of NGOs

SEMINAR 682, June 2016; CHANGING COUNTRYSIDE: a symposium on the shifting contours of the rural landscape.

Basu, Sudeep

Diasporic giving and village transformations

Karnena, Ravindra

A curriculum for agrarian sociology

Kumar, Satendra

Emergence of new sociality and communal violence

Kumar, Sujit

Revisiting anti-dispossession resistance movements

Prasad, C. Shambu and Pratyaya Jagannath

Can the ‘big’ learn from the ‘small’?

Roy, Dayabati

Employment, rights and hegemony

Sampat, Preeti

India’s land impasse

Vasavi, A.R. and M. Vijayabaskar

The problem

Vijayabaskar, M.

Populism and collective action

Vijayshankar, P.S.

Regional inequality: a long view

Vijendra, Ramakant Yadav, Narendra Singh Parma, Rajeev Chandel and Vijay Singh

Farmers’ voices: the state of agriculture

Zeya, Sharib

Ownership by all means

SEMINAR 683, July 2016; THE ROAD FROM PARIS: a symposium on the new architecture of climate governance.

Alic, John

Energy-climate innovation

Chan, Sander

Climate action beyond mitigation and the global North

Coninck, Heleen de

A matter of capabilities

Fry, Ian

Implications for adaptation, loss and damage

Mathur, Vikrom and Aniruddh Mohan

Building trust and legitimacy

Mathur, Vikrom

The problem

Patwardhan, Anand

The technology challenge

Rayner, Steve

Future directions

Tao, Wang

Energy transitions in China

Weinfurter, Amy

Contextualizing and linking climate commitments

SEMINAR 684, August 2016; MEASURING DEMOCRACY: a symposium on the state of election surveys in India.

Heath, Oliver

The UK experience

Hillygus, D. Sunshine and Brian Guay

Polling in the United States

Joshi, Dhananjai and Sam Solomon

The business of polling

Karandikar, Rajeeva

Forecasting models

Kumar, Sanjay, Raveen Rai and Pranav Gupta

Do surveys influence results?

Manor, James

Opinion surveys at and between elections

Nooruddin, Irfan

Building better surveys

Quraishi, S.Y.

Myths and realities

Sardesai, Rajdeep

Elections, exit polls and electronic media

Sircar, Neelanjan and Milan Vaishnav

Exploiting survey data

Suri, K.C. and K.K. Kailash

Engaging with Indian politics

Verma, Rahul

The problem

Zechmeister, Elizabeth J.

Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

SEMINAR 685, September 2016; FUTURE SENSE: a symposium on evolving a new planetary scheme of living.

Alvares, Claude

Nature’s intelligence and development options

Dadhich, Naresh

In the public interest

deSouza, Peter Ronald

Recalibrating the way we live

Ganju, Vijay

Health and climate change

Khosla, Romi

The shape of things to come

Mahajan, Swadesh

A broad-brush story of energy

Nair, Ranjit

Natural philosophy and identity

Nanjundiah, Vidyanand

Can we behave altruistically?

Padaki, Vijay

What do we actually do?

Parikh, Sanjay

Nature’s rights

Singh, Diwan

From activism to holism

Soni, Vikram

The problem

SEMINAR 686, October 2016; PEDAGOGY OF DISSENT: a symposium on the cultures of freedom and dissent in the world of learning.

Amin, Shahid

The pedagogy of nationalism

Bharucha, Rustom

Performing dissent

Dalmia, Vasudha

Resisting Hindutva

Dasgupta, Probal

Meta-verbal harassment and the idea of the university

deSouza, Peter Ronald

Freedom speak

Geetha, V.

Quiet pedagogy

Jaaware, Aniket

Academic freedom and the humanities

Krishna, T.M.

Learning and knowledge

Pandey, Rakesh

The problem

Prasad, M. Madhava

Education for democracy

Suhrud, Tridip

Conscience, the source of dissent

SEMINAR 687, November 2016; DIGITAL DIVIDEND: a symposium on the potential benefits of new technologies.

Anand, Rajiv

Disruptive technology and the financial sector

Bajaj, Kamlesh

The challenge of cyber security

Basheer, Shamnad

Break in India

Gupta, Apar

The constitutional basis for internet freedom

Mathai, Anahita

Internet challenges

Misra, R.K.

Technology, city planning and job creation

Padmanabhan, Ananth

The problem

Pai, Mohandas and Pranav Pai

Disrupting education

Prasad M., Deva

Emergence of nanotechnology in India

Reddy, R. Shashank

Civilian drones in India

Shaw, Kiran Mazumdar

Meeting India’s healthcare challenges

Sood, Rakesh

New technologies and arms control

Subramanian, Balaji

Updating Indian copyright law

Suri, Anirudh

Funding innovative technologies

SEMINAR 688, December 2016; FASHION FORWARD: a symposium on the evolution of our fashion industry.

Abraham, David

More questions than answers

Bidappa, Prasad

The problem

Bopanna, Devaiah

Industry malfunction

De, Shobhaa

Fashion in the time of malaria

Jay, Phyllida

Disruptive Indian fashion: a global conversation

Jha, Srishti

Coping with changing fashion

Kaul, Mayank Mansingh

Autonomy in fashion

Patel, Divia

Exhibiting fashion: India in London

Rodricks, Wendell

Everybody wants to clothe the world

Sagar, Hemant

The world today

Varma, Meher

On stage and under the table

REPORT

Seminarist

Report on democratic dynasties (October 2016)

COMMENT

Hegde, Sasheej

At the heart of the storm (March 2016)

Susan Visvanathan

Sundarbans (June 2016)

Ghosh, Partha S.

How not to run an organization (June 2016)

FURTHER READING

Abhay Kumar

The Bihar Ballot (February 2016)

Seminarist

Changing Countryside (June 2016)

Pranav Gupta

Measuring Democracy (August 2016)

IN MEMORIAM

Ananya Vajpeyi

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph 1930-2015 (February 2016)

Saleem Kidwai

Ram Advani 1920-2016 (April 2016)

Vimala Ramachandran

Anita Kaul 1954-2016 (November 2016)

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. 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. 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

605. India 2009 606. Climate Change Conundrum 607. Red Resurgence 608. The Enduring Epic 609. Fashioning Style 610. Living Together 611. Soldiers and States 612. Karnataka Vignettes 613. Nature Without Borders 614. The Pursuit of Happiness 615. We the People 616. From Protest to Politics

617. India 2010 618. Social Transformations 619. Women and Peace 620. States in Transition 621. Minorities and Pluralism 622. Dynasty 623. The Nation and its Poet 624. Democratizing Knowledge 625. Combating Corruption 626. Shades of Blue 627. Partnerships in Education 628. Dillee Meri Jaan

629. India 2011 630. The Lusosphere 631. Shot in the Arm 632. A Country of Our Own 633. Caste Matters 634. Ending Hunger 635. Urban Transformations 736. Streetscapes 637. God’s Own Country 638. Inclusive Classrooms 639. Institutional Legacy 640. Assam: Unstable Peace

641. India 2012 642. Constitutional Challenges 643. Eye on Kashmir 644. Tibet Burning 645. Bengal Blues 646. Politics in Our Times 647. The Indian Consumer 648. Safe Cities 649. Living Together 650.Cyber Security 651. Hasti 652. Cashing Waters

653. India 2013 654. State of Science 655. Digital debates 656. A polity in flux 657. Celebrating City Spaces 658. External engagements 659 Inheritances 660. Cultural Capital 661. The Malnourished Tribal 662. Thinking of Gandhi 663. From the Margins 664. Decoding Pakistan

665. India 2014 666. Remembering Ananthamurthy 667. Fredom and Faith 668. India in a Changing World 669. Reforming Labour Laws 670. Asia’s Waters 671. What We Knew 672. Exclusion, Discrimination, Disparity 673. Nature and History 674. State of Democracy 675. Make in India 676. Why Dance?

677. India 2015 678. The Bihar Ballot 679. Ferment in the Middle East 680. Sasian Journey 681. Nourishing Tribals 682. Changing Countryside 683. The Road From Paris 684. Measuring Democracy 685. Future Sense 686. Pedagogy of Dissent 687. Digital Dividend 688. Fashion Forward