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SEMINAR ISSUES 2000

SEMINAR 485: January 2000;
INDIA 1999
:
a symposium on the year that was

Bakshi, Rajni

Four stories and a question

D’Souza, Dilip

Poverty in the conversions debate

Dixit, J.N.

Knowing the general

Kannan, K.P.

People’s planning, Kerala’s dilemma

Karnad, Bharat

A sucker’s payoff

Khare, Harish

Hamara Vajpayee

Kumar, Radha

A new beginning?

Mohan, Rakesh

A speculative gaze

Murthy, N.R. Narayana

Values first (Interview by Naazneen Karmali)

Ninan, T.N.

An Indian century?

Ollapally, Deepa

India’s security environment

Orbinski, James

Ethics of humanitarianism

Rangarajan, Mahesh

Hindutva’s ‘accursed problem’

Sanghvi, Vir

Bofors’ ghost

Thapar, Valmik

Violating India’s natural treasures

Vanaik, Achin

Since the Pokhran tests

Varshney, Ashutosh

Deeper but unfinished

Visvanathan, Susan

Workers of the sea

Vittal, N.

Combatting corruption

 

SEMINAR 486: February 2000

ENVIRONMENT: MYTH AND REALITY

a symposium re-evaluating some prevailing beliefs

Agarwal, Anil

Interview

Brower, Barbara

Environmental crisis in Nepal

Fairhead, James and Melissa Leach

Webs of power: forest loss in Guinea

Heimsath, Arjun M.

Himalayan erosion

Lele, Sharachchandra and Vasant K. Saberwal

The problem

Lele, Sharachchandra

Degradation, sustainability or transformation?

Moench, Marcus

India’s groundwater challenge

Patwardhan, Anand

Global warming and India

Raffles, Hugh

The Amazon: a natural landscape?

Raman, T.R. Shankar

Jhum: shifting opinions

Saberwal, Vasant K.

Ecological uncertainty, institutions and myths

Turner, Matthew

Misunderstandings of Sahelian land use ecology

 

SEMINAR 487: March 2000

LOOKING EAST

a symposium on the need to refocus our foreign policy

Acharya, Alka

A measured tread to the future

Baru, Sanjaya

The problem

Jaishankar, S.

India-Japan relations after Pokharan II

Jayanth, V.

The political dimensions

Mohan, C. Raja

The Asian balance of power

Rahman, Yusuf Rehan

Sino-Japan relations and India

Ram, A.N.

Historical perspectives

Rao, V.V. Bhanoji

Asean after the crisis

Sen, Chiranjib

Globalization, India and East Asia

Singh, Jasjit

Our eastern neighbour

Suryanarayan, V.

Prospects for a Bay of Bengal community

 

SEMINAR 488: April 2000

AGEING
:
a symposium on the greying of our society.

 
The problem

The problem

Bose, Ashish

Demographic transition

Detha, Vijay Dan and Komal Kothari

Omission-commission transcreated by Mohmaya)

Joshi, P.C. and S.N. Sengupta

Health issues

Kishore, Smita

Ageing pains

Sabharwal, M.M.

Interview (by Mala K. Shankardass)

Shankardass, Mala Kapur

Societal responses

Srivastava, Vinay Kumar

Ageism

Sujaya, C.P.

National policy on older persons

Talib, Mohammad

The last scene

Willigen, John van

Social ageing in India and America

 

 

 
SEMINAR 489: May 2000

UNHEALTHY TRENDS

a symposium on the state of our pubic health system

 

 

The problem

Bandewar, Sunita

Unsafe abortion

Banerjee, Madhulika

Whither indigenous medicine

Baru, Rama V.

Privatisation and corporatisation

Duggal, Ravi

Where are we today?

Phadke, Anant

End of drug control?

Ramachandran, Vimala

A perspective on reforms

Ravindran, T.K. Sundari

Engendering health

Visaria, Leela

Innovations in Tamil Nadu

 

 

SEMINAR 490: June 2000; AFRICAN TRANSITIONS: a symposium on the continent’s engagement with democracy.

 

Abdul-Raheem, Tajudeen

Globalisation and recolonisation

Agbese, Pita Ogaba

The politics of stable civil-military relations

Fayemi, J. ’Kayode

Security challenges

Friedman, Steven

Do South Africans value democracy?

Ihonvbere, Julius O.

The state, constitutionalism and democratization

Kalu, Anthonia C.

Women in African literature

Mbaku, John Mukum

Minority rights in plural societies

Mvuyekure, Pierre-Damien

From idealism to genocide

Parmar, Chandrika

The problem

Pereira, Charmaine

Feminist knowledge

 

 

SEMINAR 491: July 2000; STREET VENDORS: a symposium on reconciling people’s livelihood and urban governance.

 

The Problem

The problem

Bhatt, Ela R.

Interview (by Mirai Chatterjee)

Bhowmik, Sharit K.

A raw deal?

da Cunha, Gerson

Steering clear of icebergs

Ghosh, Shaktiman

A question of survival

Jhabvala, Renana

Roles and perceptions

Kanth, Amod K.

Vendors, police and governance

Sharma, R.N.

The politics of urban space

Singh, Arbind

Organizing street vendors

Tiwari, Geetam

Encroachers or service providers?

 

SEMINAR 492: August 2000; PROTECTING NATURE: a symposium on some legal issues concerning the environment.

 

Batra, Manjula

Water rights

C. Surendranath

Justice denied

Dave, S.D.

Musings of a green judge

Dhavan, Rajeev

The wealth of nations revisited

Divan, Shyam

Legislative framework and judicial craftsmanship

Goenka, Debi

Fragile coastline

Krishnan, B.J.

Customary law

Kulkarni, Sharad

The plight of the tribal

Panjwani, Raj

Rights and duties

Sarkar, Sarbani

Settling rights

Sarkar, Sarbani

The problem

Sinha, Prabhas C.

International obligations

 

 

SEMINAR 493: September 2000; REDESIGNING CURRICULA: a symposium on working a framework for school education.

 

Dhankar, Rohit

On curriculum framework

Kumar, Krishna

The problem

Nambissan, Geetha B.

Dealing with deprivation

Rathnam, Aruna

Common curriculum for a democracy?

Sarangapani, Padma M.

The great Indian tradition

Saxena, Sadhna

Looking at literacy

Sinha, Shobha

Acquiring literacy in schools

Talib, Mohammad

The granite reading of a rainbow

Vasavi, A.R.

The ‘community gap’ in primary education

 

SEMINAR 494: October 2000; UNVIABLE UNIVERSITIES: a symposium on the crisis in higher education.

 

The Problem

The problem

Abraham, Itty

International trends

Indiresan, P.V.

W(h)ither IITs

Kaul, Rekha

Whither equity?

Khan, A. Majeed

Encouraging private initiatives

Kumaradoss, Vincent

Autonomy: the MCC experience

Lal, C.K.

Continuing confusion in Nepal

Lukose, Ritty

Private-public divides

Menon, A.G. Krishna

Educating the architect

Varghese, N.V.

Reforming educational financing

 

 

SEMINAR 495: November 2000; SITUATING SOCIOLOGY: a symposium on knowledge, institutions and practices in a discipline.

 

Beteille, Andre

Teaching and research

Burman, B.K. Roy

Frozen ice and a silent spring

Deshpande, Satish, Nandini Sundar and Patricia Uberoi

The problem

Oommen, T.K.

Professionals without professionalism?

Rege, Sharmila

Histories from the borderlands

Saberwal, Satish

On crossing boundaries

Shah, A.M.

Sociology in a regional context

Singh, K. Suresh

A perspecitive on the ASI

Srivastava, Vinay K.

Teaching anthropology

Uberoi, Patricia

Deja vu?

 

 

SEMINAR 496: December 2000; FRAMEWORKS FOR PEACE: a symposium on efforts to broker peace in Kashmir.

 

The Problem

The problem

Ahmed, Eqbal

Beyond mutual destruction

Bhagat, Pamela

Voices (interviews)

Chenoy, Kamal Mitra

Report

Chowdhary, Rekha

Debating automomy

Guelke, Adrian

The international system and the Irish peace process

Kumar, Radha

Learning from others

Malik, Baljit

A Kashmiri lament

Mattoo, Amitabh

Towards a peace process

Seminarist

Placing people at the centre

Syed, Firdous

Sharing dreams

Tyabji, Nasir

Reportage

 

FURTHER READING

 

Looking East, #487

487, March 2000

Ageing, #488

488, April 2000

Unheathy Trends, #489

489, May 2000

Street Vendors, #491

491, July 2000

Redesigning Curricula, #493

493, September 2000

Unviable Universities, #494

494, October 2000

Situating Sociology

495, November 2000

Frameworks for Peace

496, December 2000

 

COMMENT

 

Nandini Sundar, #488

Activism and academic angst (April 2000)

Primila Lewis, #489

Jammu journey (May 2000)

Indu Agnihotri, #490

Crossborder exchanges (June 2000)

Dunu Roy, #491

People and planning (July 2000)

Baljit Malik, #492

In praise of life, liberation and freedom (August 2000)

Prasenjit Maiti, #493

Violence of politics and the politics of violence (September 2000)

Sailendra Nath Ghosh, #493

Fundamentals of nature protection (September 2000)

Alok Rai, #494

Giving values a bad name (October 2000)

Ardhendu Senm #494

Industry at the crossroads (October 2000)

Latha Govindan, #495

Transacting sociology at the school level (November 2000)

Rohan D’Souza, #496

Why Ambedkerites should be against large dams (December 2000)

 

 

SEMINAR ISSUES FROM 1959 ONWARDS

 

1959

1. The Party in Power 2. Food for Forty Crores 3. Freedom and Planning 4. The Changing Village

 

1960

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

 

1961

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

 

1962

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

 

1963

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

 

1964

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

 

1965

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

 

1966

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

 

1967

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

 

1968

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

 

1969

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

 

1970

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

 

1971

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

 

1972

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

 

1973

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

 

1974

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

 

1975

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

 

1976

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

 

1977

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

 

1978

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

 

1979

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

 

1980

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

 

1981

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

 

1982

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

 

1983

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

 

1984

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

 

1985

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

 

1986

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

 

1987

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

 

1988

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

 

1989

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

 

1990

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

 

1991

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

 

1992

389. India 1991 390. Making Waves 391. The Linguistic 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

 

1993

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

 

1994

413. India 1993 414. Managing Energy 415. Future of the Mind 416. Islam 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

 

1995

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

 

1996

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

 

1997

449. India 1996 450. The State of Bihar 451. Demo-cracy 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

 

1998

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

 

1999

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

 

2000

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

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