symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• A RADICAL AGENDA FOR POLITICAL REFORMS
  Yogendra Yadav, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• CLEANSING POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
  Steven I. Wilkinson, Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

• REFORMING POLITICAL FINANCE
  E. Sridharan, University of Pennsylvania, Institute for the Advanced Study of India, Delhi

• ENSURING REPRESENTATION
  Iqbal A. Ansari, former Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Visiting Professor, Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard, Delhi

• DISTORTED VERDICTS
  Jayprakash Narayan, former civil servant, Campaign Coordinator, Lok Satta, Hyderabad

• POPULATION CHANGE AND THE DEMOCRATIC STRUCTURE
  Alistair McMillan, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK

• WHOSE REPRESENTATIVE?
  Peter Ronald deSouza, Lokniti and Goa University, Panaji

• INTERVIEW 
  Wirth M.S. Gill, former Chief Election Commissioner, Delhi

• IS ELECTORAL AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORM THE ANSWER? 
  Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Professor of Philosophy, Jawaharlal University, Delhi

• TOWARDS A HIGH ENERGY DEMOCRACY
  Roberto M. Unger, Professor of Law, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Sanjay Mishra, Mahesh Rangarajan, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Seminarist, Partha S. Ghosh and Harish Khare

• EXTRACT
  Jayprakash Narayan (JP), "A Plea for the Reconstruction of the Indian Polity"

• A VOICE OF REASON
  Edward Said, Professor, Columbia University, NY, interviewed by Rahul Sagar, Michael von Clemm Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge

• COMMUNICATION
  Received from Tamim Ansari, Afghan-American writer, USA

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