SEMINAR ISSUES 2003
SEMINAR 521: January 2003; INDIA 2002: a symposium on the year that was.
Austin, Granville	Comparative frames
Chhokar, Jagdeep S.	Reforming the electoral system
D’Souza, Dilip	The burden of cricket
Desai, Ashok V.	The clash of generations
Gandhi, Sonia	Conflict and coexistence in our age
Ghosh, Sailendra Nath	The millennial folly
Goswami, Omkar	When will we get a comparative perspective?
Guha Thakurta, Paranjoy	The two faces of Dhirubhai Ambani
Haksar, Nandita and K. Sanjay Singh	December 13
Haldea, Gajendra	Salvage reforms
Khare, Harish	After Gujarat
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu	Passion and constraint
Ninan, T.N.	Recoverytime
Parekh, Bhikhu	Some reflections on the Hindu theory of tolerance
Rangarajan, Mahesh	Congress in crisis
Sainath, P.	Nero’s guests
Sanghvi, Vir	Inventing our own model
Surendra, Pushpa	A farmer’s perspective
Thapar, Romila	In defence of history
Thapar, Valmik	Making a difference
Varshney, Ashutosh	South Asia and the war on terror
SEMINAR 522: February 2003; REWRITING HISTORY: a symposium on ways of representing our shared past.
Bhargava, Rajeev	Community sentiment and the teaching of history
Bhattacharya, Neeladri	The problem
Chatterjee, Partha	History and the domain of the popular
Datta, Pradeep Kumar	Hindutva and its ‘mhystory’
Ganesh, M.S., Rabindra K. Hazari and Shereen Ratnagar	Archaeological evidence as legal evidence
Kumar, Krishna	Peace with the past
Kumar, Nita	History at the madrasas
Ray, Kumkum	The new NCERT textbooks
Sarkar, Sumit	The limits of nationalism
Sarkar, Tanika	Historical pedagogy of the sangh parivar
Sivaramakrishnan, K.	Nationalism and the writing of environmental histories
Subramaniam, C.N. and Rashmi Paliwal	Teaching history: exploring alternatives
SEMINAR 523: March 2003; CELEBRATING CRAFT: a symposium on the state of handicrafts.
Ameta, H.R.	Census
Baxter, Maggie	Threads of life
Bhagirathy, Aparna and Nirmal Sengupta	Surviving in a globalizing world
Frater, Judy	In the eye of the artisan
Housego, Jenny	Market realities
Jain, L.C.	Securing their future
Jaitly, Jaya	New paths
Jongeward, Carolyn and Ashoke Chatterjee	Route to self-reliance
Kak, Krishen	Cultural genocide?
Ramaswamy, Vijaya	Through history
Tyabji, Laila	The problem
Uzramma	Rethinking handloom
Venkatesan, Soumhya	Choosing a livelihood
SEMINAR 524: April 2003; IMAGININGFUTURES: a symposium on rethinking thinking.
Bajpai, Rochana	Values in political rhetoric
Basu, Karna	A shot in time
Ghosh, Arunabha	Thinking like us
Hebbar, Ritambhara	From resistance to governance
Kar, Bodhisattva	Imagining post-India histories
Narrain, Arvind	Queer people and the law
Sagar, Rahul	The problem
Tellis, Ashley	Ways of becoming
SEMINAR 525: May 2003; UNSETTLING CINEMA: a symposium on the place of cinema in India.
Das, Veena	The small community of love
Hughes, Stephen P.	Pride of place
Liang, Lawrence	Conceptualizing law and culture
Malhotra, Bal Kishen and Bhrigupati Singh	A life in the theatre
Mazumdar, Ranjani	The Bombay film poster
Menon, Dilip	The kiss and Bhagat Singh
Prasad, Madhava	This thing called bollywood
Sharma, Aparna	India’s experience with the multiplex
Singh, Bhrigupati	The problem
Srinivas, S.V.	Film culture, politics and industry
Vasudevan, Ravi	Cinema in urban space
SEMINAR 526: June 2003; A PARTY IN WAITING: a symposium on the prospects of the Congress Party.
	The problem
Aiyar, Mani Shankar	Can the Congress find a future?
Ansari, Sahabzada Yusuf Ahmad	Bridging the divide
Dixit, J.N.	Ensuring good neighbourliness
Jerath, Arati R.	Learning to communicate
Khare, Harish	Reloading the family matrix
Khurshid, Salman	A sleeping giant
Luce, Edward	A matter of faith
Manor, James	Organizational renewal
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu	Congress, secularism and freedom
Seminarist	A timeline of Congress history
Sharma, Jyotirmaya	Challenging Hindutva
Yadav, Yogendra	The new Congress voter
SEMINAR 527: July 2003; THE GREAT GAME:a symposium on the fallouts of the war on Iraq.
	The problem
Dias, Clarence	War on the UN and international law
Fuad, Muhammad	Limits to Islamic radicalism in Indonesia
Kushakoji, Kinhide	Resisting hegemony
Mohamad, Goenawan	The war on Iraq
Muzaffar, Chandra	Hegemonic terror
Rocamora, Joel	The Philippines under pox Amerikana
Varadarajan, Siddharth	Eight theses on the war in Iraq
SEMINAR 528: August 2003; CITY OF DREAMS: a symposium on the many facets of Bombay.
	The problem
Ahmadullah, Saleem A.	Unseen, under our noses
da Cunha, Gerson	Decline of a great city
Gandhy, Kekoo	The beginnings of the art movement
Godrej, Pheroza	A community at the crossroads
Guzder, Cyrus	The free for all city
Lalkaka, Ratan K.	Matheran
Loyd, Anabel	An expat’s eye
Mehta, Nuvart Parseghian	A long life
Mehta, Suketu	Runaway: a chronicle of metropolitan transience
Mehta, Vinod	A private view
Pendse, Sandeep	The under, the over, and the middle world
Piramal, Gita	Big business and entrepreneurship
Prakash, Gyan	Blitz’s Bombay
Sabavala, Jehangir	A rebel with many causes
SEMINAR 529: September 2003; EMPIRE: a symposium on the emerging world order.
	The problem
Alexiev, Alex	Rogue state or indispensable nation
Ge, Sun	The habit of thinking
Hurd, The Rt Hon Lord Douglas	Europe and the super power
Kadirgamar, Lakshman	The world order after Iraq
Karamat, Jehangir	American primacy and South Asia
Karnad, Bharat	Insensible foreign and military policy
Mallavarapu, Siddharth	Because of America
Mohan, C. Raja	India and the new world order
Perkovich, George	The measure of India: what makes greatness?
Sudarshan, R.	Justice in an interventionist era
Tharoor, Shashi	Saving humanity from hell
SEMINAR 530: October 2003; RESTORATION AND RENEWAL: a symposium on preserving our cultural heritage.
	The problem
Baig, Amita	Managing cultural significance
Engelhardt, Richard A.	Developing local capacities
Feilden, Sir Bernard	Interview
Gahilote, Prarthna	A monumental scandal
Khosla, Romi	Unfreedoms to invent our past
Mehrotra, Rahul	Learning from Mumbai
Menon, A.G. Krishna	The case for an Indian charter
Nayak, Debashish	Revitalising our walled cities
Savyasaachi	Conflicts and conservation
Wijesuriya, Gamini	Restoring destroyed historic sites
SEMINAR 531: November 2003; FOOTLOOSE LABOUR: a symposium on livelihood struggles of the informal workforce.
Antony, Piush	Of beginnings, means and ends
Breman, Jan	Coping with impoverishment
Chen, MarthaAlter	Rethinking the informal economy
Dasgupta, Sukti	Growth, informality and insecurity
Jhabvala, Renana	Liberalization and women
Nanavaty, Reema	Women agriculture workers
Rothboeck, Sandra and Vinita S.	Enhancing skills
Sethi, Harsh	The problem
Sudarshan, Ratna M.	Communities and collective security
Sundar, K.R. Shyam	Organizing the unorganized
Unni, Jeemol and Uma Rani	Gender, informality and poverty
SEMINAR 532: December 2003; ABORTION: a symposium on the multiple facets of medical termination of pregnancy.
	The problem
Barge, Sandhya, Wajahat Ullah Khan, Seema Narvekar and Yamini Venkatachalam	Accessibility and utilization
Bharathi, Veena	A note
Duggal, Ravi	Abortion economics
Ganatra, Bela	Coercion, control or choice?
George, Alex	From decoctions to instruments
Hirve, Siddhi	Policy and practice
Iyengar, Sudarshan	Ensuring ethics
Johnston, Heidi Bart	Safe and accessible: strategizing the future
Mallik, Rupsa	Negative choice
Radkar, Anjali	Family matters
Ramachandran, Vimala	Managing abortion research
Tewari, Sudha	A provider’s perspective
Visaria, Leela	The missing girls
FURTHER READING
Rewriting History	February 2003
Celebrating Craft	March 2003
Unsettling Cinema	May 2003
Abortion	December 2003
COMMENT
A. Raghuramaraju	Gujarat and Gandhi (February 2003)
Susan Visvanathan	Wide sargasso sea (March 2003)
Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian	The India-Pakistan conflict (March 2003)
Richard Falk and David Krieger	Iraq and the failure of democracy (March 2003)
R. Uma Maheshwari	Adivasi people’s movements (March 2003)
Jayaprakash Narayan	National campaign for electoral reforms (April 2003)
J.B. D’Souza	The police menance in a democracy’ (April 2003)
Sanjaya Baru	Altering the state of expectations (June 2003)
Harsh Sethi	Reserved futures (June 2003)
Emma Williams	The reek of injustice (June 2003)
Avni Amin	India’s AIDS control programme (July 2003)
Dilip D’Souza	Welcome to indifference (July 2003)
Dilip D’Souza	Investigative journalism: not dead yet(September 2003)
Jai Sen	Are other worlds possible? (October 2003)
Gangeya Mukherji	A philosophy for disarmament? (December 2003)
IN MEMORIAM
Jyotirmaya Sharma	Bhishma Sahni 1915-2003 (August 2003)

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 45. 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: 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

 

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. 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

 

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

 

2001

497. India 2000 498. Markets in Motion 499. Wastelands 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

 

2002

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.

 

2003

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