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SEMINAR ISSUES 2004

SEMINAR 533: January 2004; INDIA 2003: a symposium on the year that was.

Bajpai, Kanti

Back to the future?

Banerjee, Sumanta

In search of the ‘Gandiva’

Dasgupta, Swapan

Whatever happened to Hindutva?

Haksar, Nandita

The many faces of nationalism

James, George A.

In conversation (with Sunderlal Bahuguna)

Kathuria, Poonam

Ensuring gender justice

Khare, Harish

Waiting for the Atal decade

Khilnani, Sunil

Branding India

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

The maturing voter?

Ninan, T.N.

The colours of the rainbow

Rangarajan, Mahesh

Advantage Vajpayee

Roy, Dunu

From home to estate

Sainath, P.

The globalisation of inequality

Samaddar, Ranabir

In life, in death

Sanghvi, Vir

The paradoxes of Tehelka

Sardesai, Rajdeep

Drawing a Ram-rekha

Sharma, Jyotirmaya

The Islamic mirror of Hindutva

Swami, Praveen

Kashmir: through the looking glass

SEMINAR 534: February 2004; BEYOND THE VERDICT: a symposium on electoral verdicts and democratic outcomes.

 

The problem

Alam, Javeed

The rhetoric of development

Daga, Mahesh

Is the party over?

Khera, Reetika

Monitoring disclosures

Kumar, Sanjay

A tale of three cities

Kumar, Sunil

Fruits of megalomania

Manor, James

Congress defeat in MP

Mrug, Jai

Dynamics of electoral victories

Mudgal, Vipul

Losing a winning hand

Pai, Sudha

Choices before the BSP

Sivaramakrishnan, K.C.

Delhi election watch

Yadav, Yogendra

Open contest, closed options

SEMINAR 535:March 2004; CHANGING CHENNAI: a symposium on the queen of the Coromandel.

 

The problem

Bail, Scharada

Weird, warped, or plain wonderful?

Baskaran, S. Theodore

Turtles and antelopes

Doctor, Geeta

Virtual reality

Doshi, Tishani

The Madras syndrome

Murari, Timeri N.

New wine in the old bottle

Muthiah, S.

First city of modern India

Padmanabhan, Mukund

A politics of retribution

Ramnarayan, V.

Curdrice cricket

Rangan, Baradwaj

Two people, one industry

Sriram, V.

The music season

Thiagarajan, Deborah

Chennai:Madras

Varma, Shreekumar

Madras in words

SEMINAR 536: April 2004; ARE WE LEARNING?: a symposium on ensuring quality elementary education.

 

The problem

Banerji, Rukmini

Field notes

Banerji, Rukmini, Madhav Chavan and Usha Rane

Learning to read

Giridhar, S.

The learning guarantee programme

Jain, Sharada

In search of quality

Jandhyala, Kameshwari

Field notes

Jhingran, Dhir

Beyond resources

Kaur, Gurveen

Rethinking schooling

Mahapatra, Amukta

Transformation or tinkering?

Nambissan, Geetha B.

Integrating gender concerns

Ramachandran, Vimala

The best of times, the worst of times

Rampal, Anita

Unpacking the ‘quality’ of schools

Rao, Padmanabha, Radhika Herzberger and Rajan Chandy

Reaching for quality in the countryside

Sinha, Amarjeet

Is it really possible?

Vasavi, A.R.

In the labyrinth of the education bureaucracy

SEMINAR 537: May 2004; INDIA SHINING: a symposium on gainers, losers and development performance.

 

The problem

Baru, Rama

Abdicating responsibility

Dev, S. Mahendra

Post-reform regional variations

Kannan, K.P.

Shining socio-spatial disparities

Mecklai, Jamal

It’s time to disco

Nathan, Dev

The future of indigenous peoples

Papola, T.S. and Alakh N. Sharma

Labour: down and out?

Prakash, Aseem

Is civil society the panacea?

Sen, Abhijit

‘Shining’ in rural India

Sen, Gita

Whither women’s health

Seth,Suhel

Taking the shine off India

SEMINAR 538: June 2004; THE DIASPORA: a symposium on Indian-Americans and the motherland.

 

The problem

Budhos, Marina

Living the American dream

Dahejia, Vidya

Arts and the diaspora

Desai, Sonalde and Rahul Kanakia

Profile of a diasporic community

Deshpande, Shekhar

Whose identity is it anyway?

Hathaway, Robert M.

Washington’s new strategic partnership

Kamdar, Mira

Lights, camera, action

Kapur, Devesh

Firm opinions, infirm facts

Kumar, Amitava

Lunch with a bigot

Lal, Vinay

Labour and longing

Prashad, Vijay

Dusra Hindustan

Puri, Rajika

Constricting hybridity

Ray, Sangeeta

Through the looking glass

SEMINAR 539: July 2004; A MANDATE FOR CHANGE: a symposium on the 2004 general elections.

 

The problem

Ansari, Sahabzada Yusuf Ahmad

What lies beneath

Banerjee, Sumanta

Journalism as hagiography

Chandra, Kanchan

Elections as auctions

Chatterjee, Manini

The debacle and after

Guruswamy, Mohan

Reality and perception

Kumar, Kuldeep

Divisive and fractured

Mehta, Pratap Bhanu

The end of charisma?

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu

Left luggage

Narayan, Jayaprakash

Representational legitimacy and electoral reforms

Sainath, P.

Post-poll trauma and the end of analysis

Sarangi, Asha

Ritual of political rhetoric

SEMINAR 540; August 2004: CELEBRATING WOMEN: a symposium on women who made a difference.

 

The problem

Ali, Subhashini

A life in service

Devy, Ganesh N.

The adivasi Mahashweta

Gandhi, Gopal

A song sung true

George, T.J.S.

Why Nargis matters

Khilnani, Sunil

Looking for Indira Gandhi

Kidwai, Saleem

The singing ladies find a voice

Kothari, Sunil

Revolutionising sadir

Ramnarayan, Gowri

Inner peace and timeless faith

Singh, Malvika

The tapestry of her life

SEMINAR 541: September 2004; NEW PRIORITIES: a symposium on a social agenda for India.

 

The problem

Chatterjee, Mirai

Social security through health insurance

Guha Thakurta, Paranjoy

Illusion of consensus

Jha, Prem Shankar

Tablet of fire

Mahajan, Vijay

Deregulating rural credit

Prayas

Beyond state and market

Roy, Aruna and Nikhil Dey

The redistribution of power

Saxena, Naresh C.

Improving programme delivery

Singh, Manmohan

Independence day address

Thakkar, Himanshu

Restoring sanity in water use

Vijayshankar, P. and C. Rammanohar Reddy

Ensuring employment guarantee

SEMINAR 542; October 2004: WORKING CONSERVATION: a symposium on protecting our culture and heritage.

Baig, Amita

The problem

Bhattacherjee, Kallol

Renovating the‘History House’

Dilawari, Vikas

Generic problems

Document

The Marwar initiative

Document

The Red Fort, Delhi

Lambah, Abha Narain

Heritage streetscape

Nanda, Ratish

Negotiating conservation

Prothi-Khanna, Nupur

Conflicting perceptions

Rai, Gurmeet

Learning through activism

Rao, Ravindra Gundu

Drawing on traditional practices

Sharma, Tara

Preserving the sacred

Singh, Priyaleen

Working in historic cities

Varanashi, Sathya Prakash

Collective chaos

SEMINAR 543: November 2004; AMCHEM GOEM: a symposium on the many facets of Goan society.

Couto, Alban

The Goan economy

Couto, Maria Aurora

The problem

DeSouza, Peter Ronald

Democracy’s inconvenient fact

Fernandes, Naresh

Remembering Anthony Gonsalves

Gracias, Fatima da Silva

The journey of Goan food

Halarnakar, T.D.

Rural self-government Goan style

Martins, Roland

For a humane tourism

Mauzo, Damodar and Xavier Cota

Reviving cultural traditions

Mundkur, Bal

An outsider in Goa

Pai Panandiker, Vishvanath

Impact of democracy and federalism on Goa

Pandit, Heta

Goan houses

Pereira, José

Goan architecture

Phaldesai, Pandurang R.

Folk culture

Poggendorf-Kakar, Katharina

A personal view

Sardesai, Madhavi

Mother tongue blues

SEMINAR 544: December 2004; ELUSIVE JUSTICE: a symposium on the Bhopal gas disaster after twenty years.

Ahluwalia, Pooja

Speaking out

Cohen, Gary

The chemical industry’s Bhopal legacy

Muralidhar, S.

Dateline Bhopal

Nagaraj, Vijay K. with Nithya V. Raman

Are we prepared for another Bhopal?

Nariman, Fali S.

Some reflections

Raina, Vinod with Raju Kumar

Twenty years of relentless struggle

Ramanathan, Usha

The problem

Sarangi, Satinath

Medical crime

Sharma, H. Rajan

Catastrophe and the dilemma of law

FURTHER READING

Are We Learning?

April 2004

COMMENT

C.P. Bhambhri

Comment (February 2004)

Sandhya Kumar

Women and the WSF (March 2004)

R. Uma Maheshwari

Multiple sites of protest (March 2004)

Nisha

Why might women support religious fundamentalism (May 2004)

Susan Visvanathan

Sociology and literature (June 2004)

Arunabha Ghosh

For the sake of our freedoms (July 2004)

C.P. Bhambhri

United progressive alliance? (July 2004)

Koshy Tharakan

Understanding polls and predictions (July 2004)

Dilip D’Souza

The market: medium, message, everything (August 2004)

Kallol Bhattacherjee

Spinning a nation: Margarete Bourke-White’s Gandhi (August 2004)

Tridip Suhrud

Truth as politics (December 2004)

Priyanka Kher

Veiling the fundamentals (December 2004)

ESSAY

Susan Visvanathan

India and fiction (February 2004)

Kasturi Sen with Abla Sibai

Conflict and its aftermath (September 2004)

Ananya Vajpeyi

The face of truth (October 2004)

IN MEMORIAM

Rajni Kothari

Ramakrishna Hegde 1926-2004 (February 2004)

Harsh Sethi

Krishna Raj 1937-2004 (February 2004)

Valmik Thapar

Komal Kothari – more than a treasure (June 2004)

Rustom Bharucha

Remembering Komalda (June 2004)

Nayan Chanda

Tiziano Terzani: a people’s reporter (October 2004)

Anil Saari Arora

Kishen Patnaik: protoganist of India’s alternate tradition (December 2004)

SEMINAR 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. Inter-ventions 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

2004

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

 


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