SEMINAR ISSUES 2007

SEMINAR 569: January 2007; INDIA 2006: a symposium on the year that was.

Basant, Rakesh

Diversity among Indian Muslims

Batliwala, Srilatha

When rights go wrong

Bhaduri, Amit

Economic growth: a meaningless obsession?

Dasgupta, Swapan

Islamism versus India

Dixit, Kanak Mani

Naya Nepal

Doshi, Tishani

Adventures of a single lady traveller

Jayal, Niraja Gopal

Whatever happened to the argumentative Indian?

Jehanbegloo, Ramin

Celebrating diversity

Karnad, Bharat

Minimum deterrence and the India-US nuclear deal

Malhotra, Anshu

The quack of Patran and other stories

Mehrotra, Deepti Priya

Texts and contexts

Mohan, C. Raja

Perils of ultranationalism

Mukhopadhyay, Amitabh

File notings and governmentality

Naqvi, Farah

Re-constructing community

Ninan, T.N.

The elephant dances

Rangarajan, Mahesh

Reviving the Congress

Reddy, K. Srinivas

The Maoist challenge

Visvanathan, Shiv

The wages of dissent

Weisskopf, Thomas E.

Affirmative action in higher education

SEMINAR 570: February 2007; CRAFTING AN EDUCATION: a symposium on introducing craft learning in modern education.

Bhatt, Jatin

Philosophy and practice of crafts and design

Chishti, Rta Kapur

Memories of experiments in education

Frater, Judy

Apna vishay

Jaitly, Jaya

Crafting an education for the educated

Jhala, Ranmal Singh

Education for a saner world

Jinan

Beyond codified knowledge

Kumar, Krishna

Crafts at school

Mazumdar, Minhazz

Who are these strangers in the school?

Morrison, Skye

Stitching women’s lives

Tyabji, Laila

The problem

SEMINAR 571: March 2007; BATTLEGROUND U.P.: a symposium on Uttar Pradesh on the eve of assembly elections.

Ali, Subhashini

Whither equality

Ansari, Yusuf Ahmad

‘Say not the struggle nought availeth…’

Guha, Sohini

‘Asymmetric representation’ and the BSP in U.P.

Gupta, Smita

Does law and order matter?

Khan, Mohammad Mujtaba

Muslims and electoral politics

Khurshid, Salman

The road ahead

Kumar, Sanjay

The prospects

Mehrotra, Santosh

Killing its children slowly

Pai, Sudha

The problem

Ramaseshan, Radhika

Wishful thinking

Singh, Ajit Kumar

Signs of economic change

Singh, Vishvjit P.

The benefits of reorganization

Subrahmaniam, Vidya

From heady Hindutva to voter disenchantment

Verma, A.K.

The elusive Samajwad

SEMINAR 572: April 2007; INDIA BECKONS: a symposium on some places of special interest in India.

Baig, Amita

Layers of living history

Dalrymple, William

Invoking Nataraja

Forman, Denis

Mapping Goa

Ghose, Premola

Dhamma land

Grewal, Royina

Narmadey har

Holkar, Richard

Mindscapes and memories

Lambah, Abha Narain

The cosmic site of Vijayanagara

Mahtab, Pronoy Chand

Destination Darjeeling

Miller, Sam

Fortitude

Ramaswamy, Visalakshi

Returning home to Chettinad

Saran, Mitali

A ramble in the hills

Seminarist

The problem

Seth, Suhel

The gateway to India’s soul

Thapar, Valmik

Call of the wild

Vasavada, Rabindra

The fusion of faith

SEMINAR 573: May 2007; ENVISIONING ASIA; a symposium on changing relationships between India, China and Japan.

Chattarji, Subarno

Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai

Ge, Sun

Creating ‘one’ Asia

Hamashita, Takeshi

China and Japan in an Asian perspective

Muralidharan, Sukumar

Material realities and cultural lags

Rana, Kishan S.

The Asian dimension

Sheel, Kamal

China’s changing discourse on India

Tankha, Brij

Genealogies of Asia

Tankha, Brij

The problem

Thampi, Madhavi

India and China: colonial encounters

SEMINAR 574: June 2007; CHILDREN FIRST; a symposium on planning for India’s children.

Behar, Amitabh, Subrat Das and Debdulal Thakur

Reaching the excluded

Chopra, Mannika

Interview (with Shantha Sinha)

Chowdhury, Neerja

Interview (with Renuka Chowdhury)

Das, Subrat and Debdulal Thakur

Unravelling the union budget

Govinda, R.

Reorienting elementary education

Kumar, A.K. Shiva

Why are children neglected?

Miller, Shireen Vakil

Child abuse – the hidden truth

Mishra, Samina

Little eyes and a big screen

Namala, Annie

Killing by default – Nithari

Rai, Bernadette

Needed, my birth certificate

Ramachandran, Prema

Combating the dual nutrition burden in children

Sadanandan, Rajeev

HIV infected and affected

Saxena, Naresh C.

Outlays and outcomes

Sharma, Adarsh

An unfulfilled dream

Subrahmanian, Ramya

The problem

Thukral, Enakshi Ganguly and Razia Ismail Abbasi

Ensuring child protection

SEMINAR 575: July 2007; BETWEEN CULTURES: a symposium on the changing face of Lucknow.

Ali, Muzaffar

Shahr e Nigaaran

Ansari, Yusuf

Destined for mediocrity

Aziz, Nasima

A mesh of memories

Khan, Mohammad Amir Ahmad

A binding legacy

Khan, Vijay

Behind the purdah

Kidwai, Saleem

My Lucknow

Llewellyn-Jones, Rosie

The monuments, themakers, the real city

Mukherjee, Rudrangshu

A study of a dying culture

Oldenburg, Veena Talwar

Afternoons in the kothas of Lucknow

Seminarist

The problem

Shaffer, Holly

Nawabs and kebabs

Tyabji, Laila

Handcrafting a culture

SEMINAR 576: August 2007; EXPERIMENTS WITH DEMOCRACY: a symposium on the Asian experience with democracy.

deSouza, Peter Ronald

The Indian commonsense of democracy

deSouza, Peter Ronald

The problem

Diamond, Larry

Can China become a democracy?

Gellner, David N.

Democracy in Nepal: four models

Hernandez, Carolina G.

People power in the Philippines

Jahan, Rounaq

Bangladesh at a crossroads

Paya, Ali

Iran’s tryst with democracy

Rizvi, Gowher

Building trust in government

Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou and Michael Schoiswohl

‘Installing’ democracy in Afghanistan

Törnquist, Olle

Has democracy stalled in Indonesia?

Uyangoda, Jayadeva

Sri Lanka: democracy and the hegemony of the fringe

Zaidi, S. Akbar

Is Pakistan a democracy?

SEMINAR 577: September 2007; NATURE, WILDLIFE, PEOPLE: a symposium on wildlife protection and people’s livelihoods.

Athreya, Vidya

Living with dangerous animals

Hazzah, Leela and Stephanie Dolrenry

Coexisting with predators

Hussain, Shafqat

Do economic incentives work?

Karanth, K. Ullas

Tigers forever

Lenin, Janaki

The song of the Ganges gharial

Madhusudan, M.D. and

Succeeding poorly

Rohan Arthur

or failing better?

Nagendra, Harini

Communities and conservation

Rangarajan, Mahesh

The problem

Rao, Madhu

Saving nature amid civil conflict and military rule

Sarkar, Rinki

Interview (with R.S. Negi)

Shahabuddin, Ghazala

The endangered wildlife biologist

Sridhar, Aarthi and Kartik Shanker

Lessons from marine paradigms

SEMINAR 578: October 2007; A SHIFING CANVAS: a symposium on the contemporary art scene in India.

Bhayana, Nitin

Revisiting an antiquated law

Dalmia, Yashodhara

A hybrid legacy

Jhaveri, Amrita

Can art create wealth?

Mehta, Yamini

Interview (with Amin Jaffer)

Nagy, Peter

Acts of delicate balance

Pande, Alka

The ABC of art

Rahman, Ram

A sharper focus

Sarkar, Rakhi

Shifting modernism

Schlemmer, C. Raman

Ancestor worship in modern art

Sethi, Sunil

The problem

Tuli, Neville

Dissolving the I: individual to institution to infrastructure

SEMINAR 579: November 2007; TRANSPORT FOR LIVEABLE CITIES: a symposium on the problems of urban transport.

Dimitriou, Harry T.

Ensuring sustainability

Dora, Carlos

Health effects

Frug, Gerald E.

Relating parts to the whole

Hasan, Arif

Confronting the urban development paradigm

Knoflacher, Hermann

From myth to science

Menon, A.G. Krishna

The complexity ofIndian urbanism

Mohan, Dinesh

The politics of mobility

Patel, Shirish B.

Principles first, planning follows

Randhawa, Pritpal Singh

Delhi’s killer buses

Roy, Dunu

Railroading the rules

Seminarist

The problem

Seminarist

Further reading

Sivaramakrishnan, K.C.

Is anyone in charge?

Tiwari, Geetam

Urban transportation planning

SEMINAR 580: December 2007; THE PARADOX THAT IS BIHAR: a symposium on the state’s efforts at over-coming a troubled legacy.

Das Gupta, Chirashree

Can Bihar industrialize?

Ghosh, Prabhat P.

Change from the middle?

Gupta, Shaibal

Urbanism and sub-national identity

Guruswamy, Mohan

Centrally planned inequality

Jha, Prabhakara

Reviving culture

Kantha, Vinay K.

Ensuring quality with equity

Kumar, Ashwani

Exiled between home and memory

Kumar, Nikhil

Mission possible

Mishra, Vandita

Challenges and opportunity

Narain, Daisy

Children are our present

Thakur, Sankarshan

Departure and arrival

Tripathy, Ratnakar

The problem

Verma, Jeetendra

Interview (with Phalhari Suryavanshi Das)

COMMENT

C.P. Bhambhri

Demystifying Indian federalism (March 2007)

Natrajan Balmurli

Misrepresenting cast and race (April 2007)

Dipankar Gupta

Why caste discrimination is not racial discrimination (April 2007)

C.P. Bhambhri

State and identity (May 2007)

Anita Inder Singh

The absence of accountability (May 2007)

Nandana Reddy and Damodar Acharya

A mortal blow to panchyat raj (May 2007)

Padhy Sanghamitra

From green bench to green courts (July 2007)

Bhatt, Wasudha

Globalization, democracy, and dialogue of cultures (July 2007)

Kuldeep Kumar

In the name of faith (October 2007)

IN MEMORIAM

Rustom Bharucha

Chandralekha in retrospect 1928-2006 (February 2007)

Jyotirmaya Sharma

Papiya Ghosh 1953-2006 (February 2007)

Shiv Visvanathan

Ramachandra Gandhi 1937-2007 (July 2007)

Padma Prakash

N.H. Antia 1922-2007 (August 2007)

Ashok Vajpeyi

Daya Krishna 1924-2007 (December 2007)

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 Auto-nomy 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 Poli-ticians 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 Eco-nomics 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. Medita-tion 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. UnderstandingPunjab 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. 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

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