symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Pavan K. Varma, Indian Foreign Service, currently Ambassador of India to Bhutan

• A VISION OF COMMON PURPOSE
  Jigmi Y. Thinley, Prime Minister of Bhutan

• MEASURING HAPPINESS
  Karma Ura, President, The Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu

• ENDS AND MEANS
  Akhil Sibal, advocate, Delhi

• ENGAGING IN THE REALM OF IDEAS
  Siok Sian Pek-Dorgi, Executive Director, Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy, Thimphu

• REORIENTING CLASSROOM INTERACTION
  Singye Namgyel, Director, Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, Kanglung

• CULTURAL CHALLENGES
  Abha Narain Lambah, conservation architect, Mumbai

• HEALTH PLANNING
  Zangley Dukpa, Minister of Health, Royal Government of Bhutan, and  Lungten Z. Wangchuk, Head of the Research Unit, Policy and Planning Division, Ministry of Health, Royal Government of Bhutan

•  ONE VILLAGE AT A TIME
  Chime Paden Wangdi, Secretary General, Tarayana Foundation, Thimphu

• A NEW ECONOMIC AGENDA
  Sonam Tshering, Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Royal Government of Bhutan 

• DIALOGUE
  Karma Ura, President, The Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu, in conversation with Ross McDonald, Director, MBA Programme, University of Auckland

• HAPPINESS MATTERS
  A.K. Shiva Kumar, development economist; Member, National Advisory Council, Delhi

• BOOKS 
  Reviewed by Udaya Kumar, Ajay K. Mehra and Madhuri Ramesh 

• ESSAY
  The Bt. Brinjal Goes Politicking by Shiv Visvanathan, social science nomad

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