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symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Roopa Vajpeyi, Vice Chairperson, VOICE Society, and Founder Editor, 'Consumer VOICE', Delhi

• WHERE'S THE PROMISED SPEED AND SIMPLICITY?
  Pushpa Girimaji, author and columnist on consumer affairs, Delhi

• HOUSEHOLD FINANCE AND THE LAW
  Monika Halan, Editor, 'Mint Money'; Yale World Fellow 2011; and Director, FPSB India, Delhi

• STUDENT ACTIVISM
  Ashok R. Patil, Chair Professor, Consumer Law and Practice, National Law School of India, Bangalore

• A CHEMICAL-FREE CONSUMER GUIDE TO SURVIVAL
  Ashmeet Kapoor, founder, I Say Organic, Delhi and Sumita Mitra, Piramal Fellow, Delhi

• CAN CSR WORK?
  Amita V. Joseph, advocate, Delhi

• JUGAAD CONSUMERISM
  Meera Subramanian, US-based journalist

• CONSUMER ALERT
  Sascha Gabizon, Executive Director, Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), Utrecht, The Netherlands

• STATE OF THE INDIAN CONSUMER
  George Cheriyan, Director, CUTS International and Head, CUTS Centre for Consumer Action, Research and Training, Jaipur; Member, Central Consumer Protection Council, GOI

• DIFFERENTLY ALIKE
  Vandana Vasudevan, columnist and author, Delhi

• AT RISK WITH NANOTECHNOLOGY
  JSuman Sahai, Chairperson, Gene Campaign, Delhi

• THE KEY DRIVER OF BUSINESS
  Bijou Kurien, President and CE, Lifestyle at Reliance Retail, Bengaluru

• CONSUMER RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS
  Jayashree Pillai, Associate Professor, Miranda House, University of Delhi

• DO WE NEED GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS?
  Vandana Shiva, Navdanya - Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, Delhi

• IN ADVERTISING
  Alan Collaco, Secretary General, ASCI, Mumbai

• CONSUMER FOCUS
  Sanjeevan Bajaj, CEO, FICCI Quality Forum, Delhi

• REGULATING ADVERTISING
  Savita Hanspal, Associate Professor, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi; presently teaching at The College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York

• THE NATIONAL CONSUMER HELPLINE
  Sri Ram Khanna, Professor, Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

• IN MEMORIAM
  Vina Mazumdar (1927-2013)

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