symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• A CONTESTED IDEA OF INDIA
  Sidharth Bhatia, journalist and author, Mumbai

• MODI, MEDIA AND THE MIDDLE CLASS
  Suhas Palshikar, Director, Lokniti and Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune

• NEW TRENDS VERSUS OLD TRUTHS
  Dipankar Gupta, Distinguished Professor and Director, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi

• SOUTHERN BATTLES
  T.M. Veeraraghav, journalist, consultant, CATALYTIC, Bangalore

• THE SWINGING PENDULUM
  Jai Mrug, political analyst and psephologist, Mumbai

• FROM FORECASTING TO FORETELLING
  Gurpreet Mahajan, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• RESHAPING THE INDIAN POLITY?
  Louise Tillin, Lecturer in Politics, Deputy Director, King's India Institute, King's College London

• MEANINGLESS REVOLUTIONS
  Faisal Devji, Reader in Indian History, University of Oxford, and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford

• MUGHLANI ELECTIONS THROUGH NEPALI EYES
  Dipak Gyawali, former Minister of Water Resources of Nepal; currently Pragya (Academician) of the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) and Chair of Nepal Water Conservation Foundation, Kathmandu

• THE SAME SIDE OF DIFFERENT COINS
  Zeeshan Khan, journalist, 'Dhaka Tribune', Dhaka

• THE CULT OF CRONYISM
  Siddharth Varadarajan, formerly Editor, 'The Hindu'; Senior Fellow, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Sudha Pai, Mythri P.U., Rajen Harshe and Manisha Priyam

• IN MEMORIAM
  Remembering Vasudha

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