symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Shiv Visvanathan, social science nomad

• CALL FOR A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
  Wiebe E. Bijker, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; Professor Emeritus, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

• METAPHORS IN PROGRESS
  Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Director Emeritus, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra

• THINKING THROUGH SCIENCE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE VIRUS
  K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi

• COVID-19: DODGY SCIENCE, WOEFUL ETHICS
  Suranya Aiyar, lawyer, activist and mathematics graduate, Delhi

• A VIRUS IS POLITICIZED 
  Aruna Roy and Nikhil Dey, social activists; founders, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Devdungri 

• BUILDING STREET COMMUNITIES IN THE TIME OF A PANDEMIC 
  Madhu Bhushan, activist, writer and (re)searcher, Bengaluru

• MASKED HORIZONS: REFLECTIONS ON DEATH AND DYING 
  Deepti Sachdev, Assistant Professor, School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi

• ANXIETY AND EVERYDAYNESS
  Latika Vashist, Assistant Professor, Indian Law Institute, Delhi

• COVERING THE REMAINS OF THE DAY DURING LOCKDOWN
  Saba Naqvi, journalist, commentator and author, Delhi

• THE PANDEMIC AND POLITICAL ORDER IN BANGLADESH
  Arun Kumar Goswami, Professor, Jagannath University, Dhaka

• REFLECTIONS ON CAPITAL, IDENTITY AND THE CORONA CONUNDRUM 
  Sarasij Majumder, teaches at the Department of Geography & Anthropology at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, and Sundeep Basu, teaches at the Centre for Studies in Social Management, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar

• THE SPECTRE OF INDIAN MUSLIMS IN INDIA'S COVID EXPERIENCE 
  Misria Shaik Ali, PhD candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York

• THE PANDEMIC AND THE TIBETAN STUDENTS
  Mousumi Mukherjee, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat

• COMMENT 
  NEP 2020 and legal education
  Ivan and Vivek Mathur, practising advocates in the courts of New Delhi

• IN MEMORIAM 
  Ebrahim Alkazi 1925-2020