Index

SEMINAR ISSUES 2022

SEMINAR 749, JANUARY 2022; INDIA 2021: a symposium on the year that was.

 

Aiyar, Yamini                                                                                          Of bureaucracy, the public and ‘vishwas’ politics

Baruah, Sanjib                                                                                                    The politics of non-citizenship in Assam

Bery, Suman                                                                                                                                     India’s G20 challenge

Chatterjee, Kankana,                                                                                                              A political battle on cultural

Suprio Basu &                                                                                                                                                          terms?

Jyotiprasad Chatterjee

Desai, Nitin                                                                                                                                       Managing climate risk

 Jahanbegloo, Ramin                                                                                                                      A historian-intellectual

Khosla, Madhav                                                                The future of Indian federalism

Krishnamurthy, Mekhala                                                                                    Indian agriculture and its contradictions

Maira, Arun                                                                                                          Enterprises for the people, by the people

Menon, Shivshankar                                                                                                     The crisis in India-China relations

Mohan, C. Raja                                                                                                                             India’s new astropolitik

Ninan, T.N.                                                                                                                                              India under Modi

Shah, Ratna Pathak                                                                                                                 The bard of unsettling songs

Singh, Bhrigupati                                                                                                                             A portrait of two artists

Sircar, Neelanjan                                                                                                  Corporate-controlled capitalism in India

Subramanian, Arvind                                                                                                                       Is India back? the race

& Josh Felman                                                                             between hardware and software

Vaishnav, Milan                                                                                                                          Has India’s ‘flailing state’

                                                                                                                                                   been turned upside down?

 

SEMINAR 750, February 2022; DECOLONIZATION PERSPEC-TIVES: a symposium on hybrid understandings and experiences of interdisciplinary practitioners.

 

Aikant, Satish C.                                                                                     Tradition, modernity and Gandhi’s ‘Hind Swaraj’

Bajpeyi, Arpita                                                                                                                                  Dancing with ghosts

Basu, Sudeep                                                                                                          Reading ‘ignorance’ in refugee research

Bhattacharyya, Shatarupa                                                                                             Once there was a syncretic deity

Burte, Himanshu                                                                                                                          Modernity as whitespace

Chatterjee, Anuradha                             Decolonizing architectura pedagogies

Gandhi, Vidhu                                                                                                                                                The problem

Gupta, Sarmistha Datta,                                                                                                                        Recontextualizing

Sanchayan Ghosh &                                                                                                                                Jallianwala Bagh

Vidhu Gandhi Iyer, Meera                                                                                  Heritage, people and non-mounmentality

Lyngwa, Amorette                                                                                                              Decolonization begins at home

Mandal, Srijan Sandip                                                                                                                  The right that almost was

Mehra, Rashee &                                                                                                                                       Inclusive urban

Ravi Anand Loknath                                                                                                            futures: master planning Delhi

Srivastav, Shweta &                                                                                                                                   Sustainability

Ranjani Balasubramanian                                                              a decolonizing practice

Thapa, Tapasya                           Of femurs, sham(anic) traditions and sites of decolonization

Wangchok, Sonam &                                                                                                                           An open museum in

Roohani Sawhney                                                                                                                                          the Himalaya

 

SEMINAR 751, March 2022; EX-TRACTIVISM: a symposium on extraction, indigeneity and self- determination.

 

Dungdung, Gladson                                         The Pathalgadi movement for adivasi autonomy

Gupta, Malvika & Felix Padel                                                                                                                        The problem

Gupta, Malvika                                                               Conversations with Andean-Amazonian medicine practitioners

Hebrom, Ruby                                                                                 Tribal education as a tool of domination and alienation

Kerketta, Jacinta                                                                                                                                      Jacinta’s poems

Kikon, Dolly                                                                                          Extractive stories and theories in northeast India

Kodopi, Lingaram                                                                                                      Searching for democracy in Bastar

Maniana, Kareena, Aanam,                                                                                                               We won’t sit quietly:

Jyoteshwari & Saanish                                                                                                         Pardhi women demand justice

Martinez-Alier, Joan                                                             Extractivism, indigineous resistance and revival worldwide

Pyke, Lewis                                                                                                    Mining sponsored education in West Papua

Ramnath, Madhu                              The not-so-subtle art of creating wastelands

Shrimali, Ashok,                                                                                                                                  Extractivism amidst

Ravi Rebbapragada,                                                                                                                           the covid pandemic

Sree Harica

Sundaresan, Rajaraman                                                                                                                           Interviews with

Soni Sori                                                                                                                from the extractive frontiers in Odisha

Varese, Stefano                                                                                                                                From the deep rivers

Shiv, Visvanathan                                                              Reconstructing cognitive justice

Xaxa, Vani                                                                                                  The trauma of being regrouped in Chhattisgarh

Xaxa, Virginius                                                                                           India’s tribal situation and self-determination

 

SEMINAR 752, April 2022; SHERULES: a symposium on the political representation of women in India

 

Banerjee, Mukulika                                                                           Women in rajniti and lokniti

Brule, Rachel,                                                                                                                                                The problem

Simon Chauchard, Alyssa Heinze,

Mekhala Krishnamurthy                                                                                                                                                    

Brule, Rachel,                                                                                                                         Are husbands the problem?

Simon Chauchard, Alyssa Heinze

Chawla, Akshi                                                                                                                             Surviving a thousand cuts

Krishnaswamy, Tara                                                                                                 The feminization of electoral politics

Purohit, Bhumi                                Women’s networks after elections

Prillaman, Soledad Artiz                                                                                   Women’s electoral representation matters

Sharma, Sonakshi                                                                                       From gungi gudiya to an autocrat

Rai, Shirin M. &                                                                                                                                 Populism, parliament

Carole Spary                                                                                                                                           and performance

Verniers, Gilles,                                                                                                                             Women’s participation

Ishika Sharan,                                                                                                                           in Indian national elections

Aishwarya Sunaad

 

SEMINAR 753, May 2022; PATRONAGE: a symposium on support for cultural labour.

 

Anand                                                                                                                         In what is stolen and in what is found

Anwar, Kombai S.                                                                                                                                     The siege within

Ewing, Tejas                                                                                                                                Nobody knows anything

Kolanad, Gitanjali                                                                                                                                         The problem

Kolanad, Gitanjali &                                                                                                                   What are we fighting for?

Gowtham P. Sundar

Leary, Brandy                                                                                                                            The patronage of practice \

M., Ekta                                                                                                                                             Becoming Manjaama

Nayak, Supriya                                                                                                                    How patronage shaped odissi

Prakash, Brahma                                                                                                                          Dialogue with a dancer

Singh, Lata                                                                                                          Lavani: caste, gender and cultural politics

Sohini                                                                                                                            The courtesan and the sportsperson

Sooudi, Olga Kanzaki                                                                                                                         Collectors as patrons

Thapar, Romila                                                                                                                          Patronage and community

Zaidi, Annie                                                                                                    Some thoughts on prizes, sponsorship and art

 

SEMINAR 754, June 2022; INSIDE PAKISTAN: a symposium on domestic challenges and external imperatives.

 

Ahmed, Imran                                                                                                                                                The problem

Ahmed, Imran                                                                                          Is rising Islamisation a real threat?

Ahmed, Zahid                                                                                   Shahab Imran’s naya Pakistan and the Madina dream

Adeney, Katharine                                                                                              Highway to success: is the CPEC a winner

Attanayake, Chulanee &                                                                                                                        Friendly overtures

Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Hyder, Asma                                                                                                                         State of Pakistan’s economy

Hussain, Touqir                                                                                                On the edge: resetting US-Pakistan relations

Hussain, Zahid                                                                                                                                              Fall of Kabul

Khalid, Masood                                                                                             Can Pakistan really be China’s ‘iron brother’?

Mohan, C. Raja                                                                                                       Modi tests Pakistan’s Kashmir strategy

Nelson, Matthew J.                                                                                               Pakistan, the Middle East and Islamism

Sevea, Iqbal Singh                                                                                                               The political future of Pakistan

Siddiqa, Ayesha                                                                                                                                                 Power play

Yilmaz, Ihsan                                                                                                  Muslim Brotherhood of Turkey and Pakistan

Zaidi, Syed Muhammad Saad                                                                                                  Russia warms up to Pakistan

 

SEMINAR 755, July 2022; FABLES OF VIOLENCE: a symposium on some landmarks in the history of violence.

 

Aditi                                                                                               The glory of cause: mythical renditions of Bhagat Singh

Ali, Misria Shaik                                                                                        Decolonizing anti-nuclearism, rethinking peace

Bharadwaj, Sudha                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             with Interview

Chitrangada Choudhury

Bhattacharjee, Kishalay                                                                                        38 years of Nellie:memory and politics

Bindal, Amit                                                                                                                Saving the gods, not listening to them

Jain, Ishita                                                                                                       Fragmentary images from a dark vitalist core

Ramiah, Kotiganahalli                                                                                                                              In conversation

With Madhu Bhushan

Sharma, Ashima                                                                               Constructing the Rohingya refugee in media spaces

Raj, Aditya &                                                                                                                                  Witch-hunting in India

Shamsher Alam,

Suresh, Subarish                                                                                                  The constitutional memory of violence

Visvanathan, Shiv                                                                                                                                          The problem

 

SEMINAR 756, August 2022; INDIA 75 YEARS: a symposium on the idea of people.

 

Ahmed, Hilal & Subir Sinha                                                                                                                            The problem

Deshpande, Satish                                                                                                                       Constructing ‘the people’

                                                                                                                                                                      in India today

Jha, Satish K.                                                                             Celebrating the will of the people

Kanungo, Pralay                                                              Hindutva’s imagination of people

Kumar, Sanjay                                                                                                                                          People as voters

Nigam, Aditya                                                                                              Staging the ‘people’ in three recent movements

Pandey, Ankita                                                                                                                                Defending the people

Sharma, Nandita                                                            Containing anti-colonialism by turning people into ‘the people’

Sinha, Subir                                                                                     Modi’s people and populisms imagined communities

Wankhede, Harish S.                                                                                                       Can Dalits entertain the people?

Venkat, Vidya                                                                                                    Incorporating people’s will in governance.

 

SEMINAR 757, September 2022; WITHERING HIMALAYA: a symposium on addressing the challenges facing the mountains and its people

 

Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta                                                      Understanding socio- economic transitions in the mountains

Chopra, Ravi                                                                                                                                  Trashing the mountains

Dixit, Kanak Mani                                                                                                                           The northern yardstick

Hegde, Pandurang                                                                                                                                         The problem

Ete, Mibi                                                                                           A Himalayan conundrum in Arunachal

Joshi, Rajesh                                                                                                                       Dalit pushback in Uttarakhand

Kreutzmann, Hermann                                                                                        Shrinking pastoral spaces

Norberg-Hodge, Helena                                                                  Globalization and food futures in Ladakh

Rai, Prem Das                                                                                                                   Is the Himalaya in deep crisis?`

Pathak, Shekhar                                                                                            Centrality of Himalaya to South Asian lives

Sharma, Sudhirendar                                                                                  Case for a fresh dialogue with the mountains

Shiva, Vandana                                                                                                                              My Himalayan journey

Upmanyu, Kulbhushan                                                                                                                Problems of a model state

 

SEMINAR 758, October 2022; EXPLORING MUSLIM INDIA: a symposium on Islamic presence in ‘new India’

 

Ahmed, Hilal                                                                                                                                                  The problem

Alam, Mohd. Sanjeer                                                                         Muslims in the labour market

Ali, Asim                                                                                                                  Indian Muslims and the Muslim world

Ansari, Khalid Anis                                  Interpreting BJP’s Pasmanda outreach in new India

Bhaskar, Ira                                                                                                The diseased body politic and Bombay cinema

Dutta, Akhil Ranjan                                                                                                        Muslims and Hindutva in Assam

Kumar, Sanjay                                                                              Mapping Muslim perceptions: CSDS-Lokniti archives

Levesque, Julien                                                                                  Rhetoric of political newness and Muslim politics

Parveen, Nazima                                                                                                                             Online Muslim politics

Santhosh, R.                                                                         The churn in Muslim politics in Kerala

Shamshad, M.R.                                                                                                                Minorities, laws and institutions

Soman, Zakia                                                                                                   Muslim women’s struggle for gender justice

 

SEMINAR 759, November 2022; THE PASTAS PRESENT: a symposium on historical representations in Indian cinema

 

Bhattacharya, Arjun                                                                             Beyond swinging swords and twirling moustaches

Chakravarty, Uma                                                                                Rethinking the genre of the ‘historical film’ in India

Chaudhury, Shrimoy Roy                                                                  Cinematic representa-tions of the Pakur murder case

Dasgupta, Sabyasachi                                                                                                                      Representing the Rani

Deshpande, Anirudh                                               The critical war films and Indian cinema

Gupta, Uttaran Das                                                                                                     Reimagining India as a Hindu nation

Islam, Maidul                                                                                                            Bollywood and conspiracy theories

Pol, Prabodhan                                                                                              Cinematic representations in Marathi cinema

Rai, Dhananjay                                                                                                              Cinema as inherent transgression

Rezavi, SyedAli Nadeem                                                                              Representing Mughals in Bollywood movies

Tewari, Saagar &                                                                                                                                           The problem

Kaushalya Bajpayee

Vasudevan, Ravi                                                                                                         What is history in the historical film?

Visvanathan, Shiv                                                                                                 On history and film: notes on Bollywood

 

SEMINAR 760, DECEMBER 2022; WOMEN IN SCIENCE: a symposium on changing dynamics in equity, inclusion, institutions, and innovation

 

Arora, Cheshta                                                                                                   Sustaining science, becoming respectable

Gupta, Namrata                                                                                  How ‘sticky floor’and glass ceiling operate in STEM

Jolly, Pratibha &                                                                                                                             Catalysing change for

Priyanka Nupur                                                                                                                  gender advancement in science

Kaur, Ravinder &                                                                                                                 Securing the leak, shattering

Taanya Kapoor                                                                                                                                      the glass ceiling?

Kuhad, Urvashi                                                                                   Indian science fiction: a manifestation of the future

Kurup, Anitha &                                                                                                                                   Subject choice and

Anjali Raj                                                                                                                       STEM carriers for women in India

Midha, Neha                                 Inclusivity and women in science

Rai, Aishani, Ava Haidar                                                                                                                     Gender, equity, and

Sarayu Natarajan                                                                                                                                the digital economy

Srinivas, Krishna Ravi &                                                                                                                             The problem

Nimita Pandey

Subramaniam, Banu                                                                                                    Gender and coloniality in science

 

COMMENT

Vishakha N. Desai, Shagun                                                                                                                      Agents of change

Sethi, Sandi Gendi                                                                                                                                           (April 2022)

 Dharmendra Khandal &                                                                                                                          A bend in the tale

 Ishan Dhar                                                                                                                                                       (July 2022)

 

BOOKS

 

Nargis Kachrumathur                                                                                                                       750, February 2022

Jyothsna Belliappa                                                                                                                             750, February 2022

Nandini Sundar                                                                                                                                        751, March 2022

Joe Hill                                                                                                                                                    751, March 2022

Savyasaachi                                                                                                                                             751, March 2022

Felix Padel                                                                                                                                               751, March 2022

Sirili Sheth                                                                                                                                                  752, April 2022

Ummul Fayiza                                                                                                                                           752, April 2022

Tanika Sarkar                                                                                                                                           752, April 2022

Dipankar Gupta                                                                                                                                         752, April 2022

Iqbal Singh Sevea                                                                                                                                        754, June 2022

Biren Nanda                                                                                                                                               754, June 2022

Piya Srinivasan                                                                                                                                           755, July 2022

Chris Gregory                                                                                                                                             755, July 2022

Amogh Dhar Sharma                                                                                                                              756, August 2022

Vidya Venkat                                                                                                                                          756, August 2022

Anubhav Roy                                                                                                                                          756, August 2022

Ajaya Dixit                                                                                                                                        757, September 2022

Debarati Banerjee                                                                                                                            757, September 2022

Hina Mushtaq                                                                                                                                         758, August 2022

G. Narasimha Raghavan                                                                                                                        758, August 2022

Satish C. Aikant                                                                                                                                       758, August 2022

Sneha Sinha                                                                                                                                        760, December 2022

Rajiv K. Mishra                                                                                                                                 760, December 2022

Pratyush Sharma                                                                                                                               760, December 2022

Mahuya Bandyopadhyay                                                                                                                  760, December 2022

Savyasaachi                                                                                                                                       760, December 2022

Biswajit Sarma                                                                                                                                  760, December 2022

Vijay Mahajan                                                                                                                                   760, December 2022

Harsh Sethi                                                                                                                                        760, December 2022

 

IN MEMORIAM

 

Bharti Kher                                                                                                                                     Aveek Sen 1965-2021

Neelam Man                                                                                                                                Mala Marwah 1948-2022

Singh Chowdhry

Peter Ronald deSouza                                                                                                       Maria Aurora Couto 1937-2022

Jerry Pinto                                                                                                                             Gerson da Cunha 1929-2022

Mackenzie Shreve                                                                                                                       Kishore Saint 1932-2022

Himanshu                                                                                                                                       Abhijit Sen 1950-2022

 

 

SEMINAR ISSUES

 

1959

1. The Party in Power

2. Food for Forty Crores

3. Freedom and Planning

4. The Changing Village

 

1960

5. Co-operative Farming

6. Two Sectors

7. Our Universities

8. Corruption

9. Films

10. Indians in Africa

11. ALanguage for India

12. Health

13. The Third World

14. Tribal India

15. Into Space

16. Artists and Art

 

1961

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

 

1962

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

 

1963

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

 

1964

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

 

1965

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

 

1966

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

 

1967

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

 

1968

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

 

1969

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

 

1970

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

 

1971

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. ANuclear India

147. Crisis in the Press

148.Acapolitics

 

1972

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

 

 

1973

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

 

1974

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

 

1975

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

 

1976

197. India 1975

198. The Economic Debate

199. New Trends

200. Life and Living

201. Changing Communism

202. AMilitary View

203. Where Do We Go From Here

 

SEMINAR issues 204 to 209 were not printed because of censorship during the Emergency

 

1977

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.ActionAgendas

220. Bengal Scenario

 

1978

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. TheAdministrator

231. Trauma of the Triangle

232. Another TV

 

1979

233. India 1978

234. Grassroots Democracy

235. The Village and the Communicator

236. Emerging Questions

237. Threatened Environment

238. Politics of Science

239. TheAutonomy Myth

240. The Muslim Condition

241. The Election Business

242. Our Fractured Politics

243. Harijans

244. Economic Scenarios

 

1980

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

 

1981

257. India 1980

258.AFailed Science

259. The Politicians

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 Economics

267. Peasants and Prices

268. Reservations

 

1982

269. India 1981

270. The Arming of a Subcontinent

271. India: Seen from Abroad

272. The Campus Scene

273. Refocusings

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

 

1983

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

 

1984

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

 

1985

305. India 1984

306. Behind the Ballot

307. The National Condition

308. Using the Army

309. The Faces of Reality

310.AWarless World

311. Meditation

312.Architectural Pollution

313. The Hindus and Their Isms

314. Issues Within Issues

315. The Politics of Change

316. The Economy

 

1986

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 SouthAsia

325. The Judicial Jungle

326. Punjab Perspectives

327. Web of Censorship

328. Priorities

 

1987

329. India 1986

330. The Politics of Ecology

331. Femicide

332. Urdu

333. Raj Thapar 1926-1987

334. Interventions

335. Our Institutions

336.ASecond Republic

337. Sri Lanka

338. Past in the Present

339. Rethinking Theology

340. Romesh Thapar 1922-1987

 

1988

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

 

1989

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

 

1990   

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

 

1991

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

 

1992

389. India 1991

390. Making Waves

391. The Linguistic Landscape

392. Kashmir Today

393. The Soviet Experience

394. Dialogue

395. Real Concerns

396. AIDS

397. Wooing Japan

398. Understanding Punjab

399. Politics Today

400. Education and Ideology

 

1993

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

 

1994

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

 

1995

425. India 1994

26. 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

 

1996

437. India 1995

438. Grassroots Governance

439. Prisons and Punishment

440. The Election Carnival

441.AQuestion 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

 

1997

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

 

1998

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

 

1999

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

 

2000

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

 

2001

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

 

2002

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. AWorld Without AIDS

 

2003

521. India 2002

522. Rewriting History

523. Celebrating Craft

524. Imagining Futures

525. Unsettling Cinema

526. AParty in Waiting

527. The Great Game

528. City of Dreams

529. Empire

530. Restoration and Renewal

531. Footloose Labour

532. Abortion

 

2004

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

 

2005

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

 

2006

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

 

2007

569. India 2006

570. Crafting an Education

571. Battleground U.P.

572. India Beckons

573. Envisioning Asia

574. Children First

575. Between Cultures

576. Experiments With Democracy

577. Nature, Wildlife, People

578. A Shifting Canvas

579. Transport for Liveable Cities

580. The Paradox That is Bihar

 

2008

581. India 2007

582. Special Economic Zones

583. Unequal Status

584. Our Troubled Neighbourhood

585. City of Hope

586. Redrawing Boundaries

587. Mortgaging the Future

588.Talking Theatre

589. UnfinishedAgendas-I

590. Unfinished Agendas-II

591. Battle for the States

592. The Neglected Teacher

 

2009

593. India 2008

594. Effective Government

595.Agrarian Transitions

596. Changing Political Landscape

597. Knowledge in Question

598.Circuits of Cinema

599. National Security

600. Literary Landscapes

601. The Republic of Ideas

602. India’s Religious Minorities

603. Bangladesh Turnaround

604. Maternal and Newborn Health

 

2010

605. India 2009

606. Climate Change Conundrum

607. Red Resurgence

608. The Enduring Epic

609. Fashioning Style

610. Living Together

611. Soldiers and States

612. Karnataka Vignettes

613. Nature Without Borders

614. The Pursuit of Happiness

615. We the People

616. From Protest to Politics

 

2011

617. India 2010

618. Social Transformations

619. Women and Peace

620. States in Transition

621. Minorities and Pluralism

622. Dynasty

623. The Nation and its Poet

624. Democratizing Knowledge

625. Combating Corruption                                                   

626. Shades of Blue

627. Partnerships in Education

628. Dillee Meri Jaan

 

2012

629. India 2011

630. The Lusosphere

631. Shot in the Arm

632. A Country of Our Own

633. Caste Matters

 634. Ending Hunger

635. Urban Transformations

636. Streetscapes

637. God’s Own Country

638. Inclusive Classrooms

639. Institutional Legacy

640. Assam: Unstable Peace

 

2013

641. India 2012

642. Constitutional Challenges

643. Eye on Kashmir

644. Tibet Burning

645. Bengal Blues

646. Politics in Our Times

647. The Indian Consumer

648. Safe Cities

649. Living Together

650. Cyber Security

651. Hasti

652. Chasing Waters

 

2014

653. India 2013

654. State of Science

655. Digital Debates

656.A Polity in Flux

657. Celebrating City Spaces

658. External Engagements

659. Inheritances

660. Cultural Capital

661. The Malnourished Tribal

662. Thinking of Gandhi

663. From the Margins

664. Decoding Pakistan

 

2015

665. India 2014

666. RememberingAnanthamurthy

667. Freedom and Faith

668. India in a Changing World

669. Reforming Labour Laws

670. Asia’s Waters

671. What We Knew

672. Exclusion, Discrimination, Disparity

673. Nature and History

674. State of Democracy

675. Make in India

676. Why Dance?

 

2016

677. India 2015

678. The Bihar Ballot

679. Ferment in the Middle East

680. Sasian Journey

681. Nourishing Tribals

682. Changing Countryside

683. The Road from Paris

684. Measuring Democracy

685. Future Sense

686. Pedagogy of Dissent

687. Digital Dividend

688. Fashion Forward

 

2017

689. India 2016

690. Nature’s Present

691. Containing Violence

692. The Modern Magazine

693. Democratic Authoritarianism

694. Bangalore’s ‘Great Transformation’

695. Livestock Landscapes

696. India at 70

697. Founding Legacy

698. Revenge and Forgiveness

699. A New India

700. Contesting Impunity

 

2018

701. India 2017

702. Contested Cultures

703. Connecting the Bay of Bengal

704. ATryst with India

705. Democratizing Heritage

706. Are Our Children Learning

707. Ahmedabad: The City and Her Soul
708. Dravidianism

709. Struggle for Sanity

710. Gandhi in Seminar

711. Death for Child Rape

712. ‘I had a Dream’

 

2019

713. India 2018

714. Mandate for Health

715. The American Churn and South Asia

716. Controversies

717. The Union and the States

718. The Fiber of Freedom

719. Thinking Peace

720. How India Voted

721. Speaking Through Judgements

722. India Modern

723. The Brahmaputra

724. Reintegrating Central Asia

 

 

2020

725. India 2020

726. The Untranslated in Translation

727. Victimhood

728. India & China: A Critical Partnership

729. Debating Citizenship

730. Justice On Our Plates

731. India & Digital Worldmaking

732. Peacemaking in the Northeast

733. Questioning Corona

734. ADelicate Balance

735. Cradle of Diversity

736. Celebrating Ideas

 

2021

737. India 2021

738. Road to Justice

739. The Idea of Jamia

740. Beyond Myths

741. Dil Ke Zubaan: The Language of Songs

742. Navigating Language in a Digital World

743. Editing History

744. Future Environmentalisms

745. ALayered Past

746. Women Who Inspire

747. Intellectual Imperialism

748. Re-visioning the Rural