INDIA 1997. **Seminar 461: January 1998 the year that was 24 ANNUS HORRIBILIS T.N. Ninan, Publisher and Editor, 'BusinessStandard' 30 THE SOUTH IN ASCENDANT Mahesh Rangarajan, Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi 34 NO BREAKDOWN Harish Khare, Deputy Editor, 'The Hindu' 39 THE BEGINNING OF THE END Vir Sanghvi, Consulting Editor, Ananda Bazar Group 44 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Edit Page Editor, 'The Telegraph', Calcutta 47 AMBEDKAR AND THE DALITS Nalini Pundit, social scientist~ Senior Vice President, Asiatic Society of Bombay 52 KASHMIR: GETTING REAL Bharat Karnad, Research Professor in National Security Studies. Centre for Policy Research, Delhi 58 THE IDEA OF DEMOCRACY Yogendra Yadav, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi 62 FROM VICTORY TO DEFEAT Omkar Goswami, Editor, 'Business India' 66 ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY Sanjaya Baru, Senior Consultant, Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, Delhi 70 SATYAMEVA JAYATE Mani Shankar Aiyar, columnist; former Member of' Parliament, Delhi 79 JUDGE AND BE JUDGED Rajeev Dhavan, Senior Advocate and commentator on public affairs. Delhi 85 EDUCATION AND ITS MARKET VALUE Dinesh Mohan, Professor, Indian Institute Of Technology, Delhi 90 FROM BOMBAY TO MUMBAI Rajdeep Sardesai. Political Editor, NDTV 93 CROSSING OVER Sara Rai, writer, Allahabad 98 REMEMBERING PARTITION A dialogue between Javeed Alam, political scientist and Suresh Sharma, historian, CSDS, Delhi 104 THE POLITICS OF APOLOGY Siddharth Varadarajan, Assistant Editor. 'The Times of India' 110 GANDHI AND HISTORY Sunil Khilnani, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London 116 BACKPAGE 117 INDEX COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of DCA CHILDHOOD **Seminar #462: February 1998 a symposium on early childhood care and education 12 THE PROBLEM Posed by Asha Singh, Lady Irwin College, Delhi 14 LEARNING TO LIVE S. Anandalakshmy, Consultant in child development and education, Chennai 18 CHILD CARE IN INDIAN TRADITION Anuradha Singh, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), Delhi 24 ON BEING A PARENT Meenakshi Gautam, India Programme Manager. International Training in Health, Delhi 26 STARTING AFRESH Roopa Shanker, educational entrepreneur, Allahabad 29 REACHING OUT TO CHILDREN Sonya Acharya, primary school teacher, Delhi 32 PARENT INVOLVEMENT Ankur Madan, Lecturer, Lady Irwin College, Delhi 35 EXPERIENCES FROM CHILD ART Devi Prasad, sculptor and educationist. Delhi 38 RE STORING PLAY Sudershan Khanna, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad 41 HUNGER Veena Das, Professor of Sociology, University of Delhi 45 LISTENING TO CHILDREN Priti Joshi, Lady Irwin College, Delhi 48 THE POLITICS OF CHILD CARE Vandana Prasad, Consulting Pediatrician and activist, Delhi 55 BOOKS Reviewed by Vasudha Dhagamwar, Sujata Sriram, Ananya Dasgupta, Reenee Singh and Shobhana Bhattacharji 64 RESEARCH Extracts from a report, 'Meeting the Needs of the Child in India' . 68 INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT Some facilities and programmes for children 71 FURTHER READING A select and relevant bibliography compiled by Asha Singh and Nidhi Ahuja 74 COMMUNICATION Received from Primila Lewis, Delhi 77 COMMENT Received from Purushottam Agrawal, Delhi 80 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Chowdhury Associates Back to the top REFUGEES. **Seminar #463: March 1998 a symposium on displacement, homelessness and statelessness 12 THE PROBLEM Posed by Ravi Nair, Director, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre, Delhi 14 WHO IS A REFUGEE? Radha Kumar, policy analyst and author, Delhi; former Executive Director of the Helsinki Citizen's Assembly 18 IN INTERNATIONAL LAW B.S. Chimni, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 23 REFUGEES AND HUMAN RIGHTS Brian Gorlick, Barrister and Solicitor, Ontario, Canada~ presently, Legal Officer, UNHCR, Delhi 28 HAVING LOST OUR HOMELAND Ahilan Arulanathan, doctoral student, Yale Law School, USA; and Elizbeth van Schaak, lawyer, International Criminal Court on the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, Netherlands 34 SURVIVAL DIGNITY AND DEMOCRACY Catherine Moller, graduate student, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, USA 41 PEOPLE WITHOUT A COUNTRY Nathan A. Limpert, student of law, Yale University, New Haven, USA 49 STATELESS IN SOUTH ASIA Sumit Sen, doctoral student of political science. London School of Economics, London, UK 55 PROVIDING REFUGE Arundhati Ghose, former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva 58 BOOKS Reviewed by Anindita Mukhopadhyay, Harsh Sethi, Seminarist, Suhas Chakma and Hiranmay Karlekar 69 FURTHER READING , A select and relevant bibliography compiled by Suhas Chakma, SAHRDC, Delhi 71 COMMUNICATIONS Received from Urvashi Butalia, Delhi, Nikhila Haritsa, Bangalore and Arvind Sharma, Montreal 75 IN MEMORIUM S. Guhan 1933-98 78 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Chowdhury Associates RIGHT TO EDUCATION. **Seminar #464: April 1998 a symposium on the state of basic education in our country 12 THE PROBLEM A short statement on the issues involved 14 SQUARING THE CIRCLE Jean Dreze, Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi 18 WHERE ARE WE AT? Ratna M. Sudarshan, Senior Economist, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi 22 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENTS Nalini Juneja, Fellow, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi 27 RETHINKING REVOLUTION IN BIHAR Bela Bhatia, Visiting Scholar, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi 31 TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS P.G. Vijaya Sherry Chand, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad 36 A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, Senior Fellow, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi 42 EXTERNAL FUNDS, INTERNAL CONFLICTS Vinod Raina, physicist, co-founder Eklavya, Bhopal 49 THE RURAL SCENE A. Vaidyanathan, Emeritus Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai 54 PROMISES, PROMISES Vimala Ramachandran, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Health Management, Jaipur 64 EXTRACT from Human Development in South Asia 1998 72 A DIALOGUE on education held by the Centre for Civil Society, Delhi 77 A REPORT by Avik Ghosh on the second Asia Regional Literacy Forum 79 BOOKS reviewed by Usha Jayachandran, Vimala Ramachandran, Shashank Vira and Ratna M. Sudarshan 85 FURTHER READING compiled by Nirmal Malhotra, NIEPA 87 IN MEMORIUM John Bissell 1931-98 90 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Chowdhury Associates POWER PLAY. **Seminar #465: May 1998 a symposium on the political landscape after the elections 12 THE PROBLEM a short statement on the issues involved 15 THE WELCOME ERA OF COALITION POLITICS Surjit S. Bhalla, President, Oxus Research and Investments, Delhi 20 SAFFRON KING, REGIONAL KNIGHTS Mahesh Rangarajan, Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi 24 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, DARKLY... Praful Bidwai, Columnist; Senior Fellow, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi 30 REACHING OUT Radhika Ramaseshan, Special Correspondent, 'The Telegraph' 35 FROM RESISTANCE TO RESIGNATION M. Aslam, Department of Politics, University of Allahabad 40 EVER THE OUTSIDER Pamela Philipose, Senior Editor, 'The Indian Express' 43 MEDIA TILTS P. Sainath, journalist, Mumbai 46 LIMITS TO SWADESHI C. Rammanohar Reddy, Deputy Editor, 'The Hindu', Chennai 50 ALLIANCES'98 Chandrika Parmar, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi 56 BOOKS Reviewed by Bibek Debroy, Smininarist, Archana Prasad, Suhhashini Ali, Harsh Sethi, Anandita Mukhopadhyay, Bharat Karnad and Dunn Roy 72 COMMUNICATIONS Received from Vina Mazumdar, Delhi and Deepak K. Singh, Chandigarh 77 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Chowdhury Associates Back to the top WILDLIFE. Seminar #466: June 1998 a symposium on reconciling the needs of man and wildlife 12 THE PROBLEM Posed by Vasant K. Saberwal, Research Associate, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore 17 THE AUTHORITARIAN BIOLOGIST Ramachandra Guha, environmental historian and writer, Bangalore 25 SACRED GROVES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY K. Ullas Karanth, Wildlife Conservation Society (India Programme), Bangalore 31 ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALI, Renee M. Borges, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 37 MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS Asad R. Rahmani, Director, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai 41 A PRINCELY BEQUEST Divyabhanusinh, author; former Vice President of tile BNHS; Member Cat Group, Species Survival Commission, IUCN, Delhi 46 A PROBLEM WITH PACHYDERMS Vivek Menon, conservation biologist; has been involved with anti-poaching and wildlife crime for a decade, Delhi 50 ANIMAL FARM Indraneil Das, IUCN/SSC South Asian Reptile and Amphibian Specialist Group. Centre for Herpetology, Manallapuram 53 WILDLIFE RESEARCH R.J. Ranjit Daniels, Professor of Biodiversity, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 57 A GREAT LEGACY DISSIPATED M. Krishnan, died 1996; was a veteran naturalist and photographer 59 FATAL LINKS Valmik Thapar, author; Executive Director, The Ranthambhore Foundation, Delhi 70 RESTRICTING HUMAN ACTIVITY M.D. Madhusudan, Centre for Ecological Research and Conservation, Mysore 74 NATURE AT STAKE Amita Baviskar, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi 79 BOOKS Reviewed by Sharachchandra Lele, Mahesh Rangarajan. Sumit Guha. Vasant K. Saberwal, Stella D'Costa, T.R. Shankar Raman, Rohan D'souza, Nandini Sundar and Carol Upadhya. 92 FURTHER READING Compiled by Vasant K. Saberwal 96 COMMENTS Received from Mahesh Rangarajan, Delhi, and Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar, Mumbai 100 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Chowdhury Associates CONSERVING OUR HERITAGE. **Seminar #467: July 1998 a symposium on the conservation of our man-made heritage 12 THE PROBLEM Posed by Ashis Banerjee, Secretary and Executive Director, INTACH, Delhi 14 CIVILIZATIONAL CONCERNS B.P. Singh, scholar and civil servant; currently Home Secretary, Government of India, Delhi 21 TOWARDS AN INDIAN CHARTER A.G. Krishna Menon, architect and conservationist; Director, TVB School of Habitat Studies, Delhi 27 NEED FOR LEGISLATION Vrinda Grover, consultant, Legal Cell, INTACH, Delhi 30 INSTITUTIONAL EFFORTS M. Velayudhan Nair, Officer on Special Duty, Department of Culture, Government of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram 33 SHOWCASING HERITAGE Ashis Banerjee, Secretary and Executive Director, INTACH, Delhi 37 STAND AND DELIVER Vivek Malhotra, consultant in the arts and media, Delhi 40 REMINISCENCES OF A CONSERVATOR O.P. Agrawal, Director General, Indian Council of Conservation Institutes, Lucknow 44 PLOUGHING A LONELY FURROW Rupika Chawla, conservator of paintings and author. Delhi 48 A PAINTER OF VISIONS Jyotirmaya Sharma, Assistant Editor, 'The Times of India', Delhi 51 BOOKS Reviewed by Sumanta Banerjee, Harsh Sethi, Bishnu Mohapatra, Ratnakar Tripathy and Gautam Bhatia 58 COMMENT Received from Ranjit Sethi, IFS; recently retired as India's Ambassador to France 62 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Chowdhury Associates NUCLEAR (IN)SECURITY. **Seminar #468: August 1998 a symposium on the fallout of the nuclear tests 12 THE PROBLEM Posed by Harsh Sethi, Consulting Editor, 'Seminar' 15 SCENARIOS IN SEARCH OF A BOMB Shiv Visvanathan, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of' Developing Societies, Delhi 20 NUCLEAR POWER AND HUMAN SECURITY Itty Abraham, Programme Director, Social Science Research Council, New York 24 TESTING THE WORLD ORDER Siddharth Varadarajan., Assistant Editor, 'The Times of India' 33 LIVING A NUCLEAR , LIFE Zia Mian, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University, USA 38 COPING WITH NUCLEAR REALITY Iftekharuzzarnan, Executive Director, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, (RCSS), Colombo 43 A VIE, W FROM NEPAL Kunda Dixit, journalist; Director, The Panos Institute of' South Asiaa and co-publisher, 'Himal', Kathmandu 46 MACHISMO, MADNESS AND A MESS L. Ramdas, retired Admiral; former Chief of the Naval Staff, Alibag, Maharashtra 50 DO NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROVIDE SECURITY? M.V. Ramana, The Securities Studies Programme, MIT, Cambridge 55 DISTORTION OF SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS Amulya K.N. Reddy, Director, International Energy Initiative, Bangalore 60 INDIAN SCIENCE AFTER POKHRAN II T. Jayaraman, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 65 SECURITY, MORALITY AND NATIONAL PRIDE Vinod Raina, physicist; co4oundcr Eklavya, 13hopal 69 LEGAL STATUS M. Siddharth, Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 71 DOCUMENT Indian Memorial to the ICJ 75 MAKING CHOICES Manjula Padmanabhan, playwright, Delhi 80 COMMENT Received from Bhaskar Bhattacharyya. writer and film-maker, Delhi 83 130OKS Reviewed by Anita Roy, Anindita Mukhopadhyay, M. Siddharth and Jug Suraiya 93 FURTHER READING Compiled by M. Siddharth, JNU, Delhi 98 COMMUNICATION Received from Medicio Friends Circle, Sevagram 99 IN MEMORIUM Nikhil Chakravartty, 1913-1998 102 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury, DCA Back to the top SWADESHI. **Seminar #469: September 1998 a symposium on the current rethinking on opening up the economy 12 THE PROBLEM a short statement on the issues involved 15 SWADESHI AND NATIONALISM S. Gurumurthy, Swadeshi Jagran Manch, Chennai 20 SWADESHI OR SELF-RELIANCE? Ashok Mitra, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha); former Finance Minister, Government of West Bengal 23 ECONOMIC POLICY AS A BY-PRODUCT Vinod Vyasulu, Consulting Economist and Secretary, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, Bangalore 28 FOOD FREEDOM AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM Vandana Shiva, Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, Delhi 35 TRUSTING OUR OWN GENIUS V. Kurien. Chairman. National Dairy Development Board, Anand, Gujarat 38 INTERVIEW With Adi Godrej, industrialist, by Ashok Upadhyay, Executive Editor. 'Business India', Mumbai 40 BOOKS Reviewed by Aditya Bhattacharjea, Alistair McMillan, Harsh Sethi and Makarand Paranjape 50 EXTRACTS From the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi 52 COMMUNICATION Received from Ishtiaq Ahmed and others 54 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Chowdhury Associates GUJARAT. **Seminar #470: October 1998 a symposium on the current trends in an important state 12 THE PROBLEM a short statement on the issues involved 14 NOT A NICE GUJARATI TO KNOW Meghnad Desai, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, UK 17 AN UNENDING STRUGGLE FOR GUJARAT'S POLITICAL SOUL Harish Khare, Deputy Editor, 'The Hindu', Delhi 24 ECONOMIC PROSPECTS Pravin Visaria, Director, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and Sudershan Iyengar, Professor, Gujarat Institute of' Development Research, Gota. Ahmedabad 30 POLARISED COMMUNITIES Ghanshyam Shah, Professor. Centre for Community Health and Social Medicine. Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 36 ECOLOGICAL CONCERNS Hasmukh Shah. Chairman. Gujarat Ecology Commission, Vadodara 41 IMAGES OF GUJARATI WOMEN Sonal Shukla, Women's Resource Documentation Centre (VACHA), Mumbai 47 GARAVI GUJARAT Niranjan Bhagat, President. GuJarati Sahitya Parishad 52 EVOLVING ARCHITECTURAL TRADITIONS R.J. Vasavada, Architect, Ahmedabad 58 MY MOTHER TONGUE Achyut Yagnik. Coordinator. Centre for Social Knowledge and Action (SETU), Ahmedabad 63 AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY A dialogue between Rameshchandra Parmar and Ashok Chaudhari 69 FACTFILE Some selected statistics 72 BOOKS Reviewed by Suchitra, Amrita Shodhan. B.J. Desai and Harsh Sethi 81 FURTHER READING Compiled by Tridip Suhrud, NID. Ahmedabad 85 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Chowdhury Associates DALIT. **Seminar #471: November 1998 a symposium on the voices, visions and political assertions of dalits 12 THE PROBLEM a short statement on the issues involved 14 THE POLITICS OF NAMING Gopal Guru, Mahatma Gandhi Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune 19 DALIT INTERPRETATIONS OF SOCIETY Ramesh Kamble, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai 24 TRANSFORMING DALIT POLITICS A. Gajendran, Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 28 THE ROOTS OF DALIT CONSCIOUSNESS Eleanor Zelliot, Professor of History Emerita, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA 33 CASTE AND ECONOMIC REFORMS K.S. Challam, Professor of Economics and Director, Academic Staff College, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam 38 THE BSP IN UTTAR PRADESH Sudha Pai, Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 43 UNDERSTANDING INDIGNITIES Bishnu N. Mohapatra, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 47 A DALIT FEMINIST STANDPOINT Sharmila Rege, Women's Studies Centre, Department of Sociology, University of Pune 53 ON A DALIT WOMAN'S TESTIMONY M.S.S. Pandian, Fellow, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai 57 A QUESTION OF QUOTAS Dipankar Gupta, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 63 COMMENT Received from Ashok Singh, Executive Editor, TVI, Delhi 66 BOOKS Reviewed by K.N. Panikkar, Sukumar Muralidharan, Arundhuti Roy Choudhury, Pradeep Kumar, Harsh Sethi and Shastri Ramachandaran 81 FURTHER READING Compiled by Sunita Gulati, IIPA, Delhi 84 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Designations EXTERNAL CHALLENGES. **Seminar #472. December 1998. a symposium on the challenges facing Indian foreign policy 12 THE PROBLEM Posed by J.N. Dixit, former Foreign Secretary, Government of India 21 IN SEARCH OF A FOREIGN POLICY Bhabani Sen Gupta, Centre for the Studies in Global Change, Delhi 26 POLITICS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Hari Vasudevan Department of History, Calcutta University, Calcutta 31 A COSY RELATIONSHIP Anuradha M. Chenoy, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 35 IMPROVING INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS Vinod C. Khanna. Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi 40 INDIA-JAPAN AND THE COMING CENTURY Brij Tankha, Department of Chinese and Japaneses Studies, Delhi University, Delhi 44 RELATING TO THE OIC Syed Shahabuddin, former MP and Editor, ''Muslim India,' Delhi 50 NEW PATHWAYS Rajen Harshe, Professor, Department of Political Science. University of Hyderabad 55 EVOLVING CONSENSUS Interview with I.K. Gujral, MP, and former Prime Minister of India, by Nandan Unnikrishnan, Head of Channel, TVI 58 FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE Satish Kumar, holds the MEA chair at the United Service Institute, Delhi; former Professor of Diplomacy, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Delhi 62 RETHINKING THE FUNDAMENTALS Shankar K. Bajpai, IFS. former Ambassador to Pakistan, China and the USA; and Secretary MEA 66 B0OKS Reviewed by Kamal M. Chenoy, Ajoy Bose, Usha Ramanathan, T. Nirmala Devi, Rita Manchanda, and Kanti Bajpai 79 FURTHER READING Compiled by Mallika Joseph A., Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, Delhi 85 COMMENT Received from Fumiko Amano, survivor of Hiroshima 86 COMMUNICATION Received from V. Geetha and S.V. Rajadurai, Chennai 88 BACKPAGE COVER Designed by Madhu Chowdhury of Dilip Choudhury Associates Back to the top