India Alive
Rupangi Sharma (Ed.)
About the Book
In the ferment of post-independent India, in 1959, the late Raj and Romesh Thapar gave birth to a seminal platform of fearless debate, Seminar.
Every month, the magazine voices a range of viewpoints on an issue that dominates the consciousness of the Indian public. Celebrating its 50th anniversary at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) in Shimla, South Asia’s most influential thinkers debated the role of institutions like Seminar on the state of public discourse and its impact on the future of the Indian polity.
This compelling volume offers the reader an opportunity to be a part of this seminar and reflect on the burning questions raised by Nayantara Sahgal, Shyam Benegal, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha, Sunil Khilnani, T.N. Ninan, Salman Khurshid, Shiv Visvanathan, Amita Baviskar, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Hameed Haroon, Kamal Hossain, Kanak Mani Dixit, among others.
Tune into India Alive and enjoy a discussion of ideas that spin a vivid narrative of the Indian democracy today, through the life and times of Seminar.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
Rupangi Sharma is a writer and an educationist. Her collection of poems, A Loving Embrace, was published in 2007. The late K.S. Duggal hailed her as ‘a poet who sings to the new age’. Her focus in the field of education is on the power of technology and its transformational role in learning and teaching.
She has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Central Institute of Education Technology (a constituent unit of NCERT) and the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, among other leading educational institutions in India and abroad.
Contributors
AMITA BAVISKAR
BARKHA DUTT
BHALCHANDRA MUNGEKAR
C. RAMMANOHAR REDDY
CHARLES CORREA
FALI S. NARIMAN
GANESH N. DEVY
GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI
HAMEED HAROON
HARSH SETHI
JAITHIRTH RAO
JASWANT SINGH
J.B. KRIPALANI
KAMAL HOSSAIN
KANAK MANI DIXIT
K.R. NARAYANAN
MALVIKA SINGH
NAYANTARA SAHGAL
PETER DESOUZA
PUPUL JAYAKAR
RAJ THAPAR
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
ROMILA THAPAR
RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE
SALMAN KHURSHID
SHASHI THAROOR
SHIV VISVANATHAN
SHIVSHANKAR MENON
SHYAM BENEGAL
SRI MADHAVA ASHISH
SUNIL KHILNANI
TEJBIR SINGH
T.N. NINAN
Contents in Detail
Introduction
MALVIKA SINGH
Moving Ahead
HARSH SETHI
Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements
RUPANGI SHARMA
Section 1 | The Idea of Seminar
The Idea of Seminar: All These Years
RAJ THAPAR
A New Mission
K.R. NARAYANAN
Memories
JASWANT SINGH
Section 2 | Celebrating the Birth of an Institution of Ideas
I
Glimpses
An Idea is Born
PETER DESOUZA
The Voice of India
GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI
The Thapars, Their Times
NAYANTARA SAHGAL
Public and Private, Debate and Ideas
SUNIL KHILNANI
Discussion: Point-Counterpoint
II
Glimpses
Intellectual Archive
T.N. NINAN
Seminar: The Seminal Archive
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
Constructing Seminar
SHIV VISVANATHAN
Discussion: Point-Counterpoint
III
Glimpses
South Asian Publication
KANAK MANI DIXIT
Cinemascope
SHYAM BENEGAL
Shrinking Public Sphere
AMITA BAVISKAR
Discussion: Point-Counterpoint
IV
Glimpses
Social Commitment
BHALCHANDRA MUNGEKAR
Intellectual Ghosts of the Political Class
SALMAN KHURSHID
Discussion: Point-Counterpoint
Album of Pictures
Profiles
Section 3 | A Question of Issues
Deep Roots
J.B. KRIPALANI
Our National Character
RAJ THAPAR
The Adivasi Mahashweta
GANESH N. DEVY
The Changing Indian Media Scene
T.N. NINAN
21st Century Leadership
SHASHI THAROOR
The Epic of the Bharatas
ROMILA THAPAR
The Way Forward
FALI S. NARIMAN
Politicians Under Siege
BARKHA DUTT
A Question of Issues
CHARLES CORREA
Section 4 | Remembering Raj and Romesh Thapar
RAJ THAPAR (1926-1987)
ROMESH THAPAR (1922-1987)
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Number of Pages | 206 |
| ISBN |
9789332701694 |
Academic Foundation (AF), based in New Delhi, is India’s leading independent publisher of academic/scholarly books in Social Sciences, specialising in Economics—Development Economics and Indian Economy in particular, and allied subjects.
About the Book
In the ferment of post-independent India, in 1959, the late Raj and Romesh Thapar gave birth to a seminal platform of fearless debate, Seminar.
Every month, the magazine voices a range of viewpoints on an issue that dominates the consciousness of the Indian public. Celebrating its 50th anniversary at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) in Shimla, South Asia’s most influential thinkers debated the role of institutions like Seminar on the state of public discourse and its impact on the future of the Indian polity.
This compelling volume offers the reader an opportunity to be a part of this seminar and reflect on the burning questions raised by Nayantara Sahgal, Shyam Benegal, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha, Sunil Khilnani, T.N. Ninan, Salman Khurshid, Shiv Visvanathan, Amita Baviskar, C. Rammanohar Reddy, Hameed Haroon, Kamal Hossain, Kanak Mani Dixit, among others.
Tune into India Alive and enjoy a discussion of ideas that spin a vivid narrative of the Indian democracy today, through the life and times of Seminar.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
Rupangi Sharma is a writer and an educationist. Her collection of poems, A Loving Embrace, was published in 2007. The late K.S. Duggal hailed her as ‘a poet who sings to the new age’. Her focus in the field of education is on the power of technology and its transformational role in learning and teaching.
She has worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, Central Institute of Education Technology (a constituent unit of NCERT) and the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, among other leading educational institutions in India and abroad.
Contributors
AMITA BAVISKAR
BARKHA DUTT
BHALCHANDRA MUNGEKAR
C. RAMMANOHAR REDDY
CHARLES CORREA
FALI S. NARIMAN
GANESH N. DEVY
GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI
HAMEED HAROON
HARSH SETHI
JAITHIRTH RAO
JASWANT SINGH
J.B. KRIPALANI
KAMAL HOSSAIN
KANAK MANI DIXIT
K.R. NARAYANAN
MALVIKA SINGH
NAYANTARA SAHGAL
PETER DESOUZA
PUPUL JAYAKAR
RAJ THAPAR
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
ROMILA THAPAR
RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE
SALMAN KHURSHID
SHASHI THAROOR
SHIV VISVANATHAN
SHIVSHANKAR MENON
SHYAM BENEGAL
SRI MADHAVA ASHISH
SUNIL KHILNANI
TEJBIR SINGH
T.N. NINAN
Contents in Detail
Introduction
MALVIKA SINGH
Moving Ahead
HARSH SETHI
Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements
RUPANGI SHARMA
Section 1 | The Idea of Seminar
The Idea of Seminar: All These Years
RAJ THAPAR
A New Mission
K.R. NARAYANAN
Memories
JASWANT SINGH
Section 2 | Celebrating the Birth of an Institution of Ideas
I
Glimpses
An Idea is Born
PETER DESOUZA
The Voice of India
GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI
The Thapars, Their Times
NAYANTARA SAHGAL
Public and Private, Debate and Ideas
SUNIL KHILNANI
Discussion: Point-Counterpoint
II
Glimpses
Intellectual Archive
T.N. NINAN
Seminar: The Seminal Archive
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
Constructing Seminar
SHIV VISVANATHAN
Discussion: Point-Counterpoint
III
Glimpses
South Asian Publication
KANAK MANI DIXIT
Cinemascope
SHYAM BENEGAL
Shrinking Public Sphere
AMITA BAVISKAR
Discussion: Point-Counterpoint
IV
Glimpses
Social Commitment
BHALCHANDRA MUNGEKAR
Intellectual Ghosts of the Political Class
SALMAN KHURSHID
Discussion: Point-Counterpoint
Album of Pictures
Profiles
Section 3 | A Question of Issues
Deep Roots
J.B. KRIPALANI
Our National Character
RAJ THAPAR
The Adivasi Mahashweta
GANESH N. DEVY
The Changing Indian Media Scene
T.N. NINAN
21st Century Leadership
SHASHI THAROOR
The Epic of the Bharatas
ROMILA THAPAR
The Way Forward
FALI S. NARIMAN
Politicians Under Siege
BARKHA DUTT
A Question of Issues
CHARLES CORREA
Section 4 | Remembering Raj and Romesh Thapar
RAJ THAPAR (1926-1987)
ROMESH THAPAR (1922-1987)
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Number of Pages | 206 |
| ISBN |
9789332701694 |
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