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Dr. Sushila Ramaswamy

Mobile: 9811795482

Tel ® 40561346

Email id (official) sramaswamy@jmc.du.ac.in

Email id (Personal)sushilaramawamy@gmail.com/sushilaramaswamy@hotmail.com

Res: N 1, Third Floor, Chittaranjan Park, New Delhi 110019

Teaching in JMC since 1981. Permanent in 1983

Ph.d. (Rawls and His Critics), 1988, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi

M. Phil (The Concept of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the Marxist Thought), 1982 Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi

Merit Scholarship by the Central Board of Secondary Education (Delhi) from 1976-79

12th Merit Position in Delhi State in Arts in Higher Secondary Examinations in 1976

Teaching/Research Interest in Political Theory and Comparative Politics

Post-doctoral work as a Fulbright Hays Grantee from Bloomington, Indiana University, USA on the Neoconservatism in US, 1991-92

British Council Grant to work on New Right, University of Kent, Canterbury, Britain, 1994

Visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore, 1996

UGC Research Award for a project Post-Cold War Social Concerns: Women’s Representation in a Comparative Perspective, 2004-2007

ICCR Empanelment for its India Chairs Abroad, 2017

Presented 13 lectures on Western Political Thinkers (Greek Political Thought, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Bentham, Adam Smith, J.S. Mill, T.H. Green,

John Rawls) as part of the UGC countrywide classroom lectures in 1990-91

Received Minor Research Grant:

(1) Gandhi and the Autonomy of Modern Indian Thought (1989) (2) Rawls and his Critics (1986) (Ph.D. Thesis)

Received ICSSR Ph. D. Publication Grant in 1989

IPSA (International Political Science Association) Travel Grant to attend its IPSA World Congress in 1991, 2003, 2006, 2016 (details in the section on Conferences attended)

UGC Travel Grant to attend IPSA Conferences in 2003, 2006, 2016 (details in the section on Conferences attended)

mailto:sushilaramawamy@gmail.com/sushilaramaswamy@hotmail.com

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Supervision:4 students for M. Phil. Dissertations (Three University of Delhi and One from Madurai Kamaraj University

Member of Committee for designing curriculum for MA in Gandhian Studies Programme for IGNOU, New Delhi, 2012

Compiled bibliography for Political Theory/Thought sections for UGC Committee on Development of Curriculum for Political Science and Public Administration, 2000

CLASSES AND PAPERS TAUGHT

1981 till date

BA (Hons) in JMC

Colonialism and Nationalism in India

Political Theory

Political Thought

Indian Political Thought

United Nations

Indian Foreign Policy

Comparative Politics

Citizenship in a Globalizing world

Reading Gandhi

BA PASS/PROGRAMME in JMC

Political Theory

Comparative Politics

Indian Government and Politics

Subsidiaries for Hons Courses in JMC

Political Theory

2006-07 (One year) MA class in Main Campus, University of Delhi, Paper: Theory and Practice of

Democracy.

1997-2001 (Four years) MA classes in South Campus, University of Delhi, Papers: Political Theory

and Western Political Thought.

2001-02 (One year) MA classes in South Campus, University of Delhi, Papers: Marxist Political Theory

and Liberal Political Theory.

2002-04 (Two years) MA classes in South Campus, University of Delhi, Papers: Political Theory and

Western Political Thought.

2001-02 M. Phil classes in Political Theory, South Campus, University of Delhi

1988-89 M. Phil classes in Political Theory, South Campus, University of Delhi

1996 (Two semesters) BA Courses Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore,

Singapore.

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Political Ideologies,

Political Theory

Asian Political Thought (section on Indian Political Thought)

Teacher in Charge, Department of Political Science (1987-89, 1997-99, 2011-2013, 2017-19)

1987-88 Staff Advisor, Political Science Association (1983-86 and 1987-88)

CONVENOR/ MEMBER OF SOCIETIES IN COLLEGE

2019-20 Convenor, Student Council

2019-20 Convenor ECA

2017-18 Staff Advisor, Student Council

2016-19 Member IQAC

2015-16 Convenor, Student Council

2014-16 Convenor, Research Committee

2014-15 (Co-Convenor, Student Council

2013-14 Staff Advisor, Innovation Project Research Committee

2013-14 Member, Budget Committee for Montage

2013-15 (Co-Convenor) ECA Committee

2012 Member, Budget Committee for College Festival Montage

2010-17 Anti Ragging Committee

2009-11 Member, ECA Committee

2009-10 Staff Advisor (Convenor), Student Council

2008-09 Staff Advisor (Co-convenor), Student Council

2007-08 Member, Sports Committee

2005-07 Convenor, ECA Committee

2005-07 Convenor, Women’s Studies and Development Cell

1997-2000 Convenor, Indian Cultural Society

1991-95 Quiz Society

1986-88 Cauldron Magazine Society

1985-88 NSS

1984-86 Photography Society (started the society in college)

1981-84, JMCEP

AREAS OF RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

Political Theory (History of Political Ideas, Analysis of Concepts).

Political Thought from Plato to Marx.

Contemporary Political Theory.

Indian thought with special reference to Gandhi.

History of Feminism

Women in the Political Process. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Member (1990- till date), International Political Science Association (IPSA)

Member (2000 till date) IPSA Research Committees (1) Political Philosophy (2) Gender and Politics

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EXTENT TO WHICH MY PUBLISHED WORKS IS REFERRED TO BY OTHER SCHOLARS

IN THE SUBJECT

Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts is a prescribed text in the following universities:

International

1. Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. 2. St. Paul University of Philippines, Philippines.

National

3. Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana. 4. Vikram University, Ujjain, MP. 5. Ulsaindia. 6. Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, MP. 7. Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam. 8. Punjab University, Chandigarh. 9. Acharya Nagarjuna University, AP. 10. Patkai Christian College, Dimapur, Nagaland. 11. Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland. 12. Cotton College State University, Guwahati, Assam. 13. Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, HP. 14. St. Joseph College, Bangalore, Karnataka. 15. West Bengal State University, Kolkata, West Bengal. 16. S.D. Jain College, Surat, Gujarat and Dimarpur, West Bengal. 17. Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat. 18. Mizoram University, Aizwal, Mizoram. 19. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra, UP. 20. Goa University, Goa. 21. Nagpur University, Nagpur, MP. 22. Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharasthra 23. SNDT, Mumbai, Maharasthra. 24. Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal. 25. Rani Channamma University, Belgaum, Karnataka. 26. Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Bellary, Karnataka. 27. Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal. 28. Distance Education, University of Jammu, J&K. 29. Arni University, HP. 30. Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka. 31. University of Gour Banga, West Bengal. 32. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP. 33. Central University of Bihar, Patna, Bihar. 34. University of Allahabad, Allahabad, UP. 35. Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab. 36. Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab. 37. University of Gour Bangla, Malda, West Bengal. 38. University of Calicut, Calicut, Kerala. 39. University School of law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind IP University, New Delhi. 40. Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal. 41. University of Calcutta, West Bengal.

Liberty, Equality and Justice: Rawls’ Political Theory is a prescribed reading in SNDT, Mumbai.

Marxist Theory of the State: Dictatorship of the Proletariat is a prescribed reading in North Eastern Hill

University Shillong.

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Select chapters from Women in Political Thought: The Quest for Gender Equality and Beyond, University

of Delhi, Delhi.

A History of Political Thought: From Plato to Marx (co-athored) is a prescribed text in the following

universities:

International

1. University of Hamburg, Germany. 2. Beune State University, Makuid, Nigeria. 3. BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

National

4. The University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. 5. Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh. 6. University of Baroda, Varodara, Gujarat. 7. University of Tripura, Agartala. 8. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, Maharasthra. 9. Benares Hindu University, Benaras, UP. 10. The Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka. 11. University of Calicut, Calicut, Kerala 12. University of Pune, Pune, Maharasthra. 13. Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer, Rajasthan. 14. Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh. 15. Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam. 16. Dibrugarh University, Assam. 17. Institute of Distance Education, University of Kerala, Thiruvanthapuram, Kerala. 18. S.D. Jain College, Surat and Dimarpur, Nagaland. 19. Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat. 20. Mizoram University, Aizwal, Mizoram. 21. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra, UP. 22. Goa University, Goa. 23. Nagpur University, Nagpur, MP. 24. Jan Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, Rajasthan. 25. Guru Nanak University, Amritsar, Punjab. 26. Central University of Bihar, Patna, Bihar. 27. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Nizamsagar, AP. 28. Central University of Kashmir, Ganderbal, J & K. 29. Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal. 30. University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University,

Delhi.

31. Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland. 32. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP. 33. Central University of Bihar, Patna, Bihar. 34. Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana. 35. Andhra University, Vishakapatnam, AP. 36. North Hill University, Shillong, Meghlaya. 37. Kanpur University, Kanpur, UP. 38. Ideku, University of Kerala, Kerala. 39. Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal. 40. University of Calcutta, West Bengal.

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Theoretical Foundations of Comparative Politics (co-authored) is a prescribed text in the following

universities:

1. Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal. 2. University of Calcutta, West Bengal. 3. Mangalore University, Mangalore 4. Bankura University, West Bengal 5. Gaur Banga University, West Bengal 6. North Bengal University, West Bengal 7. Kerala University, Thirvanthupuram 8. Jammu University, Jammu 9. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchu 10. Kazi Narul University, Asanol, West Bengal 11. Calcutta University, Kolkata 12. Davangere University, Karnataka

A History of Socialist Thought: From Precursors to the Present (co-authored) is a prescribed text in the

following universities:

International

1. University of Sussex’s Social and Political Philosophy. National

2. Punjab University, Chandigarh. 3. Punjab University, Patiala. 4. Kurukshetra University. 5. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. 6. University of Calcutta, West Bengal.

Facets of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violence and Satyagaha, Vol.1 (co-edited) is a recommended text for

course MA in Conflict Management and Development, Malaviya Centre for Peace Research, Faculty of

Social Sciences, Benares Hindu University.

George Friedrich Hegel (co-edited) is a recommended reading in Vikram University, Ujjain.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (co-edited) is a recommended reading for

1) MA Women’s studies and Computer Application, Andhra University 2) Women Studies Centre, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

BOOKS (Individual)

Women in Political Thought: Quest for Gender Equality and Beyond, Hyderabad, Orient BlackSwan, (ISBN 978-93-86689-58-0), xiv+408 pages, 2018.

Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts, Second Edition, New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India, (ISBN 978-81-203-5048-9), xii+564 pages, 201, 2014.

Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts, New Delhi, Macmillan, (ISBN 0333 937 988), x+506 pages, 2003.

Marxist Theory of the State: Dictatorship of the Proletariat, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-579-9), x+180 pages, 1993.

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Liberty, Equality and Social Justice: Rawls’ Political Theory, New Delhi, Ajantha Publications, (ISBN 81-202-2091-0), xi+252 pages, 1990.

CO-AUTHOR

Theoretical Foundations of Comparative Politics (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee, Hyderabad, Orient Blackswan (ISBN 978-93-86296-30-6) xi+290 pages, 2017.

A History of Socialism, (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee), New Delhi, Publications Division, (ISBN 978-81-230-1863-8) 430 pages, 2014.

A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx, Second Edition (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee), New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India, (ISBN 97-81-203-4389-4 Second Edition),

xii+561 pages, 2014.

Democracy in Theory and Practice, (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee) New Delhi, Macmillan, (ISBN 1403-92496 I), xxxii+324 pages, 2005.

A History of Socialist Thought: from the Precursors to the Present, (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee), New Delhi, Sage Publications, (ISBN 81 7036 929- 0 (India HB; 81- 7036 938 X

India PB; 0-7619-9437-8 (US HB; 81-7619-9465 3 (US PB), 464 pages, 2000.

Pashchimi Rajnithi chintan (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee), Delhi, Directorate of Hindu Medium Implementation, Delhi, University of Delhi, 400 pages, 2000.

A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee), New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India, (ISBN 81-203-1499), viii+432 pages, 1999.

Samajik chintan ki ithihaas (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee) Delhi, Directorate of Hindi Medium Implementation, Delhi, University of Delhi, 611 pages, 1999.

CO-EDITOR

Great Western Political Thinkers in 12 Volumes (Socrates, Cicero, St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, Marsilio of Padua/William of Ockham, Jean Bodin/Hugo Grotius, David Hume, Tom Paine,

Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Montesquieu/Voltaire, Alexis de Tocqueville), co- edited with

Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and Biographical Sketch to each volume, New Delhi, Deep

and Deep, (ISBN 81-7629-150-1 (set), 1999.

Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth century co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, 1998 (ISBN 81-7629-151-X),

xii+162 pages, 1998.

World’s Greatest Socialist Thinkers in 25 Volumes (Thomas More, Gerrard Winstanley, James Harrington, Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin, Saint Simon, Robert Owen, Francois

Charles Fourier, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Bakunin, Karl Heinrich Marx, Friedrich Engels,

Wilhelm Liebknecht, William Morris, August Bebel, Prince Peter Kropotkin, Franz Mehring,

Georges Sorel, Eduard Bernstein, Karl Johann Kautsky, George Plekhanov, Vladimir Illyich

Ulyanov Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong) co-edited with Subrata

Mukherjee an Introduction and Biographical Sketch to each volume, New Delhi, Deep and

Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-7759 Set), 1997.

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August Bebel’s Woman in the Past, Present and Future, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-749-5),

xi+286 pages, 1996.

Issues in Comparative Politics, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 978-8171-00814), 1996.

Political Science Annual 1996, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-883-X), xvi+406 pages, 1996.

J.S. Mill’s The Subjection of Women, co-edited with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-801-1), x+130 pages, 1995.

Political Science Annual 1994-95, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100- 709-0), xvi+459 pages, 1995.

Facets of Mahatma Gandhi in 4 Volumes (Non-Violence and Satyagraha, Political Ideas, Economic and Social Principles, Ethics, Religion and Culture), co-edited with Subrata

Mukherjee an Introduction to each volume, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-669-0

set), 1995.

Political Science Annual 1993, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-532-2), xvi+406 pages, 1993.

Great Western Political Thinkers in 12 Volumes (Plato, Aristotle, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, Georg

Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Stuart Mill, Karl Heinrich Marx and Thomas Hill Green), co-

edited with Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and Biographical Sketch to each volume, New

Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-563-2 set), 1993.

Political Science Annual 1992, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee, New Delhi, Deep, (ISBN 81-7100-454-7), xii+266 pages, 1992.

Mary Wollstonstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of the Woman, co-edited with Subrata Mukherjee an Introduction and Explanatory Notes, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, (ISBN 81-

7100-465-2), xii+231 pages, 1992.

RESEARCH ARTICLES

International

India’s Crisis of Governance: Women’s perspective, Policy and Society, Vol. 24, No, 3, pp. 122-141 (ISSN 1449-4035), 2005.

Nation State Formation and the Process of Democratization in the Developing world in Asia in the New Millennium: APISA First Congress Proceedings edited by Amitav Acharya and Lee

Lai To, Marshall Cavendish Academic, Singapore, pp. 462-76. (ISBN 983-210-395-3), 2004.

National

Debates in Women’s Suffrage Movement, IIC Quarterly, Vole 46, No.1, Summer, pp. 117-27 (ISSN No.3376-9771), 2019.

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The Kantian Roots of the Notion of Democratic Peace: Its Relevance in the Contemporary world of Democratization, Journal of Polity and Society, vol. 5, issue.3, July-Dec, pp 19-30

(ISSN 0976-0210), 2014.

“The Incompleteness of Multiculturalist Agenda: Overlooking the Need for a Shared Identity” Economic and Political Weekly, September 15-21, pp. 3090-96. (ISSN 0012-9976), 2007.

“Universalization of Democracy: The Seminal Importance of Rawls’ Paradigm for the Developing World” in Indian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 27, No.1, winter, pp. 27-34,

(ISSN 6019-5030), 1999.

“Rawls’ Theory of Civil Disobedience in the Gandhian perspective” in Gandhi Marg, July-September, pp. 179-197. (ISSN 0016-4437), 1999.

Chapters in Compilations

“The Rights of Woman”, Human Rights: Indian Perspective, MGPE 016, IGNOU, New Delhi, January, pp 107-117, (ISBN 978-81-266-6301-9), 2013.

“Understanding Civil Society”, Civil Society, Political Regimes and Conflict MGPE 013, IGNOU, New Delhi, February, pp. 11-20, (ISBN 978-81-266-5895-4), 2012.

“Elements of Civil Society”, Civil Society, Political Regimes and Conflict MGPE 013, IGNOU, New Delhi, February, pp. 20-30, (ISBN 978-81-266-5895-4), 2012.

“Civil Society: Local and Global”, Civil Society, Political Regimes and Conflict MGPE 013, IGNOU, New Delhi, 2012, pp. 30-40, (ISBN 978-81-266-5895-4), 2012.

Voluntarism and Gandhi”, Civil Society, Political Regimes and Conflict MGPE 013, IGNOU, New Delhi, February, pp. 40-50, (ISBN 978-81-266-5895-4), 2012.

“Swaraj”, Philosophy of Gandhi MGP 002, IGNOU, New Delhi, August, pp. 161-171 (ISBN 978-81-266-4811-5), 2010.

“Duties”, Philosophy of Gandhi MGP 002, IGNOU, New Delhi, August, pp. 152-60, (ISBN 978-81-266-4811-5), 2010.

“Power and Authority”, Gandhi’s Political Thought, MPG 004, IGNOU, New Delhi, July, pp. 80-89, (ISBN 978-81-366-4849-8), 2010.

“Liberty and Equality”, Gandhi’s Political Thought, MPG 004, IGNOU, New Delhi, July, pp. 70- 79, (ISBN 978-81-366-4849-8), 2010.

“Rights and Duties”, Gandhi’s Political Thought, MPG 004, IGNOU, New Delhi, July, pp. 51-60, (ISBN 978-81-366-4849-8), 2010.

“Gandhi’s concept of Nationalism”, Gandhi’s Political Thought, MPG 004, IGNOU, New Delhi July, pp. 41-50, (ISBN 978-81-366-4849-8), 2010.

“The Limits of Multiculturalism in a Liberal Polity: Need for a Shared Identity” in Cultural Diversity, Governance and Policy: India- Australia, edited by D. Gopal and Alan Mayne,

Delhi, Shipra Publications, pp. 78-89, (ISBN 978-81-7541-476-1), 2009.

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“Edmund Burke” in Western Political Thought (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee) MPSEE 003, IGNOU, New Delhi, December, pp.117-126, (ISBN 81-266-0958-3), 2003.

“Alexis de Tocqueville” in Western Political Thought (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee) MPSEE 003, IGNOU, New Delhi, December, pp.143-151, (ISBN 81-266-0958-3), 2003.

“Marxist Response to the Gender Question: The Seminal Importance of Bebel’s work” in Relevance of the Communist Manifesto, edited by Ambrose Pinto and Somen Chakraborty, New

Delhi, Indian Social Institute, pp. 61-70, (ISBN 81-87218-24-X), 2000.

“Rethinking the Welfare State: The Neo Conservative Perspective” in Political Science Annual 1999, edited by M.M. Sankhdher, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, pp. 237-247, (ISBN 81-7629-

246-8), 1999.

“Civil Disobedience and Contemporary Political Theory” in Political Science Annual 1996, edited by Subrata Mukherjee and Sushila Ramaswamy, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, pp 25-52.

(ISBN 81-7100-883-8), 1996.

“The Anarchist Critique of Marxism” in Political Science Annual 1994-95, edited by Subrata Mukherjee and Sushila Ramaswamy, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, pp. 17-32. (ISBN 81-7100-

709-0), 1995.

“Bentham-Utilitarian and Radical Reformer” in Political Science Annual 1993, edited by Subrata Mukherjee and Sushila Ramaswamy, New Delhi, Deep and Deep, pp. 349-355. (ISBN

81-7100-532-2), 1993.

Book Reviews

K Lalita and Deepa Dhanraj, Rupture, Loss and Living: Minority Women Speak about Post Conflict Life, Governance Now, March 1-15, Vol. 8. Issue 03, 2017.

Ashwini Deshpande Affirmative Action in India, The Book Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No 5, May, pp.12-13, 2014.

William M. Paul The State: Its Origin and Function, The Book Review, Vol. XXXVII, No 12, December, pp. 22-23, 2013.

Mangesh Kulkarni (Ed.) Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Political Theory, The Book Review, Vol. XXXVII, Number 5, May, pp 5-6, 2013.

Gurpreet Mahajan and Surinder Jodhka (Ed)’s Religion, Community and Development: Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.

XLVI, No. 12, March 19, pp 31-32. (ISSN 0012-9976), 2011.

M.R. Narayanaswamy, Inside an Elusive Mind, Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 2, December. (ISSN 0218-5377), 2004.

Sumantra Bose, Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace and Chidananda Dasgupta, War and Diplomacy in Kashmir 1947-48, Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 12, No. 1, June.

(ISSN 0218-5377), 2004.

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Nalini Rajan, Secularism, Democracy and Justice: Implication of Rawlsian Principles for India, Gandhi Marg, January- March. (ISSN 0016-4437), 2004.

A Seminal Contribution to Political Philosophy: John Rawls’ The Law of Peoples, The Radical Humanist, Vol. 64, No. 12, March 2001. (ISSN 2175-7291), 2001.

Manoranjan Mohanty, Patha Nath Mukherji and Olle Tornquist, People’s Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World, Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 9, No.1,

June. (ISSN 0218-5377), 2000.

B. Vivekanandan (ed.), Building on Solidarity: Social Democracy and the New Millennium, The West Bengal Political Science Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, January-June, 2000.

Daniel A. Bell, David Brown, Kanishka Jayasurya and David Martin Jones, Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia, Asian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 4, No. 2, December.

(ISSN 0218-5377), 1996.

Lina Gonslaves, Women and the Law, Pauline B. Hart and Eileen Geil Moran, Violence Against Women: The Bloody Footprints, Kusum (ed.), Women: March Towards Dignity: Socio Legal

Perspectives, Corrine Squire (ed.), Women and Aids: Psychological Perspective and Amrita

Basu, Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women’s Activism in India, The Hindustan

Times, 5th February, 1994.

Carole Seymour Jones, Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict, The Statesman, 25th September, 1993.

Michael Dingake, My Fight against Aparthied, Helen Shityuwete, Never Follow the Wolf: The Autobiography of a Freedom Fighter and Tom Jenkin, Escape from Pretoria, India Quartely,

Vol. XLVII, 4, October- December. (ISSN 0974-9254), 1992.

Raymond Plant, Equality, Markets and the State, Fabian Tract # 494, Democratic World, 26th May, 1985.

Bernard Crick, Socialist Values and Time, Fabian tract # 495, Democratic World, 3rd March, 1985.

NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Parliamentary Pioneer: Nancy Astor, The Statesman, 6th December, 2019

A Questioning Mind: Sastri, The Statesman, 3rd October, 2019

Contrasting Models: Sheila Dikshit and Mamata Bannerjee, The Statesman, 30th June, 2019

The First Revisionist (Friedrich Engels), (co-author Subrata Mukherjee, The Statesman, 5th April, 2019

Centenary of the Vote, The Statesman, 23rd June, 2018

On Your Marx, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Statesman, 10th May, 2018

Feminism and the Vote, The Statesman, 21st April, 2018

Incomplete Women’s Lib: Soviet Feminism, The Statesman, 17th December, 2017

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The God that Failed (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Statesman, 22nd November, 2017

Second Wave Feminism, The Statesman, 12 October, 2017

Karl Marx: A Bicentennial Tribute, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee) The Statesman, 27th May, 2017

Prisoner of Gender: Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Candidacy, The Statesman, 9th December, 2016

Abolish or Retain? Death Penalty, The Statesman, 5th August, 2015

Who Plans the Planners, The Statesman, 21st January, 2015

Time to honour all our Founding Fathers, The Statesman, 8th January, 2015

Full Face Veil Ban: Retrieving the Liberal Political Space, The Statesman, 3rd August, 2014

Rights of the Minorities, The Statesman, 12th June, 2014

The Winner takes All: First Past the Post System, The Statesman, 3rd June, 2014

A vote for Instability: Kejriwal’s plank, The Statesman, 28th April, 2014

Democratic Pluralism: Robert A Dahl, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee) The Statesman, 10th March, 2014

Kejriwal’s Anarchism, The Statesman, 15th February, 2014

State to Political System: The Relevance of David Easton’s Philosophy, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee, The Statesman, 5

th January, 2014

A Way of Life: Legitimizing Live in Relationships, The Statesman, 22nd December, 2013

The Right to Recall: Accountability with Representative Democracy, The Statesman, 24th June, 2013

Idea of History: Eric Hobsbawn’s Grand Narrative, The Statesman, 12th December, 2012

Society and Nature Elinor Ostrom’s Paradigm of Development Economics, The Statesman, 5th

August, 2012

The Crown and the Queen, The Statesman, 3rd July, 2012

The Enduring Legacy of Rousseau, The Statesman, 27th June, 2012

Eclipse of the Left, The Statesman, 28th March, 2012

The Anthem is 100: When Jana Gana Mana Scored over Vande Mataram, The Statesman, 16th January, 2012

Liberty and Equality: Hobhouse, The Statesman, 22 January, 2012

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100 Years of National Anthem, Amar Ujala 27th December, 2011

Sociologist with a human face: Daniel Bell, The Statesman, 2nd March, 2011

Corruption thwarts progress The Spreading Canker and the lack of Political Will, The

Statesman, 24th February, 2011

Saint Simon: For a World Governed by Scientific Elite, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee) The Statesman, 18th November, 2010

Constitutional Monarch: not an oddity but a rational choice, The Statesman, 18th October,

2010

First Past the Post: Voice of the Majority is Unrepresented, The Statesman, 16th July, 2010

Feminised Politics: Need for a Holistic and Inclusive Approach, The Statesman, 29th April, 2010

Twenty Years Later: Lessons from the Process of Change, The Statesman, 9th December,

2009

A Tribute to Proudhon (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Statesman, 30th October, 2009.

A Defender of Individual Liberty: Thomas Paine (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The

Statesman, 28th August, 2009

Madam Speaker: Journey towards Real Empowerment of Women, The Statesman, 14th

June, 2009

Politics of the Pub: Propagation of Two Cultures despite Equality of Sexes, The Statesman, 15th February, 2009

Clash of Civilizations: The Continued Relevance of Huntington’s Work, The Statesman, 11th

January, 2009

Limits of Integration: Implication of Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, The Statesman, 27th June, 2008

Left Parties on a Plateau, The Statesman, 30th January, 2008

Empower the Privileged (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Statesman, 26th August, 2007

Silently she does it: Mayawati and the New Revisionism in Indian Politics, The Statesman, 22nd May, 2007

Sharing of Power: language and Federalism skewed in Sri Lanka, The Statesman, 13th March, 2007

Women’s Representation in the Indian Political Process, Gyan Bhandar, March, 2007

Minority Question (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Statesman, 30th January, 2007

14

Marxism in Russia: 150 Years of Plekhanov (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Statesman, 26

th December, 2006

Politics of Presence: Representation of the Marginalized, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee) The Statesman, 23

rd September, 2006

Tragedy to Farce: French Students rebellion, The Statesman, 7th April, 2006

Quota Question: the overriding importance of merit, The Statesman, 22nd November, 2005

Training Politicians does not work, The Indian Express, 19th September, 2005

War and Peace: West must follow Rules of Equity and Justice (co-author with Subrata

Mukherjee, The Statesman, 27th June, 2005.

Democracy by Force: The US seeks to encompass the World (co-author with Subrata Mukherjee, The Statesman, 13

th May, 2005.

Order on Jharkhand: No Intrusion into Legislative or Executive Authority, The Statesman, 24th

March, 2005.

Kashmir Imbroglio: Manmohan Singh’s Initiative and Pakistani Diatribe, The Statesman, 3rd January, 2005.

Upholding Liberty: Defeat of Gender Discriminatory Bill in Kashmir is very welcome, The Statesman, 17

th September, 2004

“Great Leap Forward? Three Women Chief Ministers”, The Statesman, 21st December, 2003

“Hedgewar and the RSS”, The Statesman, 23rd and 24th June, 2003

“Left in the Lurch”, The Telegraph, 17th June, 2003

“Managing Plural Societies: Why Singapore succeeded when Sri Lanka failed”, The Radical Humanist, Vol. 67, No. 3, June, 2003

“Bleak future for dynastic politics: How family factor is getting irrelevant”, The Tribune, 6th May, 2003

“LTTE and Peace”, The Statesman, 29th September, 2002

“Roots of Resentment: Nozick on why intellectuals oppose capitalism”, The Statesman, 28th April, 2002

“Back to Utopia: Sir Thomas More”, The Statesman, 13th April, 2001

“Oh Jaya! What a Fall”, The Indian Express, 6th April, 2001

“Religion Strengthens Democracy” (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Indian Express, 20th February, 2001

“Rights as Absolute and Universal”, The Telegraph, 8th December, 2000

15

“Dependency Theory: History’s Verdict Against It”, The Statesman, 2nd and 3rd November, 2000

“Succession Issue: Leadership must emerge from the Grassroots”, The Statesman, 10th October, 2000

“Women in Indian Polity”, jayahey.com, August, reprinted in pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2000/fjul2000/f070720001.html, 2000

“Women’s Human Rights: A Global Phenomenon, PIB Features, 7th June. pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2000/fjun2000/f070620001.html; Reprinted in Digvijay Times, 30

th June,

2000

“Representation of Women”, The Deccan Herald, 7th May, 2000

“Liberal Whig on New Labour’s Head”, The Telegraph, 6th April, 2000

“Women’s Duties: Feminism needs to Integrate Socially”, The Statesman, 15th March, 2000.

“On Vande Mataram Controversy”, The Indian Express, 3rd March, 2000.

“Women Deserve more than Tokenism”, The Telegraph, 28th February, 2000

“Political Self-Correction: Forget it. Parties are Immune to Changes: That’s why we need Quotas”, The Indian Express, 31

st December, 1999

“Forgiving Sonia emphasises Patriarchy”, The Indian Express, 15th December, 1999

“Law and Lucre: Indian Rich avoid Punishment”, The Statesman, 15th November, 1999

“Sonia Gandhi reinforces Patriarchy: The Future is not hers”, The Indian Express, 31st October, 1999

“Gender Equality: Social Democrats favour Women’s Rights”, The Statesman, 12th October, 1999

“Family Affair: Democracy and Dynastic Rule” The Statesman, 26th September, 1999

“Women in Politics”, The Hindustan Times, 14th September, 1999

“Fallen Icon: Russia buries the Leninist Legacy”, The Statesman, 6th September, 1999

“A Tribute to Evolutionary Socialism”, The Hindu, 5th September, 1999

“Wet behind the Ears: Inexperience disqualifies Sonia”, The Statesman, 12th May, 1999

“Political Women: Quotas would lead to Empowerment”, The Statesman, 3rd April, 1999

“Higher Education in Doldrums”, The Hindustan Times, 26th February, 1999

“Father of Russian Marxism: Plekhanov”, The Pioneer, 26th December, 1999.

“Learning to Teach” co-author with Subrata Mukherjee, The Deccan Herald, 11th October, 1998.

16

“Civil Disobedience”, The Pioneer, 2nd October, 1998

“Woman Power I and II”, The Statesman, 28th and 29th September, 1998

“A Spectre called A-356”, The Deccan Herald. 27th September, 1998

“Were Teachers’ demands Justified?”, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Hindustan Times, 18

th September, 1998

“Writing the Wrong: Sir Isaiah Berlin” (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Statesman, 15th December, 1997

“Human Rights beyond Culture politics”, The Indian Express, 31st October, 1997.

“Women in Top Positions are still Rare”, The Hindustan Times, 11th August, 1997

“Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution”, The Statesman, 5th March, 1994

“Women Marginalized: Discrimination in Politics a blot in our system”, The Indian Express, 26

th January, 1994

“The Laski Legacy”, The Statesman, 26th January, 1994

“Managing Office and the Hearth”, The Hindustan Times, 18th December, 1993.

“Penetrating Analysis: Beatrice Webb’s account of her tour to India”, The Statesman, 5th December, 1993.

“Fall of the USSR: How the Originators Failed”, The Statesman, 17th September, 1993.

“Women in Free India”, The Hindustan Times, 21st August, 1993.

“Theory of State: Blind Spot in Marxism”, The Statesman, 17th June, 1993

“Hoping Against Reality: Marx”, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Telegraph, 4th May, 1993

“An Experiment in Democracy: Athens”, (co-author Subrata Mukherjee), The Hindustan Times, 18

th April, 1993

“First Among Equals: Wollstonecraft”, The Statesman, 5th December, 1992

“Anarchistic Critique of Marxism”, Democratic World, 1st May, 1983

RESOURCE PERSON FOR REFRESHER COURSES

Concept of Rights: Origins and Evolution, Orientation Course on Human Rights and Social Inclusion, UGC Human Resource and Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi,

29th April, 2016

Political Theory Today, Refresher course in Political Science, UGC Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, 9 November, 2015

17

Concept of Rights, Human Rights and Social Inclusion, UGC Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 31

st July, 2015

Multiculturalism, Human Rights and Social Inclusion, UGC Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 31

st July, 2015

Political Theory-Relevance, Department of Political Science, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 26

th November, 2014

Concept of Rights, Human Rights and Social Inclusion, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia, Islamia, New Delhi, 12

th August, 2014

Multiculturalism, Human Rights and Social Inclusion, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 12

th August, 2014

The State of Political Theory Today, Department of Political Science, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 21

st November, 2013

Individual Rights versus Group Rights: Multiculturalist Agenda, Human Rights and Social Inclusion, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 27

th August. 2012

Theories of Rights, Human Rights and Social Inclusion, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 27

th August, 2012

Rights: its conceptual basis (2 Lectures), Human Rights and Social Inclusion, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 19

th April, 2010

Concept of Rights based Liberalism and its Critics, Human Rights and Social Inclusion, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 8

th May, 2009

Concept of Natural Rights: Origins, Development and Criticisms, Human Rights and Social Inclusion, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 8

th May, 2009

Convergence and Divergences in Liberal Political Philosophy: Berlin, Hayek and Popper, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 16

th January, 2007

Women in Political Theory: Equality versus Difference, Department of Political Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, 23

rd July, 2002

Sir Karl Popper’s Methodological Defense of the Open Society, Department of Political Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, 23

rd July, 2002

John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice to The Law of Peoples, Department of Political Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, 22

nd July, 2002

Contemporary Liberalism: Isaiah Berlin, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 13

th January, 2001

Contemporary Liberalism: John Rawls, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 9

th January, 2001

Marxist Perspectives on the State, Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 28

th October, 1997

LECTURES BY INVITATION

18

Research Methods in Political Science, in Social Science Workshop, Salwan Public School, Tronica City, Ghaziabad, UP, 22nd May, 2019

Nature and significance of Political Theory, Department of Political Science, Aryabhatt College, 17

th August, 2017

Gandhi and the enterprise of Swaraj, Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Gurgaon, 28th November, 2014

Concept of Justice in Contemporary Political Theory, Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 30

th November, 2010

Research Methods in Social Science: The Liberal Approach, School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, 21

st April, 2010

Feminist Political Theory, Centre for Advanced Study, University College of Art, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 6

th May, 2010

Liberalism, Centre for Advanced Study, University College of Art, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 5

th May, 2010

PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

INTERNATIONAL

CHAIR

Multiculturalism and its Critics, (CS06.17), 24th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Politics in a World of Inequality), Poznan, Poland, 23-28 July 2016.

Quotas for Women: A Recipe to reduce Gender Inequality (RC19.16), 24th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Politics in a World of Inequality), Poznan,

Poland, 23-28 July 2016.

Gandhi and Brahmacharya, The Making of the Mahatma: M.K. Gandhi in South Africa, Centre for Gandhian Studies, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India, 10

th-12

th March 2011.

Lead Lectures on Satyagraha in South Africa: Contemporary Relevance & Gandhi, the Journalist, The Making of the Mahatma: M. K. Gandhi in South Africa, Centre for Gandhian Studies,

Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India, 10th- 12

th March 2011.

The Role of Leadership in the consolidation of Democratization in South and East Asian countries (SS01:348), 20

th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Is

Democracy working?), Fukuoka, Japan, 9th- 13

th July 2006.

Leadership and Democratization in South Asia, 2nd World Congress of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, Hong Kong, China 14-16

th November 2005.

Democracy and Central Asia, 1st World Congress of the Asian Political and International Studies Association, Singapore, 28

th-30

th November 2003.

CO- CHAIR

19

Revisiting the Perrennial ‘Problem’ of the Representation of Women, (RC19.07), 25th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Borders and Margins),

Brisbane, Australia, 21-25 July 2018.

Parliamentary Versus Presidential Systems of Government, (CS01.40), 24th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Politics in a World of Inequality), Poznan,

Poland, 23-28 July 2016.

PAPER PRESENTATION

The Liberal State and its Evolution, UGC-SAP-DRS-I International Seminar on State, Market and Democracy in India, 27-28

th February 2019.

The Women’s Suffrage Movement: From Margins to Mainstream in Political Socialization, Citizenship and Globalization Process (RC21.08), 25

th World Congress of the

International Political Science Association (Borders and Margins), Brisbane, Australia,

21-25 July 2018.

India’s crisis of governance: Women’s perspective, in Quotas for Women: A Recipe to reduce Gender Inequality (RC 19.16), 24

th World Congress of the International Political Science

Association (Politics in a World of Inequality), Poznan, Poland, 23-28 July 2016.

Sri Lanka: Nature of Political Leadership in a Highly Personalized and Centralized Democracy, 3

rd International Conference on Leadership and Learning in the Asian Century, Universiti Sans

Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, 17-19 November 2014.

Gandhi and Rawls on Civil Disobedience, Gandhirama 2012, A Feast of Ideas and a Festival of Art, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, India 17

th -22

nd August 2012.

Limits of Multiculturalism: the Need for a shared Identity (in Absentia) in (RC 16: Socio Political Pluralism), 22

nd World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Reshaping

Power, Shifting Boundaries), Madrid, Spain, July 8-12 2012.

Satyagraha in South Africa” A Textual Analysis, The Making of the Mahatma: M.K. Gandhi in South Africa, Centre for Gandhian Studies, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India, 10-12

th March

2011.

Notion of Democratic Peace in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science, IGNOU, Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti and Binghamton State University of New York, New

Delhi, India, 11-13th January 2010.

Sri Lanka: Nature of Political Leadership in a Highly Personalized and Centralized Democracy, in The Role of Leadership in the consolidation of Democratization in South and East Asian

countries (SS01:348), 20th

World Congress of the International Political Science Association

(Is Democracy Working?), Fukuoka, Japan, 9th- 13

th July 2006.

India’s Crisis of Governance: Women’s Perspective, in Democracy, Governance and Reform in South Asia (TC01), 2

nd World Congress of the Asian Political and International Studies

Association, Hong Kong, China, 14-16th November 2005.

20

Sri Lanka: Nature of Political Leadership in a Highly Personalized and Centralized Democracy, in Leadership and Democratization in South Asia (TE02), 2

nd World Congress of the Asian

Political and International Studies Association, Hong Kong, China, 14-16th November 2005.

Nation State Formation and the Process of Democratization in the Developing World, 1st World Congress of the Asian Political Science and International Studies Association, Singapore, 28

th-

30th November 2003.

Post-Cold War Concerns: Women’s Representation in a Comparative Perspective in Gender, institutional change and transitional societies (MT5- 294), 19

th World Congress of the

International Political Science Association (Democracy, Tolerance, Justice), at Durban, South

Africa, 29th June - 4

th July 2003.

Unity in Diversity: The Gandhian Paradigm in uniting the different notions of Human Rights in Women and Human Rights, 99

th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,

at Boston, USA, 28th August to 1

st September 2002.

Eclipse of Dependency Theory: The Reasons for History’s Verdict Against it in Integrating the developing world into World Capitalism: Alternate views of Pessimists and Optimists (SS 88),

18th

World Congress of International Political Science Association (World Capitalism,

Governance and Community: toward a corporate millennium?), Quebec, Canada, 1-5th August

2000.

Rethinking the Welfare State: The Neo conservative Perspective, 17th World Congress of International Political Science Association (Conflict and Order), Seoul, South Korea,17

th-21

st

August 1997.

Civil Disobedience and Modern Political Theory Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore, 15

th August 1996.

Universalization of Democracy: The Seminal Importance of Rawls' Paradigm for the Developing World, 16

th World Congress of the International Political Science Association

(Democratization), Berlin, Germany, 21st-25

th August 1994.

Rawls and the Neo conservatives: Contrasting Perceptions on Equality, 15th World Congress of

the International Political Science Association (Centres and Peripheries in Contemporary

Politics: Interdependence and Power Asymmetries), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21st-25

th July 1991.

NATIONAL

PAPER PRESENTATION

French Enlightenment, Rousseau and his Contemporaries in Revisiting Rousseau, Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune, 4

th-6

th September 2012.

Limits of Multiculturalism: Need for a Shared Identity in Contextualizing Democracy in 21st Century: Perspectives and Challenges, Kalindi College, New Delhi, 3

rd and 4

th February 2011.

Globalization versus Isolationism: To be on the right or wrong side of history in Globalization II- Market Economy and Gandhian Ethics, XXXIII Annual Conference of Indian Society of

Gandhian Studies, IGNOU, New Delhi, 29th-31

st October 2010.

21

Civil Society and Democracy in Democracy: The Form and Substance, Schumacher Center for Development and Center for Comparative Democracies, Hyderabad, 18

th August 2007.

Gandhi and Rawls in Gandhi’s Satyagraha Centenary: 21st Century Challenges, Hindu College, New Delhi, 24

th March 2007.

Limits of Multiculturalism in a liberal Polity: Need for a Shared Identity, Cultural Diversity, Governance and Policy: India- Australia, School of Social Sciences and Australian Studies

Programme of the Faculty of Political Science, IGNOU and Australia-India Council, Australian

High Commission, New Delhi, 5th February, 2007.

Gandhi and Rawls on Civil Disobedience in Global Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi Bhavan, University of Delhi, Delhi, 8

th-9

th February 1997.

Civil Disobedience and Contemporary Political Theory in Gandhi and his Contemporary Relevance, Gandhi Bhavan, University of Delhi, Delhi 21

st March 1997.

LOCAL

PAPER PRESENTATION

Convergence and Divergence in Liberal Theory: Berlin, Hayek and Popper, Faculty Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, 3

rd December 2009.

Individual and the State: Gandhi’s Political Thought, Course Writers’ Workshop- Gandhian Studies Programme, IGNOU and Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi, 11

th -13

th June

2009.

Gender Equity and Empowerment in India in Equity, Development and Societal Management organized by the Management Services of India, New Delhi, 30

th September 2000.

Marxism and the Gender Question in 150 years of the Communist Manifesto, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, 26-27

th March 1999.

Three Contrasting Perceptions of the French Revolution: Burke, Paine and Wollstonecraft in Society and Literature, Magazine Society, Jesus and Mary College, 23

rd March 1999.

Reform or Revolution: Bernstein versus Lenin, Sorel, Kautsky and Luxemburg in Theorizing Social Democracy, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, 6

th January 1999.

Two Concepts of Liberty in a memorial service to Sir Isaiah Berlin, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, 20

th November 1997.

Women in Western Political Theory, Women and Politics, Department of Political Science and Centre for Women’s Studies and Development, University of Delhi, Delhi, 5

th -7

th August 1997.

The Marxist Theory of the State, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, 5th May 1997.

A Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism: One Rawls or Two?, Political Science in Contemporary World, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, 25-26

th

March 1997.

22

Gandhi-Tagore Controversy, Gandhi and His Critics, Gandhi Bhavan, University of Delhi, Delhi, 18

th January 1997.

Rawls and Modern Political Theory in Political Philosophy in the Late Twentieth Century, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 23

rd March

1990.

DISCUSSANT/MODERATOR

INTERNATIONAL

Panel (CS01.50) on Power Sharing as a Model to Resolve Majority Minority Conflict, 24th World

Congress of the International Political Science Association (Politics in World of Inequality),

Poznan, Poland, 23-28 July 2016

Panel (MT5-317) on Feminist Mobilization and Public Policies, 19th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Democracy, Tolerance, Justice), Durban, South

Africa, 29th June - 4

th July 2003

Panel (GP3-276) on Working through Democracy, 19th world Congress of the International Political Science Association (Democracy, Tolerance, Justice), Durban, South Africa, 29

th June -

4th July 2003

Panel (MT3.1) on Gender and Global Governance, 18th World Congress of International

Political Science Association (World Capitalism, Governance and Community: toward a

corporate millennium?), Quebec, Canada, 1-5th August 2000

Panel on Political Philosophy in the Non-European World, 16th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (Democratization), Berlin, Germany, 21

st-25

th

August 1994

Panel on Liberalism and Socialism, 15th World Congress of the International Political Science

Association (Centres and peripheries in contemporary politics: Interdependence and power

asymmetries), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21st-25

th July 1991

LOCAL

Discussant in a panel on Sir Karl Popper- A Centennial Tribute, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi South Campus, 25

th July 2002

Moderated a session on paper presentations in Refresher Course in Contemporary Political Theory, Department of Political Science, Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia

University, New Delhi, 22nd

January 2001

Resource Person to a workshop on NCERT’s Curriculum, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, 8th April 2000

PARTICIPATION IN DISCUSSIONS IN TV PROGRAMMES

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, with Prof. Salil Mishra and Qurban Ali (Moderator), Dheye IAS Channel, 23

rd January 2019

23

70 Years of India’s Independence with Ms Natasha Singh (Moderator), Prakash Kelkar, Editor Organizer, Insight, Lok Sabha TV, 14

th August 2016

Exit Polls and Battle for the States with Mr Saubradha Chatterjee, Deputy Bureau Chief, Hindustan Times, Ms T.K. Rajalakshmi, Chief, Frontline, Ms Monobina Basu, Journalist and

Ms Natasha (Moderator), Public Forum, Lok Sabha TV, 17th May 2016

110 Years of Swadeshi Movement with Prof. Salil Mishra, Deptt of History, Ambedkar University, and Nilanjan Mukhopadhya, A Page from History, Lok Sabha TV, 22

nd July

2015

Gandhian Era: Women Then and Now (Live), with Dr. Varsha Das and Dr. Reema Bhatia, Associate Professor in Sociology, Miranda House, and Ms Lotty Alaric (Moderator), Gender

Discourse, Lok Sabha TV, 2nd

October 2014.

Deen Dayal Upadhaya’s Integral Humanism, with Dr. Mahesh Chandra Sharma, former MP, Rajya Sabha, President, Society for Integral Humanism and Dr. Anirban Ganguly, Director,

Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, and Mr. Nilanjan Mukhopadhya (Moderator), A Page from

History, Lok Sabha TV, 15th September 2014.

Mahatma Gandhi last imprisonment: 70 years later, with Prof. Salil Mishra, Department of History, Ambedkar University and Mr. Nilanjan Mukhopadhya, (Moderator), A Page from

History, Lok Sabha TV, 23rd

April 2014.

Jawaharlal Nehru: An overview with Prof. Salil Mishra, Department of History, Ambedkar University, Mr Hiranmay Karlekar, Journalist, The Pioneer and Nilanjan Mukhopadhya

(Moderator), A Page from History, Lok Sabha TV 20th January, 2014.

Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad with Prof. Salil Mishra, Department of History, Dr. Ambedkar University, Prof. Rizwan Kaiser, Department of History, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Mr.

Nilanjan Mukhopadhya (Moderator), A Page from History, Lok Sabha TV, 26th November

2012.

Mountbatten Plan with Prof. Mridula Mukherjee and Mr. Nilanjan Mukhopadhya (Moderator) A Page from History, Lok Sabha TV, 16

th July 2012

150 birth year of Swami Vivekananda with Mr. Rakesh Batabyal, JNU, Swami Shanthamanda, RK Mission and Mr. Nilajan Mukhopadhya (moderator), A Page from

History, Lok Sabha TV, 30th January 2012

Fascination of authors and film makes with Mahatma Gandhi (Live) with Prof. Amit Sharma, Associate Professor of Sociology, JNU, Mr. Nalin Singh, Film Maker and Ms. Bhatt

(Moderator), Public Forum, Lok Sabha TV, 9th April 2011

Two Years of UPA II (Live) with Mr. Rajan Tiwari, BJP and Ms. Annie Raja, CPI and Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator), Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 24

th May 2011

Women Chief Ministers (Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) (Live) with Mr. Ashish Bose, Ms. T.K. Rajyalakshmi (Frontline), Mr. Smriddha Dutt (Brataman) and Ms Rashmi Saxena

(Moderator), Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 13th May 2011

First Phase Polling in West Bengal (Live) with Mr. Samriddha Dutta, Ms. Annie Raja (CPI Leader), The Brataman and Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator), Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 18

th

April 2011

24

Polling in Tamil Nadu and Kerala (Live) with Mr. George Kalli, Manorama and Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator), Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 13

th April 2011

2nd Phase Assam Assembly Polls (Live) with Mr. Nayak, Shillong Times and Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator), Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 11

th April 2011

1st Phase Assam Assembly Polls (Live) with Mr. Nayak, Shillong Times and Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator), Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 4

th April 2011

Bhagat Singh’s 80th Martyrdom with Prof. S. Irfan Habib, NEUPA, Dr. Vageesh Jha, NML and Mr. Nilanjan Mukhopadhya (Moderator), A Page from History, Lok Sabha TV, 28

th

March 2011

Supreme Court verdict on the CVC- is it judicial over reach or activism? (Live) with Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator) and Mr Amitabh Sinha, Advocate and BJP media person, Focus

Tonight, Focus TV, 4th March 2011

Gender Budgeting (Live) with Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator), Ms Albina and Ms Divya (YWCA), Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 28

th February 2011

Railway Budget (Live) with Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator) and Mr Vij, former member, Railway Board, Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 25

th February 2011

Disruption of Parliament (Live) with Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator) and Mr Subhash Kashyap (former Secretary General Lok Sabha), Focus Tonight, Focus TV, 21

st February

2011

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Press Conference (Live) with Ms Rashmi Saxena (Moderator), Ms Renu Mittal (Senior Journalist) and Ms Annie Raja (Leader, CPM), Focus

Tonight, Focus TV, 16th February 2011

Dandi March in A Page from History with Prof. Arjun Dev NCERT and Mr, Hari Jaisingh, Journalist, Mr. Nilanjan Mukhopadhya (Moderator), Lok Sabha TV, 8

th March 2010

The Khilafat Agitation, with Prof. Mridula Mukherjee, Director, Nehru Memorial Library, Prof. Rizwan Kaiser, Deptt of History, Jamia Millia Islamia and Mr. Nilanjan Mukhopadhya

(Moderator) in A Page from History, Lok Sabha TV, 12th October 2009

Indo-Pak Peace Talks and its impact on Kashmir with Mr. Inder Malhotra, senior journalist and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan Kashir, 15

th January 2004

Changing Political Situation in Kashmir with Mr. Inder Malhotra senior journalist and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan Kashir, 30

th January 2004

Role of Intellectuals in Kashmir peace process Mr. Inder Malhotra senior journalist and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan Kashir, 15

th February 2004

Unemployment and its Impact on Kashmir Economy with Mr. Rohit Bal, Financial Express and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan Kashir, 1

st March 2004

Indian Economy and its ills with Mr. Rohit Bal, Financial Express and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan Kashir, 15

th March 2004

25

Is there a justification of the expenses on Nuclear weapons with Mr. Arvind Ramachandra Deo, former Diplomat and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan Kashir, 30

th

March 2004

Relevance of Gandhi in Today’s world, (Live) Ghatna Chakr, Jain TV, 1st October 2004

Can War provide a long-term solution to political problems with Major Karim Khan and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan Kashir, 1

st April 2004

Human Rights in Kashmir with Mr. Goyal and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan Kashir, 15

th April 2004

The Importance of Strong Opposition and its role in Kashmir Politics with Mr. Ananth Kumar, Professor of Sociology, JNU and Mr Shahid Shabir (Moderator), Naya Savera, Doordarshan

Kashir, 1st May 2004

Children and Education in Kashmir with Ms. Sahba Hussain, Aman Public Trust, Nilufer, Journalist and Mr. Mike Pandey (Moderator), Doordarshan Kashir, 15

th May 2003

Panel Discussion on Mr. Rakesh Sinha’s book ‘K.B. Hedgewar: Builders of Modern India with Mr. Rakesh Sinha, Mr. Tarun Vijay, Editor Panchajanya and Ms Neelam Sharma (Moderator),

Doordarshan National Channel, 7th April, 2003

COMMENTARIES ON CURRENT ISSUES FOR ALL INDIA RADIO

Indo-Russian Nuclear Agreement, 25th January 2007

Supreme Court’s Verdict on Private Professional Colleges, 13th August 2005

PM’s Statement on Indo-US Relations, 6th August 2005

PM’s second day of Kashmir Visit, 11th June 2005

PM’s Kashmir Visit, 10thJune 2005

Trilateral Dialogue: India, China and Russia, 3rd June 2005

Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s Re-election as Congress President, 29th May 2005

The Jharkhand Imbroglio, 12th March 2005

The Election Commission’s strictures against Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav, 14th February 2005

The Implication of the MMS case and the Right to Information, 18th December, 2004.

Imbroglio in Kashmir: Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh’s Initiatives and the Pakistani diatribe, 21

st November 2004

Presidential Elections in Russia 2000, 28th March 2000

President Putin’s visit to India: A Curtain Raiser, 28th September 2000

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DISCUSSIONS IN CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAMME OF ALL INDIA RADIO

PROGRAMMES

Women’s Safety with Ms Chandrika Joshi and Ms. Manjari Chaturvedi, 16th December 2015

Socio educational indicators and Modi Government Initiatives with Mr. Ash Narain Ray, Indian Social Institute and Mr Arun Kumar, 26

th December 2014

Disruption in Indian Parliament with Mr. Sachitanananda Murthy, The Week and Mr Mohan Sahay, Journalist, 14

th February 2014

Round up of 2013 with Mr Raghuraman, Mr. Alok Bansal and Mr Parsa Venkestwara Rao, 27

th December 2013

Electoral Reforms with Ms Neerja Chowdhary and Sandeep Chopra, 18th November 2013

National Day of Girl Child, with Mr. Vinod Kumar Tikoo and Ms Radhika (moderator), 12th October 2012

Redefinition of Rape: The Court’s Suggestion, in Hindi with Ms Meenakshi Leki, Advocate High Court, and Shri Shailesh Sharma (Moderator) 8

th July 2012

Expansion of the Union Cabinet with Mr. T. K. Ramachandra, senior journalist and Mr. Prashant Sood (moderator), 29

th May 2009

The Recent Developments in Sri Lanka with Mr. Chatwal, former High Commissioner, Sri Lanka and Mr. Vinay Kumar, The Hindu, 24

th April 2009

The Role of Regional Parties in the forthcoming General Elections with Mr. Mohan Sahay, Mr Omar and Mr. Farooqi, senior Journalists, 20

th March 2009

Two Years of UPA with Mr. Kapil Sibal, Hon’able Minister for Science and Technology, and Mr. Vinod Sharma, (Moderator), Chief of Bureau, The Hindustan Times, 19

th May 2006

Poll Verdict and After with Mr Vinod Sharma, Chief of Bureau, The Hindustan Times and Mr K.V. Prasad, (Moderator) The Hindu, 12

th May 2006

State Financing of Elections with Dr. R.P. Bhalla, former Deputy election commissioner and Mr. Sumit Chakravarty, (Moderator) editor, The Mainstream 17

th February 2006

Forthcoming Assembly Elections in Bihar with Mr Vinod Sharma, Chief of Bureau, The Hindustan Times and Mr, Diwakar, (Moderator), 21

st October 2005

Rural Employment Guarantee scheme with Prof. Amitabh Kundu, JNU and Mr. Harveer Singh (Moderator), The Hindustan, 19

th August 2005

The Amendments to the Hindu Code Bill and women’s inheritance with Mr. Krishnan Majahan, Legal expert Supreme Court and Prof. Subrata Mukherjee (Moderator), Department of Political

Science, Delhi University, 19th December 2004

Politics of Coalition in Maharasthra with Mr. Vinod Sharma, Senior Journalist, The Hindustan Times, Mr. Dharmanand R. Kamath, Special correspondent, Podhari (Marathi Daily) and Mr.

Shekhar Iyer, (Moderator) Deputy Chief of Bureau, The Hindustan Times, 31st October 2004

27

Assembly Elections in Three States with Mr. Vinod Sharma, Chief of Bureau, The Hindustan Times and Mr Diwakar (Moderator), 30

th January 2004

Ayodhya at the Crossroads with Mr. K. T. S. Tulsi, constitutional expert, Mr. Hiranmoy Karlekar, Political commentator and Mr. K.V. Prasad, (Moderator) The Hindu, 15

th June 2003

Cabinet Reshuffle with Mr. Manoj Joshi, The Times of India, Mr. A. K Bhattacharya, Managing Editor Business Standard and Mr. Inderjit (Moderator), Editor INFA, 2

nd February 2003

Government formation in Jammu and Kashmir with Mr. Arvind Ramchandra Deo Diplomat, Prof. Anuradha Chenoy JNU and Mr. Sumit Chakravarthy, (Moderator)

Editor Mainstream, 27th

October 2002

Tamil Nadu Developments with Mr. T.R. Ramachandran Chief of Bureau, The Tribune and Mr. Shastri Ramachandran, (Moderator), Senior Editor, The Times of India, 1

st July

2002

BJP in search of New Identity with Prof. C. P. Bhambri, JNU (retd), Mr. Chandan Mitra, Editor, The Pioneer and Mr. Arvind N. Das, (Moderator) Editor, Biblio, 19

th

December 2002

DISCUSSIONS ON RADIO BRIDGE (Live Broadcast), AIR

Women’s Safety and Empowerment with Mr. Chetan B. Sanghi (Jt Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development) and Ms Chandrika Joshi (Moderator), 9

th July 2018

State Assembly Elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh 2017 with Mr Vijay Upasana, Ms Chandrika Joshi (Moderator), 18

th December 2017

General Elections 2014 with Mr. Sandeep Dikshit, The Hindu, Mr. Muralidhar Reddy, The Hindu, Mr. Akilesh Mittal (Moderator), Ms Asha Dwidevi (Moderator), 16

th May 2014

Are girls safe in their homes with Dr. Ranjana Kumari and Ms Chandrika Joshi (Moderator), Public Speak, 12

th May 2014

Women’s Safety and Social Responsibility with Dr. Vandana Shiva and Mr Akilesh Mittal (Moderator), Public Speak, 6

th January 2014

Supreme Court’s verdict on live in relationship, Public Speak, 2nd December 2013

State Assembly Elections 2012 (Uttarakand, UP, Goa, Punjab & Manipur) 6th March 2012

State Assembly Elections 2011 (West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Assam) with Mr Deepak, editor The Sun, Mr. Sumit Chakravarthy, Editor, The Mainstream,

Mr. Rajindra Chugh and Ms Vineeta Menon (Moderators), 13th

May 2011

Elections 2009 with Ms Kalyani Shankar, Ms Shubra and Mr. Shambunath Chaudhary, 19

th May 2009

SAARC- Hopes and Prospect with Mr. G. Parthasarathi, former diplomat and Mr. Mehandra Ved, Writer and Columnist, 3

rd April 2007

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State Assembly Elections with Mr. Mohan Sahay, The Statesman and Mr. Rajinder Chugh, Correspondent, AIR, 26

th February 2005

Election Analysis of Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland with Mr. Akilesh Mittal (AIR Correspondent) and Mr. Arun Mathur, Editor Outlook, 1

st March 2003

DISCUSSIONS IN AIR PROGRAMMES

Measures for Girl Child, Ms Diksha, Spotlight, 25th October 2018

International Day of Girl Child, Ms. Anupama Mishra, Spotlight, 11th October 2018

Care of Senior Citizens, Ms Aditi Tandon, The Tribune, Spotlight, 1st October 2018

Women’s Safety with Ms Anupurna Jha, Spotlight, 1st June 2018

Educational Qualifications for Panchayat Leaders, with Santosh Pathak, Vaad Samvaad, 28th November 2017

Capital Punishment in Nirbaya’s case with Mr. K.V. Prasad, Spotlight, 5th May 2018

Women’s security with Ms Anupama Mishra, Spotlight, 29th November 2016

Security for Children with Ms. Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 14th November 2016

Politics in Tamil Nadu, with Mr. Prashant Sood, Spotlight, 26th October 2016

Role of Women in the National Movement, with Prashant Sood, Spotlight, 18th August 2016

Women’s Security with Anupama Mishra, Spotlight, 7th July 2016

Elections to the Rajya Sabha, with Prashant Sood, Spotlight, 12th June 2016

Draft Proposal for Women with Vartika Nanda and Dhanjay (Moderator), Vaad Samvaad (Hindi), 18

th May 2016

Atrocities against Women in Kerala with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 5th May 2016

International Women’s Day with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 8th March 2016

Social Sectors and forthcoming Budget with Ms Manjari Sahay, Spotlight, 19th February 2016

High Court Verdict and Sexual Crimes with Ms Anita Tandon, The Tribune, Spotlight, 4th November 2015

High Court Judge on Castration of Sexual offenders with Mr Satya, The Hindustan Times, Spotlight, 27

th October 2015

Adverse sex ratio and its impact on society with Mr Prashant Sood, INES, Spotlight, 18th October 2015

Girl Child Education, with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 4th June 2015

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Initiatives for Women by the Government with Mr Roshan Gaur, Rashtriya Sahara, Spotlight, 22

nd May 2015

Ambedkar’s vision of democracy and social justice with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 14

th April 2015

International Women’s day with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 8th March 2015

Modi-Obama’s Mann ki Baat with Prashant Sood, INS, Spotlight, 28th January 2015

WHO report on Gender Equality, with Vandana Agarwal, Hindustan, Spotlight, 29th October 2014

Female Infanticide, with Ms Rakhee and Mr Dilip (Moderator), Vaad Samvaad (Hindi), 14th October 2014

Conviction of Jayalalitha and the Political Implications with Mr. T. K. Ramachandran, Tribune Bureau Chief, Spotlight, 28

th September 2014

Crimes Against Women: Society’s responsibility with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 19th July 2014

Telegana State and its impact with Mr Sachitananda Murthy, The Week, Spotlight, 5th June 2014

Women’s issues in the General Elections campaign with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 12th April 2014

Political opportunism with Mr. K.V. Prasad, Spotlight, 21st March 2014

Women and Politics with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 8th March 2014

The Search for Lokpal with Ms Annapurna Jha, Spotlight, 28th February 2014

Court verdict on wife should know her husband’s earnings, with Ms Vandana Aggarwal, Surkiyon se pare, 23

rd January 2014.

Trust vote and challenges ahead for AAP with Mr Mohan Sahay, Spotlight, 2nd January 2014.

Political Reactions to Section 377, Vaad Samvaad (Hindi), 17th December 2013.

Supreme Court’s verdict on Section 377 with Mr Ajay Khemka, Spotlight, 11th December 2013.

Women’s Development, Representation, with Saroj Negi, Prasar Bharathi, 8th March 2013

Women in Politics, Prasar Bharathi, 21st September 2012

Violence against Women, Prasar Bharathi, 23rd August 2012

International Women’s Day, with Ms Radhika, Spotlight 8th March, 2012

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Government’s decision to appoint a JPC with Mr. Shekar Iyer, The Hindustan Times, Spotlight, 23

rd February 2011

Girl Child- A Nation’s Pride with Ms Anupama Jha, The Pioneer, Spotlight, 21st January 2011

International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women with Mr. K.V. Prasad, The Hindu, Spotlight, 25

th November 2010

Karnataka Government’s political crisis: the trust vote and its aftermath, with Mr Rajkumar Singh, Dainik Tribune and Mr. Arun Anand (moderator), Public Forum, 13

th October 2010

Government Formation in Jharkhand with Mr. Mohan Sahay, Focus TV, Spotlight, 14th September 2010.

The Stalemate in Karnataka with Mr. B.S. Arun, Bureau Chief and Political Editor, Deccan Herald, Spotlight, 15

th July 2010

The West Bengal Civic Polls with Mr. Sumit Chakravarthy, Editor, Mainstream, Spotlight, 2nd June 2010

Passage of Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, with Ms. Monica, Research Scholar, Spotlight, 9

th March 2010

Imbroglio in Telegana with Mr. K.V. Prasad, The Hindu, Spotlight, 21st February 2010

UPA’s welfare schemes with Mr. Deepak Uprethi, Deccan Herald, Spotlight, 8th September 2009

Independence Day Eve with Prof. Subrata Mukherjee, Spotlight, 14th August 2009

Women’s Reservation Bill with Ms. Aditi, journalist, The Hindu, Spotlight, 9th June 2009

Election of Ms. Meira Kumar as the first woman Speaker with Mr. Mohan Sahay, associate editor, Focus TV, 3

rd June 2009

Polling Violence with Mr. Mohan Sahay, Spotlight, 16th April 2009

International Women’s Day with Dr. Aparna Bhardwaj, advocate, Supreme Court of India, Spotlight, 8

th March 2009

State Assembly Elections, with Mr. Prashant Sood, Spotlight, 8th December 2008

Bhutan Elections with Ms Jyoti Malhotra, The Mint, Spotlight, 25th March 2008

The Consumer movement in India with Mr. Prashant Sood, freelance journalist, Spotlight, 14th

March 2008

Exam Stress and suicide among students with Prof. Subrata Mukherjee, Spotlight, 14th February 2008

President’s Rule in Karnataka (Hindi) with Mr, Jai Shankar Gupta, Hindustan and Mr. Vinod Agnihotri, Outlook (Hindi edition), Vaad Samvaad (Hindi), 21

st November 2007

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President’s Rule in Karnataka with Mr. Vinay Kumar, Senior Assistant Editor, The Hindu, Spotlight, 20

th November 2007

Development Programmes for Children with Rajeev Ranjan Jha, The Pioneer, Spotlight, 20th October 2007

The Midday meals scheme in schools with Rajeev Ranjan Jha, The Pioneer, Spotlight, 5th October 2007

Pratibha Patil’s Candidature for President’s post with Mr. K. V. Prasad, Correspondent, The Hindu, Spotlight, 15

th June 2007

2007 Goa Assembly Elections with Mr. Sailesh Mishra, Lokmat, Spotlight, 5th June 2007

Supreme Court’s Directives on Ragging with Prof. Amarjit Singh Narang, IGNOU, Spotlight, 17

th May 2007

UP Elections and Mayawati’s victory with Ms. Aditi Phadnis, Business Standard, Spotlight, 11

th May 2007

Settlement of Cauvery River Water Dispute with Mr Arvind Shukla, Advocate, Supreme Court, Spotlight, 5

th February 2007

National Children’s Day with Mr. K. V. Prasad, special correspondent, The Hindu, Spotlight, 14

th November 2006

National and International Literacy day, with Mr K.V. Prasad, special correspondent, The Hindu, Spotlight, 8

th September 2006

President Kalam’s Independence Day Address with Mr K.V. Prasad, special correspondent, The Hindu, Spotlight, 14

th August 2006

The IIM Fee Hike with Mr. Vinod Sharma, Chief of Bureau, The Hindustan Times, Spotlight, 3

rd April 2006

Reconvening of the Parliament in view of the Office of Profit controversy with Mr Jai Raina, The Hindustan Times, Spotlight, 30

th March 2006

Girl Child Education in India (English and Hindi) with Ms Aditi Phadnis, Political Editor, The Business Standard, Spotlight, 19

th March 2006

Bihar Assembly Elections with Mr. Vinod Sharma, Chief of Bureau, The Hindustan Times, Spotlight, 9

th September 2005

RSS-BJP standoff with Mr. Jamini Kumar Srivastav, Spotlight, 17th July 2005

On BJP’s dilemma with Jamini Kumar Srivastav, AIR Correspondent, Spotlight, 23rd January 2005

Russian President Vlamidir Putin visit to India with Mr. Ashok Khanduri (Hindi) and Mr. Praveen Kavi (English), AIR Correspondents, Spotlight, 3

rd December 2004.

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Non-Passage of J&K Permanent Residents Bill with Mr. B.S. Arun, Deccan Herald, Spotlight, 28

th August 2004

Uma Bharathi’s surrender in Karnataka with Mr. B.S. Arun, Deccan Herald, Spotlight, 25th August 2004

Political Developments in Madhya Pradesh with Mr Yogesh Shukla, UNI, Spotlight, 22nd August 2004

Fire in School premises in Kumbakonam with Mr. R.K. Sharma, Fire Safety Expert, Spotlight, 16

th July 2004

Disruption of Parliament with Mr. T.R. Ramachandran, Chief of Bureau, The Tribune, Spotlight, 5

th July 2004

Dismissal of Governors in Four States with Mr. Rahul Jhalani, Journalist, Spotlight, 2nd July 2004

Indo-Pakistan decision on Nuclear Moratorium with Mr. A. N. Ram, Diplomat, Spotlight, 20th June 2004

PM Vajpayee’s call for a pragmatic solution to the issues between India and Pakistan with Mr. Siddhartha Misra, The Pionner, Spotlight, 12

th March 2004

Emerging Political Developments in UP with Mr. Sudesh K. Verma, The Statesman, Spotlight, 4

th March 2004

PM Vajpayee’s Address to the Minorities Forum with Mr. K.V. Prasad, The Hindu, Spotlight, 25

th February 2004

BJP’s new alliances with Mr. Sanjay Singh, The Pioneer, Spotlight, 16th February 2004

Mr. Vaiko’s Release and the Pota with Mr. Arun Bhagat, Former Chief of Intelligence Bureau, Spotlight, 7

th February 2004

Impending Dissolution of the 13th Lok Sabha with Mr. M.D. Nalapat, Senior Journalist, The Times of India, Spotlight, 5

th February 2004

BJP’s National Executive Meeting with Mr. T.R. Ramachandran, Chief of Bureau, The Tribune, Spotlight, 12

th January 2004

A Tribute to Kushabav Thackre with Mr. Seshadri Chari, Editor, The Organiser, Spotlight, 28th December 2003

PM Vajpayee’s assurance on the CBI Inquiry over Judeo Case with Mr. K.V. Prasad, The Hindu, Spotlight, 10

th December 2003

PM Vajpayee’s call to his BJP Parliamentary Party with Mr. Siddhartha Misra. Metro Editor, The Pioneer, Spotlight, 3

rd December 2003

Sentence to Journalists by the Tamil Nadu Assembly in a Privilege case with Mr. T. R. Ramachandran, Chief of Bureau, The Tribune, Spotlight, 8

th November 2003

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Political Developments in UP with Mr. Ajit Kumar Jha, Political Editor, India Today, Spotlight, 26

th August 2003

NDA’s Strategy towards the No-Confidence Motion in Parliament Mr. Ajit Kumar Jha, Political Editor, India Today, Spotlight, 16

th August 2003

PM Vajpayee’s Clarification on Ayodhya with Mr. Manoj Joshi, Political Editor, The Times of India, Spotlight, 4

th August 2003

Political Controversy over the Taj Corridor Project with Mr. T.R. Ramachandran, Chief of Bureau, The Tribune, Spotlight, 29

th July 2003

BJP’s National Executive’s Resolution on Ayodhya and the Women’s Reservation Bill with Ms. Radha Viswanath, Senior Journalist, Spotlight, 19

th July 2003

CBI to probe the Taj Corridor Controversy with Mr. B.S. Arun, The Deccan Herald, Spotlight, 16

th July 2003

The UP Government’s decision to order a CBI probe into the death of Poetess Madhumita Shukla with Mr. Sudesh K. Verma, The Statesman, Spotlight, 17

th June 2003

On the Union Cabinet’s Decision to extend Reservation list, Morning News Bulletin, 6th June 2003

Suspension of Medical Students in Tamil Nadu with Mr. K.V. Prasad, The Hindu, Spotlight, 18

th May 2003

Women’s Reservation Bill with Ms Radha Viswanath, Senior Journalist, Spotlight, 5th May 2003

Political Implications of the Killing of Mr. Haren Pandey with Mr. Seshadri Chari, Editor, The Organiser, Spotlight, 26

th March 2003

Dharam Sansad, Ayodhya and March to Parliament with Mr. Tarun Vijay, Editor, Panchjanya, Spotlight, 22

nd February 2003

Defections and UP Politics with Mr. B.S. Arun, The Deccan Herald, Spotlight, 4th February 2003

Challenges before Indian Democracy with Mr. Jayanta Roy Chowdhury, Chief of Bureau (Business) The Telegraph, Spotlight, 22

nd January 2003

CWC Meeting and Congress Strategy for the forthcoming Assembly Elections, News Bulletin (Afternoon) with Mr. B. S. Arun, The Deccan Herald (English) and Mr. Suresh Bawana, Nai

Duniya’s Bureau Chief (Hindi), Spotlight, 6th January 2003

On the eve of Gujarat Elections with Mr. Ambikananadan Sahay, Senior Editor, The Times of India, Senior Editor, The Times of India, Spotlight, 11

th December 2002

Release of Nagappa with Mr. B. S. Arun, The Deccan Herald, Spotlight, 8th December 2002

Issues in Gujarat Elections with Ms Neeraja Chowdhary, Senior Editor, The Indian Express, Spotlight, 7

th November 2002

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Security Arrangements in Gujarat with Mr. Prakash Singh, former Director, BSF, Spotlight, 7th November 2002

Cauvery River Water Dispute with Mr. Ambikanandan Sahay, Senior Editor, The Times of India, Spotlight, 21

st September 2002

Tackling Corruption at various levels with Mr. U.C. Aggarwal, former Vigilance Chief, Spotlight, 26

th August 2002

Raids on former DMK Ministers in Tamil Nadu with Mr. Shastri Ramachandran, Senior Editor, The Times of India, Spotlight, 17

th August 2002

Indo-Pak Patrolling along the LOC with Mr. Rahul, Spotlight, 5th June 2002

Russia on the US involvement in Afghanistan, Morning News Bulletin, 28th November 2001

Political Fallout of the Rejection of Jayalalitha’s nomination with Mr. Shastri Ramachandran, Senior Editor, The Times of India, Spotlight, 25

th April 2001

Review of the Constitution with Ms. Kalyani Shankar, Political Editor, The Hindustan Times, Spotlight, 27

th January 2000