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Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Futures special on India 

The Science Direct journal, Futures, has a special (August-September 2004 issue) on Indian futures. The papers included in the issue are...

"Plural dreams: India in the 21st century" [editorial]
"The futures of the colonised"
"Visions of development: the inevitable need for alternatives"
"A 20-20 Vision for India: targets, policies and implementation"
"The Indian economy in 2040"
"The future of India’s economic growth: the natural resources and energy dimension"
"The future of food: countering globalisation and recolonisation of Indian agriculture"
"Technologies for the people: a future in the making"
"Futures India: society, nation-state, civilisation"
"Dalit vision of India: from bahishkrut to inclusive Bharat"
"Future of secularism in India"
"Land, conflict, identity in India’s north-east: negotiating the future"
"My vision of a better India"
"Role of the intellectuals in governance"
"The curse of globalised culture: the fall of Indian cinema foretold"
"India’s strategic future: 2025"

The authors include Bibek Debroy, P.V. Indiresan, N.Vittal and Vandana Shiva, among others. As you can imagine, it's a subscribers-only journal, but if anyone is interested in reading a specific paper, let me know and perhaps I can e-mail you a copy.