Articles by M.V. Sastri

PERSPECTIVE FOR NON-GOVERNMENTAL QRAN1SAII0NS FOR DEVELOPMENT?

by M.V. Sastri

As one in the field of voluntary agencies for more than 25 years now, I have been struck by a lack of adequate communication between two categorises of functionaries--- both  involved in development. I draw attention to the undisguised gulf between the governmental or semi governmental development workers on one side, and those of what may be called voluntary sector, on the other   side.   Belonging  to  the latter category, that is, the voluntary sector, I feel it would be useful to put our concerns, our context and our aspirations in a proper perspective.

Kavitha Kuruganti

Bt Cotton and the Myth of Enhanced Yields

by Kavitha Kuruganti [Economic & Political Weekly EPW may 30, 2009 vol xliv no 22]

It is presumed that remarkable increases in cotton productivity in India have come about through bacillus thuringiensis cotton and that this approach therefore must be replicated in other crops. This article explores the myth of rising yields of genetically modified crops and points out that genetic engineering has been at best neutral with respect to yield and in many cotton growing countries the average cotton yields have stagnated since the adoption of Bt cotton.

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By Ravindra A and Dr. N.K. Sanghi WASSAN

For dryland agriculture (and the poor dependent on it) to benefit, the public support systems should be couched in such a way that the basic requirements or frame conditions of dryland agriculture ecosystems are met.... Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is an opportunity to promote or establish such support systems as much of the requirements for regenerating dryland agriculture are labour intensive....

Translations into Telugu:The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka; Published by Hyderabad Book Trust

Chitra Krishnan

Irrigation Infrastructure:

Ramanjeneyelu, CSA

National Workshop on: ?Organic Farming: Shaping the Post-Green- Revolution Agriculture?

                                                                                                                    Dinesh Mishra

Bihar Floods: The inevitable Has Happened

    Ramchandradrudu, WASSAN

 • Article on ‘Experiences of CWS in land and forest reforms in India’ for sharing in a workshop organized by ALRD, Dhaka during June 2008

• • Bijker, W. E. (2004). Sustainable Policy? A Public Debate About Nature Development in the Netherlands. History and Technology, 20(4), 371–391.: Bijker GHAT 2004.pdf
• • Bijker, W. E. (2007). Dikes and Dams, Thick with Politics. Isis, 98, 109-123. (Manuscript version, before copy editing): Bijker Isis 2007 ms.pdf

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M.Sridhar

Publications:-
• Title: "Agricultural Science and Colonialism: An Enquiry into Modernising Agriculture in the Madras Presidency," in Journal of South Indian History, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2003, pp. 83 – 113.

• Title: "Idioms of Improvement and Agricultural Modernisation in Colonial South India", in R.L. Hangloo and Atlury Murali (eds), New Themes in Indian History: Art, Politics, Gender, Environment and Culture, 2007.

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Vamsi Vakulabharnam

Academic Publications

• “Growth and Distress in a South Indian Peasant Economy during the Era of Agricultural Liberalization,” Journal of Development Studies (Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Routledge, UK), August 2005.

• “Agricultural Growth and Irrigation in Telangana: A Review of Evidence,” Economic and Political Weekly, March 27, 2004.

• “Corporate and Cooperative Solutions for the Agrarian Crisis in Developing Countries,” Review of Radical Political Economics, 39(3), 2007. [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram (Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, Canada)].

• “Patterns of Wealth Inequality in India During the Period of Economic Reforms,” Economic and Political Weekly, 42(38), 2007. [Co-authored with Arjun Jayadev (University of Massachusetts) and Sripad Motiram].

• “The Ethics of Microfinance and Cooperation,” [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram], Ethics and Economics, 5(1), 2007.

• “Agrarian issues in our times: Liberalisation and agrarian change in a south Indian agrarian economy,” in Inequality, Poverty and Post-Reform Development - Essays in Honour of Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Vol. 2., Orient Longman Press, Forthcoming.

• “Political Economy of Agrarian Distress in India Since 1990s,” in Great Transformation: India’s New Political Economy, edited by John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge, Sanjay Reddy, Sanjay Ruparelia, [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram (Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, Canada)], Forthcoming.

• “Wealth Inequality and the Great Transformations in India,” in Great Transformation: India’s New Political Economy, edited by John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge, Sanjay Reddy, Sanjay Ruparelia, [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram and Arjun Jayadev)], Forthcoming.

• Review article on the book – Social Economics of Poverty, (edited by Christopher Barrett), The Economic Record, Blackwell Publishing, (Leading Australian Journal), Forthcoming in 2008.

• Entry on “Raul Prebisch,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (Chief Editor: William Darity), Macmillan Reference USA, Forthcoming in 2008.

Papers Under Review

• “Imagining Different Alternative Futures for Smallholder Agriculture: A Theoretical Comparison of Cooperative, Corporate and Traditional Solutions,” [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram], (Submitted to Journal of Comparative Economics).

• “Liberalisation, Immiserising Growth, and Perverse Supply Response in a South Indian Agrarian Economy,” [Co-authored with J. Mohan Rao (University of Massachusetts], (Submitted to Cambridge Journal of Economics).

Working Papers and Research Projects

• “Comparative analyses of inequality in India and China,” [Collaborative Research Project in affiliation with India China Institute, New School, New York].

• “Causes of Heightened Indebtedness in India During the 1990s,” Research Paper being prepared for submission to a Development Journal. [Co-authored with Arjun Jayadev and Sripad Motiram].

• “Caste Inequality in India During the Era of Liberalization” Research Paper being prepared for submission to Economic Development and Cultural Change [Co-authored with Ajit Zacharias (Levy Economics Institute)].

• “Agrarian Distress in South India: Macro and Micro Evidence From Telangana,” Research Paper being prepared for submission to Development and Change.

• “Agrarian Distress, Migration and Urbanization in India During Reforms” Research Paper being prepared for submission to a Development Journal. [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram].

• “Agrarian Change in a South Indian Economy: 1925-2000,” Research Paper being prepared for submission to the Journal of Agrarian Change, [Co-authored with Professor J. Mohan Rao (University of Massachusetts)].

• “Revisiting Cooperatives: Exploring Alternative Solutions for the Agrarian Crisis,” Paper being prepared for submission to Economic and Political Weekly, [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram].

• “A Tale of Two Cities: A comparison of Workforce Development Strategies in New York City and Taiyuan City, Shanxi province in China,” [Collaborative research project with Professors Donald Menzi (City University of New York), Frank Kehl (US-China Exchange Organization)].

• “Cross Cultural Exchanges Between China and India Along the Unknown (Southern) Silk Road,” [Collaborative book and film making project with Professors Tansen Sen (History, Baruch College, City University of New York) and Vinit Parmar (Film Studies, Brooklyn College, City University of New York)].

• “Global Ambitions and Local Contradictions: Recent Evolution of Hyderabad City,” [Collaborative Research Project with V. Rajagopal].


Other Publications

• “Iowa is not far from Telangana: Some Arguments about Food Security,” [Co-authored with Professors Vijay Prashad (History, Trinity College, USA) and Sripad Motiram (Dalhousie University, Canada)] February, 2004.

• “Progressive, but Problematic: An Appreciation and Critique of Amartya Sen,” [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram] for Ghadar, May 2000.

• “The Subsidy-Tariff Tangle,” [Co-authored with Sripad Motiram and Vijay Prashad] in The Hindu, February 19, 2004.

• “The Future of Indian Politics,” in The Hindu, December 21, 2002.


Conference and Workshop Presentations

• “Missing Issues in the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) initiative” – Presented a paper at the international conference on Southern Silk Road in Kolkata, August 1-4, 2008.

• Workshop participant at the Cambridge Advanced Programme in Rethinking Development Economics at Cambridge University, UK, July 1-20th 2008.

• Presented a seminar at the Yunnan University in the South Asian Studies Department, in Kunming on the 31st of May, 2008.

• “Prosperity and Inequality in India and China,” Participated in a 14-day long workshop organized by India China Institute, New School, New York, March 14-March 28, 2008.

• “Wealth Inequality in India: Decomposition of Various Inequality Indices,” Presentation at the Indian Econometric Society Meetings, Hyderabad, January 3-5, 2008.

• “Rural Issues and Class Power in India,” Invited to present at a workshop in New York City (September 14-16) on India’s New Political Economy After 1989. Organized by John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge, Sanjay Reddy and Sanjay Ruparelia.

• “Explaining Overall Wealth Inequality in India by decomposing Caste Based Inequality” Invited to present at International Convention of Asian Studies at Kuala Lumpur, August 2-5, 2007.

• “Caste Inequality in India During the Era of Liberalization” Invited to present at ECINEQ (The Society for the Study of Economic Inequality) conference at Berlin, July 14-16, 2007.

• “Rural Urban Migration in India during the 1990’s: What kind of Urban?,” Invited to present at the Canadian Economic Association Meetings, Halifax, Canada, June 2007.

• Chaired a session – “Europe and Islam: An Intolerant Majority or Intolerant Minority” at the Left Forum, New York, 2007. [Session participants included Mahmood Mamdani from Columbia University and Elena Varikas from University of Paris].

• “Agrarian Crisis in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Comparison of Cooperative, Corporate and Traditional Solutions” – Paper presented at the American Economic Association meetings (Union for Radical Political Economists’ Session) in Chicago, January 5-7, 2007.

• “Agrarian Issues in our times: Agrarian change in a south Indian context” – Paper presented at the Economics Department of University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India on July 28, 2006.

• “Globalization and Agrarian Change in South India,” Paper presented at the Economics Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing on June 21, 2006.

• Participated in a week-long conference on Work force development and education organized by the Shanxi education commission in China and the City University of New York Between June 10-15, 2006 in Taiyuan, China.

• “Agrarian Organization and Economic Development: Comparing Contract Farming and Agricultural Cooperatives,” Paper presented at the Canadian Economic Association annual meetings at Montreal, May 25-27, 2006.

• “Growth and Distress in Telangana Between 1985 and 2000,” Paper presented at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, in an international conference – “Economic Globalization and Modern Economics,” April 1-3, 2006.

• Chaired a session – “China, India and Capitalism in the Long Run,” at the Left Forum, New York, 2006. [Session participants included Giovanni Arrighi from Johns Hopkins University and Leo Panitch from York University].

• Chaired a session – “The New Development Economics: Critical Perspectives” at the Left Forum, New York, 2006. [Session participants included K.S. Jomo from the United Nations and Arthur MacEwan from the University of Massachusetts].

• “Immiserizing Growth: Globalization and Agrarian Change in South India Between 1985 and 2000,” Paper presented at the Department of Economics, Dalhousie University, Canada in October, 2005.

• Organized and Chaired a session on “Globalization and Agrarian Change in the Developing World” at the Eastern Economic Association meetings (New York City) in March, 2005.

• “Growth and Distress in a South Indian Economy,” Conference presentation at New York Conference on Asian Studies, Bard College, New York State, USA, October 2004.

• “Immiserizing Growth and Anomalous Supply Response: A South Indian Economy Under Globalization,” - Seminar in the Economic Development and History Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst – Nov. 2003.

• “Paycheck Economics: Poverty and Welfare in the US between 1980 and 2003,” Presentation at a Workshop - Cultivating Hope, Harvesting Action: A Conference on Rural Poverty and Social Change, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 7, 2003.

• “Immiserizing Growth and Sustainability of Peasant Households in Telangana,” Paper presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2002.

• “Feudalism, Capitalism and Peasant Farming: Metamorphoses of a South Indian Agricultural Economy,” paper presented at the Indian Political Economy Conference, Darjeeling, India, November 2000.

• “The Dark Side of ‘White Gold’: Globalization and Cotton Farming in Telangana,” Paper presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 1999.

• “Indian Economic Liberalization and ‘Hindu’ Communalism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?” Paper presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 1997.

RADHIKA GAJJALA

Books:

Special Issues of Journals Edited:
Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge – Special Issue of Online Journal (Founding Editors: Ellen Berry and Carol Siegel). July 2002 -

New Media and Society - Special Section in South Asian Digital Diasporas. June 2006.

Editorials:
Cyberfeminisms: Introduction/Editorial in Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge Issue 4 . Spring 2002.

Consuming/producing/inhabiting South-Asian digital diasporas: Editorial. New Media and Society 8(2): 179-185 . 2006

Book Chapters and Journal Articles :

Critical, Feminist Pedagogy and Technology as well as (Critical) Methodologies for studying Online/Offline intersections

Racing and Queering the Interface: Producing global/local cyberselves by Gajjala, R, Rybas, N. and Altman M - in Special Issue on Technology. Qualitative Inquiry, 2008 . 2008
Developing cyber-ethnographic research methods for understanding digitally mediated identities. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 7(3)by Rybas, N., & Gajjala, R. September 2007.
3. Gajjala, R, Rybas, N. and Altman M., "Epistemologies of Doing: E-merging Selves Online" Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2007
4. Gajjala, R (2007) Shifting Frames: Race, Ethnicity and Intercultural Communication in Online Social Networking and Virtual Work in Hinner, Michael B. (ed.)The Role of Communication in Business Transactions and Relationships. Peter Lang.
5. Gajjala, R and Altman, M (2006) Producing Cyberselves through Technospatial Praxis: Studying through Doing - in Health Research in Cyberspace, edited by Pranee Liamputtong - Nova Publishers
6. Altman, M and Gajjala, R (2006) Exploring the Production of Race through Virtual Learning Environments in "International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments" Editors: Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan, Peter Trifonas: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
7. Enteen, J. and Gajjala, R. (2002) "Globalization and Intercultural Communication: A Virtual Exchange Project." Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments

South Asian Digital Diasporas and Cyberethnography related

1. Mitra, R and Gajjala, R (2008) Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas: A Dialogic Encounter in special issue of Journal of Communication Inquiry
2. Gajjala, R (2006) Cyberethnography: Reading South Asian Diasporas in Going Native on the Net: Indigenous Cyberactivism and Virtual Diasporas over the World Wide Web Kyra Marie Landzelius (ed). London: Routledge.
3. Gajjala, R. (2005) Cyborg-Diaspora: Observations from the Cyber-field, in Kris Knauer and T. Rachwal (Ed) On the Move: Mobility and Identity. Akademii Techniczno-Humanistycznej; Bielsko-Biala
4. Gajjala, R (2003) South Asian digital diasporas and cyberfeminist webs: negotiating globalization, nation, gender and information technology design in Contemporary South Asia (2003), 12(1).
5. Gajjala, R. (2002) Interrogating Identities: Composing Other Cyber-spaces International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Volume 25.
6. Gajjala, R. (2002) An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist Cyberethnography: Complicity and Resistance in the "Cyberfield" Feminist Media Studies, 2/2 (177-193).
7. Gajjala, R. (2001) Studying Feminist E-Spaces: Introducing Transnational/Postcolonial Concerns in S. Munt (Ed), Technospaces London:Continuum International.
8. Gajjala, R. (2000) Negotiating cyberspace/ negotiating RL in A. Gonzalez, M. Houston, V. Chen (Eds), Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. California: Roxbury Press.
9. Gajjala, R. (1999). Cyborg Diaspora and Virtual Imagined Community: Studying SAWNET. Cybersociology: Magazine for social-scientific researchers of cyberspace , 6.

Rekha Pappu

Rethinking Priorities: Making Policies as if People Matter. Hyderabad: Centre for World Solidarity and Andhra Pradesh Social Watch. 2005.

1. Introduction

2. Compulsions and Contradictions: The Education Sector in Andhra Pradesh

‘Human genome and Human Rights’, presented at the National Seminar on Human Rights, University of Hyderabad, October 2006

‘Knowledge, Economy, Polity and Culture: Issues in the Governance of Technology’, presented at the national seminar on Governance, Technology and Development, Academic Staff College, University of Hyderabad, Novemebr 20-21, 2006

SREEKUMAR

5. SCADA-EMS on the Internet, Energy Management and Power Delivery-98, Singapore 1998
6. Computer in Schools - How close to the Fourth R ?, Teacher Plus, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 1999.
7. Crossroad with a Difference, Madhavi K, Janaki Iyer and Sreekumar N, Network of Alternate Schools, August 2001
8. India Power Reform Update reports, Issues I to XI, Prayas 2003-5
9. Know the Electricity Act 2003, Prayas 2004
10. Know your Power: A Primer on the Electricity Sector (Book), Prayas 2006
11. Quality of Service of Distribution utilities – need for end-to-end commitment, Prayas 2005
12. Protecting Consumer Interests – Greater customer participation is the key to growth, Powerline, New Delhi, September 2006
13. Tariff-based incentives for improving coal-power-plant efficiencies in India, Anant Chikatur, AD Sagar, Nikit Abhyankar, Sreekumar, Energy
Policy, March 2007
14. Tribute to Prof. Amulya KN Reddy, Girish Sant, Sreekumar EPW, Current Science, June 2006
15. What an institution lives by, Sreekumar N & Lakshmi SS, Revive, July 2007
16. Alternate Power Planning: 20 Questions (Booklet), Tejal Kanitkar, Girish Sant, Sreekumar N, Neeraj Vagholikar, Prayas & Kalpavriksh (Pune),
September 2007
17. Proceedings on the ‘National Consultation on Regulation & the Poor’, Edited by: Sreekumar N, Tejal Kanitkar, Kalpana Dixit, Prayas, JNU (New
Delhi), August 2007
18. “Power sector reforms in Andhra Pradesh: Their impact and policy gaps”, Dr. B Sarangapani (Reader of Economics, The Hindu College),
Sreekumar N and Dr. Thimma Reddy (Convenor, Peoples Monitoring Group on Electricity Regulation), CESS, Hyderabad, 2007.
19. World Bank Led Reforms In The Indian Power Sector: A Critique, Sreekumar N & Girish Sant, Independent People’s Tribunal on the World Bank
Group in India, New Delhi,21-24 September, 2007
20. Strengths and Challenges of Andhra Pradesh Power Sector, Sreekumar N, Thimma Reddy, Raghu.K, EPW, November 17,2007
21. Awareness and Action for Better Electricity Service: An agenda for the Community (Booklet), Tejal Kanitkar, Sreekumar N, Prayas, January 2008
22. Market-Oriented Power Sector Reforms: A Critique, ICFAI Journal of Governance and Public Policy: June-September 2008

Harish Naraindas

1. Care, welfare, and treason: The advent of vaccination in the 19th century. Contributions to Indian Sociology, SAGE Publications, 1998.

2. Crisis, charisma and triage: Extirpating the pox. Indian Economic &Social History Review,SAGE Publications. 2003,

3. Preparing for the Pox: A Theory of Smallpox in Bengal and Britain, Asian Journal of Social Science, Volume 31, Number 2, 2003 , pp. 304-339(36). Brill, 2003,

4. Poisons, putrescence and the weather: A genealogy of the advent of Tropical Medicine Contributions to Indian Sociology, SAGE Publications, 1996.

5. Of spineless babies and folic acid: Evidence and efficacy in biomedicine and ayurvedic medicine. Social Science & Medicine 62 (2006) 2658–2669, June 2006.

Epidemics of Fever : Allopathic Prevention or Alternative Cure

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Himanshu Thakkar

Editor of Dams, Rivers & People http://www.sandrp.in

1.	India’s Hydropower Projects : Cheap, clean, green, renewable source of money?, Himanshu Thakkar, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People, 12 June 2008.
2.	The DAMaging Floods, Himanshu Thakkar, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People, 12 July 2008.
3.	Rs 100 000 crores spent, but no additional benefits No addition to Canal Irrigated areas for 12 years, Himanshu Thakkar & Bipin Chandra, SANDRP, 01 November 2007.
4.	Kosi's tragedy: Blunder after blunder, Himanshu Thakkar, Rediff News, 01 September 2008.