Discourses in 2011-13
Seminar series Social Development Forum "State versus People: India’s Northeast’
Speaker:
Dr. K. S. Subramanian IPS (Retd.) Former Senior Fellow, CSD
Chair:
Prof Manoranjan Mohanty Visiting Professor, CSD
on 25th April 2013, Thursday at 3.30 PM Venue DDML Hall, CSD
Seminar series Social Development Forum organized a Round Table discussion on Union Budget 2013: A Social Development Assessment
Speakers:
Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, CSD;
Prof. K B Saxena, Professor Social Justice and Governance, CSD;
Dr. Arathi P.M. and Prof Imrana Qadeer Visiting Professor, CSD;
Prof. Santosh Mehrotra, Director-General, IAMR
on 11th April (Thursday) at 3.30 pm at Durgabai Deshmukh Hall
Seminar series of Social Development Forum "Implementation of Nine-Year Compulsory Education Law in China"
Speakers:
Prof. Sreemati Chakravarti Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Delhi
Chair: Prof. Muchkund Dubey (President),
CSD at 3.30 PM on 14th March 2013
Seminar series of Social Development Forum "Human Rights Perspectives"
Speakers:
Justice Rajinder Sachar (t.b.c.) Former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court
Shri Suhas Chakma Director, Asian Centre for Human Rights
Ms. Kavita Srivastava (t.b.c.) General Secretary, Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
Ms. Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Human Rights
CSD 17th January, 2013 Thursday, at 3:30 PM
Seminar series of Social Development Forum "Screening of “Pestering Journey” (http://apesteringjourney.wordpress.com)
Speakers:
K. R. Manoj
Prof. Praful Bidwai Durgabai Deshmukh Chair, CSD 27th December 2012, Thursday, at 3.30 PM
Seminar series of Social Development Forum "Koodankulam: Nuclear Power or People's Power?"
Speakers:
Ashwin Gambhir Prayas Energy group, Pune
Prof. Praful Bidwai Durgabai Deshmukh Chair, CSD and Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace
Chair: Prof. Imrana Qadeer Visiting Professor, CSD 18th October 2012, Thursday, at 3:30 PM Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall.
Seminar series of Social Development Forum "Women, Family, The State and Children in the making of Childhoods: The Hyphenated Child-State Relationship"
Speakers:-
Vijayalakshmi Balakrishnan Author, Growing Up & Away (OUP, 2011)
Chair: Prof. Shantha Sinha on 27th September 2012
Seminar series of Social Development Forum "Recent Violence in Assam"
Speakers:-
- Sanjoy Hazarika Director, Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research, (JMI)
- Monisha Behal Chairperson, North East Network
- Banajit Hussain Researcher, Nehru Memorial Museum
Chair:- Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (Visiting Professor), CSD on 13th September 2012, Thursday, 3:30 PM at Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall.
Seminar series of Social Development Forum "Issues Arising Out of Manesar- July Incidents in the Maruti Plant"
Speakers:-
- Prabhu Mahapatra (Associate professor, Department of History, DU)
- D. L. Sachdeva (President, AITUC)
- Ashim Roy (General Secretary, NTUI)
- Satbeer Singh (CITU State President, Haryana)
- Amit Sengupta Executive Editor, Hard News
- Panini Anand Principal Correspondent, Outlook
Chair: - Professor Praful Bidwai (Durgabai Deshmukh Chair) on 23rd August 2012, Thursday, 3.30 PM at Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Seminar series of Social Development Forum Evaluation of MNREGA: Some field reports on 29th March 2012, at the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Speaker:- Prof. K. B. Saxena
Seminar series of Social Development Forum Messages from the State Elections on 14th March, 2012, at the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Speaker:- Prof. Pralay Kanungo, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, (JNU)
Seminar series of Social Development Forum Anti-Dalit Violence and Resistance in Tamil Nadu on 16th February 2012, at the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Speaker:- Dr. K.S. Subramaniam ICSSR Senior Fellow
Seminar series of Social Development Forum Food Security and the Challenges for the Developing Countries on 3rd, February, 2012 at the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Speaker:- Prof. Joan P. Mencher Renowned (Prof. of Agrarian and Gender Studies)
Seminar series of Social Development Forum Climate Talks in Deep Crisis: What was done in Durban? on 5th, January, 2012 at the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Speaker:- Prof. Praful Bidwai
Seminar series of Social Development Forum The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 on 15th December, 2011 at the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Speaker:-
Shri Sanjay Upadhyay (Director, Enviro-Legal Defence Forum)
Talk on The Importance of Early Childhood Education: For Equity and Quality on 18th November, 2011 at the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Speaker:- Prof. Aloisio Araujo
A Panel Discussion on Lakshmidhar Mishra authored Human Bondage on 22nd July, 2011 at the Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall
Speakers :-
- Shri P.S. Krishnan, former Secretary, Ministry of Welfare, GOI (Caste System and Bondage)
- Dr. B.D. Sharma, eminent social thinker and activist (Tribal Land Alienation and Bondage)
- Shri Anil Bordia, eminent educationist (Illiteracy and Bondage)
- Shri B. N. Yugandhar, former member Planning Commission, GOI (Land Tenurial System and Bondage)
- Prof. Shantha Sinha, Chairperson, NCPCR (Child labour, Trafficking and Bondage)




