Dr. Niranjana will discuss her most recent book Mobilizing India. Descendants of Indian indentured laborers to the Caribbean comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad's population. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian, what Indian signifies-about nationalism, gender, culture, caste, race, and religion-in the Caribbean is different from what it means on the subcontinent, but are intimately related. Drawing on a variety of historical and contemporary materials, Dr.

Dr. Isher Judge Ahluwalia is currently Chairperson, Board of Governors of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) and Member, National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, Government of India. She served as Director and Chief Executive of ICRIER from 1997 to 2001. Until recently, she was Vice Chairperson, Punjab State Planning Board, Government of Punjab and Chairperson, Board of Trustees of IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute).

Shot and edited between August 2004-2006, "Jashn-e-Azadi" engages us with the idea of Azadi in Kashmir. In 2007, as India celebrates its 60th anniversary of Independence, this is also a conversation about Freedom in India. Sanjay Kak is one of India's most significant documentary film makers today.

Written and directed by Sanjay Kak, photography Ranjan Palit, edited by Tarun Bhartiya 138 mins / Digital Video, Kashmiri/Urdu/English (English subtitles)

Lakshmi Iyer is an economist in the Business, Government and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her primary research fields are political economy and development economics, with a special emphasis on property rights institutions. Her work includes studies of historical and current institutions, such as colonialism and historical land rights in India and land reforms in Vietnam.

Vikram Raghavan is senior counsel in the World Bank’s Legal Vice-Presidency, where he works in two different practice groups. As a member of the East Asia and South Asia group, Mr. Raghavan is country lawyer for the World Bank’s operations in India, Myanmar, and Korea. In that capacity, he provides legal and transactional advice on a variety of constitutional, operational, and local law issues that arise in World Bank-financed projects in those areas.

Dr. Mor has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Finance from the Wharton School; a Masters degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an undergraduate degree in Physics from the Mumbai University. He is also is a Yale World Fellow (2004).

Chandra Bhan Prasad is widely regarded as the most important Dalit thinker and political commentator in India today, advocating on behalf of the more than 16 percent of India’s population who have historically been regarded as untouchable by orthodox Hinduism. He was the first Dalit to gain a regular column in a national English-language Indian newspaper, more than 50 years after India’s independence. His weekly Dalit Diary has been a regular feature of The Pioneer since 1999, and is routinely translated into other major Indian languages.

Dayamani Barla is a journalist hailing from the Munda tribe in Jharkhand, India. Dayamani’s reportage in the popular Hindi newspaper, Prabhat Khabhar, has brought attention to the displacement of tribal peoples from their native lands by developers, and the myriad other problems that face tribal communities. Her groundbreaking work has been instrumental in exposing the hazards posed by uranium mining to children in rural areas. Her work is constantly guided by her concern for the plight of the weakest and the most exploited sections of Indian society.

The current “kidney racket” scandal in the Delhi satellite city of Gurgaon--in which accusations that a man posing as a transplant surgeon ran a kidney transplant clinic for eight years, serving an international clientele and not only buying kidneys from poor sellers but extorting them--raises immediate questions about the structure of medical regulation and the epidemiology, forensics, and ethics of the kidney trade. To answer such questions, a class of experts (including Cohen) has proliferated to study and adjudicate these scandals and the everyday practices they suspend.