December 23-29, 2012

You know that we need changes in our society and politics, but cannot really figure how and where to start? If you are young and searching for a path for the future; if you are looking for answers or just figuring out how to frame the questions; or you are simply exploring a meaningful way to spend the vacation away from your academic life, here is an opportunity for you !
Join our winter school at the Sambhaavnaa Institute that aims at providing you a fresh window/lens to viewing development, economics, society, policy and politics. Through a week of interactive sessions with activists, thinkers, academics and experts from various fields, this course attempts to sharpen your skills for critical analysis of, and a overall perspective to the challenges facing our country today.

Course Outline

• Historical Background of our Development Model
• Understanding India’s Economic Policies
• Democracy and Decision-Making : Who controls Public Policy?
• Social Context of Development : Caste and Gender
• Ecological Consequences of Development
• Social Movements in India
• Alternatives to Development

In Conversation with – Prashant Bhushan, Jaya Mehta, Gautam Modi, Shekar Singh, Manshi Asher.