50 years of 'Seminar' magazine celebrated at IAAS

The Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS) today celebrated the 50 years of completion of 'Seminar', a monthly journal, by organising a high profile intellectual colloquium. West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishan Gandhi was the chief guest on the occasion.

Other participants included Union Minister of Corporate and Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid, eminent writers and historians Ram Chandra Guha, Nayantara Sehgal, Sunil Khilnani, filmmaker Shyam Benegal, Editor of Economic and Political Weekly Ram Manohar Reddy, Editor of Business Standard T N Ninan, Editor of The Dawn (Pakistan) Hamid Haroon, Editor and Publisher of 'Seminar' magazine Tejbir Singh and Malvika Singh and some other editors from Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Started in September 1959 by Raj and Romesh Thapar, 'Seminar' is a journal of ideas and thoughts. Each month, the journal debates on a single theme, inviting leading public intellectuals to discuss the theme in its various facets. Calling it a consistent effort from past fifty years, the scholars stated, ''imposing no pre-fixed editorial position, the Seminar in print provides a platform for reasoned debate, a space where individuals of diverse ideological persuasions can engage themselves in collectively creating an output that while informing readers of the latest thinking on the subject invites them to come to their own conclusions''.

Over the years Seminar has debated a wide variety of subjects relating to public policy, politics, culture, arts, literature, the state of our institutions and global developments. Its contributors include scholars, journalists, politicians as also activists and cultural practitioners from both India and across the world. A compilation of select articles from the journal over the years was also released on the occasion. The intelligentsia claimed that the Seminar archive is a veritable treasure of national thinking and imagination.

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