Complete issue will be online next month  symposium participants THE PROBLEM Posed by Rakesh Pandey, Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi FREEDOM SPEAK Peter Ronald deSouza, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; holds the Dr S. Radhakrishnan Chair of the Rajya Sabha (2015-17), Delhi PERFORMING DISSENT Rustom Bharucha, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi RESISTING HINDUTVA Vasudha Dalmia, Professor Emerita, Modern South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley THE PEDAGOGY OF NATIONALISM Shahid Amin, former Professor of History, University of Delhi CONSCIENCE, THE SOURCE OF DISSENT Tridip Suhrud, Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, Ahmedabad	#686 October 2016 PEDAGOGY OF DISSENT a symposium on the cultures of freedom and dissent in the world of learning  cover design by www.designosis.innext month: The Tech Promise	EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY M. Madhava Prasad, Department of Cultural Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad  ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND THE HUMANITIES Aniket Jaaware, Department of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, U.P. META-VERBAL HARASSMENT AND THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY Probal Dasgupta, Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata QUIET PEDAGOGY V. Geetha, historian and editor, Chennai LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE T.M. Krishna, Carnatic vocalist, thinker and writer on contemporary issues, Chennai BOOKS Reviewed by Louise Tillin REPORT  On Democratic Dynasties BACKPAGE