There are several ways of presenting a seminar after it is done: the editing wor1< is vast if you figure that by choice we wanted the seminar not to be based on written papers. So much of what you will read is a transcription from the spoken word b\ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, a rendering even, and further editing by me. The discussions in particular, which sometimes went on for hours, had to carry that peculiar involute form/ that slow insistence to get to the heart of the matter which produces in Iran^igcn-cie^ of thought For this very reason I do not want to offer little precis ^ thi presentations and discussions but to query in fact the position of the mediator, o; editor. There is an argument that one should in lids capacity intervene in unresolved debate/ particularly when one has a retrospective view on it It means ? suppose thai cmc acts as a dialectical third. To leave thought dangling is to weaken the fabric of the partisan argument I tend to proceed a little differently. Even when a confrontation has taken piaci6 thiT»» ^luuld be/ in a dialogic form/ the strength to develop a relay. I do believe in mlel1°cl Uc-^ resolution that derives from, corresponds to/ the crucial issues of the histon" nri» i n^ru I cannot see them as 'truths' however rigorous the archaeology that has thi o. /•> i th^' up, or even however advanced the dialectic. I o come down to the1 material al lund: for the first issue the parameters arc mtu -nationalism in its several aspects, heroic, exploitative and emancipatory And posio frontaliy with if the politics of culture sn a recently formed nation-slate. ICunitis Shdhani and Arun Khopkar investigate the former, the one through his own pracw^ and the other through the practk'e of a twentieth century master, Sergei EiserbtCL Sanjaya Baru and Sudipla Kavira] investigate the trajectory of the Indian bourgeoisie the implications of how this class and its institutions are designated and in wKit- exact tcnns the ideology is lo be seen translated into cultural 'normdtivity' Ashibh Ra-jadhyaksha who writes on the overwhelming growth of media technology, the priority given to mass communication by the Indian state, and the specific history of TV in India, includes enormously alive data treated every which way until it becomes a monstrous montage of precisely these national /intemdtional aspirations. These are the five presentations included here, about the other half of the seminar we will tell you in the following issue. GEETA KAPUR