Full Description
This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Another questions how it would be if Rabindranath Tagore lived in the twenty-first century; yet another, how 'cool' Indians are or might be in the future. Subjects as far apart as war and solitude find space in these musings. Through these lively engagements emerge key insights into the ideas, writings, and life of one of the foremost intellectuals of our time in Indian and global scholarship, thought, and dissent-Ashis Nandy.
Contents
Introduction
1. Dipesh Chakrabarti , 'Dear Ashis Da: A Fan Letter on Your 80th'
2. Fred Dallmayr, 'At the Edge of Selfhood'
3. Ramin Jahanbegloo, 'A Life in Dissent'
4. John Cash, 'The Intimate Friend-Enemy'
5. Tridip Suhrud, 'A Tale about Hyper-Masculine Selves'
6. Philip Darby, 'When Ashis Nandy's Myths Meet those of Westphalia'
7. Arindam Chakrabarty, 'The Future of Coolness'
8. Ziauddin Sardar, 'The A, B, C, D (& E) of Ashis Nandy'
9. Rudolf C. Heredia, 'Celebrating the Organic Intellectual'
10. Richard Falk, 'Master of Contrarian Reason'
11. Lydia H. Liu, 'The Gift of the Living Past'
12. A. Raghuramaraju, 'Ashis Nandy's Interpretations of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi'
13. C. Douglas Lummis, 'Just War Is Hell'
14. T.N. Madan, 'The Real and the Imagined'
15. David L. Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah, 'Non Player Dialectics'
16. D. Venkat Rao, 'The Cognitive Storyteller'
17. Aseem Srivastava, 'Dial
