Talking India

Author: Ashis NandyRamin Jahanbegloo/: Ramin JahanbeglooPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2006Language: EnglishPages: 149ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195678982 DescriptionMultifaceted thinker and prolific author, Ashis Nandy is considered one of India’s leading intellectuals. For someone trained as a clinical psychologist and a sociologist, he continues to cross disciplinary boundaries and capture the imagination of the reading public and everyone interested in the world of ideas. This book is a journey into his mind, a mind that battles the dark side of modernity – a modernity that makes voiceless the dissenting voices of our times. The book explores Nandy’s myriad and unpredictable ways of thinking and the essential humanism of his writings, which are homage to the known and unknown victims of history.The book has grown out of a series of six comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher. The interviewer questions Nandy within the context of his o