Ashis Nandy

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, currently vice-dean and executive director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India. Ananya Vajpeyi is an intellectual historian, currently a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.

• Introduction1. 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

The book would be very important since few scholarly assessments of Ashis Nandy's work exist ... One of the most original social scientists in India, Ashis Nandy's writings have contributed enormously towards evolving serious intellectual conversations on India. His influence has been justly great in academia as well as in discussions of development and modernity outside university spaces. The range of essays in the proposed volume is rich and impressive ... The list of contributors, which includes Indians as well as non-Indians, clarify the civilizational nature of Nandy's work. And, by showing how his work can be pushed in new directions, many of the submitted essays invite others to evolve a creative relationship with his work.