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The Intimate Enemy
Political, economic, and cultural domination under colonialism has repeatedly been studied during the last hundred years. Breaking with the tradition, Ashis Nandy explores the ways …
Bonfire of Creeds
This anthology invites readers to revisit Ashis Nandy's thought and to participate in the open-ended, intellectual adventure of his work. The essays included do not merely reflect …
Fingerprinting Popular Culture
The book explores the extent to which Indian popular cinema offers a fresh view of South Asian public life while being a distinctive response to the new political presence of …
The Multiverse of Democracy
An Ambiguous Journey to the City
Divided into four sections, this book tells the story of India's ambivalent affair with the modern city throug hthe myth of the journey between the village and the city, and the …
Time Warps
A discussion of how the large, impersonal Indian state has affected the lives of its citizens since Independence in 1947. It focuses on how the multiple nature of psychological …
Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures
Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures is a pre-emptive attempt to bring together the scattered writings of Ashis Nandy over his entire span of writing career and scan those …
Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias
A collection of six essays on the nature of Western civilization and its impact in cultural and economic terms on the impoverished under-developed East, by a very distinguished …
Time Treks – The Uncertain Future of Old and New Despotisms
"Time Treks" uses the metaphor of the future - imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities, social critiques of things to come - and redefines the present. In a world …
Ethnic Futures
This book examines ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nepal and India. It looks at issues such as the unequal allocation and use of natural resources, discrepancies in the …
Inside Australian Culture
“Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values” offers a critical intervention in the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, …
The Savage Freud
This is Nandy's most important collection of essays so far. The core of the volume consists of two ambitious, deeply probing essays, one on the early success of psycho-analysis in …