Modern India
By: thisindianlife
Category: social theory
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Ashis Nandy (right in picture) is an intellectual in Delhi who writes about life in modern India. He was interviewed by the Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo (left).
Nandy hopes that India will offer the world something that is uniquely Indian and not just try to beat the West at its own game. He laments that, “We would rather suffer from the problems of the world’s richest and most powerful country, than from the problems of the poor and the peripheral. We don’t want to die of starvation; we want to die of obesity and over-consumption.”
Nandy and Jahanbegloo’s conversation traverses the thoughts, religions, cultural diversity and politics of Modern India’s communities. They fly through topics like the relationship between Indians and Pakistanis, the future of democracy in South Asia, globalization, the survival of Indian culture and traditions, Gandhi, industrialization, secularism, development, the flaws of the nation-state and nationalism.
The transcript of the series of six interviews is published by Oxford Press in a book titled, Talking India: Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo.
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