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Vision for a Nation

Vision for a Nation

Paths and Perspectives (Rethinking India series Vol 1)

Aakash Singh Rathore
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Ashis Nandy
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What is the nation? What is the idea of India? Whose India is it, anyway?
This inaugural volume in the series titled Rethinking India aims to kickstart a national dialogue on the key questions of our times. It brings together India’s foremost intellectuals, academics, activists, technocrats, professionals and policymakers to offer an in-depth exploration of these issues, deriving from their long-standing work, experience and unflinching commitment to the collective idea of India, of who we can and ought to be. Vision for a Nation: Paths and Perspectives champions a plural, inclusive, just, equitable and prosperous India, committed to individual dignity as the foundation of the unity and vibrancy of the nation.
In order to further disseminate these ideas-the vision for the nation as aspirationally reflected in the Constitution-this book provides a positive counter-narrative to reclaim the centrality of a progressive, deeply plural and forward-looking and inclusive India. It serves as a fresh reminder of our shared and shareable overlapping values and principles, and collective heritage and resources. The essays in the book are meaningful to anyone with an interest in contemporary Indian politics, South Asian studies, modern Indian history, law, sociology, media and journalism.

Imprint: Vintage Books

Published: Dec/2019

ISBN: 9780670092949 (Hardback)

Length : 240 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

Vision for a Nation

Paths and Perspectives (Rethinking India series Vol 1)

Aakash Singh Rathore
,
Ashis Nandy

What is the nation? What is the idea of India? Whose India is it, anyway?
This inaugural volume in the series titled Rethinking India aims to kickstart a national dialogue on the key questions of our times. It brings together India’s foremost intellectuals, academics, activists, technocrats, professionals and policymakers to offer an in-depth exploration of these issues, deriving from their long-standing work, experience and unflinching commitment to the collective idea of India, of who we can and ought to be. Vision for a Nation: Paths and Perspectives champions a plural, inclusive, just, equitable and prosperous India, committed to individual dignity as the foundation of the unity and vibrancy of the nation.
In order to further disseminate these ideas-the vision for the nation as aspirationally reflected in the Constitution-this book provides a positive counter-narrative to reclaim the centrality of a progressive, deeply plural and forward-looking and inclusive India. It serves as a fresh reminder of our shared and shareable overlapping values and principles, and collective heritage and resources. The essays in the book are meaningful to anyone with an interest in contemporary Indian politics, South Asian studies, modern Indian history, law, sociology, media and journalism.

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Aakash Singh Rathore

Aakash Singh Rathore is a philosopher, author, and public intellectual of international repute. His 10 authored books span ethics, politics, law, literature, biography, and wine, with translations into multiple languages; he has also edited 15 more, including B.R. Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice (5 vols., Oxford) and Hegel’s India (Oxford, shortlisted for Tata Literature Live Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2017). Notable titles include the bestsellers Becoming Babasaheb (HarperCollins, currently being adapted into a film) and Ambedkar’s Preamble (Penguin).
Rathore has been a professor of philosophy, politics, and law at premier institutions, including Jawaharlal Nehru University, Ashoka University and Jindal Global University (where he taught courses on AI/AE), as well as at UPenn, Rutgers, the University of Toronto, Humboldt University of Berlin, and LUISS University, Rome. Through the Book Series “Rethinking India” (Penguin), “Religion and Democracy” (Oxford), and “Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought” (Routledge), Rathore endeavors to leverage his role as Series Editor to champion diverse voices.
He pens the monthly column “Poorva Paksha” for Deccan Herald and contributes to The Indian Express, Outlook, The Times of India, and more. A top Ironman triathlete with nine finishes (and earlier ranked as India’s #3 Ironman triathlete), Rathore appears on podcasts like The Seen and the Unseen, at litfests worldwide, and engages millions via YouTube and social media (Quora, X, Instagram). More at www.AakashSinghRathore.com.

Ashis Nandy

ASHIS NANDY has worked on the topics of mass violence, human potentialities, cultures of knowledge systems, and alternative visions of the future. He is best known as the author of Alternative Sciences, The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves, The Intimate Enemy, The Romance of the State and Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias. He won the Grand Prize category of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (2007) and the Hans-Kilian Prize (2019). In 2008, he was elected one of the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by the magazine Foreign Policy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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