Regimes Of Narcissism, Regimes Of Despair

In this rare collection of essays, Ashis Nandy talks about an India where things have changed drastically in recent years. Looking at the nationalism of Gandhi and Tagore, Savarkar, and Madanlal Pahwa, and cultural psychology, terror and counter-terror, humiliation and human degradation, happiness, and modernity and the sense of loss, the essays open up the future for the next generation of intellectuals and political activists in India and in othersocieties.