Wednesday, September 16, 2009

A book review

Talking India: Ashis Nandy in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo

I read this book over the summer along with Beyza and Hima and liked it a lot. Highly recommend it to everyone. This is a good review of the book. I'm sure the concluding paragraph is bound to catch the attention of some of you :-):

For much too long Indians, Iranians, Indonesians, Africans and others have not conversed with each other, each reserving their cultural and intellectual exchanges for the ‘West’. Talking India, which brings an Indian intellectual into conversation with an Iranian one, is a refreshing sign of the possibilities of forms of interculturalism other than those which have been bequeathed to us by the West.

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