Vision for a Nation Paths and Perspective

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. Review This is the first of 14 volumes of writings and essays that seek to highlight and focus upon the biggest conundrum of our times. In a country where a singular idea of nationhood is being thrust upon 1.3 billion people it is imperative that we realise and absorb the fact that there are many such ideas and only in accepting all these can we preserve the overarching reality of this teeming sub-continent as a place that nurtures the human spirit. -- Carol Andrade ―Free Press Journal Published On 2020-03-22This collection of essays edited by Ashis Nandy and Aakash Singh Rathore highlights the key questions of our time in an effort to understand the collective idea of India. ―Reader's Digest Published On 2019-12-01 About the Author Aakash Singh Rathore is a philosopher of international repute and the author of seven books including A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text. He is also India's number three Ironman triathlete and a social media influencer. Rathore has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi as well as at Rutgers University University of Pennsylvania University of Toronto Humboldt University of Berlin and LUISS University in Rome. He is an international fellow at the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics in Rome and a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla. He is the series editor of Rethinking India (fifteen volumes) and is the co-editor of its first volume Vision for a Nation Paths and Perspectives (with Ashis Nandy). Rathore is also the series editor of Ethics Human Rights and Global Political Thought (Routledge) and Religion and Democracy Reconceptualizing Religion Culture and Politics in a Global Context (Oxford University Press). His eighteen books some of which he has edited have been published by leading international publishers. These books range from political philosophy law and religion to literature sports and wine. His website is www.aakashsinghrathore.com.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.