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020			_a9780190120924 (pbk)
037			_bLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
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100			_aNandy, Ashis.
245	0	0	_aBreakfast with evil and other risky ventures: the non-essential Ashis Nandy / _cAshis Nandy ; foreword by K. Satchidanandan.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew Delhi, India : _bOxford University Press, _c2021.
300			_axxiii, 324 pages ; _c22 cm
500			_aRs.895/- Manohar P-1571/3.
520			_aBreakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures is a pre-emptive attempt to bring together the scattered writings of Ashis Nandy over his entire span of writing career and scan those scattered lectures, interviews, and writings including essays and columns for newspapers and journals for an in-depth analytical study. As the author himself explains, these are not his musings on static, time-bound issues, rather they capture how he confronts and negotiates the living past in the political, social, and cultural landscape of South Asia-starting from the manmade famine of 1943 to the Partition and freedom of India and the birth of Pakistan in 1947, the Bangladesh War in 1971, and the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka (1983-2009). The essays, often written as forewords to other scholars' works, straddle languages, systems of knowledge, and forms of voice and silence. Nandy attempts to identify a critical and intellectual strategy for survival in the Third World. He establishes that though a traumatic ambience-marred by aggressive development, instant nationalisms, or the brutalizing spectacles of modern nation-states-numbs one's imagination, it can also lead to new worldviews and multiple creative forms of resistance.
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aSocial conditions.
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