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.