Ashis Nandy
Distinguished Fellow
Based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi for over thirty years, Ashis is one of the foremost public intellectuals in India and a founding figure in the development of south Asian cultural studies. He has written more than 25 books, the most influential of which, The Intimate Enemy, has had 23 reprints. He is on the editorial board of some 40 international journals and has participated in 6 reports on human rights, outbreaks of violence and elections in south Asia. Ashis identifies with the victims of colonialism and urges us “to defy the given models of defiance”.