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ASHIS NANDY began his journey as a clinical psychologist and sociologist and, during the last three decades, has traveled through some of the most unfamiliar territories of social knowledge, such as future studies, postdevelopmental visions, and alternatives. Amongst his books are 'At the Edge of Psychology', ' The Illegitimacy of Nationalism', and 'The Tao of Cricket'. He is presently working on a dictionary for the twenty-first century and a study of genocide and reconstruction of lives after mass violence.

He is associated with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Future, both in Delhi, India.

• The Future of Knowledge & Culture
This volume is a dictionary that defies the grid of conventionality. This remarkable book attempts to provide a cartography of the contemporary global framework of knowledge and culture that can tell us where we’ve arrived in the new millennium, and where we are headed. It is organized around some of the ideas, products and practices that constitute everyday life.

• Bonfire of Creeds - The Essential Ashis Nandy
This collection gives the reader comprehensive introduction to the democratic, post-secular sensitivities that shape Nandy’s approach to transformative politics and his non-hierarchical, ant-technocratic ideas of people’s knowledge. The anthology invites readers to revisit Ashis Nandy’s thought and to participate in the open-ended, intellectual adventure of his work.

• The Secret Politics of Our Desires
Now available in paper back edition, this collection of essays aims to create a sharper awareness of popular Indian films as a possible source for an alternative, non-formal frame of political and social analysis.

• The Romance of the State and the Fate of Dissent in the Tropics
This book explores some key concepts in the mainstream culture of Indian politics, ranging from secularism, development, and terrorism to dissent and history. The analysis is based on a tacit cultural and psychological biography of the modern nation-state in the country.

• An Ambiguous Journey To The City
Rich in theoretical insights drawn from a plethora of sources and inspirations, and written in an engaging style, this book will delight scholars across disciplines as much as general readers interested in the psychology and politics of culture.

• The Illegitimacy of Nationalism - Rabindranath Tagore and the Politics of Self
Though it deals with Indian self-reconstructions, the insights this book offers into the working of a political idea are of universal significance, especially in this period of political upheaval and questioning

• The Savage Freud and Other Essays
An excellent introduction to Nandy's renowned work, these essays will appeal to a wide specialist and general audience.

• Time Warps - The Insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts
In this book Ashis Nandy, one of South Asia’s foremost public intellectuals, grapples with India’s political culture by looking from new perspectives at the country’s past, and by envisioning for the subcontinent a variety of alternative futures.

• Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias - Essays in The Politics of Awareness
This volume is a collection of six essays on the modern west and its cultural and psychological impact on the east.

• Creating a Nationality - The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self
The destruction of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in December 1992 is a watershed in the politics of independent India. This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that led upto and followed the destruction. (The book is beautifully documented. . . the narrative is gripping and reveals hitherto unknown details. -The Indian Express)

• Time Warps - The insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts
In this book Ashis Nandy, one of South Asia’s foremost public intellectuals, grapples with India’s political culture by looking from new perspectives at the country’s past, and by envisioning for the subcontinent a variety of alternative futures.

• The Tao of Cricket - On games of destiny and the destiny of games
This is a book on cricket that ceases to be so after a point and becomes an informal but systematic analysis of worldviews, ideologies, cultural exchanges and political choices. It is also arguably Nandy's most ambitious book and the one that comes closest to being a statement of his personal philosophy and political credo.

• Fingerprinting Popular Culture
This book explores the extent to which Indian popular cinema offers a fresh view of South Asian public life while being a distinctive response to the new political presence of the changing culture of the urban middle classes in the region.

• A Very Popular Exile - An Omnibus
This is a collection of three significant works of Ashis Nandy – ‘The Tao of Cricket’, ‘An Ambiguous Journey to the City’, and ‘Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias’.

• Talking India
The book has grown out of a series of six comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher. The interviewer questions Nandy within the context of his own ‘Indian-ness – from philosophical thought and religion to culture pluralism and participatory democracy.

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