The Idea of India: A Dialogue Seagull Books

The Idea of India: A Dialogue Seagull BooksIn this wide ranging dialogue, two old friends trace the history of the idea of India through digressions, anecdotes and observations. Their conversation revolves around the narratives that have shaped the Indian identityfrom the Vedic times to the presentand those whose voices and visions for this land remain unheard and unseen. Historian Romila Thapar and theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak reflect on the challenges posed by essentialism and

this book touches upon four decades of Robbins’ engagement with the idea of High Entertainment—starting from the 1980s

This issue made (almost) entirely by students aims to celebrate the nostalgia one feels for their student days

that lies beyond human understanding

On Revolution includes a long essay in two parts in which Sartre dwells upon the ‘myth’ of revolution and goes on to analyse revolutionary ideas in fascism and

Lower Belvedere

Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art

Arseniy Tarkovsky

Pages: 460

Jacques-Louis David’s Marat

In this volume

Richly illustrated

Included here is Sartre’s famous foreword to Nizan’s novel The Conspiracy