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Sunday, 21st Nov
5:45 pm - 6:30 pm IST

“I and the public know/What all schoolchildren learn/Those to whom evil is done/Do evil in return”. What is the underlying psychological mindset behind the worsening milieu of greed, hatred, violence, in the world today? Does the concept of evil – or for that matter good – “in return” always prevail? What mental, emotional and aspirational complexities and compulsions drive human behaviour in the public space? Is society set to implode or is a course correction possible? If so what psychological and cultural tools need to be applied? Ashis Nandy, one of India’s leading political psychologists and futurists, has spent a lifetime studying these issues.

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Ashis Nandy

Ashis Nandy is a leading political and cultural psychologist and a futurist. He is known for his cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural work and is a much-awarded writer and thinker whose books have been translated into at least 15 languages. He is a Homi Bhabha Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies at Melbourne.

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Shiv Visvanathan

Shiv Visvanathan is an Indian public intellectual and social scientist best known for the concept of cognitive justice, a term he coined. He is currently Professor at Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat and Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P Jindal Global University.

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Ashis Nandy

Shiv Visvanathan

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