Breakfast with evil and other risky ventures : the non-essential Ashis Nandy / Ashis Nandy ; foreword by K. Satchidanandan.

Includes index.

The Song of The Walkers: A Foreword by K. Satchidanandan xi;
Prolegomena xvii;
BOOK I: THIS, OUR TIME;
1. The Idea of South Asia: The Origins of Post-Bandung Blues 3;
2. The Gift of Partition: The Career of an Idea 13;
3. Is Australia a Victim of the Ethical Limits of the Enlightenment?: A Note on the Culture of a State 20;
4. Living and Dying in Kashmir 26;
5. Despair, the Missing Rasa 34;
6. From the Age of Anxiety to the Age of Fear 45;
7. Idealism, Ideology, and Total Politics 54;
8. Uprooting and the Landscape of Clandestine Selves 61;
9. The Peasant 67;
10. The Final Obituary: Death, Responsibility, and Sanjay Gandhi 72;
BOOK II: NEGOTIATING NECROPHILIA;
11. Breakfast with Evil: Vijay Tendulkar as a Social Theorist of Violence 81;
12. How to Live Happily with Torture 87;
13. Nuclearism: An Epidemiology 99;
14. The Fear and the Allure of Self-Destruction 105;
15. Who Won the World Cup in 1994? 112;
16. Invitation to a Beheading: Political Assassinations in the Third World 116;
17. Laughter in a Mortuary: O.V. Vijayan 123;
BOOK III: THE WORK OF CULTURE;
18. The Fear of Plague: The Inner Demons of a Society 131;
19. Consumerism: Its Hidden Beauties and Politics 136;
20. Coca-Cola 142;
21. Sugar: An Incidental Obituary of the Humble Jaggery 148;
22. Solitude 152;
23. Ethnic Cuisine 158;
24. Satyajit Ray's India: Cinema, Creativity, and Cultural Nationalism 165;
25. Hindi Cinema and Its Half-Forgotten Dialects: Christopher Pinney Interviews Ashis Nandy 179;
BOOK IV: THE CLINICAL GAZE;
26. Infantilization: The Nineteenth-Century Ghosts Haunting Twenty-First Century Democracies 203;
27. Ajita Chakraborty: The Psychiatrist as a Social Critic 210;
28. The Psychiatrist as a Political Critic 218;
29. The Empire Thinks Back 223;
30. Psychoanalytic Sociology and Postcolonial Predicament: An Interview by Livio Boni 229;
BOOK V: SHREDS OF HOPE;
31. Beyond Brutalization 247;
32. Gandhi after Gandhi: The Fate of Dissent in Our Times 260;
33. Liberation of Those Who Do Not Speak the Language of Liberation 269;
34. Freud, Modernity, and Violence: Analytic Attitude, Dissent, and the Boundaries of Self in Our Times 277;
35. A Trialogue across Mortality 296;
36. Death as a Beginning 304;
Index.