Between Friends : Letters Exchanging Ideas

The author’s wide ranging interests are expressed in a new form in this book through an exchange of letters between two friends. The reader encounters, inter alia, themes from literature, maters of urgent contemporary concern such as the fault lines in democracies, the extent of injustice, the onus of responsibility, the role of intellectuals, the experience of migrants, the position of women, the continuing challenge of Gandhi’s life and thought. The gravity of the contemporary situation both in India and elsewhere is not underestimated nor are the horrific crimes perpetrated in the twentieth century forgotten. The presenting of alternative standpoints in friends letters stimulates positive transformations of attitude and hopes for a more peaceful world.