[Reader-list] The Complementarity of Civilizations: Rabindranath Tagore Revisited (Golden Jubilee Lecture by Sudhir Kakar)

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a Golden Jubilee Lecture

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*The Complementarity of Civilizations: *

*Rabindranath Tagore Revisited*

by* **Sudhir Kakar***


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*Ashis Nandy* will Chair

Thursday, 7 November 2013, 5.30 pm

CSDS Seminar Hall,

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054





Rabindranath Tagore sojourn in England as an 18-year old marked the
beginning of a lifelong exploration of the duality, India-West. His
observations on India’s encounter with the West remain unsurpassed in depth
of insight. In his reflections on this encounter, Rabindranath was incisive
on the disquiets afflicting both the Indian and Western civilizations,
disquiets that have become raging discontents in our own times.



Psychoanalyst and writer, *Sudhir Kakar* is currently Adjunct Professor of
Leadership at INSEAD, Fontainbleau. He is also Kosambi Visiting Research
Professor, Goa University, Fellow at Centre for Advanced Study in
Humanities, University of Cologne and Senior Homi Bhabha Fellow. His many
honors include the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Germany’s Goethe
Medal and Order of Merit, Boyer Prize of the American Anthropological
Association and Nehru and ICSSR National Fellowships.



He is the author of eighteen books of non-fiction and four novels and his
books have been translated into twenty-two languages around the world.



*Ashis Nandy* is* **Honorary Distinguished Fellow *at the Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies.

Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
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