The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) hosted its first Flagship Dialogue on “Gandhi’s Patience: A Conversation Between a Political Philosopher and a Biographer”, on June 30th at 4.00 PM (IST). 

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About the event:  

Efficiency is an abiding feature of the modern world. It is central to how we think in a range of areas – economic, foreign, health, education, environmental, planning, travel, international relations, etc. The reduction of time is a crucial component of efficiency. The modern world is wedded to “hurrying up”. What would it mean to slow down?  

This is a question that mattered to Mahatma Gandhi and it was a central part of his critique of modern civilization. This conversation would like to consider the stakes of patience in contemporary times.

Speakers:  

Ramachandra Guha: Ramachandra Guha is a historian based in Bengaluru. His books include The Unquiet Woods (University of California Press, 1989), A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, 2002), and India after Gandhi (Macmillan/Ecco Press, 2007; revised edition, 2017). He is also the author of a two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, each of which was chosen as a notable book of the year by the New York Times. He is a Distinguished University Professor at Krea University. 

Uday Singh Mehta: Uday Singh Mehta is a Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He previously taught at Amherst College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and Princeton University. He has a BA in Mathematics and another in philosophy from Swarthmore College. He received his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. He is the author of two books, The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Thought of John Locke and Liberalism and Empire: A Study of Nineteenth Century Thought. He has authored several articles in political philosophy. He has a forthcoming book titled A Different Vision: Gandhi’s Critique of Political Rationality. 

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