-The Indian Express Here lies Ashis Nandy, who died of a bad joke". This would be the most appropriate epitaph for Nandy, insisted my colleague and sinologist, late Giri Deshingkar, in his rare moment of black humour. The reference, of course, was to Nandy's unusual way with words. Over the last four decades, Ashis Nandy has presented his insights through some very powerful symbols. He loves paradoxes and uses aphorisms, ironies...

-The Hindu It is symptomatic of the times we live in, of the climate of political discourse that we have contributed to, that even relatively innocuous statements can get so easily misrepresented and twisted to convey a meaning that is diametrically opposite to what was said and meant. The Jaipur Literature Festival 2013, which until the morning of Republic Day had managed to successfully steer clear of any controversy, was suddenly...

-The Times of India RAIPUR: A First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged at Sarangarh in Chhattisgarh against social theorist and political critic AshisNandy for his controversial comments that people from the other backward classes, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes were the "most corrupt". Sarangarh police station's sub-inspector Suresh Sahu said office bearers of an association of scheduled castes reached the police station and filed an FIR naming Nandy and seeking action...

-Governance Now But his eminence is not worth a vote for Mayawati, Paswan and others baying for his blood In an age where 22-second sound bites become the source of heated political debate and vacuous intellectual discourse, eminent sociologist Ashis Nandy’s indiscretion may seem unpardonable. Clearly, he is too old to adapt to bites-induced intellectualism, making him almost incompatible with an impatient class of social elites whose intellectual span is defined by...

-CNN-IBN Sociologist and political psychologist Ashis Nandy on Saturday made a controversial statement at the Jaipur Literature Festival claiming that Dalits and other backward castes were responsible for the corruption in the Indian society today. "It is a fact that most of the corrupt come from the OBC and the Scheduled Caste sections, and now the scheduled tribes," he said. "The maximum amount of corruption these days is by Dalits, the backward...