Ashis Nandy

• Jaipur Literature Festival begins

  The seventh edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, a mega annual gathering of litterateurs kicked off in Jupiter today with a keynote speech by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.

• NDTV Dialogues: Defining Nationalism- full transcript

  This episode of NDTV Dialogues tackles a topic that greats like Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, BR Ambedkar also grappled with 67 years ago. Today's guests, Jaswant Singh, Javed Akhtar, Professor Ashis Nandy and Swapan Dasgupta, debate the topic.

• Best of Jaipur Literature Festival 2013

  With nearly 300 participating authors from around the country and the world, 150 poets, musicians and performers, and more than a lakh and a half visitors, JLF 2013 was a literary blockbuster.

• Andhra Pradesh MP files complaint against Ashis Nandy for his remarks at Jaipur Lit Fest

  A Member of Parliament from Karimnagar district in Andhra Pradesh today filed a complaint against eminent scholar Ashis Nandy, for making remarks alleged to be anti-Dalit at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

• Supreme Court orders stay on Ashis Nandy's arrest over remark at Jaipur literary fest

  The Supreme Court has ruled that for now sociologist Ashis Nandy cannot be arrested for remarks made by him at the Jaipur Literary Festival last week.

• Supreme Court to hear Ashis Nandy's plea against arrest today

  The Supreme Court will today hear sociologist Ashis Nandy's petition seeking protection from arrest for an alleged anti-Dalit remark he made at the Jaipur Literary Festival earlier this week.

• Ashis Nandy moves Supreme Court, wants FIR against him quashed

  Sociologist Ashis Nandy moved the Supreme Court today seeking protection from being arrested for allegedly making anti-Dalit remarks at the Jaipur Literature Festival. The court has agreed to hear his plea tomorrow.

• Jaipur Literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy's arrest stayed over Ashis Nandy's comment on corruption among Dalits

  Jaipur Literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy's arrest over the alleged castetist remarks by sociologist Ashis Nandy has been stayed by the Rajasthan High Court. An FIR was filed against Mr Roy and Mr Nandy last week, charging them with criminal Intimidation and for hurting sentiments of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe community.

• Jaipur police summon Ashis Nandy to explain alleged anti-Dalit remarks

  Jaipur police investigating sociologist Ashis Nandy's alleged castetist remarks at the Jaipur Literature Festival last week have summoned him to the city for questioning "at the earliest".

• My comments were pro-Dalit; if they send me to jail, it's fine, Ashis Nandy tells NDTV: highlights

  Despite a clarification and an apology, Ashis Nandy, one of India's most famous academicians, remains engulfed in a controversy over his remarks on corruption among tribals and Dalits at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

• Jaipur Lit Fest organisers asked not to leave city till probe is on over Ashis Nandy's alleged casteist remarks

  Despite a clarification and an apology, Ashis Nandy, one of India's most famous academicians, remains engulfed in a controversy over his remarks on corruption among tribals and Dalits at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

• I was 'misunderstood,' says Ashis Nandy for remark on corruption among Dalits

  The Jaipur Literature Festival witnessed fireworks on Saturday after sociologist Ashis Nandy made a controversial comment on corruption and people belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, which drew a strong response from the audience.

• Ashis Nandy clarifies, says he was misinterpreted: Full Statement

  Renowned sociologist Ashis Nandy's comments on corruption among Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes kicked up a major controversy at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

• Ashis Nandy should be arrested immediately: Mayawati

  BSP chief Mayawati today demanded that the Rajasthan government should immediately send author Ashis Nandy to jail over his controversial remarks at the Jaipur Literary Festival that "most corrupt people come from OBC, SC and ST communities".

• Police complaint against sociologist Ashis Nandy for comment on corruption among Dalits

  The Jaipur Literature Festival today witnessed fireworks after sociologist Ashis Nandy made a controversial comment on corruption and people belonging to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes, which drew a strong response from the audience.