India and Her Futures

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India and Her Futures is a collection of essays by one of India's most prolific public intellectuals, Gopalkrishna Gandhi.

As a former public servant, diplomat and scholar, his contribution to thinking about South Asian and world history is a debt many owe him. Reflecting on a wide canvas, including India's culture, diversity and the richness of its literary and intellectual history, Gandhi has been a committed loyalist of the essay as a form of expression through decades of writing for news dailies and monthly magazines. These curated essays from his larger oeuvre have allowed him the precision of form to express the urgency and vitality of its varied subjects.

Written with unparalleled fluency and clarity of expression, here are meditations on foreign policy and India's place in the world, burning domestic political and social issues, biographical homages, chronicles on the making and unmaking of India, reflections on Indians who birthed the modern democratic republic, fundamental ideas of India and appraisals of key public institutions of India. Here is a once-in-a-generation writer, a uniquely gifted voice one looks to and will continue to consult to make sense of the India we have come to inhabit and an India to come.

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Published	07 Nov 2025
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Pages	320
ISBN	9789361310225
Imprint	Bloomsbury India
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

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Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Gopalkrishna Gandhi has previously served as Secre…

Gopalkrishna Gandhi stands as a towering public figure in India, because of his exemplary integrity, courage and commitment to social justice. As the pieces in this collection vividly demonstrate, he is also an exceptionally gifted writer, one of the few who, in this age of extremes, is able to chart a path of sanity, empathy and goodwill

Amitav Ghosh
Gopalkrishna Gandhi has long been a redoubtable conscience keeper of our Republic, striving to keep India, in his gentle yet unflagging way, from error and worse. It was to enlighten and enrich – intellectually, culturally, ethically and politically – the citizens of our Republic that he wrote these essays.

Lyrical in their prose and resounding with cadences both historical and deeply personal, these essays offer a tantalising glimpse of his thoughtful, erudite, insightful, and creative personality. Yet above all, they reveal his heart, suffused with that priceless quality that is his greatest civilisational and familial bequest: insaaniyat – both humanity and humaneness – so often missing in India today.

Ultimately, Gopalkrishna Gandhi's India and Her Futures is not only a resounding testament to his intellect but a tender yet compelling summons to our better selves –both as Indians and as human beings

Shashi Tharoor
A brilliant, thoughtful critique on contemporary affairs, recording history as it happens. A must-read for young India, a refreshingly unique historical perspective, always ethical and relevant

Aruna Roy