The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth

Bindu Puri is an associate professor with the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. She has been interested in issues in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and modern Indian philosophy. She has published six books, including one monograph, entitled Gandhi and the Moral Life. She has edited Mahatma Gandhi and His Contemporaries and co-edited two volumes on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, entitled Reason, Morality and Beauty, and Terror, Peace and Universalism, published by Oxford University Press. She has recently co-edited a special issue of  IIC Quarterly on Living with Religious Diversity (April 2014). She has published about 35 articles, including book reviews, in philosophical and interdisciplinary journals of international repute, including articles in Sophia, Philosophia and the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, some of which are: The Self and the Other: Liberalism and Gandhi (Philosophia, Vol. 39[4], 2011); Freedom and the Dynamics of the Self and the “Other”: Re-constructing the Debate between Tagore and Gandhi (Sophia 52[2], 2013); and Finding Reasons for Being Reasonable: Interrogating Rawls (Sophia 2014). Professor Puri has presented many papers in national and international seminars and has delivered several invited lectures in universities in India and abroad.

Chapter 1: The Tagore-- Gandhi Debate: An Account of the Central Issues.- Chapter 2: Of Mantras and Unquestioned Creeds: Re-constructing Gandhi’s Moral Insights.- Chapter 3: Gandhi's Truth: Debate, Criticism, and the Possibilities of Closure in Moral Arguments.- Chapter 4: Tagore: On the possibilities of untruth and moral tyranny.- Chapter 5: Understanding Swaraj: Tagore and Gandhi.- Chapter 6: Gandhi and Tagore: Life in an Enchanted Cosmos.