Talking Politics ─ Bhikhu Parekh in Conversation With Ramin Jahanbegloo

One of the most distinguished political philosophers of our time, British-Indian academic and peer Lord Bhikhu Parekh's work continues to deeply influence our understanding of identity, politics, and multiculturalism.

Based on a series of interviews of Bhikhu Parekh by Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, Talking Politics is a journey into the life and work of the acclaimed political thinker. From cultural diversity and global ethics to universal moral rights and duties, liberalism, multiculturalism, Marxism, Islam and Europe, and Gandhi in the twenty-first century--Parekh addresses issues which India and nations across the world are grappling with in a changed and changing global order.

Moving from the public to the personal domain, this engaging conversation affords rare glimpses of Parekh's world: from early-life struggle and sacrifice to the joys of success, and finally his entry into the House of Lords.

Ramin Jahanbegloo is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and a well-known Iranian philosopher.

Bhikhu Parekh is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of the Arts, member of the House of Lords, former President of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster and Hull. He was recently included among the great British political philosophers of the twentieth century in a book celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the Political Studies Association of the UK, and has received Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Philosophy and BBC's Special Lifetime Achievement Award.