Includes several papers presented at a Seminar held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from April 28-30, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Figure and Ground : Reflections on Two Exemplary Indian thinkers / Fred Dallmayr -- Ramlila : A Metaphysics of the Everyday / Anuradha Veeravalli -- Falling in Love with a Civilization... : A Tribute to Daya Krishna, the Thinker / Bettina Bäumer -- Gandhi and the Stoics : Squaring Emotional Detachment with Universal Love and Political Action / Richard Sorabji -- A Still, Small Voice / Tridip Suhrud -- Learning to Converse / Michael McGhee -- Towards a New Hermeneutic of Self-inquiry / Devasia M. Antony -- On Philosophy as Samvada : Thinking with Daya Krishna / Daniel Raveh -- The Dialogue Must Continue / Mustafa Khwaja -- The Virtue of Being a Self / Bijoy Baruah -- Daya Krishna’s "Presuppositionless Philosophy" : Sublimity as the Source of Value and Knowledge / Prasenjit Biswas -- The Moral and the Spiritual : A Study of the Self and the Not Self in Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi / Ramesh C. Pradhan -- On Missing and Seeming to Miss : Some Philosophical Ramblings on the Subjective/Objective Distinction in Memory of Daya Krishna / Arindam Chakrabarti -- Dialogical Meditations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi / Probal Dasgupta -- The Applicability of Indian Aesthetic Theory of Rasa to the Visual Arts : A Rejoinder / Neelima Vashistha -- The Harmony Principle / C.K. Raju -- On Mathematics and the Physical World / S. Lokanathan -- Matricide and Martyrdom : Cancer and Karm in the Kalyug / Shankar Ramaswami.