In Defence of the Ordinary : Bloomsbury India : 9789390358175 : 9390358175 : 30 Jul 2021 : 'A splendid work of art, In Defence of the Ordinary returns drama, pleasure and awakening to everyday life ? in the tradition of cultural critics like Ashis Nandy and Umberto Eco? The book is one of a kind.' -Prathama Banerjee is a noted historian of the global south and Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. '[A] flâneur of our everyday spheres of life, [the author] excavates the multiple layers of social, political and artistic thinking and experimentation ? with an unparalleled lightness of prose worthy of a Balthasar Gracián and Georg Lichtenberg.' -Ramin Jahanbegloo is a philosopher and Vice Dean and Director at Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. '[The] book builds an engaging web of thoughts about things which are ordinary but in their very ordinariness hide deep social truths? Dev Nath Pathak brings a light