Ashis Nandy. Researcher and former director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi. Trained as a sociologist and clinical psychologist, he has been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington D.C., the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He was awarded the 2007 Fukuoka Prize for Asian Culture and the 2019 Hans-Kilian Prize for Social Psychology.

A leading exponent of postcolonial critical theory, he has written dozens of articles and books on topics as varied as colonialism and modernity, cultural criticism, cosmopolitanism and utopia, and social psychology.

Among his most outstanding works, in addition to The Intimate Enemy (1983), are At the edge of psychology: essays in politics and culture (1980), Traditions, tyranny, and utopias: essays in the politics of awareness (1987) or The Savage Freud and other essays (1995).