INTRODUCTION; PART I: FROM DEHRADUN TO WESTERN ONTARIO; AFFINITIES WITH NATURE; AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD; THE GANDHIAN INFLUENCE; EINSTEIN AND LOVE OF PHYSICS; CANADA AND QUANTUM PHYSICS; THE CHIPKO MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF NAVDANYA; PART II: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GANDHI; GLOBALIZATION AND NONVIOLENCE; GANDHI TODAY; THE ECOLOGY OF TRANSFORMATION; ARE THERE ANY GANDHIANS LEFT?; PART III: THE DIVISION OF INDIA; WHAT IS LEFT OF GANDHI'S INDIA?; THE NEW LIBERAL PARADIGM IN INDIA; WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INDIAN DEMOCRACY?; SWADESHI AND THE VILLAGE GOVERNANCE; AN ATOMISTIC SOCIETY; THE CORPORATE GREED; DO WE NEED A NEW GANDHI?; CONTEMPORARY INSECURITIES; THE WAR AGAINST NATURE; THE ECONOMY OF DEATH; PART IV: THINKING ECOFEMINISM; THE REDUCTIVE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC REASONING; THE CONQUEST OF HUMAN BEINGS; THE TWO LEVELS OF REDUCTIONISM; GANDHI: CONSERVATIVE OR REFORMER?; GANDHI AND MODERNITY; GANDHI AND THE SPIRITUALIZATION OF POLITICS; WHAT IS THE ROLE OF TECHNO-SCIENCEIN OUR WORLD?; A CARE FOR LIFE; BIODIVERSITY AND THE PLURALITY OF KNOWLEDGE; CORPORATIONS AND SCIENTISTS; THE FEMINISM OF ORDINARY WOMEN; THE FUTURE OF POVERTY IN INDIA; HOW COULD INDIANS FIGHT CORRUPTION?; THE SACREDNESS OF LIFE; PART V: SAVING THE ECOSYSTEM; STAYING ALIVE; THE POLARIZATION OF GENDER; GOING BEYOND CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY; WHAT IS EARTH DEMOCRACY?; THE SEED GLOBALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE AS A PUBLIC GOOD; ANTI-GLOBALIZATION AND PUBLIC AWARENESS; PART VI: ENDING WITH ECO-IMPERIALISM; THE INDIAN COW; THE GREEN REVOLUTION IN INDIA AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES; IS THE INDIAN IDENTITY IN DANGER?; BUILDING RESISTANCE; LOOKING BACK AFTER FORTY YEARS; THE FUTURE OF THE INDIAN FARMERS; FROM PARTY POLITICS TO FREEDOM OF THOUGHT

Ramin Jahanbegloo, well-known Iranian philosopher, is a professor of political science and a research fellow in the Centre for Ethics at University of Toronto and a board member of PEN Canada. Vandana Shiva, philosopher, environmental activist, and author, is well-known for conceptualizing 'ecofeminism'. In 1982, she initiated Navdanya, a programme of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE), a participatory research initiative to provide direction and support to environmental activism. Recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, she was also decorated with the Global 500 Award of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Earth Day International Award of the United Nations (UN).