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About Ramin Jahanbegloo

Ramin Jahanbegloo is professor in the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. He was previously Rajni Kothari professor of democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. His twenty books include India Revisited: Conversations on Contemporary India (Oxford University Press, 2007). His website is here

Articles by Ramin Jahanbegloo

Saturday 7th May

Tibet: democracy and wisdom

Ramin Jahanbegloo, 7 May 2011
The Dalai Lama's impending retirement symbolises an important transition in the life of Tibet's political-national community. The process underway clarifies both the nature of Tibetan governance and the challenges it must address in face of China's power, says Ramin Jahanbegloo.
Thursday 17th February

The new middle east: a civic revolution

Ramin Jahanbegloo, 17 February 2011
The democratic wave sweeping the Arab world, and shared by Iran, opens a new agenda for the civic activists who helped make it possible, says Ramin Jahanbegloo.
Thursday 3rd February

The new middle east: intellectuals and democracy

Ramin Jahanbegloo, 3 February 2011
The change that is unfolding across the middle east places an especial responsibility on intellectuals to think civically and engage ethically, says Ramin Jahanbegloo.
Wednesday 9th April

Olympics of shame

Ramin Jahanbegloo, 9 April 2008
The refusal to participate in the Beijing-hosted Olympics in protest at China's policies in Tibet is an ethical imperative
Wednesday 30th January

The modern Gandhi

Ramin Jahanbegloo, 30 January 2008
Dialogue, non-violence, global citizenship, autonomy, political freedom - "Mahatma's" ideas make him a contemporary
Wednesday 20th June

Richard Rorty: living in dialogue

Ramin Jahanbegloo, 20 June 2007
The late American philosopher championed democratic dialogue in an era of global diversity.
Sunday 10th June

America's dreaming

Ramin Jahanbegloo and Richard Rorty, 10 June 2007
"Can the 'American dream' belong also to the world?" In August 2004, Richard Rorty, who died on 8 June, answered with reflections on imperialism and idealism
Thursday 22nd December

Stronger demands for democratisation

Ramin Jahanbegloo, 22 December 2005
In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the coming year. Since this is openDemocracy, we did not expect them to agree. We were not disappointed. (Part Two).
Monday 27th June

Iran's conservative triumph

Trita Parsi, Roshanak Ameli-Tehrani, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Nader Entessar, Hamid Zanganeh, Bahram Rajaee, Bahman Kalbasi, and Abbas Milani, 27 June 2005
Iran’s people have elected religious hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a large margin over ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani. Whose victory is it, whose defeat? Iranian democrats assess their new predicament, and discuss what to do now.
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