From Bihar to Delhi

Abstract

This section provides a biography of Dipankar Gupta starting from his early childhood to his college life at the Delhi School of Economics and JNU. It informs the readers about the several influences—migration and metropolises, orthodox and apolitical family, Western Pop music, philosophers and professors—Gupta had, which helped him shape his own opinion and ideology. From Partition to the Nehruvian era, Emergency to the war with China, many significant historical events and their impact on Gupta’s ideology, have been discussed here. He also discusses his perspective on religion and how Marx and Durheim’s views on religion impacted him. A great admirer of Tagore’s work—particularly his views on humanism, aesthetics, religion, and politics—he became aware of them in his twenties and was tremendously overwhelmed by the perspicacity and insight with which he propounded these issues.