Exploring the Subject as Freedom: A Dialogue with Nalini Bhushan and Jay Garfield
Transcribed from the recorded session of 21 February 2026. Speaker identifications are editorial. Jay Garfield\\\\\\'s transcript artefacts (automated voice-assistant interjections) have been silently removed. The speakers\\\\\\' words are otherwise their own, with minor punctuation for readability.
Exploring the Subject as Freedom
A Dialogue with Nalini Bhushan and Jay Garfield
Date 21 February 2026 Duration 2 h 13 m Format Recorded seminar, transcribed Subject K. C. Bhattacharya, Subject as Freedom
Participants
Nalini Bhushan (Speaker)
Jay Garfield (Speaker)
Nilambar Chakrabarti (moderator)
Jayita Sengupta (Audience questioner)
Raghurama Raju (Audience questioner)
Mousumi Guha Banerjee (Audience questioner)
Upal Chakraborty (Audience questioner)
Govert Schuller (Audience questioner)
Annapurna Tripathi (Audience questioner)
I. ORIGIN OF THE PROJECT
Nalini Bhushan
Jay and I had been working on the colonial Indian philosophy in English period for quite a while. We had put out an anthology first, featuring all the major philosophers of that period. Then we wrote our monograph in 2017 — Minds Without Fear — where we actually wrote our own ideas about
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