Despite conflicting dilemmas that contend with the idea of co-existence in a globalized world, individuals continue to reaffirm that minds are shaped not by footprints on the sands of time, but by what each one of us, as a unique person, experiences on the shores of life. Shaping Minds showcases how individual viewpoints and personal encounters with life and art transcend dramatically distressing mindsets that have become immune to the clash of communities, cultures and civilizations. This pioneering anthology brings together poets, writers, peace corps volunteers, human rights activists, religious historians, public-health experts, medical doctors, nursing professionals, a Jungian-oriented astrologer and a professional dancer besides distinguished academics and scholars hailing from diverse racial, cultural, gender, social-class, and religious groups from various continents of the globe. These extremely insightful twenty nine narratives, multicultural in flesh and spirit, have their focus on panaceas that individuals create to envisage a world where it is indeed possible to build bridges of love and understanding between wandering islands.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nibir K Ghosh
Author of Calculus of Power: Modern American Political Novel (1997), Nibir K. Ghosh is a Reader in the Department of English Studies and Research at Agra College, Agra. An eminent scholar and critic of American, British and Postcolonial literatures, he has published widely on various political, socio-cultural and feminist issues in prestigious journals. He has edited two poetry anthologies: Poetic Miscellany and Spectrum of Poetic Sensibility. A Ph.D. and D.Litt. in English from Agra University, he also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in the Teaching of English from the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages in Hyderabad. He has delivered over 50 Radio Talks on wide ranging topics and lectured on American and South Asian literatures at many campuses in India and the United States. As a Senior Fulbright Fellow (2003-04) at the University of Washington, Seattle, he worked on "Recent Trends in African American Writings with Special Reference to the Fiction of Charles Johnson." An Associate of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, he is the Chief Editor of Re-Markings, a biannual journal of research in English.
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