The Ascetic of Desire  (English, Book, Kakr Sudhir)

An internationally renowned psychoanalyst and writer, Sudhir Kakar  has been a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago, Harvard, McGill, Melbourne, Hawaii and Vienna and a Fellow at the Institutes of Advanced Study, Princeton and Berlin. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor of Leadership at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. His many honors include the Bhabha, Nehru and National Fellowships in India, the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, the Boyer Prize of the American Anthropological Association, and Germany's Goethe Medal. The leading French magazine Le Nouvel Observatory listed him as one of twenty-five major thinkers of the world. He lives in Goa.