Rajnitir Bhut -Bhobishyat by Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar [Hardcover]

This book begins on the occasion of Karl Marx’s 200th birth anniversary—but it is not merely about Marx. Instead, Marx serves as both a pretext and a subtext—simultaneously the focus and the means. The book explores a newer reading of Marx, distinct from orthodox Marxism, and engages with the broader landscape of politics. Through this engagement, it examines the past and future of politics itself, questioning the very concept of "politics" that has, for some time now, haunted our collective consciousness.

This book is a sharp, critical engagement with that specter of politics—not an exorcism, but an attempt to understand, recognize, and even estrange it. Rather than banishing the ghost, it seeks to establish a relationship with it—to grasp its presence while simultaneously making it unfamiliar.

In this pursuit, Marx enters into a dialogue with Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. Through these conversations, the book explores the possible futures of politics. At times, Gandhi and Tagore become ghostly figures looming over Marx, while at other times, it is Marx’s ghost that possesses Gandhi and Tagore.

Through this unconventional intellectual triangulation, the book reimagines political thought, urging readers to confront the ghosts of ideology that continue to shape our world.