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He also suggested prioritizing the protection of family reputation and bonds over the child's safety.
Relationships & MoreMarital Status (at the time of death)MarriedFamilyWife/SpouseSecond Wife: Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar (scholar of comparative religion and visual artist)
ChildrenSon- Rahul (works in financial services)
Daughter- Shveta Kakar (lawyer)


Note: Both his children are from his first wife.

Porträt einer Gesellschaft (2006)
• Kamasutra
• Frederick Taylor
• Understanding Organizational Behavior
• Conflict And Choice
• Identity And Adulthood
• The Analyst And The Mystic
• La Folle Et Le Saint
• Culture And Psyche
• The Indian Psyche
• The Essential Writings Of Sudhir Kakar
• A Book of MemoryFictional works• The Ascetic Of Desire (1998)
• Indian Love Stories (1999)
• Ecstasy (2001)
• Mira And The Mahatma (2004)
• The Crimson Throne (2010)
• The Devil Take Love (2015)
• The Kipling File (2018)Awards, Honours, Achievements • Lotte Koehler Prize for Psychoanalytic Developmental, Social and Cultural Psychology (2021)
• Merck Tagore Award (2016)
• Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany (2012)
• Homi Bhabha Senior Fellow (2012-14)
• Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study in Humanities, University of Cologne (2011-2014)
• Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association (2007)
• Elected Fellow of National Academy of Psychology (2007)
• Member, Academie Universelle des Cultures, France (2003)
• Abraham Kardiner Award, Columbia University (2002)
• Rockefeller Residency, Bellagio (1999)
• Goethe Medal of Goethe Institut, Germany (1998)
• Watumull Distinguished Scholar, University of Hawaii, Spring Semester (1998)
• Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin (1994-95)
• National Fellow in Psychology, Indian Council of Social Science Research (1992-94)
• MacArthur Research Fellowship (1993-94)
• Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association (1987)
• Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow (1986-88)
• Member, School of Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton (1983-84)
• German Academic Exchange Fellowship (1983)
• Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne, Winter Semester (1981)
• Homi Bhabha Fellow (1979-80)
• Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research (1975-76)
• Karolyi Foundation Award for Young Writers (1963)Personal LifeDate of Birth25 July 1938 (Monday)BirthplaceNainital, UttarakhandDate of Death22 April 2024Age (at the time of death) 85 YearsDeath CauseThroat CancerZodiac signLeoNationality IndianHometownGoaSchool(s)• Modern School, New Delhi
• St.

Edward's School, ShimlaCollege/University• Maharaja's College (now University Maharaja College), Jaipur
• Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
• University of Mannheim, Germany
• University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
• Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt Educational Qualification(s)• Intermediate Studies from Maharaja's College, Jaipur (1953)
• B.E.

in Mechanical Engineering from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad (1955-1958)
• Master's Degree (Diplom-Kaufmann) from the University of Mannheim, Germany (1960-1964)
• Ph.D. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Board of Sigmund Freud Archives in the Library of Congress, Washington and the Academie Universelle des Culture, France.

Sudhir Kakar

Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst and writer who lives in Goa, India.

Kakar took his Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Gujarat University, his Master’s degree (Diplom-Kaufmann) in business economics from Mannheim in Germany and his doctorate in economics from Vienna before beginning his training in psychoanalysis at the Sigmund-Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Germany in 1971.

In February 2012, he was conferred the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country's highest civilian order.

Sudhir Kakar’s twenty books of non-fiction and six of fiction, include The Inner World (now in its 16th printing since its first publication in 1978), Shamans, Mystics and Doctors , (with J.M. Ross ) Tales of Love, Sex and Danger,Intimate Relations, The Analyst and the Mystic, The Colors of Violence,Culture and Psyche, (with K.Kakar) The Indians: Portrait of a People, (with Wendy Doniger) a new translation of the Kamasutra for Oxford World Classics, Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World and Young Tagore: The makings of a genius.

He has been a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin, Centre for Advanced Study of Humanities, University of Cologne and is Honorary Professor, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam.

A leading figure in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion, as well as a novelist, Dr.

Kakar’s person and work have been profiled in The New York Times, Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zuricher Zeitung, Die Zeit and Le Nouvel Observateur, which listed him as one of the world's 25 major thinkers while the German weekly Die Zeit portrayed Sudhir Kakar as one of the 21 important thinkers for the 21st century.

sudhir kakar biography of mahatma

A New York Times review of the book from 2000 said, "Always an elegant stylist, Sudhir Kakar has written a sensual work that is alive with historical detail and provocative ideas about the world's most fascinating subject." For Kakar, it was important to write that work because he was talking about sex in its golden age in India while living in a time when any mention of sex invoked conflicted emotions of fear, guilt and longing.

He proved himself to be a master in using films, myths, and literature to develop his views about intimacy and psychology in which, according to him, imagination played a crucial role – something Vatsyayana would have wholeheartedly agreed with.

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He has two children and four grandchildren. His latest books are the novel The Kipling File (Penguin, 2018) and, as co-editor, Imaginations of Death and Afterlife in India and Europe (Springer, 2018).

He has been 40th Anniversary Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of World Religions at Harvard (2001-02), a visiting professor at the universities of Chicago (1989-93), McGill (1976-77), Melbourne (1981), Harvard (1983-84), Hawaii (1998) and Vienna (1974-75), INSEAD, France (1994-2013). His books have been translated into 22 languages.

In press are four volumes of Sudhir Kakar's collected essays The Mind in the World (Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Religion, Biography), all to be published by Oxford University Press, and The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations ,to be published by Karnac Books.

Sudhir Kakar is married to Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar, a writer and a scholar of comparative religions and a visual artist.

He was an original. in Economics from the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (1965-1967)
• Post-doctoral psychoanalytic training as a candidate of the German Psychoanalytical Society from The Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt (1971-1975)
ControversyHe was once caught in controversy after a symposium held in 2018 regarding the Death Penalty for Child Rape during which he advocated leniency towards perpetrators of child rape.

His son Rahul works in financial services and his daughter Shveta is a lawyer, both in New York.

Sudhir Kakar Age, Death, Wife, Family, Biography

Profession(s)• Psychoanalyst
• Novelist
• AuthorPhysical Stats & MoreHeight (approx.)5' 8" (173 cm)Eye ColourBlackHair ColourSalt & PepperCareerNon-fictional works• Mad and Divine: Spirit and Psyche in the Modern World
• Inner World: A Psycho-Analytic Study of Childhood and Society in India
• Shamans, Mystics, And Doctors
• Tales Of Love, Sex And Danger
• Intimate Relations
• The Colors Of Violence
• The Indians Die Inder.

 

Between 1966 and 1971, Sudhir Kakar was a Lecturer in General Education at Harvard University, Research Fellow at Harvard Business School and Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

After returning to India in 1975 , Dr. Kakar set up a practice as a psychoanalyst in Delhi where he was also the Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology.

SiblingsSister- Suleena Sapra

Sudhir Kakar (1938-2024): The Mind Reader

Kakar's very first novel, The Ascetic of Desire, attracted rave reviews for its interpretation of the character Vatsyayana, the author of Kamasutra, who in the novel was born in a brothel where his mother and aunt were courtesans.

ParentsHis father was an additional district magistrate. Dr. Kakar's many honors include the Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Germany ’s Goethe Medal, Rockefeller Residency, McArthur Fellowship Bhabha, Nehru and ICSSR National Fellowship, Merck-Tagore Award, Lotte Koehler Prize, and Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association.