ABSTRACT
This chapter takes seriously David Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah's evocative call for the 'possibility of a conversation of cultures that is found in the space bounded by an international society of both common values and commitments and diversity.' It focuses on two well-known 'Indian' thinkers, Mohandas Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, in order to further extend the debate on dialogic cross-cultural encounters in International Relations (IR). The chapter argues that an openness towards self-correction and transcendence of their specific positions through the process of dialogue. It also argues that which came from debates and dialogues that allows the possibility of plural Selves; it was the Self that had to 'open up' and the various Others within the Self or the plural Self had to be acknowledged. The chapter also argues that Tagore and Gandhi do allow us the possibility of a more 'dialogic IR' that David Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah hope for, which recognises difference along with universality.
