ABSTRACT
Both the epigraphs, one referring to a Marxist theorist in Vienna in the heart of Europe in the pre-Russian Revolution days, and the other pointing to the young leftist intellectuals frequenting the outlets of the ICH in the late twentieth century, ridicule the idea of an association between ideological communications in the coffee house and the organization of a revolution. In doing so, both the statements
directly address the issue of the role of integrative communication in the public sphere. Those who spent time discussing politics in the comfortable, convivial atmosphere of the coffee house would not be the same political activists who work with the masses to mobilize a revolution. The last chapter showed the connection between adda and literary production; this chapter will try to understand the interaction between rational discussions and the organization of everyday life in the context of the public sphere of the petit bourgeois-the Indian Coffee House. Were the storms raised over coffee cups in the ICH limited to the walls of the Coffee House? To what extent did the face-to-face interaction in the ICH result in consensual mode of action? Is there a link between the participation in the coffee house conversations and policy making at any level in the sense that citizens’ right to the democratic practice of deliberations on the basis of common understandings and practical rationality counteract the combined forces of money and power represented by the market and state respectively?
