ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the two important layers in a debate between Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, a thick personal bond and ideological differences that govern the format of a debate. It examines the subject philosophy as located at the borders of the inside and the outside. The ingenuity of modern Indian thinkers thus lies in their activity at the border. Operating at the border is a delicate task, and requires a different cognitive capacity: capacity to know one self, to know the other and more importantly, to calibrate the self and the other. Modern Indian writers like Swami Vivekananda and Gandhi, made a positive use of the other who is an outsider and returned to rejuvenate their own social spaces and contributed to the anti-colonial struggle.
