Truly, over the course of its long and ongoing life, the Gita has meant an astonishing number of things to an astonishing number of people.

Architects of war and apostles of peace, ordimary folk and extraordinary people, atheists and believers alike have found the Gita a source of wisdom, guidance and consolation, a powerful instrument of justification for troubling actions or a bulwark for weathering storms of doubt.

What could the Gita, a nonmodern text, tell us about the particular phase of contemporary existence we call globalised life or global capitalist modernity?