Asian Forum for Social Theory is a circle of dialogue, learning, and exploration which brings scholars from different regions and countries of Asia and around the world to address the challenges of creative theorizing on important issues in social, political, cultural, and civilizational theories.  So far much of theorizing has been done within the framework of a dominant Eurocentrism. As a response to this, there has been some nativistic ethnocentric theorizing which claims a lot on behalf of one’s tradition of thinking and practice.  Asian Forum for Social Theory interrogates both Eurocentrism and nativism and seeks to create vibrant fields of dialogue and learning which becomes then the nurturant ground for creative theorizing. Some of us involved in this project have been organizing workshops on various aspects of this theme since 2004 beginning with a session on “Critical Theory and Asian Dialogues” at the World Congress of Sociology of in Beijing and continuing with several workshops and dialogues over the years including a session at First Asian Philosophy Congress in Delhi in March 2010. A book, Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations, edited by Ananta Kumar Giri has come out from Palgrave Macmillan.