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Received a great set of books today, on #VaikunthaEkadashi 📚🕉️🙏
"Mahabharata Tales: 12 Riveting Tales from the Great Epic", by @deepakmrd27
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"Mahabharata Tales: 12 Riveting Tales from the Great Epic", by @deepakmrd27
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"Reading Sri Aurobindo", edited by Gautam Chikermane @gchikermane and Devdip Ganguli
Pub. @PenguinIndia
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"Bravehearts of Bharat: Vignettes from Indian History", by @vikramsampath
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Published by @PenguinIndia
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#BookOverview 'The Meaning of India'
by Raja Rao
A combination of fables, journeys, discussions and meditations, The Meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilization-state
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by Raja Rao
A combination of fables, journeys, discussions and meditations, The Meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilization-state
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India is, above all, a metaphysic, a way of being and regarding the self and the world
Drawing on a wide range of sources-including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Buddha, Sankara, Bhartrihari, Kalidasa, Dostoevsky, Valéry, Rilke, Mann...
Drawing on a wide range of sources-including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Buddha, Sankara, Bhartrihari, Kalidasa, Dostoevsky, Valéry, Rilke, Mann...
...and Mallarmé-as also meetings with Gandhi, Nehru, Forster and Malraux, Rao teases out the implications of Advaita or non-dualism, which he regards as India's unique contribution to the world
Continuing, Colonialism has been one of the most significant events in the last three hundred years or so for Indian culture. What exactly is immoral about this?
‘Colonial consciousness’, an important thesis of Balu’s research program, is a framework that denies access to our experience and makes us reproduce some sets of colonial ideas as though they describe our experience.
This process continues to the present times much after the colonizers have left. British colonialism introduced the framework about the superiority of the western culture as ‘objective’ or ‘scientific’ that was both presupposed and proved. The colonized accepted this.
