Man’s cruelty to man is unbelievable. But believe one has to, when details come out one after another, of what people undergo in our prisons, where they are supposed to be reformed. After spending ages in prison, they come out· hardened, their hearts darkened more than ever with evil…
The collection of eight essays in this slim volume follows from a conference on the theme held in 2009 at Oxford. A strong running thread binds the volume together even as there is mercifully no overarching uniformity. The thread that runs through it places the various…
Man’s cruelty to man is unbelievable. But believe one has to, when details come out one after another, of what people undergo in our prisons, where they are supposed to be reformed. After spending ages in prison, they come out· hardened, their hearts darkened more than ever with evil…
Reorganization of the education system in India, admittedly inadequate to meet national needs that are constantly getting wider and more complex, has been discussed for long, with many commissions, committees, seminars and conferences contributing their learned mite. The voluminous Kothari Commission…
To an ordinary soul it seldom occurs to consider whether his kitchen is polluting the atmosphere or not. Suddenly scientists raised the alarm that the future of mankind is at stake. Indiscriminate industrialization, atomic wastes, deforestation…
In the last three decades when we have replaced the political-colonial order, our rhythms seek a new formamentis. While the liberated countries are undergoing far reaching changes of modernization, they reveal at agility and potential to develop creatively through multilinear processes in which tradition can be a component…