Rajiv Malhotra | Infinity Foundation

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This is a memorable book (Being Different) asking us to put aside modernity's tired categories and lazy comparisonism and at last to take seriously the Indian perspective on history and our world today. Being Different is here a necessary virtue, essential to understanding our neighbors and ourselves. Much reflection and many a good argument should follow upon Malhotra's unique achievement.- Francis X. Clooney, Society of Jesus, and Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University Sanskrit non-Translatables takes fifty-four indisputably foundational concepts, arranges them in a fourfold typology that moves from terra firma to terra cognita to the cosmos, and contests the irrationality, the untenability and the ‘design’ of their widely employed English equivalents. With its well-thought out prefatory essays, this is a book that every English-educated Indian must read to further ‘decolonise’ his mind and stand up to the hegemony of Western thought.- Kapil Kapoor, Chairman, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla Sanskrit non-Translatables takes fifty-four indisputably foundational concepts, arranges them in a fourfold typology that moves from terra firma to terra cognita to the cosmos, and contests the irrationality, the untenability and the ‘design’ of their widely employed English equivalents. With its well-thought out prefatory essays, this is a book that every English-educated Indian must read to further ‘decolonise’ his mind and stand up to the hegemony of Western thought.- Kapil Kapoor, Chairman, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla This is a memorable book (Being Different) asking us to put aside modernity's tired categories and lazy comparisonism and at last to take seriously the Indian perspective on history and our world today. Being Different is here a necessary virtue, essential to understanding our neighbors and ourselves. Much reflection and many a good argument should follow upon Malhotra's unique achievement.- Francis X. Clooney, Society of Jesus, and Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University This highly original book (Being Different) leads its reader on an epic journey of self-discovery especially for those of us in the West. A fitting and major response to Samuel Huntington's position on "Who are we" as the West; one that can perhaps best be provided by someone reversing the gaze on the West through a non-Western lens. This deserves to be one of the defining books of the age.- John M. Hobson, Author of The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics; Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. This book Breaking India is the only well researched work on the global nexus of anti-India players and their Indian agents, covering the past two centuries. Probably the best book I have read recently.- Dr. T.N. Ramachandran, Director, International Institute of Saiva Siddhanta This is a thoughtful, reasoned, yet passionate plea (Invading the Sacred) that the perspectives and sensitivities of Hindus be considered in the presentation of Hinduism in scholarship, textbooks and the media. What is remarkable is that many western academics are so resistant to it.- Nathan Katz, Professor of Religious Studies Director of the Center for the Study of Spirituality, Florida International University in Miami, USA. About Rajiv Rajiv Malhotra is a researcher, writer, speaker and public intellectual on current affairs as they relate to civilizations, cross-cultural encounters, religion and science. Donate Every small donation counts. So be generous and donate to Infinity Foundation to fund various projects and make a difference. This compilation opens with an interview of me conducted by another independent scholar who resides in the United States and who has followed the works of these biased academics for over two decades.Thereafter, this book republishes some of the main writings that first appeared more than a decade back. Hence the writings are of historical value to anyone wishing to have a fair background on what transpired then.I hope you will read this collection of articles with an open mind and form your own views.I wish to thank Abin Sur for editing and formatting the articles into this electronic book.

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