Written in direct, accessible language, this book juxtaposes two world views – Advaita Vedantic from India and Akan from Africa. It highlights consonances and dissonances between the two with the aim of understanding each on its own terms. The work …
The book aims at discussing different systems of numeration prevalent in early Orissa. That the typologies of the numerical symbols are part of an evolutionary process has been well defined and illustrated. The polemic about the earliest epigraphic ev…
The world is fast moving in a direction where more and more aspects of life are being integrated into the structures of a networked and digitized system. Though the level of awareness and ability to intervene remain limited or beyond the scope of a va…
"It is the notion of singularity, as distinct from the universal-particular dyadic relation, that constitutes the telos of the hermeneutic practice of postmetaphysics. More precisely ... singularity is the key theme in the discourse of ontologic…
This book offers a firsthand account of reporting violence in Punjab, once considered toughest assignments for journalists. During the peak of militancy in Punjab from April 1978 to 1995, the journalists were at the receiving end of the morbid State a…
The issue of Secularism and National Integration is of utmost important to us and hence is continually visited and debated upon by the academia. The volume contains 15 essays on this and related areas with special reference to Orissa . The writers o…
Reflections on consciousness, society and values may take the individual through myriad of theoretical considerations, ranging from purely speculative to the concrete and substantially observable. Such reflections are justified from purely phenomenolo…
This work is a fascinating and innovative study which provides a detailed analysis of milk kinship; historically a medium for establishing complex social and political networks. Based on the use of primary source material, the study notes that Islami…
Mapping the Bodhicaryavatara is an interpretive study of the great Mahayana ethical treatise focusing on Bodhisattvayana as it is variantly called. The Bodhicaryavatara is a world classic, and the author, Santideva is a hallowed name in Mahay…
This monograph explores the nature of De Re Thoughts, and its impact on the debates centering on the externalist versus internalist accounts of the mind as discussed in analytic philosophy. Taking into account the fact that questions of langua…