Author: Arun Elassery
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Rediscovering India – Preface
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(The following is an abridged version of the Preface to the second edition written by Pawanji. Take a look…) Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, highly revered monk and founding Director (later Vice-Chancellor) of Tibetan Institute of Higher Studies, Sarnath, as well as the first elected Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile, makes an important distinction…
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Rediscovering India – Excerpts
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I have been carefully going through the ‘Rediscovering India’ document before we send it for typesetting and printing. I started copying out paragraphs that I thought were hard-hitting and am now having trouble selecting 500 words for this blog post. I have 9500 words to choose from. 🙂 Take a look… “While there can be…
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Rediscovering India
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At SIDH we are republishing an out-of-print book, ‘Rediscovering India’, by Dharampalji. With a foreword by Chandra Shekharji, former Prime Minister of India, it is a book of essays and speeches (1956-1998) in which Dharampalji talks about a wide range of topics. The book has 27 chapters divided among three main sections: Indian Society at…
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The Fourth Political Theory
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“The future world should be characterized by multiplicity; diversity should be taken as its richness and its treasure, and not as a reason for inevitable conflict; many civilizations, many poles, many centers, many sets of values on one planet and in one humanity. Many worlds. But there are some who think otherwise. Who are aligned…
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Andheri Raat Ke Taare
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SIDH wants to bring out books written in our languages that helps us to see India, it’s samaaj, it’s ways, it’s aesthetics from our indigenous perspective. ‘Andheri Raat Ke Taare’, which was out of print for a long time, is the first book in this series. We are extremely happy that this classic has now…
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Invisible systems and their visible effects
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SIDH is going to publish ‘The White Sahibs In India’ (first published in 1937 and talked about here, here and here on this blog) by Reginald Reynolds in a month or two. I read the full book once and then started creating a final word document for printing, for which I had to pay attention…
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Looking back at one year of weekly blog posts
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This blog started in November 2020 as a way to keep the conversation going among the participants of the online courses that we were running at SIDH. We started with some basic rules:a. There would be a new post every Monday.b. The posts would be a quick read of around 500 words.c. The topics would…
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Our new Telegram channel
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This weekly blog was started on 23/11/2020 to seed discussions among the participants of our online courses. Since we have gone through a full year of regular blog posts, it is time to give you a 2-week break. 🙂 The next post will be up here on 13th December 2021. See you all then! Meanwhile,…
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The Dharampal Project
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The 100th birth anniversary of Shri Dharampalji is being celebrated this year with various programs. We at SIDH have been fortunate to have spent quality time with him over the years and have had the privilege to publish some of his works. Under the ‘Dharampal project’ we are looking at ways in which we can:–…
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What does it mean to be ‘Indian’?
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A new book by S.N. Balagangadhara, Balu to his many admirers, has been published recently. Prof Balu is an original thinker and this new book presents his ideas in a manner accessible to a lay audience. Every time I listen to a video or read something written by him, I come away with important new…
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The white sahibs in India: Excerpts (part 2)
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“In order to restore India to its pristine condition, we have to return to it. In our own civilization there will naturally be progress, retrogression, reforms, and reactions; but one effort is required, and that is to drive out Western civilization. All else will follow.” – Hind Swaraj, M.K. Gandhi Our long education brainwashes us…
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The white sahibs in India: Excerpts
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The following excerpts are from ‘The white sahibs in India’ by Reginald Reynolds, a book that we want to re-publish and popularize. The full book is available online here. Excerpt 1: Reference has already been made to the antiquity of this panchayat system. Megasthenes, who visited India three centuries before Christ, described the village communities…