Rajiv Malhotra Knihy

'Rajiv Malhotra's insistence on preserving difference with mutual respect - not with mere "tolerance" - is even more pertinent today because the notion of a single universalism is being propounded. There can be no single universalism, even if it assimilates or, in the author's words, "digests", elements from other civilizations' - Kapila Vatsyayan In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challenges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselves and each other. He highlights that while unique historical revelations are the basis for Western religions, dharma emphasizes self-realization in the body here and now. He also points out the integral unity that underpins dharma's metaphysics and contrasts this with Western thought and history as a synthetic unity. Erudite and engaging, Being Different critiques fashionable reductive translations and analyses the West's anxiety over difference and fixation for order which contrast the creative role of chaos in dharma. It concludes with a rebuttal of Western claims of universalism, while recommending a multi-civilizational worldview.

Intense warfare against India's integrity is driven by a well-orchestrated global machinery fueled by a new ideology. Marxism has been reborn as Critical Race Theory in US academia, framing America's racism and recklessly mapped onto India, where caste is equated with race. Marginalized communities are viewed as analogous to Blacks, while Brahmins are seen as the Whites of India. Groups claiming grievances, such as Muslims and LGBTQ+ individuals, are artificially grouped together. This Woke movement aims to dismantle Indian civilization and heritage, waging a relentless war against the government, educational institutions, culture, industry, and society. Harvard University serves as Ground Zero for these social theories, developed in collaboration with Indian scholars, activists, journalists, and artists, posing a clear threat to India's sovereignty and national security. Many Indian elites promote Harvard as the Vishwa guru, while private universities in India import Wokeism, jeopardizing stability. Indian corporates are adopting Western Environmental, Social, and Governance ratings aligned with the global Social Justice movement. China has exploited this new infrastructure to gain access to India. Wokeism has also influenced Indian government policies, such as the National Education Policy 2020, which propagates Harvard's liberal arts. An entire ecosystem of ideologies, institutions, and young leaders is emerging for the rec

Defending Hinduisms Philosophical Unity ,it is fashionable among intellectuals to assert that dharma traditions lacked any semblance of unity before the British period and that the contours of contemporary Hinduism were bequeathed to us by our colonial masters. Such arguments routinely target Swami Vivekananda, a key interlocutor who shattered many deeply rooted prejudices against Indian civilization. They accuse him of having camouflaged various alleged contradictions within traditional Hinduism and charge him with having appropriated the principles of Western religion to manufacture a coherent and unified worldview and set of practices known today as Hinduism. Indras Net: Defending Hinduisms Philosophical Unity provides a foundation for theories that slander contemporary Hinduism as illegitimate, ascribing sinister motives to its existence and characterizing its fabric as oppressive. Rajiv Malhotra offers a detailed, systematic rejoinder to such views and articulates the multidimensional, holographic understanding of reality that grounds Hindu dharma. He also argues that Vivekanandas creative interpretations of Hindu dharma informed and influenced many Western intellectual movements of the post-modern era. Indeed, as he cites with many insightful examples, appropriations from Hinduism have provided a foundation for cutting-edge discoveries in several fields, including cognitive science and neuroscience.