Dipankar Gupta, Mistaken Modernity. India Between Two Worlds

: Tocqueville between Two Worlds

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Two theories of modernity.

Dipankar Bhattacharyya

Valeriana wallichii, an Indian medicinal plant, has been on trial for its role in stress disorders in hospital based clinical set-up. Hamilton’s Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) was used and thorough clinical investigations were carried out to screen the subjects. Thirty-three subjects (20 male and 13 female; average age 34.2 years) were medicated with the plant extract in a fixed dose reg...

Between Tradition and Modernity

Two Worlds or One: Complementarity in the Dialogue between Religion

In the dialogue between science and the spiritual, prior metaphysical commitments can radically alter the ground of discussion. I survey the effect of certain metaphysical commitments on the dialogue between science and religion, noting that commitments which appear to favor some sort of dualism, entailing a strict separation between the realm of science and the realm of the spiritual, seem to ...