Postcolonialism at its Unabashed Best: Reading Gita Mehta’s The River Sutra

Promoting Policing at Its Best

Free Will and Agency at Its Best

Perspective on the Lotus Sutra

IT is clear from his Tract on Establishing the Vow 立誓願文 that Huisi 慧思 (515–577), the Grand Master of Nanyue, had a profound faith in the Prajñå SËtra and Lotus SËtra. Fortunately for us, it is possible to ascertain Huisi’s view of the Lotus SËtra from Huisi’s Meaning of the Course of Ease and Bliss in the Lotus SËtra 法華經安樂行義 (hereafter abbreviated as Meaning of the Course of Ease and Bliss). Th...

Colonialism and Postcolonialism: Psychological Dimensions

European colonial powers invaded then dominated a large part of the world from the Renaissance to the middle of the twentieth century. Across this long history and numerous geographical settings, colonialism took various forms, was associated with diverse practices, and was justifi ed by different ideologies. However, it created unprecedented situations of encounters between the original inhabi...

Gita and Mental Sciences1

India is an ancient and a great cultural, spiritual and an anthropological laboratory. She has been the nursery of saints and sages, scientists and founders of world's major religions and promulgators of profound philosophy. Nevertheless, to be satisfied with the glory of the past is to turn into a fossil ; but to interpret the old from a new point of view is to revitalise the past and bring in...