India’s Date with Destiny

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This collection of essays by perceptive thinkers, statesmen and scientists, administrators, and educationist brings out sharply and coherently the debate on India’s date with destiny that has become a continuing and an on-going process in the nuclear age. This book indeed provides a kind a dialogue, balanced and profound, on the crucial and fundamental issues which are making us uncomfortable about the loss of leadership initiative in diversified developmental areas. The landmarks of the past have gone one by one and there is none to replace them. Paradoxically speaking, the decline of civilization and creative breakthroughs in various of civilization and creative breakthroughs in various areas have sparked off more philosophies of history than ever conceived before. India rejoices today as it is one the threshold of a major transition, the transition to a global society, the foundations of which have been built by the breathtaking advances in science and technology and the new orientation to knowledge, based on holistic and ecological perception of reality. It is the explosion of knowledge that is unfolding promising yet incredible data about the spectacular advances in tele-communication, information and bio-technologies and India is emerging as a knowledge power in the global society. It is triggering of dramatic changes in the political, economic, social and cultural environment and mankind is making a paradigm shift from its old ideas and outworn orthodoxies. The book divides itself into three major sections. It begins with a set of essays about Indiaâ€™s civilizational strength that flows from her upward spirit of unbroken continuity, harmony of various religious tradition, capacity of assimilation and absorption, universality of the spirit, pluralism and tolerance. The second section looks at the developmental landscape in-depth, spanning from the energy independence, growth with social justices, empowerment of rural India, poverty alleviation through Panchayati Raj, good governance, and concludes with a few essay on education and science and technology. The book is rounded off with a set of essays on Chowdhary Ranbir Singh, a legendary personality and among the makers of modern India. This felicitation volume is dedicated to him on his 91st birth anniversary.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kishore Gandhi

Commuting between Marx and Sri Aurobindo, Mao and Aldous Huxley, Professor Kishore Gandhi has emerged as one among the perceptive thinkers of our times. A multi-disciplinary scholar and writer, he regularly contributes to the Indian and Foreign press. He has travelled extensively over the world and covered the world network of British Broadcasting Corporation. Professor Gandhi has taught in Indian and foreign universities and is currently the Secretary General of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management. He has been a Rockefeller Fellow and Member of Indian National Commission for Unesco. He has accomplished a major publication of the Unesco: Destinity and Diversity in a Multi-Cultural Planet. He has functioned as Unesco Project Director to feed the Unesco International Education Commission For the 21st Century with intellectual inputs. Professor Gandhi's major publications are: Contemporary Relevance of Sri Aurobindo, Issues and Choices in Higher Education: A Sociological Analysis, Aldous Huxley: The Search for Perennial Religion, The Evolution of Consciousness, literature and The Evolution of consciousness, The Odyssey of Science, Culture and consciousness, Science and the New Paradigms of Development, Learning Across Cultures: the Indian Experience of Foreign Students, Sri Aurobindo and The Rebirth of India, The Students Power and Social Response, The Transition To A Global Society, India at Crossroads, The Evolution and Development of Banaras Hindu University and Education: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (A Global Context). He has also edited One Man's World by Dr. Karan Singh and The Challenge of Change by Shri Vasant Sathe. Man and The Ganges, and Education Transiting to the 21st Century are under production.