Bøger af Michel Danino

Revolutionary, philosopher, litterateur, and seer, Sri Aurobindo remains one of the brightestminds India has ever had. This book captures the evolution of his thought through excerptsfrom his political articles and speeches, essays, talks with and letters to disciples, and publicmessages-presented chronologically. It includes his views on Jawaharlal Nehru and SubhasChandra Bose; his doubts about Gandhi's method to attain freedom and insistence on Ahimsa;and his very distinctive contribution to the nascent Nationalist Movement. Both propheticof the challenges to come India's way post-Independence, and persuaded of her potential toovercome them, Sri Aurobindo's vision of a new India melds the spiritual with the political.More than sixty years after his passing, Sri Aurobindo's penetrating insights on issues suchas building on India's cultural and spiritual foundations, a national agenda for education,Hindu-Muslim coexistence and the need to distinguish reason from a blind imitation of theWest, continue to resonate.