How Liberal is India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Liberal is India write by . This book was released on 2019. How Liberal is India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Intolerant Indian : Why We Must Rediscover A Liberal Space
The Intolerant Indian : Why We Must Rediscover A Liberal Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Intolerant Indian : Why We Must Rediscover A Liberal Space write by Gautam Adhikari. This book was released on 2011-02-17. The Intolerant Indian : Why We Must Rediscover A Liberal Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's dangerous to play around with the idea of India, but a new breed of intolerant Indians is doing just that Far too many Indians today do not seem to appreciate the idea of pluralist tolerance, which forms the structural framework of Indian democracy. They see pluralism as phony and tolerant secularism as hypocritical or irrelevant to an existence centered on narrow religious, regional or ethnic identities. Extremist religious ideologies as well as violent politics of mindless forces on the right and the left have often overshadowed the idea of a tolerant society that our founding fathers dreamed of, where many views would compete for public attention and where the motto 'live and let live' would be the nation's guiding philosophy. This essay is a plea for the restoration of reason in public life. It is written from the point of view of a liberal-secular democrat, who also happens to be an agnostic.
India Grows At Night
India Grows At Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India Grows At Night write by Gurcharan Das. This book was released on 2013-07-15. India Grows At Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indians wryly admit that ‘India grows at night’. But that is only half the saying, the full expression is: ‘India grows at night... when the government sleeps’, suggesting that the nation may be rising despite the state. India’s is a tale of private success and public failure. Prosperity is, indeed, spreading across the country even as governance failure pervades public life. But how could a nation become one of the world’s fastest-growing economies when it’s governed by a weak, ineffective state? And wouldn’t it be wonderful if India also grew during the day—in other words, if public policy supported private enterprise? What India needs, Gurcharan Das says, is a strong liberal state. Such a state would have the authority to take quick, decisive action, it would have the rule of law to ensure those actions are legitimate and finally, it would be accountable to the people. But achieving this will not be easy, says Das, because India has historically had a weak state and a strong society. About the Author Gurcharan Das is a well known author, commentator and public intellectual. He is the author of the much acclaimed The Difficulty of Being Good, and the international bestseller India Unbound, which has been translated into many languages and filmed by the BBC. His other works include the novel, A Fine Family, a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three Plays, consisting of Larins Sahib, Mira and 9 Jakhoo Hill. Gurcharan Das writes a regular column for a number of Indian newspapers including the Times of India and occasional guest columns for Newsweek, Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs. Gurcharan Das graduated from Harvard University and was CEO of Procter and Gamble India before he took early retirement to become a full time writer. He lives in Delhi.
The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal
The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal write by Gurcharan Das. This book was released on 2024-02-20. The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'I became a liberal because I believed in the virtues of openness, mutual respect, and a concern for others. Liberalism offered me an ethically responsible order of human progress without necessarily involving the state.' Gurcharan Das has been a lifelong and passionate champion of both economic and political freedom. 'For over two centuries, ' he writes, 'liberal democracies and free markets spread around the world to become the only sensible way to organize public life.' After years of the stifling 'license raj', he watched and celebrated India's long-delayed move towards a liberal order in the 1990s, as market reform and a maturing democratic process began to yield remarkable results, bringing prosperity and dignity to the many millions who had been denied both for decades. He recorded this progress in his classic study, India Unbound. But after three decades, that light seems to be fading. As in the rest of the world, liberalism is in retreat in India as well. Society is hopelessly polarized and populists are on the march. The debate appears to be about economic freedom versus political freedom-as if it is a given that the two cannot coexist. The liberal today is on a lonely road. In order to elucidate the dilemma of the Indian liberal, Gurcharan Das recounts his own professional and intellectual journey: how and why he became a liberal. While telling his story, he also narrates the story of a nation struggling-still- to become a successful liberal democracy-the late promise and its seeming betrayal, but also the possibility of course correction. Written with conviction, insight and scholarship-and with immense clarity- this is an urgent and illuminating book. It is a book that every Indian invested in the future of the country should read.
What Does it Mean to be a Liberal in India
What Does it Mean to be a Liberal in India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Does it Mean to be a Liberal in India write by Ronald Meinardus. This book was released on 2016. What Does it Mean to be a Liberal in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Liberalism in India may be characterized by just three words: "Pseudo, exclusive and misunderstood", writes one of our authors. This collection of essays wants to unravel the misunderstandings. Young citizens share their views on what it means to be a liberal in India--a nation in the midst of historic transformation affecting all spheres of life and leaving many in search for a suitable political paradigm to guide the way into the future. Does liberalism hold the answers? And: What is liberalism in an Indian context? Our 19 prize winning authors share their thoughts on these queries and touch on different aspects affecting their lives.
