Being Different ( An IndianChallenge to Western Universal

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Title: Being Different ( An IndianChallenge to Western Universal
Author: Malhotra, Rajiv
Item Code: ISBN9789350291900
Publisher: Harper Collins Pub, Delhi
Edition: 1st ed., Date: 2011, 471 pp., HB
Description: In Being Different: An Indian challenge to western Universalism, thinker and philospher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the west from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challanges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselves and each other. He highlights that while unique historical revelations are the basis for western religions, dharma emphasizes self-realization in the body here and now. He also points out the integral unity that underpins dharma’s metaphysics and contrasts this with western thought and history as a synthetic unity.