Free, Just and Humane Society

Hamid Ansari

How do we define the moral universe
and the role of passion in it? The
challenge for India, P.N.Haskar had said, is “to use its material, intellectual, cultural and philosophical resources to regenerate itself into a truly free, just and humane society, and simultaneously to strive for a similar world society. The two are different aspects of the same objective, for a humane and peaceable India is not possible if it lives in an aggressive world atmosphere.”

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To believe or not to believe

Peter Richardson

There’s no doubt about it - Art shapes life.
Kings, popes, dictators and other rulers
have always been patrons of the arts, because the best artists produce the best propaganda. Splendid colonial architecture awed the natives and impressed enemies. Statues made ordinary men look like demigods. Great music uplifts the spirit and lends grandeur to royal occasions. And temples decorated with acres of stained glass and frescoes depicting religious myths, have convinced even the most sceptical that god must be real - keeping Christianity in power well beyond its use-by date.

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