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1Shri swaminarayan and shabda-pramanaIn Sahajānanda (ed.), New dimensions in Vedanta philosophy, Bochasanwasi Shri Aksharpurushottam Sanstha. pp. 1--158. 1981.
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Sruti and Apaurusheya: An Approach to Religious Scriptures and RevelationJournal of Dharma 7 (3): 275-291. 1982.
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17S. Radhakrishnan: ‘Saving the Appearances’ in East-West AcademySophia 58 (1): 31-47. 2019.Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, clearly one of the early modern doyens of Indian Philosophy, remained much enamored of Western thought—of which he took the ancient to classical tradition as his model—and he spent a good part of his speculative life attempting to reconfigure Indian thought to fit the vesture, maybe the toga, of his Greek heroes, namely Plato and Plotinus, and to an extent of Hegelianism that came across via F. H. Bradley: Occidental in form, and Indian in content. It was as if this…Read more
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Sruti and apauruseya+ in hinduism-an approach to religious scriptures and revelationJournal of Dharma 7 (3): 275-291. 1982.
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8Śrī Swāminārāyaṇ’s Position on Śabdapramāṇa and Śruti: Questions of Epistemic and Theological ValidityJournal of Dharma Studies 1 (1): 45-67. 2018.This paper argues that Śrī Swāminārāyaṇ espoused a position on the pramāṇa-s (means of knowing), and his theory was that among these it is śabdapramāṇa that is the important and authoritative pramāṇa. However, in delineating the precise sources and textual authority that fall within the ambit of śabdapramāṇa, he privileged mostly the Smṛti texts, along with Vedānta and Bhagavadgītā commentaries, to which was added later his own Gujarati text Vachanāmrut, as canonical texts of the particular Samp…Read more
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12Professor Matilal’s Nåvya-Naive Realism vis-a-vis Dummett-Putnam-Mimamsa Anti-RealismsThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 24 14-20. 1998.The vexed issue of the precise connection between words and things has been a major preoccupation over the centuries summoning the resources of metaphysics, philosophy of language, linguistics, ontology and increasingly semiological analysis. Philosophy in India produced a number of different and often conflicting solutions, only to be rivalled by an equally bewildering variety witnessed in the ancient and modern West. I want to bring to the foreground the late Professor Bimal K. Matilal’s devel…Read more
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21Raimon Panikkar: A Peripatetic Hindu HermesResearcher. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2 (3): 9-29. 2019.
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1Perturbations Of Desire: Emotions Disarming Morality in the "Great Song" of The MahabharataIn Robert C. Solomon (ed.), Thinking About Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions, Oup Usa. 2004.
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10Postcolonial Reason and its Critique: Deliberations on Gayatri Spivak's Thoughts (edited book)Oxford University Press India. 2013.This book negotiates and engages with the ideas and influence of one of the leading theoreticians in social science research-Gayatri Spivak. It discusses the impact of her arguments on postcolonialism, cultural studies, ethnography, feminist studies, and anthropology
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On Sankara's Attempted Reconciliation of “You” and “I.” YusmadasmatsamanvayaIn Bimal Krishna Matilal, Jitendranath Mohanty & Purusottama Bilimoria (eds.), Relativism, Suffering, and Beyond: Essays in Memory of Bimal K. Matilal, Oxford University Press. 1997.
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164On Grief and Mourning: Thinking a Feeling, Back to Bob SolomonSophia 50 (2): 281-301. 2011.The paper considers various ruminations on the aftermath of the death of a close one, and the processes of grieving and mourning. The conceptual examination of how grief impacts on its sufferers, from different cultural perspectives, is followed by an analytical survey of current thinking among psychologists, psychoanalysts and philosophers on the enigma of grief, and on the associated practice of mourning. Robert C. Solomon reflected deeply on the 'extreme emotion' of grief in his extensive the…Read more
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26Studies in Indian Traditions, Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, A Division of Indian Books Centre, 1994.
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10Globalisation: Good, Bad, and the Ugly Casualties of Indian LiberalisationProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 51 25-30. 2018.There is a lot of talk around about Globalisation and its mana-like benefits; indeed, there are many, in areas such as the spread of communication capabilities, social media, and wider distribution of goods in the free trade marketplace that in previous decades were ‘protected’ by exorbitant excise tariffs, licensing restrictions, and low turn-overs. Since Weber, Robertson, Wallerstein, Appadurai, Tambiah et al, there has been much theorizing on the inevitability of Globalisation and its neat co…Read more
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18Is adhik ra good enough for 'rights'?Asian Philosophy 3 (1). 1993.Abstract The paper considers the question of whether ?rights? as we have it in modern Western thinking has an equivalence within the Indian framework of Dharma. Under Part I we look at purus?rthas to see if the desired human goals imply rights by examining the tension between aspired ?values? and the ?ought? of duty. Next, a potential cognate in the term ?adhik?ra? is investigated via the derivation of a refined signification of ?entitlements?, especially in the exegetical hermeneutics of the Mi…Read more
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61Nietzsche as ‘Europe’s Buddha’ and ‘Asia’s Superman’Sophia 47 (3): 359-376. 2008.Nietzsche represents in an interesting way the well-worn Western approach to Asian philosophical and religious thinking: initial excitement, then neglect by appropriation, and swift rejection when found to be incompatible with one’s own tradition, whose roots are inexorably traced back to the ‘ancient’ Greeks. Yet, Nietzsche’s philosophical critique and methods - such as ‘perspectivism’ - offer an instructive route through which to better understand another tradition even if the sole purpose of …Read more
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Information imperialism, or Sir Rupert in the sky with die mindsIn Henk Oosterling & Ewa Płonowska Ziarek (eds.), Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics, Lexington Books. 2010.
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42Introduction to the special issue: Comparative and asian philosophy in australia and new zealandPhilosophy East and West 45 (2): 151-169. 1995.
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40Legal rulings on suicide in India and implications for the right to dieAsian Philosophy 5 (2): 159-180. 1995.In this paper I am concerned to address the question of voluntary or self‐willed death from two distinct positions—a particular community's socio‐religious practice (viz. Jaina sallekhanā) and as the matter stands in law (penal code, constitution, judicial wisdom, etc.) in India—in the light of the recent move by a bench of its apex court striking down the penal code section proscribing suicide. I also wish to draw out some implications of these deliberations for the beneficence of medical pract…Read more
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17Hegel’s Reading of the Logic of Indian PhilosophyAustralasian Philosophical Review 2 (4): 412-419. 2018.The commentary engages Hegel’s anxieties as discussed in Robert Pippin’s lead paper on the question of Western ‘modernity’ in early 19th century: how did we get there, to the ‘dissatisfactions of European high culture’, after all the promises of the teleology of world-spirit (ecclesia spiritualis) and hermeneutik that Hegel mapped in the inexorable march of history. More importantly, we ask how does the rest of the world – the non-European, non-modern regions – fare or compare? Where do they bel…Read more
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20Hindu Response to Dying and Death in the Time of COVID-19Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.We wake each morning to news on the glaring statistics of people infected by COVID-19 and others reportedly dying from complications thereto; the numbers are not receding in at least a number of countries across the world. It is hard to imagine a moment such as this that most of us have lived through in our life-time; but it is a reality and public challenge that we can neither ignore nor look away from. In what follows I will explore perspectives on death from the Hindu tradition and the kinds …Read more
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14A Misconception about the Nature of Self in Hindu PhilosophyJournal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 3 37-68. 1998.
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Evidence in testimony and traditionJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 9 73-84. 1991.
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Ethics and virtue in classical Indian thinkingIn S. van Hooft, N. Athanassoulis, J. Kawall, J. Oakley & L. van Zyl (eds.), The handbook of virtue ethics, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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22Ethics of emotion: Some Indian reflectionsIn Roger Ames, Robert C. Solomon & Joel Marks (eds.), Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 65--85. 1995.