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    Analysis of Icchā Maraṇa: Self-willed Death in Mahābhārata—Transcending the Contemporary Debate
    with Anmolpreet Kaur
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 40 (3): 323-336. 2023.
    The present paper explores and analyzes one intriguing form of death called self-willed death (Icchā maraṇa) as depicted in Mahābhārata in light of the contemporary debate between Bruce Sullivan and Phillip Ernest about the distinction between yogayukta and non-yogayukta forms of it. In the first part, the paper presents Sullivan’s distinction between yogayukta, one with disenchantment, world-weariness, and detachment with that of non-yogayukta, the one attached to glory, honor, and power which …Read more
  •  4
    The Argumentative Tradition in Indian Philosophy
    Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 5 173-185. 2008.
  • Justice and Responsibility Re-learning to be Human (edited book)
    with Sebastian Velassery
    The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. 2020.
    This is a philosophical study written by a group of scholars from India and some other countries. It was from a conference held at the Delhi University, Delhi, India in 2017. Authors in this study discussed such issues as Indian as well as Western understanding of justice and responsibility in relation to relearning to be human in contemporary times, global challenges to justice and responsibility; contemporary principles of Justice; responsibility and justice in the Eastern Christian societies;…Read more
  •  22
    Historiography of Indian Philosophy: Reflections on Periodization and Conceptualization
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 39 (2): 57-68. 2022.
    This paper provides one of the many ways of doing historiography, specifically concerning Indian philosophy. After making some general observations on the limitations of a historian and a historiographer in general—it would provide a brief analysis of the historiography of Indian philosophy by looking at the recent attempts at periodization. The development of 'Indian philosophy' as a label to a concept, issues concerning the use of darśana for its representation, and reeking it as a space of st…Read more
  •  41
    Towards a bioinformational understanding of AI
    with Rahul D. Gautam
    AI and Society 37 1-23. 2022.
    The article seeks to highlight the relation between ontology and communication while considering the role of AI in society and environment. Bioinformationalism is the technical term that foregrounds this relationality. The study reveals instructive consequences for philosophy of technology in general and AI in particular. The first section introduces the bioinformational approach to AI, focusing on three critical features of the current AI debate: ontology of information, property-based vs. rela…Read more
  •  11
    Conditional Designation of Artificial Legal Entities (CDALE): A Post-Anthropocene Dynamic Jurisprudence
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 38 (2): 155-176. 2021.
    Anthropocene jurisprudence amounts to a legal attitude that posits human beings as the ultimate subject to which the legal ontology, epistemology, and language serve. This attitude inevitably leads to exceptionalism not only in terminology but also in the impact which legal verdicts incur, especially on the natural environment and species. In this paper, we make a coupled reading of jurisprudence and environmental science while suggesting a post-Anthropocene model of law which can be made philos…Read more
  •  2537
    This paper attempts to give a critical appraisal of Professor Suresh Chandra’s views on Historiography of Civilization with reference to Dravidian Civilization. “Historiography of Indian Civilization: Harappans, Dravidians, Aryans and Gandhi’s freedom struggle” (published in JICPR June 1996) and “Demythologizing History: Dravidians in Relation to Harappans and the Aryans” (presented in the seminar on Dravidian Philosophy organized by Dravidian University, Kuppam) are the two significant work…Read more
  •  29
    Transition from cultural diversity to multiculturalism: perspectives from offshore industry in India
    with Sreelekha Mishra and Bharat Kumar
    AI and Society 30 (2): 283-289. 2015.
    Globalization is not just an economic phenomenon as economic transactions cannot take place without parallel flows of ideas, cultural products and people. The traditional notion of immigrants, i.e. those who leave one country to settle into another while leaving behind their past, is inextricably linked to the other flows that constitute globalization. The traditional notions of immigrants, i.e. movements back and forth between sending and receiving countries have historically been a fact of lif…Read more
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    My aim in this paper is to explicate the diversity of Indian Symbolism and to show the changing patterns of symbols. The first part is mostly descriptive and interpretative and tries to bring out the different forms of Indian Symbolism. The second part tries to bring out the different kinds of changes that are possible with regard to symbols.
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    Trust and Responsibility in Sexual Ethics in the Context of HIV/AIDS
    SUVIDYA The Journal of Philosophy and Religion 5 (2): 105-112. 2011.
    Sexual ethics is an important area of discussion in the contemporary ethical debates. The discussions on sexual ethics gained relevance especially in the context of the raise of Global epidemic of HIV/AIDS, which is threatening the human life at large. Trust and Responsibility form the basic pillars of any human relationship including the relation of sexual partners. The present paper discusses the place of ‘trust’ and ‘responsibility’ in the sexual ethics in the context of HIV/AIDS. It argues t…Read more
  •  589
    This paper discusses the concept of Dána or charity as the foundation of Indian Social life. Dána has been in vogue in India since the Vedic times, but it was codified by the smritis which prescribe do’s and don’ts of the life of the individual. Limiting its scope to Yagnavalkya smriti the paper analyses the significance of Dána as a regulative principle of accumulation of wealth.
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    The implications of Globalization on education are multifaceted. However, roots of all these implications can be traced to the predominance of economic activity at the global level. The education and learning paradigm, around the world is under increasing pressure to meet the demands of the new knowledge and information-intensive global economy in a better way. This kind of pressure is challenging the traditional relationships between teachers and students and causing paradigm shifts in the proc…Read more
  •  40
    The Argumentative Tradition in Indian Philosophy
    Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Traditions 5 173-186. 2008-09.
    A spirit of disintegration and disunity is conspicuous on the contemporary social, as well as philosophical scene. There is a celebration of fragments and differences. In such a scenario, no less than a person like Amartya Sen, an eminent economist and a Noble Laureate rose to the occasion and traced out the roots and the space for a democratic discourse that has been sustained in the Indian philosophical tradition. It is laudable that he opened up a discussion that will strengthen the democrati…Read more
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    Hobbesian Philosophy Still Sways Scholars
    VDM Verlag Dr. Muller. 2011.
    The sustained and critical attention that Hobbes commands from twentieth century scholars proves the relevance of his philosophy to our concerns, but it cannot explain the occasion for such an attention. The chief aim of the present work is to provide an account of the reason for the sudden emergence of diverse interpretations of Hobbes that had cropped up in the twentieth century. This work argues that the arrival of the diverse interpretations cannot be answered only by looking at the developm…Read more
  •  13
    Social and Political Philosophers of Modern Andhra
    Dravidian University publication. 2006.
    The book focuses on the thought that is available in only fragmented form about the various Telugu philosophers and creative writers. The Concrete form you find here helps a better understanding of the foundation,formation and function of philosophical thought during the last hundred years.
  •  580
    Review of Indian Philosophy in English
    Philosophical Papers 206-212. 2012.
    The present work is an attempt to show that ‘important and original philosophy was written in English, in India, by Indians’ from the late 19th c through the middle of 20th c. (xiv). In fact, it tells us that these works ‘sustained the Indian philosophical tradition and were creators of its modern avatar.’ (xiv) The authors of these works ‘pursued Indian philosophy in a language and format that could render it both accessible and acceptable to the Anglophone world abroad.’ (xiv)
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    Limitations and Alternatives: Understanding Indian Philosophy
    Calicut University Research Journal, ISSN No. 09723348 (1): 47-58. 2009.
    This paper attempts to articulate certain inadequacies that are involved in the traditional way of categorizing Indian philosophy and explores alternative approaches, some of which otherwise are not explicitly seen in the treatises of the history of Indian Philosophies. By categorization, I mean, classifying Indian philosophy into two streams, which are traditionally called as astica and nastica or orthodox and heterodox systems. Further, these different schools in the astica Darsanas and nasti…Read more