@Nilgiri
Off topic, but very pertinent in the larger scheme of things: do you think you could get hold of those three videos on Gurumurthy and his 'Dharmic Model of Development' and reproduce them here? I want to work on them in your company and deconstruct them; to try and make sense of the model, if it can be done, and to try to reconcile it to capitalism, IF that can be done; and to try and fit in the need to accommodate alternative models of intellectual discovery and academic validation in the current system.
As it happens, these objectives have fallen out and listed themselves in increasing order of importance and relevance.
I believe that it may be of particular interest to our members, because these topics, the third most particularly, and most emphatically, the other two to a lesser extent, relate to all of us who are not charter members of the self-validating world of western-oriented academics. While I defend that world all the time, against those who have attacked it for being a self-referential system, it is increasingly obvious that there is a suppressed rage and desire for revenge among the formerly colonised peoples that may tear apart this world as we know it. We may be facing a world of competitive fundamentalism, and of rejection of mutually acceptable ways of thinking about things in general, and may be sliding into it without even being aware of what is happening.
