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Kendric Charles Babcock The Scandinavian Element in the United States University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences

Vol. 111, No. 3, September, 1914

Education
English
69591 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Kendric Charles Babcock, the fifth president of the University of Arizona, came to the UA from the University of California, where he was an assistant professor of history and political science.Babcock, a native of New York state, completed his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota in 1899, where he then taught history. From 1894-1896 Babcock attended Harvard University, where he received a master’s degree and doctorate. [more]

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Social Sciences Society, HKUSU, session 2011 VOICE issue1 March,2011 (Part 1)

Brand Name Effect

Essay
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
257
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A publication of Social Sciences Society, HKUSU, session 2011. With discussions on brand name effect and society's news.

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Social Sciences Society, HKUSU, session 2011 VOICE issue1 March,2011 (Part 2)

Brand Name Effect

Essay
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1 Words
No Age Recommendation
317
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A publication of Social Sciences Society, HKUSU, session 2011. With discussions on brand name effect and society's news.

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Bhimeswara Challa Man's Fate and God's Choice

An Agenda for Human Transformation

Philosophy
English
267738 Words
Ages 16 and up
744
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Stagnate as a 'creepy caterpillar' or transform into a 'beauteous butterfly'-this path-breaking book of a rare genre suggests-is the seminal choice before mankind, and every one of us. In this setting, the book raises some fundamental questions: What is man's rightful place in the cosmos and his manifest destiny on earth? Why are we so self-righteously self-destructive? Are we a doomed species? Or 'divine' beings struggling to overcome the hubris of the human intellect? Is God getting weary of mankind? How should we synergize human effort and Divine Grace? The book posits that any betterment in human behavior needs a cathartic change at the deepest levels. That requires diluting the dominance of the mind and reawakening the long-dormant intelligence of the human heart. To meet that challenge, we need minimum numbers, a 'critical mass' to create self-sustained momentum for transformation through consciousness change. And every single human of this generation should behave in such a way that he or she is that single person whose transformation could make the decisive species-scale difference. The book offers a menu of ideas and an agenda of action. This book could be itself become an input to mobilize that very 'critical mass' it advocates for human transformation. Well-planned and cohesively written, the book is noteworthy for its delightful blend of information and arguments, and reveals the depth of the author’s understanding of the human predicament... This is a closely argued and thought-provoking book... The Hindu, 13 Sept 2011 [This book] is a gripping exposition on human nature and self-transformation without preference to religion... Challa has critically provided a foundational argument for a deeper discussion of philosophical and practical ideals concerning self-transformation... harmonizing the head and the heart is the way for humans to function as spiritual beings. Recommended by the USR. The US Review of Books [The author] reflects upon the crisis of contemporary civilizations and outlines a blueprint for a new world order based on progressive spiritual values and change of human consciousness. The strength of this treatise is the sweep of Challa’s reach and his treatment of a vastly complex set of issues that bedevil humankind today... India International Center Quarterly, Summer 2012 As a thinker and erudite scholar, [the author] has made a profound study of the world situation and the moral decadence of man... [This book] deserves to be on the shelves of university, college and public libraries... Triveni Magazine, July–Sept 2011 It is difficult to pigeon-hole this book as... a ‘prophetic discourse’, a ‘journey into the human mind’, a ‘guide for human survival’, a ‘spiritual treatise’. It is an amalgam of all these and more... the volume reaches out to those who are already uneasy about the way we on this earth are progressing. The Book Review, India, June 2013 [more]

Keywords: Humanities, Social sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Behavioural science

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Bheemeswara Challa The War Within - Between Good and Evil

(Reconstructing Money, Morality and Mortality)

Philosophy
English
304285 Words
Ages 16 and up
66
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The human has always prided himself as an exceptional ‘moral species’ but has always been haunted by two questions: ‘Why am I not good when I want to be; ‘why do I do bad when I don’t want to’. This is at the heart of what scriptures and sages have long alluded to as the eternal internal struggle-between good and evil - that wages in the human consciousness. The book posits that much of our confusion and angst stems from our inability to recognize the ramifications of this ‘war’ between two sides of our own ‘self’. It is because we are ignoring this ‘war’ between two sides of our own ‘self’. It is because we are ignoring this war that we are losing all other wars of the world. That ignorance is the primary source of all the horrors, malevolence, and violence that fill us with so much dread. But a ‘favorable’ outcome is possible only if the forces of goodness are aided to get an upper hand consistently - and that calls for two cathartic changes: consciousness-change by inducing a turn from the mind to the heart; and contextual-change, by radically reconstructing the roles of morality, money, and mortality in our everyday lives. The book offers a menu of insights and options we all can use to tilt the scales in the war waging inside each of us. [more]

Keywords: Human nature, Social sciences, Behavioral science, Spirituality, Religion, Scholarly non-fiction, non-fiction

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BS Murthy Basic Structure of the Indian Constitution - The Case of a Square Peg in the Round Hole

Education
English
703 Words
Ages 14 and up
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As Supreme Court’s Basic Structure surmise, the case of a square peg in the round hole, is nothing but a Doctrine of Division that is bound to undermine India’s post-partition integrity, hope that WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA through our elected representatives would suitably amend the constitution meant for the Utopian Republic of India that is detrimental to our SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC before it is beyond redemption. [more]

Keywords: Indian Constitution, Demographic studies, Social sciences, Political sciences, Sociology, Indian politics, Constitutional studies, Indic studies

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BS Murthy Fracas of Free Speech

Political Science
English
1875 Words
Ages 12 and up
125
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The irony of the alleged lack of free speech in Modi India lies in the absolute freedom of its uninhibited propagation in its subsidiary media. In so far as the right-wing blowback in the social media, the left-libs fall short on the idiom that ‘people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’. When it comes to the ‘agencies’ knocking at free speakers’ doors, the legal dictum paraphrased as ‘one must go to town with clean hands’ has to be borne in mind by one and all. Be that as it may, it’s not as if it was all hunky-dory in the Nehruvian order of yore that nurtured the Modi-aggrieved of the day, and this is not an essay of its dark shades but an attempt to reach the roots of the self-defeating Hindu mindset, passing through my life and times. [more]

Keywords: Free speech, Freedom of expression, Religious freedom, Religious conversion, Intolerance, Religious intolerance, Political intolerance, Social sciences, Sociology, Politics, India, Hindusim, Indian independence, Gandhi

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BS Murthy Inane Interpolations In Bhagvad-Gita

(An Invocation for their Revocation)

Social Science
English
20959 Words
Ages 14 and up
99
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The Manusmriti, the social doctrine of yore, and the Bhagvad-Gita, the spiritual tome in vogue that lay down the discriminatory dharma (duties) of the four social classes (castes) have been the bugbears of the Hindu backward classes. However, to their chagrin, of late, as the latter is being mindlessly promoted even though the former was constitutionally debunked, they began advocating that it too should be dumped in a dustbin. Ironically, the improbability of their progenitor Krishna, the architect of the Gita, relegating his own ilk to the social margins failed to dawn upon these that Gita supposedly slights, even to this day! Thus, their intellectuals, instead of seeking to reclaim their priceless heritage, albeit after ridding its interpolative garbage, tend to rubbish it a la throwing the baby with the bathwater, and needless to say they must ponder. Also, it is high time that the Gita-class stop laying store by the self-aggrandizing verses in this Vyāsa’s classic, evidently inserted by their progenitors that came to bedevil the Hindu spiritual integrity and social harmony. Likewise, the grumblers of the dalit desertions must see the need for setting the Hindu house in order to prevent the fractious poaching by the Church, if not to facilitate the ‘hoped for’ return of the prodigals. So also those who take pride that Hinduism is the only religion that reckons all faith as true, should be concerned about the ‘in vogue’ Gita that belittles some of their caste fellows. Besides, this work beckons the feminists to reckon the second of the two interpolations from it cited in the cover image that degrades them in unspeakable terms. This ‘overdue’ work, may lead the ‘denied’ Hindu castes as well as the favored folks for an objective approach to the in vogue Bhagvad-Gita which could dispel the misgivings of the former and the delusions of the latter, thereby bridging the Hindu emotional gulf with its abridged book that restores its original form. Whether or not one concurs with its propositions, this original work could be of interest to the students of logic and reasoning as well. [more]

Keywords: Bhagavad-Gita, Interpolations in the Gita, Indian philosophy, Religion and spirituality, Hindu philosophy, Hindu scriptures, Caste discrimination, Social reforms, Social sciences, Critical thinking, Logic and reasoning, Research and analysis, Analytical thinking

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BS Murthy The Unfounded Hindu Slavery

Essay
English
1885 Words
Ages 10 and up
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No less than Narendra Modi, India’s erudite prime minister, had attributed the self-disparaging Indian character to its thousand years of slavery, that too on the floor of the Indian parliament. And it’s no wonder that Asaduddin Owaisi, the Islamist revivalist in the Indian remnant, promptly contested the said proposition. Needless to say, while Modi echoed the lament of the Hindu nationalists, albeit in a politically correct vocabulary, Owaisi sees the Muslim invasion of Hindustan through the prism of eight-hundred years of Islamic hukummat over the same. Whatever, a critical examination of India’s Islamic history, even the one dished out by its Muslim overlords, and an objective analysis of its socio-cultural construct therein would belie the supposition that Hindus were forced into slavery in any which way. No doubt, when the Islamic marauders eyed it for loot and rapine, India was long since the home to the Nalandas and the Takshasilas, the Ivys of yore, and it was also the world’s largest economy with some thirty-percent share of its gross domestic product. Thus, it’s as if India then was the crown of the creation, adorned with Hindu jewels, and that being the case, maybe the Hindus of that time were justified to feel top-of-the-world, like the Americans of the day do. So, that’s exactly what they felt like, and we have Aberuni’s testimony for that In his eponymous book on India of around 1030CE. “… the Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.” [more]

Keywords: Hinduism, Sociology, Political Sociology, Demography, Social Sciences, Indian studies, South Asian Studies, Political Science, Islamic Studies, British Empire, Islamic History, Islam, India, Indian Muslims, Indian History, Indology, Indian Nationalism, Hindu Nationalism, Hindutva [more][Less]

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BS Murthy, Semitic Censure Of Sanatana Dharma, Or The Pot Calling The Kettle Black

Education
English
1531 Words
Ages 14 and up
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The Hindu intellectual response to the malicious Semitic attack on their dharmic ethos was stymied for the caste has always been the Achilles heel of their social chore. Hence, it is imperative to probe the Hindu social ills and delve into the Church’s religious ill-wills so as to bring the lopsided discourse onto an even keel. It may be noted that even as narō nārayana (man is but God) is the integral maxim of sanatana dharma, the Christian credo suffers no qualms about the inhuman slavery as averred in the Bible (1 Peter 2.18) – “Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse” and such. Also, whereas Hinduism espouses the eclectic concept of ekam sadviprā bahudhā vadanti (what is right is One only, describe it wise variedly), the Church holds the narrow view that only faith in Jesus portends salvation and the choice against him results in eternal doom. That’s not all, while sanatana dharma postulates vasudhaiva kutumbakam (holds world all in one household) in the Christian scheme of things, all non-Semites are heathens; if anything Islam debunks all other faiths, Christianity included, and vilifies all non-Muslims, not exempting the Christians, as kafirs destined to eternally burn in the hell of a hell. [more]

Keywords: Hinduism, Christianity, Sociology, Political Sociology, Constitutional Law, Indian Philosophy, Social Sciences, Political Science, Religious Pluralism, Islamic Studies, Indian Politics, India, Evangelism, Religious Studies, Demographics, Indian History, Sanatana Dharma, Christian Studies, Religious Tolerance, Indian Democracy and Constitution [more][Less]

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