-Part I– The train was already moving past the suburbs when Krishna looked up from the window and sighed. “Look at them,” he said softly. “All these young people seated so close to one another, and yet each seems miles away. No one speaks. Their eyes are lowered, their thumbs are busy, and their facesContinue reading “Sri Krishna dialogues with the “Unknown Sri Vaishnava”: On modern Friendship”
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India: “no country for intellectuals”?
https://open.substack.com/pub/thedigitalmeadow/p/the-death-of-the-public-intellectual?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web The above article is an excellent commentary on the subject of the waning vigour of the traditions of intellectualism in public debate within the general life of societies right across the globe. Why is the modern public intellectual a dying species? The above essay traces the cause to many reasons in America. But afterContinue reading “India: “no country for intellectuals”?”