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It is with great joy that we present a collection of essays written
in honour of Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, who completed 60 years of age
on July 19, 1998, by his friends and colleagues, including several
of his for mer students. Jayant has had a long research career in
astrophysics and cosmology, which he began at Cambridge in 1960, as
a student of Sir Fred Hoyle. He started his work with a big bang,
expounding on the steady state theory of the Universe and creating
a new theory of gravity inspired by Mach's principle. He also
worked on action-at-a-distance electrodynamics, inspired by the
explorations of Wheeler, Feynman and Hogarth in that direction.
This body of work established Jayant's rep utation as a bold and
imaginative physicist who was ever willing to take a fresh look at
fundamental issues, undeterred by conventional wis dom. This trait,
undoubtedly inherited from his teacher and mentor, has always
remained with Jayant. It is now most evident in his untir ing
efforts to understand anomalies in quasar astronomy, and to develop
the quasi-steady state cosmology, along with a group of highly
distin guished astronomers including Halton Arp, Geoffrey Burbidge
and Fred Hoyle. In spite of all this iconoclastic activity, Jayant
remains a part of the mainstream; he appreciates as well as
encourages good work along conventional lines by his students and
colleagues. This is clear from the range of essays included in this
volume, and the variety and distribution of the essayists.
Often considered the most admired human being of the twentieth
century, Mahatma Gandhi was and remains controversial. Among the
leading Gandhi scholars in the world, the authors of the timely
studies in this volume present numerous ways in which Gandhi's
thought and action-oriented approach are significant, relevant, and
urgently needed for addressing the major problems and concerns of
the twenty-first century. Such problems and concerns include issues
of violence and nonviolence, war and peace, religion and religious
conflict and dialogue, terrorism, ethics, civil disobedience,
injustice, modernism and postmodernism, forms of oppression and
exploitation, and environmental destruction. These creative,
diverse studies offer a radical critique of the dominant
characteristics and priorities of modern Western civilization and
the contemporary world. They offer positive alternatives by using
Gandhi, in creative and innovative ways, to focus on nonviolence,
peace with justice, tolerance and mutual respect, compassion and
loving kindness, cooperative relations and the realization of our
interconnectedness and unity, meaningful action-oriented engagement
of dialogue, resistance, and working for new sustainable ways of
being human and creating new societies. This volume is appropriate
for the general reader and the Gandhi specialist. It will be of
interest for readers in philosophy, religion, political science,
history, cultural studies, peace studies, and many other fields.
Throughout this book, readers will experience a strong sense of the
philosophical and practical urgency and significance of Gandhi's
thought and action for the contemporary world.
Often considered the most admired human being of the twentieth
century, Mahatma Gandhi was and remains controversial. Among the
leading Gandhi scholars in the world, the authors of the timely
studies in this volume present numerous ways in which Gandhi's
thought and action-oriented approach are significant, relevant, and
urgently needed for addressing the major problems and concerns of
the twenty-first century. Such problems and concerns include issues
of violence and nonviolence, war and peace, religion and religious
conflict and dialogue, terrorism, ethics, civil disobedience,
injustice, modernism and postmodernism, forms of oppression and
exploitation, and environmental destruction. These creative,
diverse studies offer a radical critique of the dominant
characteristics and priorities of modern Western civilization and
the contemporary world. They offer positive alternatives by using
Gandhi, in creative and innovative ways, to focus on nonviolence,
peace with justice, tolerance and mutual respect, compassion and
loving kindness, cooperative relations and the realization of our
interconnectedness and unity, meaningful action-oriented engagement
of dialogue, resistance, and working for new sustainable ways of
being human and creating new societies. This volume is appropriate
for the general reader and the Gandhi specialist. It will be of
interest for readers in philosophy, religion, political science,
history, cultural studies, peace studies, and many other fields.
Throughout this book, readers will experience a strong sense of the
philosophical and practical urgency and significance of Gandhi's
thought and action for the contemporary world.
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