Random Plurals : Fragments on Philosophy Aesthetics and History
Contents: Acknowledgements. List of contributors. About editors. Foreword/Karan Singh. Introduction/Ratnamuthu Sugathan. I. Language, reality and philosophy: 1. Word and meaning: a perspective/Reetu Raj Ekka. 2. Linguistic signification: Sanskrit and European perspectives/Joseph Koyippally. 3. Concept of word and meaning in Sanskrit poetics/Ajay Kumar Jha. 4. Translation and imagination/Franson Manjali. 5. Life and after life of a text: studies in the concept of translation/Raman Prasad Sinha. 6. Ideologization of consciousness: from Hegel to Derrida/Ratnamuthu Sugathan. 7. What is polylectics?/Ratnamuthu Sugathan. II. Culture, knowledge and change: 8. Cultural nationalism/O.K. Yadav. 9. Retrieving the secular from the Neo-conservation Idiom/Thomas Mathew. 10. Right to work and culture in India/S.K. Biswas. 11. Cultural relations between India and Indonesia during ancient period/Bachchan Kumar. 12. Manuscripts and cultural understanding/Kamal Kishor Mishra and Syed Tanveer Nasreen. 13. Cultural revolution is the key/Thomas Mathew. III. Tradition, economy and myth: 14. Path to contemplative silence: word and meaning in classical texts of Ayurveda/P. Ram Manohar. 15. Economy known through inscriptions/Kamal Kishor Mishra and Syed Tanveer Nasreen. 16. Who are Viswakarmas?/P.K. Raveendran. 17. Kumara and Devasenapati: two aspects in the mythology of Karttikeya/Syed Tanveer Nasreen. IV. Reading Ambedkar: 18. Rereading Ambedkar/Thomas Mathew. 19. Babasaheb B.R. Ambedkar as modern political thinker championing women\'s rights/K.B. Usha. 20. Ambedkar and Indian women\'s emancipation/Sangh Mittra. 21. Indian political system and Ambedkar\'s views on democracy/S.K. Biswas. V. On science and society: 23. On matter and motion/Vishnu Ramakrishnan. 23. In search of human security/K.B. Usha. 24. Self discipline as integral to the education system/Shivani Bothra. 25. Self in Indian narrative tradition: socio-psychological insights from Mahabharata/Kamal Kishor Mishra. 26. Self and consciousness: Jung and Indian thought compared/T.D. Sankaranarayanan. 27. Assertiveness training: an approach to counseling/Vaishali Balajiwale. VII. Art and aesthetics: 28. A reflection on the nature of aesthetic communication/Bhagat Oinam. 29. Image, imaginary and being/Rajiv Aricat. 30. Ruminations in twilight in a beloved city/Uma Vasudev. 31. Tracing the history of \'Dharaka\' Kathak/Shovana Narayan. 32. Kathak: stylistic and technical evolution/Shovana Narayan. 33. Cultural linkages of Thailand and India with special reference to Kathak and Thai classical dance/Mandavi Singh. Index.
"The present collection, Random Plurals: Fragments on Philosophy, aesthetics and History, comprises of 33 academic and literary writings contributed by 25 eminent authors. Dr. Karan Singh has provided this volume with a brief and scintillating foreword.
The range of the writings in this selection in vast and rich. The reader gets linguistic and philosophical ideas on word and meaning/signification, poetics, and translation, both western and Indian/Sanskrit. Pieces on ideology, polylectics, right to work, culture, cultural nationalism, secularism, cultural relations, Shraman and Brahman culture, and cultural revolution are included, besides those on manuscriptology, Ayurveda, epigraphy, mythology and Viswakarmas. A full section on Ambedkarism is available with rereading of Ambedkar, Ambedkar and women\'s emancipation, Ambedkar\'s political thought and his views on democracy. Articles on matter and motion, human security, education system and self discipline, and personality development with assertiveness are included. On psychology and aesthetics, the reader gets pieces on insights from Mahabharata, Indian and western psychology, aesthetic communication, cinema capturing the image, imaginary and being, and also on performance arts like Kathak, Dharaka Kathak and Thai classical dance forms." (jacket)
