The argument against free will could as well have been eternal. In this short but incisive and analytical book, Alfred R Mele, a professor of philosophy, successfully and clearly critiques the rationale against free will put forward by psychologists and neuroscientists.

A book designed for children with attractive illustrations, this volume brings out the spirit of India through the recounting of an incident that happened in India; where a boy—not wealthy of resources—returns a wallet he found and cannot even think of accepting a reward for his good act. Awarded the ‘Mom’s Choice Best Educational Picture Book’,…[Read more]

The very thought of death brings to mind fear and the prospect of facing something unknown. The average person is seldom prepared for death. Encountering death is the worst nightmare for most, only this is the last nightmare. We have funny notions about death. We feel it is alright if a person dies at an advanced age, particularly if without any…[Read more]

François Laruelle’s non-standard philosophy adopts an approach that is not just novel but abstruse and not based on anything that philosophy has known till now. That is why it becomes necessary that the concepts are defined and what could be better than the proponent of this philosophy, Laruelle himself, working to this end.

Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata is the outcome of a series of three panels dedicated to the renowned scholar of the Mahābhārata, Alf Hiltebeitel, organized by his favorite disciple, Vishwa Adluri on the occasion of Alf’s seventieth birthday. Per its author “whatever is found here [in the Mahābhārata] may be found elsewhere…[Read more]

Published in the series Posthumanities, this book presents the author’s attempt to analyse François Laruelle’s Non-philosophy. He does this by a non-conventional method, circumventing the orthodox philosophical ways, and following the framework of Lars von Trier’s film The Five Obstructions. Precisely because of this novel approach, Maoile…[Read more]

Religion Without God by Ronald M Dworkin Book Review Prabuddha Bharata May 2016

Recovering the Lost Tongue by Rahul Banerjee Book Review Prabuddha Bharata July 2010

Postcolonial Reason and Its Critique Eds Purushottama Billimoria and Dina Al-Kassim Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2014

Peace or Perish by J P Vaswani Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2009

Pages from the Past Part 1 Rameshwar Tantia Book Review Prabuddha Bharata February 2016

Management A New Look—Lessons from Sarada Ma’s Life and Teaching by Dr Abani Nath Mukhopadhyay Book Review Prabuddha Bharata September 2014

Although best known as a poet, African-American writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) developed a unique voice in his fiction. This essay explores the bifurcation Dunbar discerned between the law as an instrument of justice and as a stabilizer of the segregationist status quo in Jim Crow America. Dunbar’s characters systematically scapegoated…[Read more]

Journey to Foreign Selves by Alan Roland Book Review Prabuddha Bharata February 2015

How to Seek God by Swami Yatiswarananda Book Review Prabuddha Bharata April 2010

How to Organize Life Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2011

Fate and Fortune in the Indian Scriptures by Sukumari Bhattacharji Book Review Prabuddha Bharata March 2015

Family Values by Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift Book Review Prabuddha Bharata February 2015

Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative by Alf Hiltebeitel Book Review Prabuddha Bharata March 2015

The Mahabharata / Srimad Bhagavata – in the Poet’s Own Words by Pandit A M Srinivasachariar Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2010