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THE INDIAN BOOK OF BIG IDEAS
Publisher:
Hachette India Childrens Books
| Author:
Mukunda Rao
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Hachette India Childrens Books
Author:
Mukunda Rao
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
₹374
Save: 25%
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Who are we?
Is everything in the world connected?
Is truth different for different people?
Does God speak to only some of us?
Great minds have forever been engaged in tackling life’s big questions. People travelled far and wide in search of answers, learned from others and came up with new ways of understanding the world.
Curious to know what on earth they were thinking?
Now you can walk down the winding path of philosophy from 700 BCE to recent times, discovering the wisdom and teachings of 45 great thinkers, philosophers and reformers of India. Learn from the most far-sighted luminaries, such as Mahavira, Gargi, Adi Shankara, Kabir, the Buddha, Vivekananda and Guru Nanak, along with Sri Aurobindo, Rammohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, and get to know how the most brilliant and influential Indian ideas were born.
These thinkers, you will see, didn’t always agree with each other (indeed, they sometimes fiercely disagreed!), but all of them left behind a legacy of courage and compassion that remains valuable even today.
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Who are we?
Is everything in the world connected?
Is truth different for different people?
Does God speak to only some of us?
Great minds have forever been engaged in tackling life’s big questions. People travelled far and wide in search of answers, learned from others and came up with new ways of understanding the world.
Curious to know what on earth they were thinking?
Now you can walk down the winding path of philosophy from 700 BCE to recent times, discovering the wisdom and teachings of 45 great thinkers, philosophers and reformers of India. Learn from the most far-sighted luminaries, such as Mahavira, Gargi, Adi Shankara, Kabir, the Buddha, Vivekananda and Guru Nanak, along with Sri Aurobindo, Rammohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, and get to know how the most brilliant and influential Indian ideas were born.
These thinkers, you will see, didn’t always agree with each other (indeed, they sometimes fiercely disagreed!), but all of them left behind a legacy of courage and compassion that remains valuable even today.
About Author
Mukunda Rao is the author of several insightful philosophical and spiritual works, among which India's Greatest Minds, The Biology of Enlightenment, The Buddha and Sky-clad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Akka Mahadevi are much-read classics. He lives with his wife on a farm outside Bengaluru. Ashwitha Jayakumar has loved stories all her life, especially ones set in different times and worlds. Born in Chennai, she studied English literature and medieval studies at the universities of Edinburgh and Leeds in the United Kingdom. She has since spent over a decade working in the Indian publishing industry, and done a brief but thoroughly enjoyable stint as a high school teacher in Mumbai. She tumbled into writing children's books quite by accident, but has now written several works of fiction and non-fiction for Pratham Books, Scholastic India, Puffin Books and HarperCollins. She particularly enjoys writing non-fiction for children on history. When she's not writing or editing, she enjoys reading fantasy novels, playing Dungeons and Dragons and building elaborate Lego cities.
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