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Meet noted Scholar and writer Rajiv Malhotra in Bangalore 
12/01/2014 03:07:12  Uthishta.org

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Noted Indian-American researcher, speaker and author of several books Sri Rajiv Malhotra is visiting Bangalore. Among many other programs, he will participate in a public function organized by the social service organization Uthishta on Jan 19th. Rajiv's name caught the attention of general public in India after the release of his well researched book "Breaking India" which he co-authored along with Sri Aravindan Neelakandan. He is a noted public intellectual on current affairs as they relate to civilizations, cross-cultural encounters, religion and science. 

He studied physics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and computer science at Syracuse University, and was "a senior executive, strategic consultant and a successful entrepreneur in the information technology and media industries"until his retirement in 1994 at age 44. Malhotra took an early retirement to pursue philanthropic and educational activities and founded the Infinity foundation in 1995.

Currently, Rajiv Malhotra is a full-time founder-director of the Infinity Foundation in Princeton, NJ. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and as adviser to various organizations.

Uthishta's program is on Jan 19th Sunday from 4.15 pm to 7.00 pm at Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha, Bangalore. Sri. Rajiv will speak on the topic 'Indra's Net' which is the gist of his upcoming book, followed by an interactive session with the audience. This will be followed by the release of the Kannada translation of his book 'Being Different'. Sri Sri Sri Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji of Sri Adichunchanagiri Mahasamsthana Math has graciously accepted to bless the event and deliver the Benedictory Address. Justice N Kumar, Karnataka High Court, will preside over the function.

More details available at the link http://uthishta.org

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India's one of foremost Hindu Intellectual, who gave up his active entreprenual life for the cause of Indian Cultural Renaissance - Sri Rajiv Malhotra is attending for a seminar session on Jan 19th Sunday from 4.15 pm to 7.00 pm at Indiranagar Sangeetha Sabha, Banglore...He is an author of several outstanding books like Breaking India, Being Different and also undertaking many scientific project studies highlighting the contribution of ancient India in many spheres of sciences...

 

ee madhya kaalam lo Hindu matham meedha, Hindu samskruthi meedha, ithara mathaalu, paschatyulu chesthunna dhaadi gurinchi visthruthanga, parisodhanatmakanga  poorvapaksham chesina medhavulu, Rajiv Malhotra lanti vaallu marokaru kanapadaru........Interested people in Bangalore, Please make use of this opportunity and attend this seminar.... Rajiv Malhotra is an outstanding Intellectual and for sure he will not disappoint you....For those who cannot attend the event, please make atleast a small effort to spread this message through facebook or other social media....

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Rajiv Malhotra is an Indian–American researcher, writer, speaker and public intellectual on current affairs as they relate to civilizations, cross-cultural encounters, religion and science. A physicist and scientist by training and now full-time founder-director of the Infinity Foundation in Princeton, NJ, he was previously a senior corporate executive, then a strategic consultant and finally an entrepreneur in information technology and media. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and as adviser to various organizations. Please visit http://www.rajivmalhotra.com/ for more details.

Uthishta, invites You and Your associates to an evening with Sri. Rajiv Malhotra on Sunday 19th Jan 2014 between 4.15 pm and 7:00pm At the Indirangar Sangeetha Sabha [behind indiranagar club],8th main, Indiranagar, Bangalore. Sri Sri Sri Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji, Sri Adichunchanagiri Mahasamsthana Math, has graciously accepted to bless the event and deliver the Benedictory Address. Justice N Kumar, Karnataka High Court, has graciously accepted to preside and deliver the Presidential Remarks.

Programme Schedule
4:15 pm: Welcome
4:20 pm: Invocation
4:25 pm: Rajiv Malhotra – Talk on “INDRA'S NET”
5:30 pm : Rajiv Malhotra - Q&A
6:00 pm : 'Vibhinnate' (Kannada Translation of Rajiv Malhotra's book 'Being Different') Book release by Sri Sri Sri Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji
6:05 pm Honoring the translators Prof S Kannan & Smt Meera
6:10 pm : Benedictory Address by Sri Sri Sri Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji.
6:30 pm : Presidential Remarks by Justice N Kumar, Karnataka High Court
6:50 pm : Vote of Thanks
6:55 pm : Vande Mataram

Please register here (Free registration) : https://docs.google.com/a/uthishta.org/forms/d/1JjgJ-oKwfI78EAlVJ5oq3pC1...

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Some interesting books by this speaker, 

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Breaking India Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines Publisher: Amaryllis. Pages: 640. Price: 695 INR/$20.00 US

India’s integrity is being undermined by three global networks that have well-established operating bases inside India: (i) Islamic radicalism linked with Pakistan, (ii) Maoists and Marxist radicals supported by China via intermediaries such as Nepal, and (iii) Dravidian and Dalit identity separatism being fostered by the West in the name of human rights. This book focuses on the third: the role of U.S. and European churches, academics, think-tanks, foundations, government and human rights groups in fostering separation of the identities of Dravidian and Dalit communities from the rest of India. The book is the result of five years of research, and uses information obtained in the West about foreign funding of these Indian-based activities. The research tracked the money trails that start out claiming to be for “education,” “human rights,” “empowerment training,” and “leadership training,” but end up in programs designed to produce angry youths who feel disenfranchised from Indian identity.

The book reveals how outdated racial theories continue to provide academic frameworks and fuel the rhetoric that can trigger civil wars and genocides in developing countries. The Dravidian movement’s 200-year history has such origins. Its latest manifestation is the “Dravidian Christianity” movement that fabricates a political and cultural history to exploit old faultlines. The book explicitly names individuals and institutions, including prominent Western ones and their Indian affiliates. Its goal is to spark an honest debate on the extent to which human rights and other “empowerment” projects are cover-ups for these nefarious activities.

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Being Different - An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
by Rajiv Malhotra  (Author)
 
In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challenges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselves and each other. He highlights that while unique historical revelations are the basis for Western religions, dharma emphasizes self-realization in the body here and now. He also points out the integral unity that underpins dharma s metaphysics and contrasts this with Western thought and history as a synthetic unity. 

Erudite and engaging, Being Different critiques fashionable reductive translations and analyses the West s anxiety over difference and fixation for order which contrast the creative role of chaos in dharma. It concludes with a rebuttal of Western claims of universalism, while recommending a multi-civilizational worldview.

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