The collapse of liberalism and the growth of fundamentalism
The so-called 'global growth of fundamentalism' is in fact a global - albeit gradual - collapse of liberalism. This is an abridged version of the lecture given last November at the University of Minnesota by Vishal Mangalwadi.
The militancy of the terrorists, the discrimination and persecution of the religious or ethnic minorities, the corruption and oppression of the state, are together demolishing liberalism's assumption that a human being is good enough to govern himself decently without God.
A passage from India
In this 50th anniversary year of India's independence, we carry a summary of a lecture on E.M. Forster's A Passage to India given at Eton College in September.
If history could be re-ordered, how many Indians would want the British Raj to be omitted from it? No one who still has the courage to affirm the old-fashioned value of 'intellectual integrity' and to put truth above nationalism.