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  Buddhist System of Education: Modern Approach Author : V. Nithiyanandam ISBN: 978-81-8220-601-4 Edition: 2nd Year: 2014 Pages: 176 Size: 7×4 Publisher : Global Vision Publishing House Price: INR 650.00   About the Book The second edition of this book incorporates all suggestions made by readers, scholars for better presentation of the Buddhist philosophy of education and its adaptation in modern system of education in India, Tibet and Sri Lanka and other South-east Asian countries. It also shows the recent development of the Buddhist system of education in modernization of western education. There is no doubt that Buddhism made tremendous contributions to the philosophy of education. The notion of education entails many subsidiary notions, such as notions of ignorance and knowl

As part of his strategy to fight Brahman domination Phule also made use of the Natural Rights argument. He was deeply influenced by Thomas Paine’s philosophy and it was thanks to Paine’s influence that Phule argued that all men enjoyed certain natural and inalienable rights which every just society must recognise. Even when a society did not recognise such rights, Phule contended, they existed as moral imperatives. In Slavery he condemns Hinduism for its violation of man’s natural rights and argues that God has given the Shudras, the Ati-Shudras and other people the freedom to enjoy equally all the things of the earth. He accuses the Brahmans of seeking advantage only for themselves, of writing ‘false books’ in God’s name, and of trampling on the rights of all other men. He thanks the English rulers and the missionaries for making the low castes aware of the fact that they are human beings just like the Brahmans and worthy of all forms of rights. But Phule does not merely stop at conde

Mahatma Phule showed remarkable imagination and creativity in his attempt to mobilise the Shudras. First, he projected the Brahman as the villain of the piece, responsible for the present plight of the Shudras. Second, he made education of dalits the cornerstone of his strategy and tirelessly worked for spreading education among them. Finally, He sought to project a new collective identity for all the lower castes in Maharashtra. He sought to bring together the Mali-Kunbis and the Mang-Mahars into a single community of the oppressed. Time and again Phule presents the Brahman as the villain solely responsible for the plight of the low castes and for the oppressive caste system. One play in which such a portrayal of the Brahman comes out most forcefully is ‘Traitya Ratna’ written by Phule sometime in 1855 but first published in 1979 in the journal Purogami Satyashodhak (April-June).  The principal characters of the play are a poor cultivator and his wife, a Christian missionary and Phule

  Buddha’s Doctrine of Suffering and Salvation (2 Vols Set) Author : Edited by V. Nithiyanandam ISBN: 978-81-8220-693-9 Edition: 2nd Year: 2021 Pages: Size: 7×4 Publisher : Global Vision Publishing House Price: INR 2,400.00 About the Book This book is a descriptive analysis of the Buddha’s doctrine of suffering and salvation edited and compiled in two volumes by V. Nithiyanandam, a well known Buddhist monk and scholar. First volume deals with the causes of suffering and second volume shows the path of salvation. Suffering is one of the four Noble Truths discovered by Lord Buddha and it forms the cornerstone of his Philosophy. The cause of

In his early years Mahatma Phule came under the influence ot anti-British Brahmans. Under their influence he even learnt Dandapatta, a style of native fencing with staves. However, this influence was short-lived. Two factors led to this change, his acquaintance with the writings of Thomas Paine and his own personal experiences of the harsh realities of Brahman discrimination. In his book Slavery (1873), Phule speaks of how he was in fact introduced to Paine’s work by some anti-British Brahmans in Pune. These Brahmans had sought to use Paine’s argument to urge on Phule the necessity of all castes uniting to win back the control of political affairs from the hands of the British. Phule, however, decided to make a closer study of Paine for himself and soon realised the potential for radicalism of a very different kind in Paine’s writings. At the same time Phule had an unpleasant experience regarding the touch-me-not attitude of the Brahmans. In 1848 he was invited to the marriage party of

  Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the world's oldest example of the ubitquitous cross-hatched pattern drawn on a silcrete flake in the Blombos Cave in South Africa. Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest example of abstract art in the world.  Photo by peng song/Getty Images  

  According to the World Health Organization (WHO), long working hours are killing hundreds of thousands of people a year. The first global study of its kind showed 745,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to long hours. The report found that people living in South East Asia and the Western Pacific region were the most affected. The research found that working 55 hours or more a week was associated with a 35% higher risk of stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, compared with a working week of 35 to 40 hours. The study, conducted with the International Labour Organization (ILO), also showed almost three quarters of those that died as a result of working long hours were middle-aged or older men.

With the advent of East India Company, European missionaries brought for the first time widening educational opportunities to which all could have access in spite of the open resentment expressed by the Brahmans. They emphasised how the Hindu religion had deprived the lower castes of their rights in matters relating to religion and education. They portrayed India as a loser in the race for human advancement and higher civilisation thanks to its orthodoxy, and its self-seeking priesthood. This idea preached by the missionaries was also echoed in James Mill’s History of British India. For Jotirao Phule and others who attended these schools, the Company rule naturally appeared as opening up new opportunities for their own advancement and for fighting high caste oppression, which could just not have been dreamt of earlier. The missionaries in particular highlighted the discrepancies and contradictions within Hindu beliefs and expressed humanitarian concern for the social consequences of so

  Hatha Yoga The Philosophy of Physical Well-Being Author : Yogi Ramacharaka ISBN: 9788194771647 Edition: Reprint Year: 2021 Pages: 220 Size: 14×21 Cm Publisher : Global Vision Publishing House Price: INR 900.00   About the book “ Hatha Yoga ,” the present book, deals altogether with the physical. The psychical, mental and spiritual phases of the subject belong to the other branches of the work. “Hatha Yoga,” however, will be a splendid foundation upon which the student may build, as a sound, strong, healthy body is necessary for one to do his best work and study, as the author of this book has so well explained in the text. About the Author Yogi Ramacharaka was the pseudonym of William Walker Atkinson, an American writer who was influential in turn-of-the-century

  ✦ Were you a part of the RSS? All the brothers were in the RSS. Nathuram, Dattatreya, myself and Govind. You can say we grew up in the RSS rather than in our home. It was like a family to us. Nathuram stayed in the RSS? He did not leave it? Nathuram had become a baudhikkaryavah (intellectual worker) in the RSS. He has said in his statement that he left the RSS. He said it because Golwalkar and the RSS were in a lot of trouble after the murder of Gandhi. But he did not leave the RSS. Advani has recently said that Nathuram had nothing to do with the RSS.? I have countered him, saying it is cowardice to say that. You can say that RSS did not pass a resolution, saying that, ‘go and assassinate Gandhi.’ But you do not disown him (Nathuram). The Hindu Mahasabha did not disown him. In 1944 Nathuram started doing Hindu Mahasabha work when he had been a baudhi kkaryavah in the RSS. When was the plan to kill Gandhi made? Nathuram had a teleprinter , as edito

  We or Our Nationhood Defined Author : M. S. Golwalkar ISBN: 9789390423323 Edition: 2nd Year: 2021 Pages: 116 Size: 14×21 Cm Publisher : Global Vision Publishing House Price: INR 800.00 In this book, Author have presented an interesting and fascinating contribution to the discussion of a subject of great and vital importance.  Author has taken pains to explain in simple but elegant style the abstract notions which form the main ingredients of the concept of Nationalism. He has succeeded in examining the principles deduced from the above study in light of the conditions prevailing in India and applying the same to the solution of the problems with which the Indian Nationalist is confronted. The book is one which will prove thought

The bhakti saints and poets like Kabir and Tukaram had also criticised Brahmanism, but their protest was of a very different order. Tukaram, for instance, exhorted his followers to reject the idea that salvation lay in reading holy books, fulfilling caste obligations, and making gifts to Brahmans. He preached that it was not caste superiority that made a man holy but simply love of God with a pure heart and such a man can belong to any caste, and can even be an untouchable. Though Phule was acquainted with the bhakti reformers but his protest was of a very different order. First, Phule’s protest was more secular and rational.  The bhakti saints never confronted and refuted religious values that emphasised the caste hierarchy and the religious pre-eminence of the Brahmans. They never directly questioned or openly challenged the need for and position of the Brahmans as ritual performing mediators between Hindus and their Gods. Second, while the saints essentially provided individual sola

  Smart Skills for Self Learning Author : Dr. S. Anandamurugan ISBN: 9789390423347 Edition: 1st Year: 2021 Pages: 152 Size: 14×21 Cm Publisher : Global Vision Publishing House Price: INR 750.00 About the Book The better grading should not be the sole aim of students & they should not depend on only classroom study. They should develop the habit of Self-learning. This book is intended for the use of all level of students as well as general readers. Main features of this book are • Student friendly –written in a clear, concise and lucid manner. • A sincere attempt to introduce the basic concepts. • Organized into small sections that address key topics

  After death of Mahatma Jotirao Phule, the dalit movement in Maharashtra was continued by Chatrapati Shahu (1874 to 1922), the descendent of Shivaji. His support, both financially and ideological, encouragement, his policies and programmes all contributed, directly or indirectly, to faster the movement. Shahu, when came to power in 1894, by variety of programmes and policies tried to uplift and liberate the backward sections of the society of Maharashtra. He tried to reduce the educational monopoly of the Brahman on one hand and to uplift the non-Brahman castes on the other. He observed that Brahmans were dominant in the fields of education, religious matters and in governmental services. To reduce this Brahman dominance he adopted the following policies. Right from beginning as a ruler, Shahu adopted the policies and programmes of promoting education among the non-Brahman. He observed that the non-Brahmans had traditionally been denied education and only by spreading education among