ॐ नमो भगवते श्रीरामकृष्णाय·Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramakrishnaya
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Henry R. Zimmer was an Indologist and historian of South-Asian art. He was born in Greisfield, Germany. Zimmer began his career studying Sanskrit and linguistic at the University of Berlin, where he graduated in 1913. Between 1920-24 he lectured at Ernst-Moritz-Arudt University in Greisfield, thereafter moving to Heidelberg to fill the chair of Indian Philosophy. To speak of Sri…
ReadProfessor Hiren Mukherjee was a legendary Communist Leader, an accomplished Parliamentarian and a Scholar of eminence. He taught at Rippon College, Presidency College and at the University of Calcutta before his participation in active politics. He was also the recipient of the Padmabhusana in 1990 and the Padmavibhusana in 1991. It was Ramakrishna’s unalloyed, if also apparently unsophisticated,…
ReadProfessor Kabir became the Chairman of the University Grants Commission. Afterwards he switched over to politics and became a Central Minister of the Indian Republic. Prof. Kabir was the Editor of the reputed literary journal Caturanga. In remembering the services and the examples of Sri Ramakrishna, we …have before us the example of a personality who tried…
ReadProfessor Huston Smith was born at Soochaw, China, and spent the first seventeen years of his life there. Between 1944 and 1947 he first taught at the University of Colorado before going to the University of Denver. During the next ten years he was attached to the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Afterwards he went to the MIT…
ReadSir Jadunath Sarkar was the founder of modern, scientific, historical scholarship in India based on archival and primary sources. He received many honours including the Knighthood in Britain as well as in India. Sarkar became the most famous historian of late Mughal India and an acknowledged master of Maratha history. He authored many volumes on Aurangzeb. He was the doyen…
ReadFamous Indian politician and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. Hhe was the architect of India’s foreign policy. He was a prolific writer. Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History, Letters from a Father to a Daughter etc. are his famous publications. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1955. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa obviously was completely outside the…
ReadProfessor Joseph Campbell was a writer and orator, best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. Campbell was also an accomplished athelete, receiving rewards in track and field events. The Europeans who protested against the empire of mediocrity, themselves failed to attain to the springs of power. So their world of ideas…
ReadK.M. Munshi was born in Broach in South Gujarat in a high middle class Brahmin family. He was profoundly influenced by Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, M. K. Gandhi, Sardar Ballabhbhai Patel and Bulabhai Desai. He drew inspiration from the Vedic culture and the classic Sanskrit literature. Munshi founded a number of academic and cultural institutions. His greatest contribution was the…
ReadRussian novelist who served the Russian army from 1852 to 1854. Authored War and Peace (1865-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-77). After 1876 he developed a form of Christian anarchism and devoted himself to social reforms. Alexander Shifman, Adviser to the Tolstoy State Museum, in his book Tolstoy and India writes : ‘During the last decade of Tolstoy’s life…
ReadLeroy S. Rouner was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the United Theological College, Bangalore. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard before taking his B D at Union Theological Seminary and PhD at Columbia University. He has written on the Philosophy of Religion for journals in India and the United States. He contributed to Madras Christian College’s Rethinking Our Role;…
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