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About Rajiv Malhotra
Rajiv Malhotra was trained initially as a Physicist, and then as a Computer Scientist specializing in AI in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the US, he became an entrepreneur and founded and ran several IT companies in 20 countries. Since the early 1990s, as the founder of his non-profit Infinity Foundation (Princeton, USA), he has been researching civilizations and their engagement with technology from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective. He has authored several best-selling books. Infinity Foundation has also published a 14-volume series on the History of Indian Science & Technology. His latest book on AI is titled, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds”, in which India is the case study to analyze the impact of AI in a variety of domains.
He founded Infinity Foundation in Princeton (USA) for this purpose in 1994 and has been its founder-director since inception. Rajiv has conducted original research in a variety of fields and has influenced many thinkers worldwide. He has disrupted the mainstream thought process among academic and non-academic intellectuals alike by providing fresh provocative positions on Dharma and on India. Some of the focal points of his work are: Interpretation of Dharma for the current times; comparative religion; globalization and India’s contributions to the world. He has authored a large number of articles, published 1,000 video lectures and provided strategic guidance to numerous organizations.
To fully appreciate Rajiv’s work, his books are of immeasurable value. Besides Invading the Sacred, in which he is the main protagonist, he has authored the following game-changing publications:
-Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
-Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Fault lines
-Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity
-The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive?
-Academic Hinduphobia: A Critique of Wendy Doniger’s Erotic School of Indology
-Sanskrit Non-Translatables: The Importance of Sanskritizing English
He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and is a visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is on the Advisory Board of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.
Infinity Foundation has given more than 400 grants for research, education and community work. This includes strategic grants to major US universities in support of pioneering programs, including the following: visiting professorships in Indic studies at Harvard University; Yoga and Hindi classes at Rutgers University; research and teaching of non-dualistic philosophies at University of Hawaii; research at Center for Buddhist studies at Columbia University; development of a program in religion and science at University of California; endowment for the Center for Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania; lectures at the Center for Consciousness Studies at University of Arizona.
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Whether you are a social media fanatic, a diehard AIaficionado, or a paranoid sceptic, it is impossible to escape theubiquitous impact of AI. Artificial Intelligence is the brains bringingtogether quantum computing, nanotechnology, medical technology,brain-machine interface, robotics, aerospace, 5G, Internet of Things,and more. It is amplifying human ingenuity and disrupting thefoundations of healthcare, military, entertainment, education, marketing and manufacturing.
Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Power argues that this AI-driven revolution will have an unequal impact ondifferent segments of humanity. There will be new winners and losers,new haves and have-nots, resulting in an unprecedented concentration ofwealth and power.
After analyzing society's vulnerabilities tothe impending tsunami, the book raises troubling questions that provokeimmediate debate: Is the world headed toward digital colonization by the USA and China? Will depopulation become eventually unavoidable?
Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Power is a wakeup call to action, compelling public intellectuals to be betterinformed and more engaged. It educates the social segments most at riskand wants them to demand a seat at the table where policies onArtificial Intelligence are being formulated.
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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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The book presents a thorough mechanism of the process of digestion and examines the loss of adhikara for Sanskrit because of translating its core ideas into English. The movement launched by this book will resist this and stop the programs that seek to turn Sanskrit into a dead language by translating all its treasures to render it redundant. It discusses fifty-four non-translatables across various genres that are being commonly mistranslated. It empowers English speakers with the knowledge and arguments to introduce these Sanskrit words into their daily speech with confidence. Every lover of India's sanskriti will benefit from the book and become a cultural ambassador propagating it through routine communications.
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"This book makes a convincing case that English is deficient in its ability to express the profound meanings of the shastras for which Sanskrit words are necessary. I congratulate the authors for their innovative thinking and bold initiative."
- Swami Govindadev Giri, Trustee and Treasurer, Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra
"Sanskrit Non-Translatables takes fifty-four indisputably foundational concepts, arranges them in a fourfold typology that moves from terra firma to terra cognita to the cosmos, and contests the irrationality, the untenability and the 'design' of their widely employed English equivalents. With its well-thought-out prefatory essays, this is a book that every English-educated Indian must read to further 'decolonise' his mind and stand up to the hegemony of Western thought."
- Dr. Kapil Kapoor, Chairman, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
"Rajiv Malhotra carries his battle for Sanskrit a step further in this book. Short of having Sanskrit itself as the language of pan-Indian intellectual discourse, we must insist that as long as English continues to play this role, Sanskrit words should be used in English on account of their unique semantic valence so that a whole culture and an entire worldview is not lost in translation."
- Prof. Arvind Sharma, McGill University
"Sanskrit Non-Translatables is an important book that makes a powerful case for what it calls the Sanskritization of the English language by introducing key Sanskrit loanwords into English vocabulary and keeping them untranslated. This is a bold and innovative approach that deserves to be pursued in parallel with teaching Sanskrit itself."
- Dr. Subhash Kak, author of Matter and Mind,
The Gods Within, and other books
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In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, thinker and philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of adirect and honest engagement on differences by reversing the gaze,repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and lookingat the West from the Dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challengesmany hitherto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselvesand each other. He highlights that while unique historical revelationsare the basis for Western religions, dharma emphasizes self-realizationin the body here and now. He also points out the integral unity thatunderpins dharma's metaphysics and contrasts this with Western thoughtand history as a synthetic unity.
Erudite and engaging, BeingDifferent critiques fashionable reductive translations and analyzes theWest's anxiety over difference and fixation for order which contrast the creative role of chaos in dharma. It concludes with a rebuttal ofWestern claims of universalism, while recommending amulti-civilizational world view.
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The start of Rajiv Malhotra's feisty exploration of where the new thrust in Western Indology goes wrong, and his defence of what he considers the traditional, Indian approach, began with a project related to the Sringeri Sharada Peetham in Karnataka, one of the most sacred institutions for Hindus. There was, as he saw it, a serious risk of distortion of the teachings of the peetham, and of sanatana dharma more broadly.
Whichever side of the fence one may be on, The Battle for Sanskrit offers a spirited debate marshalling new insights and research. It is a valuable addition to an important subject, and in a larger context, on two ways of looking. Is each view exclusive of the other, or can there be a bridge between them? Readers can judge for themselves.
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Originating in the Atharva Veda, the concept of Indra's Net is a powerful metaphor for interconnectedness. It was transmitted via Buddhism's Avatamsaka Sutra into Western thought, where it now resides at the heart of post-modern discourse. According to this metaphor, nothing ultimately exists separately by itself and all boundaries can be deconstructed. This book invokes Indra's Net to articulate the open architecture, unity and continuity of Hinduism. Seen from this perspective, Hinduism defies pigeonholing into the traditional, modern and post-modern categories by which the West defines itself; rather, it becomes evident that Hinduism has always spanned all three categories simultaneously and without contradiction.It is fashionable among intellectuals to assert that dharma traditions lacked any semblance of unity before the British period, and that the contours of contemporary Hinduism were bequeathed to us by our colonial masters. Such arguments routinely target Swami Vivekananda, a key interlocutor who shattered many deeply rooted prejudices against Indian civilization. They accuse him of having camouflaged various alleged 'contradictions' within traditional Hinduism, and charge him with having appropriated the principles of Western religion to 'manufacture' a coherent and unified worldview and set of practices known today as Hinduism.Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity provides a foundation for theories that slander contemporary Hinduism as illegitimate, ascribing sinister motives to its existence, and characterizing its fabric as oppressive. Rajiv Malhotra offers a detailed, systematic rejoinder to such views, and articulates the multidimensional, holographic understanding of reality that grounds Hindu dharma. He also argues that Vivekananda's creative interpretations of Hindu dharma informed and influenced many Western intellectual movements of the post-modern era. Indeed, as he cites with many insightful examples, appropriations from Hinduism have provided a foundation for cutting-edge discoveries in several fields, including cognitive science and neuroscience.
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