Pavan K. Varma
Born
in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
November 05, 1953
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Genre
Influences
Being Indian : Inside the Real India
19 editions
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2004
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Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker
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Great Indian Middle Class
5 editions
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1998
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Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2010] Pavan K Verma
11 editions
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2010
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Chanakya's New Manifesto to Resolve the Crisis within India
4 editions
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2013
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When Loss is Gain
4 editions
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2012
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Ghalib: The Man, The Times
8 editions
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1989
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Yudhishtir And Draupadi
7 editions
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1996
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The Great Hindu Civilisation: Achievement, Neglect, Bias and the Way Forward
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The Book of Krishna
8 editions
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2001
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“Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be untrue, and have wilfully encouraged the well-meaning but credulous foreign observer to accept it. What is worse, they have fallen in love with this image, and can no longer accept that it is untrue.”
― Being Indian : Inside the Real India
― Being Indian : Inside the Real India
“The etymological meaning of Veda is sacred knowledge or wisdom. There are four Vedas: Rig, Yajur, Sama, and Atharva. Together they constitute the samhitas that are the textual basis of the Hindu religious system. To these samhitas were attached three other kinds of texts. These are, firstly, the Brahmanas, which is essentially a detailed description of rituals, a kind of manual for the priestly class, the Brahmins. The second are the Aranyakas; aranya means forest, and these ‘forest manuals’ move away from rituals, incantations and magic spells to the larger speculations of spirituality, a kind of compendium of contemplations of those who have renounced the world. The third, leading from the Aranyakas, are the Upanishads, which, for their sheer loftiness of thought are the foundational texts of Hindu philosophy and metaphysics.”
― Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker
― Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker
“what is ubiquitous but not constrained by the brittleness of form, is by definition imperishable.”
― Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker
― Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker
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