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Dhirubhai Sheth and the Political Incorrectness of Being Rajni Kothari and Dhirubhai Sheth s founding of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in 1964 had great consequences for the future of Indian democracy and academia. DL Sheth and his wife, Surabhi Sheth. Photo: Special Arrangement Media11/May/2021 Over one hundred years ago, two Gujaratis met in London â Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Two more contrasting personalities could not be imagined and the fallout for the Indian subcontinent was contained in that epic encounter. Some 50 years later, another set of Gujaratis would meet with consequences that were creative for Indian democracy and the Indian academy. Â Political scientist Rajni Kothari and sociologist Dhiru Lal Sheth came together with a few other intellectuals, to author a novel experiment that would be called âThe Centreâ (The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, CSDS) in 1964. Ashis Nandy ....
Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:05 UTC We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. His selfish gene theory, he remarked in 1989, has become textbook orthodoxy, because it is merely a logical outgrowth of orthodox Neo-Darwinism, but expressed as a novel image. The image is misleading. Dawkins doesn t literally believe that genes are selfish entities with a will to replicate themselves. If they were, they would be like animating souls. In the Darwinian world where Dawkins lives, genes are not souls, but merely molecules ruled by the determinist laws of chemistry. And they are the result of a series of chemical accidents over millions of years, starting from the first self-replicating protein. ....