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I just finished reading Buddha or Karl Marx By Dr. Ambedkar. It’s just a long essay or Booklet. The thing that caught my attention is the summary of Buddhist Tripiṭaka. I think this summary is the best I have read about Buddhism and why its required. The below points are quoted from Buddha...
I have a kindle with keyboard. I love the hardware. Its easy on eyes, easy to carry and stays “on” forever. That said I have stopped reading on my kindle. I mostly read on my mobile. There are a couple of reasons. I always have my mobile. I can read a chapter when...
“The Annihilation of Caste” was supposed to be delivered at a conference organized by a Hindu reformist group Jat-Pat Todak Mandal in Lahore, 1936. At last-minute the group took back the invitation saying speech was against Hinduism and its shastras. Ambedkar self published the speech as the book. At that point the content...
I just finished reading Nationalism by Tagore. The book has three essays which talk about Nationalism in the West, Nationalism in Japan, Nationalism in India and ends with a poem called The Sunset of the Century. First two essays are based on lectures delivered in USA and Japan. The third essay on India...
Delivered as a speech as part of Conway Memorial Lectures at South Place Institute on 24 March 1922. This essay by Bertrand Russell a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic is very relevant even today. In this essay/speech Russel talks about the challenges for free-thought and free-speech in the context of raising...
For a long time I was scared to read Einstein. Most of my physics reading was Richard Feynman’s essays. I think its more to do with his life and character than the physics itself. If I remember properly I read A Brief History of Time when I was in college. That’s the closest...
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