India must focus on the quality of consciousness instead of quantity of resources

by Srinivas Venkatram

What should be the focus of development in India - people or resources? This Gateway Book attempts to answer this question through a deep dive into Swami Vivekananda's message - "India will be raised, not with the power of the flesh, but with the power of the spirit". About the Series Swami Vivekananda spoke extensively across India, Europe, and the United States. Many of his quotes are not just ideas or even messages. They are gateways to a larger, more comprehensive philosophy of life. The Gateway Series takes up several quotes and messages of Swami Vivekananda and helps readers access them by diving a little deeper into what the Swami said. About the Author Srinivas Venkatram is the CEO & Lead Researcher of Illumine Labs - an organization that works on knowledge enablement - i.e. how to help individuals, organizations and communities build radically new futures by leveraging the benefits of a wider view of knowledge (involving the fruitful interaction between objective knowledge of the world outside, and subjective knowledge in each human being). Since 1996, he has been engaged in the deep study and application of Swami Vivekananda's ideas into the practical world. In 2019, Vivekananda University, Belur, bestowed him with a D.Litt (honoris causa) for his original contribution to the field of Vivekananda studies.

11 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 3, 2019

About the author

Srinivas is the Founder-CEO and Lead Researcher of Illumine Knowledge Resources.

Prior to Illumine he co-founded and co-led INFAC – a company that pioneered the production of industry reports (1989-96).

Srinivas is an alumnus of IIT Bombay (1987), and IIM Ahmedabad (1989).