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Nalin. 2011. The Buddha’s Way to Human Liberation: A Socio-Historical Approach . New Delhi: Navayana. Tejani, Shabnum. 2013. “The Necessary Conditions for Democracy: B.R. Ambedkar on Nationalism, Minorities and
“Every nation-state, by supposition, tends toward the imperial: that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, treasuries, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. .
Nalin. 2011. The Buddha’s Way to Human Liberation: A Socio-Historical Approach . New Delhi: Navayana. Tejani, Shabnum. 2013. “The Necessary Conditions for Democracy: B.R. Ambedkar on Nationalism, Minorities and
isolation is an abnormality, an untruth. When we have arrived at that state of mind in which our whole thought world bears the character of complete inner harmony, we gain thereby the satisfaction for which our mind is striving. We feel that we are in possession of the truth.2 In other words, every isolated idea that doesn’t relate to others yet is taken as true (as a kind of niche truth) is not just bad politics, it is somehow also fundamentally untrue . . . To me, Arundhati Roy’s writing and thinking strives for such
photograph of Ed cradling the American flag in his arms that had appeared on the cover of Wired.4 On the other hand, she was impressed by what he had said in the interview—in particular that one of the factors that pushed him into doing what he did was the NSA (National Security Agency)’s sharing real-time data of Palestinians in the United States with the
saying is: what does that American flag mean to people outside of America? What does it mean in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Pakistan—even in India, your new “natural ally”?5 JC: In his [Ed’s]
Nalin. 2011. The Buddha’s Way to Human Liberation: A Socio-Historical Approach . New Delhi: Navayana. Tejani, Shabnum. 2013. “The Necessary Conditions for Democracy: B.R. Ambedkar on Nationalism, Minorities and
