Devy G N G N Devy (492 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Nearly one in every twelve humans is a young Indian for whom meaningful education is of critical importance. A good education will not only help our youth get jobs and build fulfilling careers, it will also lead to the widening of our collective imagination and the shaping of the way we think; for all these reasons it ought to be an important concern of our time. Unfortunately, this is not the case. There is a lack of infrastructure, adequate funding and genuine autonomy within educational institutions, departments within those institutions, and individuals who teach in those departments. And this is not all. There is also the question of the nature of knowledge that is relevant to our rapidly modernizing country that needs to be dealt with. If knowledge is the core of education and if education lays the very foundation of a nation, the author argues that it is of critical importance that the plight of educational institutions and the need to generate knowledge appropriate to India are addressed without any delay. Original and profound, this book offers a clear picture of the mistakes that have been committed in the past, confronts the present decline of knowledge and education in the country and offers a vision for the future.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Sanskrit has long been celebrated as one of the building blocks of Indian civilization, and is venerated in temples, scriptures, and classical literature. In Language of the Immortals, renowned scholar and critic G. N. Devy uncovers the astounding paradox of Sanskrit—an ancient language that shaped Indian thought, philosophy, and identity for millennia, yet was never truly a language of the people. With rigorous scholarship, Devy dismantles enduring myths and offers a revealing commentary on Sanskrit's historical and cultural trajectory. He shows how it achieved unsurpassed prestige not through conquest or commerce, but sheer intellectual brilliance. He explores the way in which Sanskrit shaped intellectual life across centuries, influenced cultures beyond India, and maintained its prestige through the oral tradition and spiritual symbolism rather than the patronage of the state. This concise yet profound work reimagines what it means for a language to live on—long after it has ceased to be spoken.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Countering violence. 2. Kikiyario: Adivasi voice and violence. 3. The birth of Dakshinayan: Indian writers in resistance. Postscript. Index. The Industrial Revolution and the resulting dependence on machine production led to a large-scale tendency towards violence. Mechanised wars, colonisation and globalisation have given violence and greed supreme importance in human thought and action. As a result, what was considered terrible violence even a few decades ago has now become a normal part of human life. Countering Violence presents a philosophical understanding of the sources of violence. It brings together the author s journal accounts of tribal riots in western India in the aftermath of the Gujarat riots of 2002, and the recent resistance movement of writers and artists, called Dakshinayan. It stresses the importance of a fearless and non-violent response to the dark clouds of hatred, intimidation and violence. The essays in this book are a result of the author s deep engagement with thought and action related to the question of non-violence. An important statement on violence and constructive action , the book holds out the hope that reading it might strengthen the reader s resolve to make this world less violent.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. The Question of Silence. 2. Silence on the Horizon. Lectures: 3. Language Diversity. 4. Aesthetics for Our Time. Conversations: 5. Language, Culture, Tribal Struggles and Indian Democracy Excerpts from PeaceTalks . 6. Multilingualism and Cultural Pluralism. An Interview by Chitra Padmanabhan. 7. More Intuitive, Less Rational. An Interview by Kiran Singh. 8. And We Come to a Standstill. A Conversation with Yagnesh Dave. 9. Beyond Cultural Aphasia. A Conversation with Rossella Ciocca. Reflections: 10. Bhor. The Ghosts of My Childhood. 11. Education. Learning to Read and Lie. 12. Lagori. Growing Up: 13. My Brahmin Self. 14. Seeing: Through the Eye of the Peacock Feather, and Charlie Chaplin. 15. Of Heroes Fabled and Ordinary. 16. Kolhapur. 17. Finding Myself Again and Freedom. 18. Baroda 19. A Search for Completion. A selection of conversations, lectures, and philosophical and biographical essays that look at the significance of the polyphony of human voices that are fast vanishing with the advance of civilisation, the place of silence in the making of meaning, and of language itself in the future of knowledge, The Question of Silence is an insightful and thought-provoking meditation on the many silences confronting us in today s world. The most widely perceived aspect of silence is that which is forced upon subjugated and marginalised peoples, genders, tongues, cultures and nations. The rapid loss of natural languages and with them entire bodies of thought, knowledge, ways of seeing and being is the other disturbing phenomenon. By engaging with these questions, the author shows us possible ways in which we can collectively negotiate with such silences , and the consequences they entail for the human consciousness, the human race, and the very idea of being human. By way of answers are inspiring vignettes from a lifetime of work: the making of the unprecedented People s Linguistic Survey of India, the Bhasha Centre at Baroda, the Adivasi Academy at Tejgad, and the motivation behind them. The book also offers a candid, close and personal at times delightfully wry look at the making of G. N. Devy as he takes us through his childhood, school and college years, and his later life as a man in search of himself. This is an eclectic and richly rewarding journey into our world, with one of the most influential public intellectuals of our times. (jacket).…

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