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Music Of The Spinning Wheel : Mahatma Gandhi S Manifesto For The Internet Age
Author: Sudheendra Kulkarni
ISBN: 9789381506165
Binding: Paper Back
Publishing Year: 2012
Publisher: Amaryllis
Number of Pages: 725
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INR 595.00
About Book
Music of the Spinning Wheel aims to re-project the life and the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi in the 21 century. This fascinating book looks at the Internet age via Gandhi's ideals, and encourages the reader to think and explore the possibility of the Internet to become an avatar of Gandhi's spinning wheel. Gandhi's spinning wheel was symbolic of economic independence, spiritual/moral growth and cultural identity. Sudheendra Kulkarni draws a correlation between the amazing potential of the Internet and the moral message of the spinning wheel. The book presents Gandhi's life and mission in an altogether new and integral light. It proposes the marriage of modern technologies with swaraj and satyagraha for the shaping of a non-violent existence. The book also warns its reader that the Internet holds the possibility of ushering a non-violent existence in the human race only if world affairs have a strong ethical grounding. This is exactly what Gandhi had attempted in his time with his humble machine the spinning wheel. The book features people who were deeply influenced by Gandhi's life philosophy including Steve Jobs, the iconic founder of Apple inc.
About Author
Sudheendra Kulkarni served as an aide to India's former prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the PIVIO between 1998 and 2004. He played an active role in conceptualising and driving several landmark initiatives of the Vajpayee government among them, the prime minister's task force on information technology, and a new telecom policy. As an activist for the Bharatiya Janta Party for many years (and also currently), he served as its national secretary and also as secretary to its former president, deputy prime minister, L.K. Advani. Since the middle of 2009, he has been working as the chairman of the Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai, an independent public policy think tank. He is a columnist with The Indian Express and writes regularly in several Indian language publications on a wide range of subjects.
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