Content Tagged: Ashokan ethic

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• Ashoka in Our Time: An Excerpt

  Ashoka in Our Time: An Excerpt

  This is an excerpt from the Preface to the new 2017 Penguin edition of To Uphold the World, published with a new title, Ashoka in Our Time: The Question of Dharma for a Globalized...

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• Interview: What Can Ancient India Tell Us About Our World

  Interview: What Can Ancient India Tell Us About Our World

  Question: What’s the most important take-home message for readers?"I examine the lives and writings of Ashoka and Kautilya as archetypes, metaphors and sources of inspiration for a...

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Insights

• Ashoka in Our Time: The Question of Dharma for a Globalized World

  Ashoka in Our Time: The Question of Dharma for a Globalized World

  A new paperback edition of To Uphold the World has been published by Penguin/Random House/Viking in India., with a new updated preface and a new title. It is available in the U..S...

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Videos

• Legacy of Ashoka and Kautilya, Aspen Institute, India, "Ideas India"--

  Legacy of Ashoka and Kautilya, Aspen Institute, India, "Ideas India"--

  Legacy of Ashoka and Kautilya: From Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel, Sarojini Naidu, B R Ambedkar, and even before them, Raja Ram Mohan Roy—the Indian independence...

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• With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India,Moderator: Homi Bhabha, Harvard Humanities Center.

  With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India,Moderator: Homi Bhabha, Harvard Humanities Center.

  With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India. What can ancient Indian thinkers Ashoka and Kautilya tell us about how to think about the dilemmas of globalization in...

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• Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya for sustainable development

  Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya for sustainable development

  Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya: In conversation with Bruce Rich, Attorney, Environmental Law Institute, USA at the Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics Forum 2017, Guhawati,...

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• accountability (to the world)
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• Adam Smith
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• The Great Transformation (Polanyi)
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• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
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• To Uphold the World
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