Who needs a world view?
1. In this talk, I would like to focus on the two attitudes that I have towards your project. It is not that I have ambiguous feelings; no, I have…
Read moreQuestioning the axioms
[Originally published in Indian Express, Jan 21, 2016 ] There are three ideas in the West about Law that are taken as axioms. The first: all societies are founded on…
Read moreSuperstition and rationality
Consider the question: “why superstition?” Our problem lies in circumscribing this notion itself: is it something we should use to characterize beliefs, or attitudes, or theories or actions or all of…
Read moreDo practices need rational justifications?
If we understand the word ‘tradition’ to mean ‘a set of practices’, then the question is this: why continue a set of practices? When someone ‘justifies’ (I will soon explain…
Read moreRationality and Rhetoric
1. It is in the nature of a rhetorical text that the author uses linguistic ‘tropes’ (metaphors, similes, analogies, imagery, etc) to persuade a reader about the reasonableness of a…
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