The Gita for a Global World Mr Rohit Chopra, Associate Professor of Communication, Santa Clara University, California, the author of the book was in conversation with Mr J Krishnan, Founder, UniMity Solutions.
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VSM,
Executive
Director of MMA initiated the
online discussions and introduced the speakers and elaunched the book, The Gita
for
a
global
world.’
Mr
Mahalingam, Honorary Treasurer, MMA delivered the welcome address. Mr J Krishnan led the discussion with Mr Rohit Chopra. The Bhagavad Gita is a Hindu scripture that is part of the epic Mahabharata war. Marked by flux, our increasingly incomprehensible global world presents considerable ethical, political and social challenges. Mr J Krishnan asked, “Could the Gita, for all its philosophical abstraction, serve as an introduction to navigating this space of capitalist modernity? What can it tell us about global warming and violence, inequality and suffering, pandemics and the savage oppression of vulnerable groups?” Mr Krishnan narrated a story of a young man who was asked by his grandfather to carry water from a river, in a basket full of holes. The water got 50
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