RAJIV MALHOTRA :-)
a man who redefine the unity of india
a man who redefine the unity of india
Rajiv Malhotra (born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-American author and public intellectual who, after a career in the computer and telecom industries, took early retirement in 1995 to found the Infinity Foundation, which focuses on Indic studies,but also funds projects such as Columbia University's project to translate the Tibetan Buddhist Tengyur.
Apart from the foundation, Malhotra promotes a non-western and nationalistic view on Indiaand Hinduism. Malhotra has written prolifically in opposition to the academic study of Indian history and society originating in Europe and the United States, especially the study of Hinduism as it is conducted by scholars and university faculty of the West, which he maintains denigrates the tradition and undermines the interests of India "by encouraging the paradigms that oppose its unity and integrity".
Biography
Malhotra studied physics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and computer science at Syracuse University, and was "a senior executive, strategic consultant and an entrepreneur in the information technology and media industries" until he took early retirement in 1994 at age 44. to establish the Infinity Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey the next year. Besides directing that foundation, he also chairs the board of governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and advises various organisations. American Indologist Yvette Rosser, responding to current political trends in American journalism, describes Malhotra's stance toward Hinduism "as that of a ‘non-Hindutva Hindu’".
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