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Dr Rammanohar Lohia Remembered - His Philosophy, Scholarship and Vision
Dr Rammanohar Lohia Remembered His Philosophy Scholarship and Vision Author:S.R. Nene Pages: 185 — From the Jacket — People in India and outside know Dr Lohia more as a zealous freedom fighter, a founder-leader of socialist movement in Asia, and a fearless politician, always ready to fight for fundamental human rights. However, few people know Dr Lohia as a deep scholar, philosopher, champion of Indian tradition, and a visionary-im... more »aginative power and the ability to inspire others.
S.R. Nene has brought facous on Dr Lohias prescience for human possibilities- human coexistence, our common genealogy, and the need to tame ourselves for saving the mankind from disaster due to human profligacy, leading, e.g., to unacceptable climate change, the tyranny of arms, religious dogma, despotism, etc. This book discusses contemporary issues from Dr Lohias perspective, and it will be a fitting tribute to this great son of India in his birth centenary year, 2010.
S.R. Nene is a biologist by profession. He has worked for a British MNC for 31 years in various senior positions. He was a Vice- President of Pesticides Association of India, and has participated in several national and international seminars and conferences on the bioefficacy and environmental effects of biochemicals used in public-health and agriculture.
The present book is his second literary work.
Introduction
Shri S.R. Nene has provided an excellent exposition of the basic thought of the inimitable thinker and activist Dr Ram Manohar Lohia. In the Birth centenary year of the great leader, a scholarly treatment of his basic philosophic concepts would certainly prove to be of inestimable service to all socialists the world over.
Nene is a product of the Rashtra Sewa Dal, the socialist youth organization set up in 1941, with S.M. Joshi as its first Dal Pramukh, in order to train young people for the struggle for independence and socialism. Nene joined it quite early, i« less