Prof Sundar Sarukkai, Manipal University
10 March 2015
Einstein and Tagore attempted to find a common space for their ideas but they could as well have accepted that it was an impossible task since the very possibility of a dialogue between them had to overcome three major obstacles: the chasm between science and literature, tradition and modernity, India and the West. Little has changed in the last eight decades or so after this momentous meeting of these two minds. Getting ‘the West' to engage meaningfully with categories from the Indian intellectual and cultural traditions is as difficult as it was then. By drawing on examples from the conceptual world of Indian science, mathematics and philosophy, and against the background of this dialogue, Professor Sarukkai explored the challenges that remain in the reception of alien concepts from not-so-alien cultures.
Sundar Sarukkai is Director for the Centre for Philosophy and Humanities at Manipal University. His work highlights the contribution of Indian intellectual traditions to global culture. He presented at the Tagore Centre some of the difficulties which complicate the reception of Indian ideas in the West.
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