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Mohan Limaye

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Reimagining The United States: Modifying The American Dream, Mohan Limaye Dec 2011

Reimagining The United States: Modifying The American Dream, Mohan Limaye

Mohan Limaye

Various definitions of the concept of the American Dream and its several socio-cultural and political-economic drivers will be studied in this course. We will explore what the Dream has meant to Americans from the early days of the Republic through our own times and what effects attempting to fulfill the Dream has had on America’s make-up and worldview. The class will discuss the material as well as the non-material (“spiritual”) aspect of the American Dream and the desirability of modifying it. We will also address a possible (consequent) reshaping of America into a more ecologically sustainable and more ethically sound …

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India’S Democracy Is Vibrant And Representational, Mohan Limaye Dec 2001

India’S Democracy Is Vibrant And Representational, Mohan Limaye

Mohan Limaye

Observers often note that democracy has been breaking out all over the world since the fall of the Soviet Union, but all democracies are not the same or equally genuine. Now is a good time to evaluate India’s democratic experiment because, after all, India earned its independence over 55 years ago and has been an active democracy ever since. In my judgment, India can justifiably congratulate itself on establishing and nourishing a genuine or authentic and vibrant democracy.

When average Americans think of India, they think of poverty, disease, illiteracy, corruption, and disorganization. They rarely, if at all, think of …

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Mahatma Gandhi’S Legacy: Liberation Through Non-Violence, Mohan Limaye Dec 2000

Mahatma Gandhi’S Legacy: Liberation Through Non-Violence, Mohan Limaye

Mohan Limaye

These pages are the notes of a one-hour talk (followed by a 20-minute Q and A period) I gave at Boise State University during a Martin Luther King weeklong anniversary celebration in 2001 (later slightly revised). The last section (about a controversy in India) was not a part of my speech; I added it later on.

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