Sarkar, Anil Kumar. Experience in Change and Prospect: Pathways from War to Peace. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1989.
Abstract
This book navigates through adventures with
ideas which are constantly changing, transforming the inner life of the
author as he reviews his older works, which are revived and given
dynamic shape, as if resurrected from the debris of the past, so that
except for the past titles, the thoughts are so many emergent Phoenix's
of old. The frame of reference carried by each of the chapters is no
longer subject to the transcendent Self of the Upanishadic thinkers,
nor puzzled by the expression of the 'no Self' of the great Buddhists.
Buttressing oneself with all these advanced ideas, if one pursues the
core-processes of the first chapter, he will find himself beyond all
systems, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or Western, and will begin to feel
that there is no gulf between the ancient traditions and the modern
sciences, for, in their advanced aspects, they have to continuously
shuffle their cards. The work, as it stands now, is relevant to this
age of complexity, and its author is a voyager through the infinite
spaces expanding with the shooting stars from the nebular bases,
knowing not any destination.