Dr Chandra was launching a book written by Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American best-selling author and intellectual, and founder of Infinity Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.
Zee and Essel group chairman Dr Subhash Chandra while delivering a lecture on Wednesday stated that success should be one's answer and not blame. He was talking at a book launch of and an event-cum-talk held in IIT Bombay, Powai on "Geo-Politics and The study of Indian Civilization".
Dr Chandra was launching a book written by Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American best-selling author and intellectual, and founder of Infinity Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey. Among the other people present was Prof Ram Subramanian of department of humanities and social sciences at IIT-B.
The talk discussed the authority and institutional mechanisms for studying Indian civilization. "They are controlled by the Western countries and by the Indians who are trained in the Western countries. This is different than the study of China, Japan, Arab, Persian, Russian, etc. cultures of which are controlled by their respective governments," said Malhotra adding that it leads to the tendency of authorising by the Western Indology by natives.
"The book tells about the difference in views of an insider and an outsider. How we (Indians) look at things and Sanskrit language as compared to the people for Western nations (Shraddha, sadhana, pride in our identity is how we look at it while outside view has been viewed as oppressing tools). Indians somewhere lost out on Purva Pakhsa (the idea of debating) and the inferiority complex in some has lead to them to asking for Western Indologists views on certain matters," said Malhotra.
Dr Chandra said that one should not get into complaining. "When we used to talk about TV, they would say that what do you in India know about it. Today we have one billion viewers in 170 countries. We are successful so they accept our authority (in views). My submission is that instead of complaining we should improve on our weakness. Lets not bother and move on," added Dr Chandra.
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