Chaarvaak Ke Vaaris  (Paperback, Hindi, Subhash Gatade)

Charvak ke Vaaris (Descendants of Charvak ) Samaj, Sanskriti evam Siyasat par Prashnvachak (A Questionnaire before Society, Culture and Politics ) Ideas become a material force when they are gripped by the masses. A great philosopher of yesteryear's had rightly claimed. The times which we are passing through are witness to a similar situation. Masses are excited, they are agitated as well and are present before us as a material force in an organised way also. It is a different matter that instead of the idea of human emancipation - from its various bondages - the notions of 'us' and 'them' has gripped them and is driving them. Instead of challenging the trinity of religion, capital and state, which have made the life of an individual vulnerable in many multifarious ways or have thrown the individual to the mercies of invisible forces, they seem to be mesmerised by it. Irony is that this phenomenon is not limited only to this part of South Asia. This forms the central concern of the present book although it's focus is very limited. It's a questionnaire before present state of India's society, culture and politics.