Raj Balkaran

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And so it's it's really fascinating, isn't it?

Indian philosophy you have this very sober and responsible move of saying

Here is my starting point.

Right, playing his cards on the table, right?

It seems to be very intellectually responsible.

What really surprised you I mean there's tons you obviously learned.

Um you could either speak about specific examples in one of the four or nine chapters or speak about broad themes.

What what really surprised your groupship about this uh from this Odyssey through Indian thought?

That's sort of um not dissimilar to when I returned to my undergrad after a stint of of work and

I was interested in learning about uh Indian culture and religion at the time in this Hinduism course and uh that's where uh

to our papers on anything and I chose philosophical topics and I thought, Well, why can I know this existed?

And then I and I soon realized, so obviously we live in a particular culture with a particular narrative and

And uh clearly it's not practical to to have

uh to have a curriculum wherein someone has exposure to all of the ideas uh under the sun throughout all of recorded and prerecorded time.

Nevertheless, I think

I think it's high time there's a little bit more um diversity of ideas as part of uh uh liberal arts.

Uh education.

Um and I think that need is only exasperated by

this uh tenuous but palpable global village that's being uh forged and reforged throughout this generation.

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