Pranay Kotasthane and Raghu S. Jaitley on Individuals and the Indian State
Ideas of India
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The Differences Between Western and Indian Philosophy
In the constitution, still the unit imagined at least normatively is the core is the individual. Even if you go in Indian philosophy, et cetera, there is a very strong sense of the person, the being and the individual. So those trends are still there somewhere, maybe government actions don't always reflect that. It's just how over the last 70 years the state has enclosed too much it has made people believe that the individual is not as important.
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