About the Book: Being Different: An Indian Challenge To Western Universalism
In Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism, thinker and
philosopher Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest
engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being
the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of
view. In doing so, he challenges many hitherto unexamined beliefs that both
sides hold about themselves and each other. He highlights that while unique
historical revelations are the basis for Western religions, dharma emphasizes
self-realization in the body here and now. He also points out the integral unity
that