The Trojan Horse and Away from the Herd (tags)
In "Away from the Herd," the author compares the modern plight with docile submissive people in WW1. "Tagore criticizes modern civilization, which is crushed by materialism. He compares it to a giant giraffe: intelligence has grown into excess and has departed from the heart, the body is wasting away.
The Role of Philosophy in the Globalized World (tags)
"Philosophy has a very important role to play in the Age of Globalization..Carping about the need for social change, or protesting publicly is simply dismissed as irrelevant and unproductive..Utoipian means that all realities are at their root imaginary.."