BOOK LAUNCH : Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0
Chennai: The much-awaited book, Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0 was launched recently by Shri S. Gurumurthy, Swami Mitrananda and Shri Rangarajan Pandey at Chinmaya Heritage Centre, Chennai, hosted by Infinity Foundation India. Authored by Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Viswanathan, the book is an audacious attempt at unveiling uncomfortable truths concerning India’s fragility.
All the dignitaries present at the event congratulated and appreciated the two authors for their book. Expressing his appreciation for the book, Shri S. Gurumurthy said that this book is a monumental work. He further said, “This book explains the multidisciplinary ways in which India is being invaded. So this is a very important work for people who think of India“.
Swami Mitrananda praising the book said that it is one of the biggest contributions in making Indians recognise their opponents and from where they operate.
In an enlightening Q&A session that followed the launch, the authors Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Viswanathan discussed about the ecosystem of ideologies, institutions and young leaders that is emerging for the recolonization of India.
About the Authors
Rajiv Malhotra is a researcher and public intellectual on civilizational studies, world religions, and cross-cultural encounters. He was trained initially as a physicist, and then as a computer scientist specializing in Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s. After a successful corporate career in the USA, he became an entrepreneur and founded and ran several IT companies across twenty countries. Since the early 1990s, as the founder of his non-profit Infinity Foundation (Princeton, USA), he has been researching civilizations from a historical, social sciences and mind sciences perspective. He has authored several bestselling books that have impacted many leading intellectuals worldwide. Rajiv also serves as chairman of the board of governors of the Center for Indic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and is on the advisory board of IIAS, Shimla.
Vijaya Viswanathan is a mechanical engineer by training and holds an MBA from the Wharton Business School. After a successful corporate career in manufacturing and finance based in the USA, Singapore, and Europe, she turned her focus to education. As she embarked on a homeschooling journey with her children, she gained deep insights into the relevance of Indic knowledge systems in modern education. Vijaya is active in initiatives that focus on curricula, pedagogy, and mentoring. As a student under Swami Dayananda Saraswati of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Vijaya studied Vedanta as well as dharmic and civilizational thought. Vijaya also serves on the board of Infinity Foundation.
