I just received my copy of Rajiv Malhotra's "The Battle for Sanskrit", and am just upto page 12. Rajivji writes about his conversation with the person merely designated as "the financial donor", supposedly a fifth generation follower of the Sringeri Peetham.
My observation, peripheral to the theme of the book is that this person, a major money man in the financial industry, it seems, exhibits such woolly thinking, e.g., that since the truth is unassailable, it doesn't matter if people propagate lies, that one can only wonder how this person made his money. A lawyer, a physician, a software engineer, an architect, a scientist can never be successful with a mind with such poor quality of thought. If people such as this donor can amass a fortune in the financial industry, it simply reinforces the impression that it cannot be honest work and these must be dens of crooks. If not law-breaking, it must be low animal cunning. Moreover, the enormous power that their money gives them makes these people dangerous to everyone around them. Even more so in modern capitalist society that valorizes the "money maker".
My observation, peripheral to the theme of the book is that this person, a major money man in the financial industry, it seems, exhibits such woolly thinking, e.g., that since the truth is unassailable, it doesn't matter if people propagate lies, that one can only wonder how this person made his money. A lawyer, a physician, a software engineer, an architect, a scientist can never be successful with a mind with such poor quality of thought. If people such as this donor can amass a fortune in the financial industry, it simply reinforces the impression that it cannot be honest work and these must be dens of crooks. If not law-breaking, it must be low animal cunning. Moreover, the enormous power that their money gives them makes these people dangerous to everyone around them. Even more so in modern capitalist society that valorizes the "money maker".
