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Teotonio R. de Souza
Teotonio R. de Souza is the founder-director, Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Goa (1979-1994). He
presently resides in Portugal, where he is a University Professor and Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of
History since 1983 and tweets @ramkamat
name of mission civilizatrice and scientific progress, is now haunting the exploiters
in their own home countries. It is the natural justice that forms the essence of the
Hindu law of karma, which in terms of western physics corresponds somewhat to
Newtons third law of motion.
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Describing the Nationalism in the West, Rabindranath Tagore had the following to
say: The truth is that the spirit of conflict and conquest is at the origin and in the
centre of Western nationalism; its basis is not social cooperation. It has evolved a
perfect organization of power but not spiritual idealism. It is like the pack of predatory
creatures that must have its victims () The slavery that it gives rise to unconsciously
drains its own love of freedom dry.
We may need to ask why the Hebdo tragedy took place. To avoid it happening again
we need an answer which does not hide any prevailing unfreedom. Rabindranath
Tagore had prayed for such freedom for India:"Where the mind is without fear and
the head held high. Are the Muslim immigrants in France and many other former
colonial powers allowed to hold their heads high?