Mark Hager

Gandhi’s secular collaborator sees transformational energy in age-old hindu metaphysics

Disillusioned With Communism, Asoka Mehta and Narendra Deva Converge on Gandhian Socialism

From his axiom of ahimsa (nonviolence), Gandhi derives two promising themes--sarvodaya (village-centered reconstruction assisting the downtrodden) and satyagraha(organized non-violent resistance to injustice)--and one theme (capitalist ’trusteeship’)-- that is less promising.

Despite intense political concern with Buddhism and socialism, Ambedkar strangely relegates them to separate spheres.

Struggling to Define a Hindu Social Economy

In India, religion and socialism collide and commingle

Social Learning and Cooperation Go Deep

Lanka’s Deadliest Mammal: No Apex Predator but misbranded for sloth.

In deep with Lanka’s Bottlenose buddies.

Midnight Rambler: Sympathy for the Devil in Your Garden

A Sri Lankan Intellectual Who Stood By Some Striking Views

Does Sri Lanka Now Lead the World in Exterminating Ocean Rays?

Our back garden monkey cousins may be more like us than we think.

Why Are Creation’s Biggest Animals Crooning Flatter Year by Year?

No one knew the arts of canal building, dykes, drainage and land reclamation like the Dutch

Orcas have been lauded as earth’s most astonishing animals. One scientist suggests that they were ‘brainiacs’ of the planet for 10 million years or so before humans appeared 200 thousand years ago