Rimina Mohapatra

​'It is little known that the great teacher of Karl Marx, German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, wrote extensively on the Gita. Hegel’s long...

'Hegel's Gita' ~ Arabic translation in  Hekmah , 3 October 2018 'Hegel, passione indiana'  ~ Review by Seba...

~ Review of Hegel's India in Pratiman , ​Vol. 10, ​Nand Kishore Acharya, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India, J...

​ ‘A philosophical critique of Hegel will have to squarely confront this question, howsoever critical it may well be—and justifiabl...

​ ‘This unique volume brings together Hegel’s reflections and argues that Indian thought haunted him, representing a nemesis to his o...

​ 'India figures in Hegel’s classic writings on the philosophy of history and the modern state. He also wrote on the caste syste...

'There seems to be a fusion of horizons between the Hegelian absolute and ​Indian Brahman.' ​ — Prasenjit Biswas, Jadavpur Jou...

‘What the authors manage to reveal . . . is the earnestness with which Hegel had in fact engaged with India . . . Hegel’s India sure...

‘Hegel, as the authors in an excellent comprehensive introduction in the book show, wrote a great deal about India . . . While [they] o...

‘This is an important book at a significant time. It makes some incisive points on how the Anglophone world has refused to, and continues ...

‘ Hegel’s India is an attempt to deal with one of the most complex and systematic of philosophers that many have chosen to ignore on ...

​‘Promises to be the most thorough and incisive treatment of the topic  since Tibebu’s Hegel and the Third World .’  — Makarand R....

‘ Hegel’s India . . . helps go beyond the orientalist and power/knowledge frameworks, and think of philosophy in a new way.’  — Ranabir...

​‘A book that speaks of and to the times . . . Hegel’s India makes Hegel both accessible and pertinent to the Indian reader who may be loo...

‘Shed[s] new light on Indological and Hegelian studies . . . including translations of [Hegel’s] lesser-known essays on the Bhagavad Gi...

‘It is wonderful to have access to these writings in one volume. The introduction gives a tour d’horizon of the sources Hegel consulte...

‘That [a] long-neglected essay [Herbert Herring’s translation of Hegel’s 1827 review of Humboldt’s work on the Bhagavad Gita] . . . now ap...

‘ Hegel’s India   takes the challenge of a detailed reading of Hegel’s texts with a surprising result: behind Hegel’s dismissal of Ind...

Bombay . January of 2016, half past five in the evening. You are in a taxi, passing along Marine Drive. The afterglow of sun packs itself f...

Bombay called me back in November this year! This happy, sleepless city, not shy about its love.  During the weekend at Mumbai LitFest 2...

‘Not only have Rathore and Mohapatra carefully collated Hegel’s writings on India, including translations of hitherto unfamiliar texts,...

An excerpt from  Hegel’s India :  A Reinterpretation,  about Hegel’s little known writings on the Bhagavad Gita. By Aakash Singh Rathore...

Hegel's India nominated for the  TATA LITERATURE LIVE! AWARDS 2017 Book of the Year (non-fiction)! Sharing space with these star...

An extract: 'Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s sustained engagement with India has always been something of a puzzle.  His views o...

On one side, posturing against his intellectual rivals (that is, the German romantics, great champions of Indian wisdom) Hegel treated Ind...

1 Chance thought it was a Sunday. Swirled a nightful. Erased telephone calls. 2 Will knew because she took a late taxi. Hours after, m...

In his writings on India, Hegel characterized  Indian thought as “fantastic,” “subjective,” “wild,” “dreamy,” “fren...

Announcing my new co-authored book:  Hegel's India: A Reinterpretation, with Texts   (with Aakash Singh Rathore), on the inimitable ph...

Melancholia and Delight Didn't go to the fair They went their ways As rapacious rainbows Hid and surfaced Sulking harmonica Sent anonymo...

Can of an ocean haze.  Rustle of a sand sheet. Wind truant handkerchief. Pocket rock surreptitious. [November 8, 2014]

Alone rushed Kindred past Didn't you know That hours wait Stillness stops by Lazy they'd meet In cloaked seconds Fade out and cut Cl...

Somersaults of a wily noon Tell you the toyest lie Pieces of a twisted compass Pointing south, skewed high Tumble in the current Where stati...

Streetened dust Cast in bones  Strange, hidden Bitter, remains Where reflections hang  Upon tungsten shards Flashes of faraway frolic A drea...

Windscreen winding Roadside rising Glinting asphalt Twilight shining Nets on wayside Trees, wild, hiding Stardust memories  Of long ago Revo...