Edited and Introduced by G. Haragopal

lgli/Beyond Media Images (Politcal Profiles of Indira Ga Narasimha Rao, N.T.R., YSR, Chandrababu Naidu) - K. Balagopal.pdf

lgrsnf/Beyond Media Images (Politcal Profiles of Indira Ga Narasimha Rao, N.T.R., YSR, Chandrababu Naidu) - K. Balagopal.pdf

zlib/no-category/K. Balagopal/Leaders Beyond Media Images (Political Profiles of Indira Gandhi, P. V. Narasimha Rao, NTR, YSR, Chandrababu Naidu)_2328692.pdf

Publication (Perspectives (Forum : Hyderabad, India)), no. 50, First impression, Hyderabad, 2013

India, India

0

lg1160099

{"last_page":126,"publisher":"Perspectives","series":"Writings of K. Balagopal"}

These six essays written by Balagopal stretching over a
period of two decades are penned at different points
of time but one running theme in all the essays has
been the interconnection between personality, politics and the
larger changing socio-economic structure. Although Balagopal was
a trained mathematician, he was a very keen observer of social
processes not as a behaviouralist or speculative social scientist
removed from hard and harsh social realities. He was, like Marx, a
social scientist in its most comprehensive sense. The fact that he
combined in himself a mathematician, historian, social analyst, a
literary critique, a first rate peoples lawyer, and above all an untiring
activist bring him close to Marx and the Marxist formulation that
action is accomplishment of knowledge and knowledge is fruit
of action. Balagopal, in that sense, was an epitome of theory
combined with action (praxis). These essays are a testimony to
his unusual intellectual abilities to combine such theory and action,
to the abstract from the concrete.

2014-03-28