THE INDIAN BOOK OF BIG IDEAS

Who are we?Is everything in the world connected?Is truth different for different people?Does God speak to only some of us?Great minds have forever been engaged in tackling life's big questions. People travelled far and wide in search of answers learned from others and came up with new ways of understanding the world. Curious to know what on earth they were thinking? Now you can walk down the winding path of philosophy from 7 BCE to recent times discovering the wisdom and teachings of 45 great thinkers philosophers and reformers of India. Learn from the most far-sighted luminaries such as Mahavira Gargi Adi Shankara Kabir the Buddha Vivekananda and Guru Nanak along with Sri Aurobindo Rammohan Roy Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi and get to know how the most brilliant and influential Indian ideas were born. These thinkers you will see didn't always agree with each other (indeed they sometimes fiercely disagreed!) but all of them left behind a legacy of courage and compassion that remains valuable even today.