Editorial: Dissent in Democracy: Demand of the Day

Jnanadeepa Journal is glad to bring out the proceedings of the annual Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth inter-faculty seminar, held on 13-14 November, 2016, at Jnana-Deepa Vidhyapeeth campus, Pune. The organizing committee was headed by Dr. Paulraj and myself. Papers were presented by the residential and guest faculties of JDV and the post-graduate students took active part in it. Rt. Rev. Thomas Dabre, Bishop of Pune and the Vice-Patron of JDV, was the chief guest for the inaugural ceremony of the seminar. He insisted upon the need for upholding the sacred values of democracy and pointed out that, more than ever before, we are in a difficult and challenging situation where our rich cultural, linguistic and religious pluralism is under severe threat. The papers covered a wide range of areas from the Scriptures to Plato’s ideas, and from the Tribals’ perspectives to the lessons from the world of natural sciences. This article is the editorial of the volume published in Jnanadeepa