A Brief History of Modernity

A Brief History of Modernity
by Aakar Patel
Aakar Patel is a director with Hill Road Media
The history of modernity reads approximately like this. Around the time of Buddha, 500 years before Christ, the world was an ignorant place. It had little science. Reason was subordinate to power. As easterners, as Hindus and Muslims, should we accept this sequence as pure? Are we mere recipients of modern culture or participants? Did we have any contribution to make? …
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