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Leaders Beyond Media Images
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 people’s 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.
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 people’s 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.
126 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2013
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January 3, 2023
Rare well-written profiles of important telugu political personalities, that go deep into intersection of socio-political changes + personality traits + social location to flesh out the perfect character sketches and the critical junctures they have represented/led in telugu society, all while maintaining the epistemological awareness on human agency and social determinism. Really wish he wrote one about Potti Sree Ramulu.. always wanted to read a proper biography about his role in Jai Andhra moment that was not a hagiography but a critical and realistic potrait, but I guess these were just contemporary essays.
November 17, 2021
A must read Marxist analysis on Telugu politics
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