Gita Mehta

Gita Mehta is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her latest book is Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India.

Magazine History & Philosophy

Ashoka, Beloved of the Gods

Gita Mehta considers the ancient Buddhist king in the context of a nuclear-armed India and finds his legacy never more relevant.

By Gita Mehta

Winter 1998

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Since the time of Galileo, science and religion have increasingly appeared to be at odds, with religion slowly but surely losing the battle, B. Alan Wallace observes. His series presents a paradigm in which science and religion join together in a spirit of radical empiricism and open-minded, experiential inquiry.

B. Alan Wallace

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