Ram Swarup
Ram Swarup graduated from the University of Delhi and has been an original writer and thinker ever since. His Gandhism and Communism stressed the need to raise the struggle against communism from a military to a moral and ideological level. The brochure caught the attention of several US Congressmen and some of its ideas were adopted by the Eisenhower administration in its agenda for the Geneva Conference in 1955. Around 1957, he took to a life of meditation and spiritual reflection and since then he has made a deep study of the scriptures of different religious traditions. His magnum opus, The Word As Revelation: Names of Gods is on linguistics, philosophy, Vedic exegesis and Yog. It shows how a religion of ‘many Gods’ represents authentic spirituality. Mr. Swarup’s latest book, Understanding Islam through HadIs: Religious Faith or Fanaticism has played an important role in opening up Islam for discussion, hitherto a tabooed subject in India. Mr. Swarup is a distinguished spokesman of renascent Hinduism, which he believes, can also help other nations to rediscover their spiritual roots.