Yes, We Can Make America Great!
An Immigrant's Memoir on Dharmic Leadership to celebrate USA's 250th year
Yes, we can make America great is a reflective blog of a legal immigrant (myself) on the 250th year of United States of America. For me, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are no less than sacred texts that point to an ultimate reality that is good and the possibility of living in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in a purpose-driven world.
I came to the United States of America in 2007 as a PhD student at the University of Chicago after graduating from Oxford University in the U.K., where my work broadly focused on the psychology and history of religions in South Asian languages and civilizations. Subsequently, I have taught at various forums such as the Gram School at the University of Chicago, Grand Valley State at Michigan State University systems, as a tenure-line professor of teaching world religions and a director of a niche research institute in Gainesville, Florida, seed funded by the Smithsonian Institute, and editing Springer Nature’s series on Hinduism’s largest devotional traditions, Vaishnavism.
I currently serve as the Dean of Faculty at KJ Somaiya Institute for Dharma Studies, India’s pioneering and premium academic institute of excellence in religion, culture, and leadership. In this blog, I invite my students, friends, well-wishers, and teachers to share my journey and dreams that I gathered through my 18 years in the United States of America. In a sense, it is an autobiographical sequel to my first book called “Soul of the Bhagavad Gita: Illuminations on Krishna’s Song,” currently with Harper Collins India.
If you like this, let me know, and I will further refine it and prepare it in such a way that this helps me prepare for my U.S. citizenship interview and expedites my time to come to India. I would also like to keep our chancellor informed about this project.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
I have created this sub stack to share early drafts of my work with friends, family, well-wishers, and my readers, and I look forward to growing this into a good book someday.
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