The Art and Science of Program Management Book

This was a pretty good book on the rise of Hindu nationalism and its ideological similarities with the postcolonial arm of the academic cultural Left in its critique of scientific ideology, which is a relativist one. The position against the charlatanry of relativism is always welcomed. Nanda for me loses points because she accepts aspects of the philosophy of science that are now highly questionable, namely Kant's noumena/phenomena distinction and the sustenance of positivism. She is too quick to dismiss 'holism,' in which she lumps Hegel, which by itself took a star off the book's final rating. Finally, I feel as if she is a bit harsh on some of the better Indian postcolonial theorists such as Spivak and Bhabha (yet agreeing with her characterisation of their writing as unnecessarily 'verbose'), although Ashis Nandy and Dipesh Chakrabarty are certainly fine to critique in this regard.