Tagore in Debate with Gandhi: Freedom as Creativity

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom of Choice and Creativity in Multicriteria Decision Making

This paper presents new approaches to formulating and solving complex real-life decision-making problems, making use of the creativity concept. We assume that the decision-making process is embedded in the system of views and mutual relations between the decision-makers and their surrounding environment, so that creativity, as defined formally in Sec. 2, could play a primary role in the decisio...

Bichitra: Online Tagore Variorum

The digital edition of Rabindranath Tagore, Bichitra: Online Tagore Variorum aims to encompass all of Rabindranath’s literary works in Bengali and English. This edition is an extremely interesting case study for the technical and logistical complexity of the task it sets out to achieve, which involved the development of customised technology and a visualisation strategy to engage the reader wit...

Economic Thought of Gandhi

"I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO THE DILIGENT READER OF MY WRITINGS AND to others who are interested in them that I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my search after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things. Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concern...

Creativity and Innovation as a New Approach in Human Capital

This question has always been put forward in the mind of curious people why some countries have developed termed in spite of very few natural resources and facilities while other countries have not developed in spite of having more suitable resources and facilities. Various factors such as economy, culture, geography, etc. are perhaps a background to answer this question, but there is a more im...