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Gautam R. Desiraju Quotes

born 1952 India

Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju (born August 21, 1952) is an Indian structural chemist, educationist and an emeritus professor at the Indian Institute of Science. He worked on crystal engineering and weak hydrogen bonding where he has published seminal texts in 1989 and 1999.

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It is critical to note that in a nation-state the people take their cue from the Constitution whereas in a civilizational state the Constitution flows from the nature of the people. In the latter, the Constitution is an outcome of national identity and not the rationale for it.

Dharma is as fundamental to our existence as its converse in the physical world, the Second Law of Thermodynamics which governs the progression of things from order to randomness. Like the Second Law there will be many definitions of Dharma.

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