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Rayappan, Pathiaraj. Intention in Action: The Philosophy of G.E.M. Anscombe. Bern/Berlin/Bruxelles/Frankfurtam Main/New York/Oxford/Wien: Peter Lang, 2010. ISSN 0721-3417; 978-3-0343-0471-9. Pathiaraj Rayappan is a Catholic priest presently teaching in Jnanodaya, Salesian College of Philosophy and Religion, Yercaud, Salem. He holds to his credit a Master degree in philosophy from Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, India, and a Master of Arts from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. In 2010 he successfully completed his doctoral dissertation on “Intention in Action: The Philosophy of G.E.M. Anscombe” and obtained his doctorate from the Salesian Pontifical University, Rome. He contributes his might to the academic world by his articles and he is the editor of the Jnanodaya Journal of Philosophy . The book Intention in Action: The Philosophy of G.E.M Anscombe is the doctoral dissertation of the author. The book consists of five chapters with a bibliography. The author speaks of the releva...

Of late I have become apprehensive of statements such as "India is competing the rest of the world" in terms of economy. A couple of days back I happend to be in a city super mall, here in Nashik. It is certainly one of the richest commercial centres I have ever visited. On my way back I did observe our citizens carrying logs on their heads, children roaming the streets in tattered clothes. Something struck me hard as I gave thought to popular saying of the day "India shines." Can we call India a growing country or a swelling country? Does this sound funny, perhaps yes. Growth is intergral development and never scattered development. What we see in India is the accumulation of riches by a few and an existential struggle for survival by the majority. We never call "swelling as a growth." It is not even a symptom of growth. Rather it is a sign of  maladies. In the name of industrialization and modernization today the indigenous people in many parts of the s...