An Open Question

In his foreword to Confessions of a Dying Mind: The Blind Faith of Atheism, C K Mathew, the former chief secretary of Rajasthan, calls it a “masterpiece” and expresses astonishment that the author is a young man “not yet thirty.” Perhaps the matter is not that of astonishment, for the book is on a topic that only an ambitious young man “not yet thirty” would dare to tackle: God.

Haulianlal Guite approaches the matter from various disciplinary perspectives, but mostly by way of an eclectic reading of philosophy and science. It might not be a “masterpiece” but the author has to be commended for his intention, effort and ambition.