Srinagar, Sept. 25 -- Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, born on 25 September 1916, occupies a distinctive place in the intellectual and political history of modern India. His birth anniversary provides an occasion not merely to remember a political thinker and organiser, but also to revisit a philosophy that sought to interpret India's social, economic and political aspirations through an indigenous intellectual framework. His doctrine of Integral Humanism, or Ekatma Manav Darshan, represented an endeavour to formulate a comprehensive philosophy of life in which the individual, society, nation and humanity were viewed as organically interconnected. At the heart of his thought was a fundamental proposition: economic and political systems should ...