Author bio
Mark Lindley
Dr. Mark Lindley (born in 1937) is a member of the Humanist Association of Boston and has served as Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard, as a visiting professor in Gandhian studies at the University of Kerala and as a professor of music theory at Istanbul Technical University, and has taught courses at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul) on modern Indian history. His ca. 100 articles include two written in collaboration with James Farmelant: Six Prominent American Freethinkers and Looking Back for Insights into a New Paradigm. Mark and Jim are currently preparing an article to be entitled "The Strange Case of Dr. Hayek and Mr. Hayek."
He is the author of Gandhi and Humanism (Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy; 3rd edition, 2005, with a preface by the Director of the National Gandhi Museum in New Delhi) and of several books, including:
—J. C. Kumarappa. Mahatma Gandhi's Economist(Mumbai, 2007). The leading Indian historian (Ramachandra Guha, author of India After Gandhi) has described this as "a most interesting and unusual book about a most interesting and unusual man." According to the director of the Delhi School of Economics, "scholars of Gandhian and ecological thought owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Lindley for writing such a splendidly scholarly study of Kumarappa's career and economic ideas."
— The Life and Times of Gora (Mumbai, 2009). According to the director of the leading Indian historical-research institute (the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library), "Lindley has rendered a singular service to that part of our history which concerns the making of a resurgent modern India." Greg Epstein has written in regard to this book, "In an age of information overload, sometimes we're reminded of what books were originally for—to ensure that the hard-won wisdom of the past will be there for us when sources of strength and enlightenment are needed in the future."
—Techniques of 20th Century Turkish "Contemporary" Music (with Alper Maral; Istanbul, 2011). According to the leading Turkish musicologist, "this fresh study of ten important and representative composers makes an invaluable contribution by describing their compositional techniques and placing them in relation to the international scene."
