In "The Wishing Tree, the Presence and Promise of India", Subhash Kak presents 
what is arguably the most complete, articulate and up-to-date 
overview on the entire Indic tradition. More notably, he speaks not from a 
dry academic standpoint but from one in contact with the very soul 
and spirit of the culture. His panoramic view covers spirituality, 
science, linguistics and history, making clear India's important role 
in world civilization past, present and future. He dispels the many 
current distortions and misinterpretations of India, the cobwebs of 
colonial and Eurocentric thinking, and reveals her vast civilization 
in its true light. Everyone interested in India and in human 
civilization will be fascinated and transformed by his many-sided insights. 
They will never look at India again in the same way.

        --David Frawley, author of Gods, Sages and Kings and other books.

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As a millennial retrospective of the trans-national journey of Indic ideas,
"The Wishing Tree: The Presence and Promise of India", is an auspicious
augury of a Cultural Renaissance among diaspora Indians. Subhash Kak's
language is lucid; it is at times very poetic. His speaking voice is firm
and precise. Reading this volume made me think that perhaps what is worth
preserving in Indic traditions will endure the ravages of
colonial/postcolonial fragmentation. Indic ideas are both secular and
sacred, scientific and spiritual, utilitarian and unabashedly devoted to
the principle of beauty. In his "The Wishing Tree", Subhash Kak tells it
all: with acuity, great insight and wisdom.

--Lalita Pandit,
Professor of English,
University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
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In "The Wishing Tree: The Presence and Promise of India", Dr. Subhash Kak has
single handedly brought light to the maternity and paternity wards of human
cultural origins. If you want to know who you are, what your possibilities
are, what your origins really are,  read this book. You will see India as the
original womb of our human birth, no matter who you are and where you think
you come from; you will see the original split between feminine and masculine
knowledge, the origins of our "intelligence centers" called gods,  the
origins of mathematics, music and spiritual emancipation. This book is truly
a wishing tree, and it is also the
upturned wishing tree of the universe with its roots above and its branches
below, as chanted in the Rig Veda and the Gita.
It is not enough, however, to know these details, if you read this
book and see in its light your own birth you might be able to see also your
our capabilities to become more than you were in the ignorance of your own
origins. You will thank Professor Kak for the emancipating power his book
brings to the attentive reader.

-Antonio T. de Nicolas,
Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
author of Meditations Through the Rg Veda, Avatara, the Bhagavad Gita.


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