Synopsis The present collection, Random Plurals: fragments on philosophy, aesthetics and history, comprises of 33 academic and literary writings contributed by 25 eminent authors.  Dr. Karan Singh has provided this volume with a brief and scintillating Foreword.  The range of the writings in this selection is vast and rich.  The reader gets linguistic and philosophical ideas on word and meaning/signification, poetics, and translation, both western and Indian/signification, poetics, and translation, both western and Indian/Sanskrit.  Pieces on ideology, polylectics, right to work, culture, cultural nationalism, secularism, cultural relations, Shraman and Brahman culture, and cultural revolution are included, besides those on manuscriptology, Ayurveda, epigraphy, mythology and Viswakarmas.  A full section on ambedkarism is available with rereading of Ambedkar, Ambedkar and women's emancipation, Ambedkar's political thought and his views on democracy.  Articles on matter and motion, human security, education system and self discipline, and personality development with assertiveness are included.  On psychology and aesthetics, the reader gets pieces on insights from Mahabharata, Indian and western psychology, aesthetic communication, cinema capturing the image, imaginary and being, and also on performance arts like Kathak, Dharaka Kathak and Thai classical dance forms.