Publications and Books

Last Frontiers of the Mind - Challenges of the Digital Age

Published by Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi in 2005

It was as Secretary Welfare and as Advisor to the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir (holding the portfolio of health) that he became interested in the rehabilitation of people afflicted by maladies of the brain and nervous system, and the treatment thereof. He saw the nature of brain injuries, its effects and its treatments. On his return to Delhi in 1997, Mr Moses began extensive research on the history of studies about the mind, nature of the brain-mind relationship and artificial intelligence. In this book he made a prophetic statement, later endorsed by the great scientist Stephen Hawkins, that the human mind was being slowly undermined and would finally be destroyed by dependence on the computer. Mohandas Moses, stated categorically that Artificial Intelligence cannot replace the splendour of the human mind which he said was "the most unique phenomenon in the universe."

The book received high praise from scientists and philosophers in book reviews.

Dialogue of Civilizations - William Jones and the Orientalists

Published by Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 2009

This book provides a historical background of India at the commencement of British rule under the East India Company and the post 1857 scenario. Sir William Jones, who initiated a profound and systematic study of Indian literature, linguistics, metaphysics and social codes is given a special place in this book. It is Sir William Jones and Warren Hastings, first Governor General of British India who established the Asiatic Society where both religious and secular works in Sanskrit and other Indian languages were studied. The author traces the work of the brilliant and dedicated Indologists / Orientalists of Britain, Germany, Russia and Italy who studied ancient Indian texts of both religious and secular literature. These scholars promoted awareness of Indians and other nations on the heritage of India that had not received the attention they deserved.

Stranger in Paradise - Rajataringini Revisited

Published by Har Anand Publications, New Delhi, 2008

This is a memoir of Mohandas Moses' tenure as Advisor to the Governor of Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh. He provides brief historical and cultural background of the three regions, their problems and predicaments, especially in the years of militancy and the contribution made by Mohandas Moses as Advisor to the Governor of J & K.

These memoirs have been incorporated in his biography written by his wife Achala Moulik.

Mohandas Moses's articles on Jammu-Kashmir, Ladakh, Food Security, Agriculture, Economic Development, Fiscal Policy, Dams and Irrigation Projects, Restoration of Buddhist Monasteries, Heritage, and Literature, have been published in newspapers and journals.

In his youth Mohandas regularly wrote book reviews for Sunday magazines. His hobbies included playing chess, bird watching, collecting old and rare books. His library of some 3000 books have been donated to the NIAS library, Bangalore.

Mohandas Moses was a fitness person. He liked horse riding, and won equestrian prizes. He also liked swimming and swam wherever he could --in swimming pools or the sea. He was fond of mountain climbing. In Kashmir and Ladakh he climbed high peaks such as Kardung-la, Jozila Pass, the Zanskar monastery - without oxygen parapharnalia. He reintroduced ski-ing in Gulmarg and inaugurated it by ski-ing on a few high slopes with Sports department officials.

Before passing away he gave donations to Ramakrishna Mission, Mother Teresa's Foundation and Home for the Aged.