Sunday, February 25, 2024

Kittu Reddy passed away

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

#MadrasHC temporarily restrained the Auroville Foundation’s authority from admitting new residents or terminating anyone from the international township until further orders.
@sivakumarie

https://twitter.com/xpresstn/status/1761254626656137542?t=7aB2jA29NkAOB81JV8fYhQ&s=19

Auroville Foundation invites applications of experienced candidates for the Auroville Fellowship Program under various domains. There are 30 positions available for young aspirants to engage with Auroville and contribute to the realization of the city of goals. (1/4)

https://twitter.com/JayantiRavi/status/1761424006631346551?t=RyL4mD9Q-MZ7XOpMu3fakA&s=19

The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Auroville Foundation cordially invites you to a MoU Signing Event & Lecture Session by Dr.David Frawley on 26th February 2024 at 4 pm.

Venue - Samvet Auditorium, IGNCA, Janpath, New Delhi

#CultureUnitesAll #mou

@MinOfCultureGoI @kishanreddybjp @arjunrammeghwal @M_Lekhi @Sachchida_Joshi

https://twitter.com/ignca_delhi/status/1761434913763705132?t=LFRq_1vFJtHoIFg-E7xfFA&s=19

Momemtous occasion signing of MoU between IGNCA and Auroville Foundation  promoting Art and Culture reflecting shared commitent for human unity and progress. Dr David Frawley to grace the occassion.

#Auroville #AurovilleFoundation #IGNCA #MoU #HumanUnity

https://twitter.com/JayantiRavi/status/1761385692939301056?t=G7AjUxPNMM8EosBY8kE_eQ&s=19

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: A Journey of Unity and Consciousness: Celebrating the Mother's Birthday in Auroville linkedin.com/pulse/journey-… via @LinkedIn

https://twitter.com/happiness_fest/status/1760324433531769105?t=qOjWhmOMKhAQEWQO4vSExg&s=19

Quite so. If one is thinking of Sanatana Dharma as a sacred science, might as well make it as universal as science.

https://twitter.com/TamerloinI/status/1760779356904030678?t=RSbDQNpES6VUH34RBvkXdg&s=19

Protecting the original mandate of Auroville and giving it its desired autonomy is key to India's future as a Vishwa Guru

https://twitter.com/karthix/status/1760544179154030717?t=itYy2M3a5eLuewFTH8vDIQ&s=19

Respected @PMOIndia @narendramodi, I bring to your attention the concerning state of audits and corruption in #Auroville, as highlighted by @EduMinOfIndia. Your intervention is earnestly requested. @rajbhavan_tn  @CBIHeadquarters @dir_ed @avfoundation

Here's the French journalist in #Auroville yesterday, asking for donations to counter terrorism - a true Aurovilian indeed. Why is @avfoundation still keeping these people in the register of residents? @EduMinOfIndia @PMOIndia @AmitShahOffice @dpradhanbjp

https://twitter.com/VikramRamTweets/status/1760665063520935998?t=gkz93bRWU8XrdND2L7dInQ&s=19

Today, Dr Kittu Reddy has left for heavenly abode. A pillar for Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, a policy influencer for Indian Army, an educationist & above all a man without whom Spixels would not have been possible #kittureddy #sriaurobindoashram #pondicherry #indianarmy

https://twitter.com/Spixelsglobal/status/1760566961681883600?t=_ZZsXDjeQ793joaP9pTehg&s=19

Kittuda was my teacher in the Higher Course for The Human Cycle & The Ideal of Human Unity by Sri Aurobindo

The years '90-'92. Tumultuous in India and the world. Extremely fortunate to interpret the sweeping events in his classes. Kittuda passed away this morning. My respects 

https://twitter.com/AloPal/status/1760549446545481778?t=1g9PSxVAay9sRMqb2t5FZg&s=19

I have long noticed this. Perhaps because Sri Aurobindo wrote academically respectable books, or because of a general chauvinism, or because the Mother's emphasis on experience rather than theory is difficult for intellectually orientated Westerners to understand.

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1760487035838849301?t=UlOvz1r7YpdAfUbowoN9-A&s=19

The 71st Colloquium lecture titled "The Relevance of Sri Aurobindo Today"delivered by noted academician, Prof.Sachidananda Mohanty, VC, Central University of Odisha and Governing Board Member of Auroville Foundation, administered by the MHRD, Government of India, UICET, PU

https://twitter.com/OfficialPU/status/1759911988631601271?t=poUeNd-ytz-cZ4PlNkjd9Q&s=19

She felt like it was fate, drawing her there. It's been 30 yrs since then, working the same job pressing flowers into stationary. But like the other women in her unit she has never considered pursuing Aurovillian status, for myriad reasons.

https://twitter.com/gaachburi/status/1759609416696115239?t=ue-Uf8-1pgaKSMzRTcLS8A&s=19

In today's continuing of our civilizational thread about Sri Aurobindo's work, we introduce his work through two excellent explanatory videos:

* John David Ebert on Sri Aurobindo's The Human Cycle
wiki.p2pfoundation.net/John_David_Ebe…

* John David Ebert on Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine
wiki.p2pfoundation.net/John_David_Ebe…

https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/1759115769948918035?t=kKJ35x9VHtdUREpBX3eL5g&s=19

SRI AUROBINDO'S SACRED RELICS SHRINE, MATRUJYOTI, JHARSUGUDA youtu.be/C8BH7XBB-mA?si… via @YouTube

https://twitter.com/reallyraj/status/1759031879624253480?t=2bKubhLt02EgZKBSIMaPNw&s=19

January 2024 issue: An essay by Sri Aurobindo, titled “The Chariot of Jagannath,” is worth reading for its relevance to #Auroville.

The four wheels of the chariot of Jagannath, “Unity, Freedom, Knowledge and Power” feel more unbalanced than before... avtoday.auroville.org/articles/1248

https://twitter.com/aurovilletoday/status/1759049483856585027?t=rEwZDw6AQXvxmiBpG09-Pw&s=19

Just as there are unsung heroes in the world, similarly Auroville Today is largely taken-for-granted, under-appreciated, unsung magazine of Auroville. Thanks mainly  to two children of the Mother - Carel and Alan. 

Auroville Today: February Issue 415: mailchi.mp/c7dbaee6a4f8/a…

https://twitter.com/PactAuroville/status/1758184783816065391?t=6Yn4SAYjmRQIqsetqc5uLQ&s=19

Sri Aurobindo on the conditions of a free world-union and the transformation of the national idea

motsac.org/humanitycahpsr

https://twitter.com/drsbasu2115/status/1756573847158202746?t=1jOoVZZtWPXufm1ZATK5XA&s=19

Sri Aurobindo on Memory and Knowledge-Ignorance 

iiyp.net/lifedivinechap

https://twitter.com/drsbasu2115/status/1752039760728875452?t=fXpb2Hon-0D6HBeDv_KY1A&s=19

The magic of great writing is such. Its method and purpose are not to merely describe things but to evoke analogies, imagery and a strange sense of space and time in a manner that goes straight into the subconscious of the reader and strikes a chord

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1761329528448893137?t=N158ZRd2vhDre_ULPpNFpw&s=19

The essay by Matthew David Segall, titled "Awakening to Our Planetary Mission: A Journey Through Cosmic History," explores the evolution of the universe and humanity's place within it. Segall reflects on the universe's beginnings, the fine-tuning that allowed for life, and the emergence of human consciousness as a pivotal moment in cosmic history.

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1761447232384221449?t=jD8djKJA__1wAryfkgFpew&s=19

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Personal invitation to meditate with Savitri

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Video link of the paper ‘The Secret of Veda in the Light of Sri Aurobindo' presented at the conference on 'Modern Interpretations of the Veda in the Light of Sri Aurobindo.' The conference was organized by Sakshi Trust, SAS, JNU, VWU, BTU, CSU, BSIKS.'  

youtu.be/BV6NF0j34kQ?si

https://twitter.com/Drkktripathy/status/1751124513750970876?t=t7J-ZcJencQo-Xx2oKOr-A&s=19

Dive into Gowwli's experimental folk-rock magic from Auroville! Named after resilient lizards, their music symbolizes survival and regeneration. With a genre-defying sound and multilingual lyrics, join them on a musical journey of transformation. #Gowwli #FolkRockMagic

https://twitter.com/Freeground_/status/1749804242980966688?t=JFZ_EYEfnfeqyGlX_01QfQ&s=19

helpful clarifications! See also integral philosopher Haridas Chaudhuri. Chaudhuri was chosen by Sri Aurobindo to come to the US to found a graduate school then called the American Academy of Asian Studies. Today this school is called California Institute of Integral Studies. I should add, Chaudhuri was the school's first president. Alan Watts was the first dean. You can read more about the history of CIIS here: matthewsegall.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/ciis-a

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1749959640375611884?t=KDjYeLVm0tiXk0SG582zZQ&s=19

Luc Venet & The Never-dying Fire

A New Biography of Sri Aurobindo

A Zoom Talk on January 27

11am New York | 9:30PM India | 5:00PM Paris

Link for registering for the event - aviusa.org/luc/

https://twitter.com/PactAuroville/status/1749390774352138661?t=EJ_HAgGdDE87sbGQRX8iCQ&s=19

[As 24 January 2024 marks the Centenary of Dilip Kumar Roy’s first meeting with Sri Aurobindo, we are publishing the text of Sri Aurobindo’s conversations with  him

overmanfoundation.org/24-january-202

Anurag Banerjee, Founder, Overman Foundation]

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1750164961987375272?t=CutrNlLGvclmOkPuo9gauw&s=19

45th ALL ODISHA SRI AUROBINDO WOMEN'S STUDY CIRCLE CONFERENCE 2024 / ABA... youtu.be/2JI0cfX5nbE?si… via @YouTube

https://twitter.com/reallyraj/status/1751417343539138642?t=hQqeneq_rU-lT3g4w_bFpg&s=19

Writer and translator @jennybhatt, the founder of @desibooks, recommends five of the best South Asian novels, showcasing literary traditions from lesser-known languages of the region
fivebooks.com/best-books/the… …

https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1751515552424620345?t=O29-Xa-obJsevrS4H-T73w&s=19

‘Sanātana Dharma’, or ‘eternal truth’, is the philosophical and practical basis of what is generally known as Hinduism. The Bhagavadgītā is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata and a pivotal text in understanding Sanatana Dharma.

Celebrated writer, poet and teacher of Vedanta, Partho’s recent book, ‘This Is Sanatan Dharma’, is an attempt to explain some of the fundamental principles and practices of  Sanātana Dharma. He takes Sri Aurobindo as his source of inspiration and guidance.

Medical practitioner and writer Pariksith Singh’s works include ‘The Veda Made Simple’, ‘Sri Aurobindo and Philosophy’ and ‘Sri Aurobindo and the Literary Renaissance of India’.

Together, they embark on a quest to explore these sacred traditions and texts and their continuing impact on our past, present, and future.

Book your package. bit.ly/3T5AYhV

Date: February 1-5, 2024

Venue: Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/status/1751560930557903102?t=_IeOjEenIPbZ9-tw8bj5lw&s=19

Sir I am nobody to recommed. You are guru for us control engineers.

I wasted lot of time trying to read Aurobindo's classic books. It mislead me to think that He was only repeating other vedantist like vivekananda. Until I read letters on yoga 4 volumes. Best place to start

https://twitter.com/kkdr611/status/1751835948365877374?t=fivwEGLcdDUw2abSDhD44A&s=19 

I don't agree with your logic. What you characterise as waste of time was the preparation so that the mind seeks more. Secondly, what is good for one person may not be good for another. Depends upon one's background and propensity. One can start from Poems.

incarnateword.in/cwsa

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1752229779535987179?t=Dg_ztZpR50EZEcDkZELPDw&s=19

CRUCIAL VOTE  #auroville: Emergency RAD process about the new Working Committee  Regulations : These regulations aim at giving full power to the Governing Board on  choosing the membership and selection methodology for the Working  Committee.

https://twitter.com/aurovillenews/status/1752176408821129388?t=4EU9E189pxsfEOJIMyxkaA&s=19

Sri Aurobindo on Memory and Knowledge-Ignorance 

iiyp.net/lifedivinechap

https://twitter.com/drsbasu2115/status/1752039760728875452?t=8xSd72BiT3pUAnJLea5jhg&s=19

[Hinduism in public and private: reform, Hindutva, gender - Antony R.H. Copley - 2003 - Aurobindo's political and social ideas were strongly influenced by poets of the English Romantic movement, Shelley and Wordsworth, by later English critics such as Carlyle, Ruskin, and Arnold]

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1748731918282314088?t=DAGz66rA752_W2QCVLZDVg&s=19

Sri Aurobindo on the Free Confederation and experiments in Russia, Finland and Poland

motsac.org/humanitycahpsr

https://twitter.com/drsbasu2115/status/1745456626872791195?t=7T4Is7xpxnUEmWiXz1_Now&s=19

The very sad thing about #Auroville is that @JayantiRavi made it a battlle between Indians (many of them coming from Sri Aurobindo ashram) and westerners. This goes against @narendramodi #vasudhaiva kutumbakam made for the #g20bharatsummit . it has degenerated to such a degree that I who strood against all for the @BJP4India & defended Bharat against all odds, for 40 years, is told by some of Dr Ravi's followers: "go home Frenchman". It hurts !@AmitShah @dpradhanbjp @nitin_gadkari @AmitShahOffice @PMOIndia . here a sad video of 50 years trees being cut on her orders @rss

https://twitter.com/fgautier26/status/1744614535820976389?t=E3QTR1UwjMxm-_ykgzkJeA&s=19

[If your desire is to enter the magical world of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, you can do no better than to start with the second canto of Book Two, called The Issue. It is almost a personal invitation to meditate with Savitri herself, at a crucial] -Sonia Dyne

selforum.blogspot.com/2005/12/issue.…

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1741349758533525733?t=XXI-pY-Mu2vp5v87Gz9ozA&s=19

I have been distributing the correct worldview without leaning towards the Right or the Left. Having worked in the field of knowledge outside the Universities and various ecosystems I don't represent any echochamber. My paper illustrates unique perspective

informaticsjournals.com/index.php/nmr/…

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1741025529669828847?t=ThnbyOw-ozQKnDGqhuwUPQ&s=19

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Auroville should be handed over to Savitri Era Religion

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are worshipped as the one Supreme Divine under the Savitri Era Religion, which came into being in 2006. Many of their followers are unwilling to join a separate religion and so are free to worship other gods or gurus. But it's wrong to follow two paths.

In the absence of anyone else expressing his or her exclusive allegiance towards The Mother & Sri Aurobindo on this platform, my personal achievements over the years become important as basis for possible legal recognition of Savitri Era Religion which I founded way back in 2006.

Situation in Auroville is worsening day by day and it's now clear that the original dream of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo has been successfully derailed. Matrimandir being the most important place of worship for the devotees, Auroville should be handed over to Savitri Era Religion.

Devotees of Ram Temple should exit so that genuine followers of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo may breathe peacefully. Integral yoga is inalienably linked to surrender to The Mother and any admixture is inadmissible. Savitri Era Religion has been specifically created for this reason.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1742451019211284548?t=rKWpgFSsRjW5L4Klx2Csxg&s=19

Auroville 2024 the crises carries on. See more here. auroville.media/crisis/dossier

https://twitter.com/muniandi/status/1742388963523056053?t=UUiSTSVV0q6_5lcxWd7nAg&s=19

S Srikanth - Genre, 2023
Recent scholarship on the bildungsroman highlights the ideological implications of bildung in relation to empire and human rights discourse. This essay adds to that scholarship by reading the postcolonial bildungsroman as an expression of the …

[PDF] RE-READING BHARATMATA: DETANGLING NATION AND GENDER

G Vats
… Bengal divided and intellectual critiques like Aurobindo blamed the imagery of Bharatmata for it. … (Bose 22) Aurobindo blamed the spirit of Hindu Nationalism to have misinterpreted the political … Aurobindo might not have agreed with Tagore …

[PDF] The Origins of Indian Drama in English: Playwrights of the Pre-independence Era

V IMMANUEL, MK JANCY
… Sri Aurobindo upholds a natural view throughout his writing. His view of life is that no one sticks on to sentiment or ambition, but is coerced by circumstances that demand an individual be so. His use of language is highly commanding than his …

[PDF] REALITY AS MORAL DISCOVERY IN THE PLAY OF GIRISH

H KARNAD'S
… Krishna Mohan Banerji is the beginner with his The Persecuted (1831), then came the flow of translations: Michael Madhusudan Dutta's Ratnavali (1858), Sermista (1859) and Is This Called Civilization (1871) followed the corpus of Tagore …

[PDF] Imperative into Shoving of Sujata Bhatt's Selected Poetry

B Nail
… On observing at pre independence poetry, we meet the brave figures of Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, and the like who for all their deep loyal concerns wrote poems evanescing their focus on the matters of soul, God, or ultimate truth. These poets …

[PDF] Connecting School and Teacher Education

P Kumari - International Journal of Economics and Management …, 2023
The teacher is the architect of the future of the children. Therefore, it is necessary that the training of teachers should be done properly. In order to make a good teacher, B. Ed. NCTE has prepared a curriculum in such a way that children can get …

[PDF] Eulogizing the Nation as the Mother through Songs: Juxtaposing Jana Gana Mana and Subh Sukh Chain

R Gupta
… of the 1770s, frames the song Vande Mataram (‘I praise thee, Mother’), an ode to the mother, who is fashioned like a Hindu Goddess, and descriptions of the natural and cultural splendors of India in the song, collapse into the iconography of the …

Tribal Education in India–Reviewing the Progress and the Way Forward

V Sucharita - Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2023
The present paper critically reviews various educational interventions and the resultant trends in the participation and learning outcomes in the domain of tribal education in India. A review of the existing policies on formal education suggests …

[HTML] Digitalisation process and sustainable development of vulnerable territories. Assessment of equity potentials of major Mediterranean Islands

C Garau, G Desogus, A Stratigea - TeMA-Journal of Land Use, Mobility and …, 2023
… Also, in India she studied at the Sinhgad College of Architecture in Pune and she attended the Summer School in Auroville. Since then, she has continued research, holding a Master in Strategic Environmental Management – SEM (Padova, Italy 2017) …

[PDF] MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS PRACTICAL INTEGRATION IN STUDENT'S EDUCATION

B Rout - THE THEORY OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH …, 2023
… It encompasses the bio psychosocial approach, recognizing that the psychology of an individual is integral to understanding health concerns. Medical psychologists are trained to modify physical and behavioral patterns, provide prevention for the …

[PDF] Futuristic Schooling: New Normal Post-Pandemic

SP Malhotra
… The home task has to be redefined in consonance with online co-curricular activities like debate tournaments, yoga asanas, supporting the elderly in the neighbourhood, etc. Assessment for student learning can be carried out with open …

[PDF] Media, Politics and Conflict: Evidence from Television in India

P Brimble, D Yang - 2023
The rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the 1980s coincided with the rise of television and mass media in India. The TV serialization of the Ramayana, a Hindu epic, aired in 1987 and has been credited with a Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) …

[PDF] Islam and the Orientalist Vision in Padmaavat

A Basu - Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society, 2023
This essay argues that Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 2018 Bollywood historical film Padmaavat is part of a wider media-informational atmospherics of contemporary Hindu pride and Islamophobia, drawing on advertised energies of disaffection and …

[PDF] Humanitarian Hindu, Exceptional Citizen

M Bhan, P Bose - Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society, 2023
… In this article, we focus on how US-based Hindutva organizations aligned with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) present their sectarian ideology and philanthropic …

[PDF] Post-pandemic South Asian Governmentalities and Foucault: State Power and Ordinary Citizens

N Islam - Foucault Studies, 2023
… ) politicizes “seva” as one of their critical modes of propagating saffronization or Hindutva and thus consolidates religious divides (Bhattacharjee 2021). Those interested in exploring the Hindutva politics and/or the Muslim question in …

[PDF] Narratives of 'Common Civilization'of South Asia: Tracing the Origin of Shared Values and Culture

VP Jayshwal, SK Shah - Dera Natung Government College Research Journal, 2023
South Asia is a constructed concept. Although South Asian countries choose to function within the paradigm of independent statehood, they are undergoing overlapping developments rooted in the distant and recent colonial past. This paper …

[PDF] Otherness in Arundhati Roy's “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”

U Babar, S Ahmed - Journal of Advances in Humanities Research, 2023
This research delves into an examination of the marginalization process by closely analyzing Arundhati Roy's work," The Ministry of Utmost Happiness." The objective is to uncover how Roy employs her artistic prowess to bridge the gap between …

[PDF] Rare Instance of a Jungle Crow Corvus culminatus Sykes

A Bera - 1832 Hunting on a Live Three Striped Palm Squirrel …, 2023
Crows are nature’s most adaptable animals which has survived almost anywhere amidst the growing human population and urbanizing environments. The jungle crow remains to be a species of great interest as it tends to possess unique …

"It is not only that the sable blackness of the crow’s wings has in it wonderful shades of green and violet and purple which show themselves under certain stresses of sunlight, but that the black itself, sable of wing or dingy of back & breast has itself a beauty which our prejudiced habits of mind obscure to us. Under its darkness, we see, too, a glint of dingy white."

https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/the-beauty-of-a-crows-wings#:~:text=It%20is%20not,of%20dingy%20white

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Jayanti Ravi, Jayant Bhandari, and Rajiv Malhotra

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006)

Modernity, in fact, entered with the Europeans and Nehru, no doubt, nurtured it with all his might. He, however, had no means of delivering people from the clutches of religious obscurantism the effect of which we witness today. That task had been ably performed by Sri Aurobindo.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1724393287409377486?t=6W24Kw3DQuZaiTCs-fdPag&s=19

India has indeed been sold out by its very own elites!
Part 6: Is ESG a tool of global corporates to govern the world?  unitedtrueindia.blogspot.com/2023/11/blog-p… @RajivMessage @jayantiravi @DrTamilisaiGuv @rajbhavan_tn @dpradhanbjp @narendramodi
#SriAurobindo #Auroville Capitalists will turn into oligarchs by merging business and politics Part 5: Is ESG a tool of the global corporates to govern the world? unitedtrueindia.blogspot.com/2023/11/capita

https://twitter.com/trueseek/status/1722917559966781686?t=PU0-ETxvfWoFsF0VMcggCw&s=19 

Thanks to @narendramodi @dpradhanbjp @byadavbjp @rajbhavan_tn @DrTamilisaiGuv @JayantiRavi  𝐀𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 #Auroville
unitedtrueindia.blogspot.com/2023/11/blog-p… https://twitter.com/trueseek/status/1722498535311163897?t=jJrgvTDIyg2dqKnAQ5gtlw&s=19

#pebblegarden #auroville is a pilgrimage site for #organic #farmers across #India 30yrs. Deepika kundoji's work on traditional seeds conservation won her the #NariPuraskar in 2017. Part of this farm is reallocated as construction material storage site now @Devinder_Sharma... late Nammalvar, considered as father of Organic farming in TN often acknowledged Bernard as his Guru! This ill conceived act by ATDC needs to be condemned. It is not merely destroying a learning space in Auroville for all of India, but, also an organic farming sacred space for the world.

https://twitter.com/buddha_r/status/1722830122502234572?t=d8xbh6Grk28alcHQ-o-Dtg&s=19

It's amusing how far those removed from the #Auroville resident list will go asking @MEAIndia to initiate action on public officers for doing their duties! I request @PMOIndia to stop succumbing to 'foreign entities', let law & ethics prevail @rajbhavan_tn @avfoundation @AmitShah

https://twitter.com/VikramRamTweets/status/1722198686678351959?t=_d2iXhr57mEQZHqfyZeQsw&s=19

I was invited to take part in the 5th Tamilnadu Young Thinkers meet btw November 3- 5, had insightful discussions and the exchange of ideas truly left a lasting impact on me. Moreover, the experience of learning in Auroville, the land of spirituality and the very essence of enriched nationalism where Mahan Aurobindo Ghosh lived, was truly inspiring and thought-provoking.

https://twitter.com/MVinothOffl/status/1721602684627906692?t=7ZoWHinwoPLLXZvWf8VRuA&s=19 

The British East India Co also built its largest facilities worldwide in India. Stupid Indian elites/rajahs were made to feel proud even then. The difference in China’s aspiration is that its strategy in bringing US companies was to digest US tech & then supersede the US w its own products. India FAILED to do that in software or anything else, being content as mere labor. Indian elites became proud middlemen & filled their own pockets. Shameful for the land of the Rishis. @anandmahindra

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The garbage, sheepish culture of India is demeaning. It breaks children and confuses them, making their thinking cloudy. It makes them very vulnerable. They do not know what is right and what is wrong. Indian upbringing positions you to be a loser, a sheep.

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#2022 visited the Last School with the  Hon'ble Governor @rajbhavan_tn and #2023, it was Integral Education Practitioners workshop with close to 300 teachers participating, deepening, sharing their learnings and best practices. #Auroville #LastSchool

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[PDF] GOVERNANCE IN AUROVILLE: A FRAMEWORK STUDY (2023)

R Yadava, N Harihar - 2023
… Finally, we have been liberal in our quotations of Mother and Sri Aurobindo, along with other studies conducted over the years, to avoid selectivity and to inform our analysis in a close reading of these texts. Finally, given weak archival practices …

Francophone Narratives of the Returnee: Epistemic Disobedience on Both Sides of the Kala Pani

V Rao - Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora, 2024
… Within the town, jeeps carrying protestors shouted slogans against the Aurobindo Ashram as rumours fast spread that Sri Aurobindo and The Mother were against Pondicherry’s merger to the Indian Union. During this commotion, the household …

Remembering Mariamman

S Stephanides - Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora, 2024
… When I reached the famous Ashram and sat to meditate in the aromatic silence of its garden, I read and contemplated Sri Aurobindo’s geography of the spiritual imagination in his writings on the Upanishads. I was struck by his image of the …

[PDF] Facilitating meta-learning through yoga: supporting dance students' embodied learning

C Ribbers - 2023
Facilitating meta-learning through yoga: supporting dance students' embodied learning is the title of the PhD-research project of yoga teacher and former dance artist Caroline Ribbers. In this project, she successfully designed a new yoga … 
JBG Tilak - 2023
… Noting the irrelevance of the Western model and its exclusionary nature, social thinkers and freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo and Zakir Hussain developed alternative models of education. But these …

[PDF] Satyagraha: Its Essence and Emergence

S Patil, F Ali, D Tiwari - JIGYASA
Gandhi's satyagraha is a necessary outcome of his theory of truth and nonviolence. Gandhi opts and pleads for satyagraha as the most appropriate method of conflict resolution. Gandhi believed that Satyagraha went handin-hand with ahimsa. Ahimsa …

Colonial Census and Saffron Demography: The Shaping of Numerical Communities and Contestations in India

S Das - The Politics of Replacement, 2024
The demographic fear of a Muslim population explosion has been instrumental in fomenting Hindu communalism in India. The religious conflicts witnessed in the country today also carry a strong sense of the past, often emanating more from …

[PDF] Content Page

NG Jayanthi, SS Umadevi, K Ajila, K Sheeba, R Barki…
Reading with confidence is important because it allows us to communicate our thoughts and ideas more clearly. When we read with confidence, we are more likely to engage with the text and to think critically about what we are reading. This can …

[PDF] REL 3209 (c) Religion on the Move: Migration, Globalization, and the Transformation of Tradition

R Morrison - Bowdoin College Catalogue and Academic Handbook …
… While migration has been integral to the development of many religions, this course considers how contemporary migration and the global spread of practices like yoga and meditation have led to the creation of new religious identities …

Populism Beyond Borders: Modi's Discursive Strategy with the Indian Diaspora in the United States of America

C Rana - … and Performative Leadership: Populism in International …, 2023
… stage does not entirely eliminate the Hindutva ideology. Even in limited measure, few identifiable long-standing Hindutva ideas appear in his … This is an important element of Hindutva revisionist history which seeks to paint the Delhi sultans and the …

Intellectual History or Philosophical History? The Indian Century as Global Miniature

R Khan, A Dirk Moses - Global Intellectual History, 2023
… a Muslim poet and philosopher who became an influential advocate of a separate Muslim state; BR Ambedkar, the Chairman of the Drafting Committee for the Indian Constitution; and VD Savarkar, a leader of the right-wing Hindu Mahasabha party …

The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening

S Taylor - 2024
… The Hindu path of yoga (as developed by the ancient sage Patanjali) puts forward a stepby-step guide to enlightenment. It begins with ethical guidelines, moves on to yoga poses (asanas) and breathing exercises (… But in this book, I present an …

COMMONING PRACTICES AS A FORM OF CARE

N Bhatia - Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common, 2023
Acts of care are the most critical weapon against precarity. If we understand care as providing what is necessary for the health, welfare, protection, and maintenance of something or someone, these acts operate in direct opposition to the forces fostering …

[PDF] Did Freud Miss the Discovery of Our Spiritual Core?. Religions 14: 282

JC Chatlos - 2023
… At present, the urgency for the transformation of our relationship with the world calls many people to develop a path of Karma yoga which in Buddhism is identified as a “bodhisattva” (one whose goal is awakening)—an enlightened person that …

Yoga and spiritual centre at sabarmati riverfront Ahmedabad Gujrat

P Bhanu - 2023
The need for a meditation center in Ahmedabad stems from the increasing importance of mental well-being in today's fast-paced and stressful world. Ahmedabad, like many other urban areas, faces significant challenges related to …

[PDF] The Role of Vakya Vidya in The Digital Era Dialogue

NM Sumaryani, KS Yogiswari - Dharmakirti: International Journal of Religion, Mind …, 2023
… Even the most famous literature of the Bhagavad Gītā is the dialogue between ri Kṛṣṇā the Lord of Yoga and Arjuna, the mighty hero and … First, the dialogue itself is an integral part of practice and worship in life that is absorbed in Kṛṣṇā bhakti …

one improvement to Samuel's text would be to enlighten us further about how Kairos, as a recurring event, adjudicates a resistant and subversive existence in …

A Longkumer
… of Hindu nationalism known as “Hindutva” (lit., Hindu-ness). By and large, most of the highland populations were never Hindu in the first place and nowadays several largely identify as Christian. That, however, has not stopped Hindutva organizations …

The Forgotten History of Our Times: Revisiting Utpal Dutt's Titu Mir in Contemporary India

MS ROY - Theatre Research International, 2023
… The 2019 production, in certain ways, condenses this idea of a different world view to pose its challenge to the Hindutva version of Indian history. The Hindutva interpretation of Indian nationalism wants to wipe away the difference between …

Colonial Census and Saffron Demography: The Shaping of Numerical Communities and Contestations in India

S Das - The Politics of Replacement, 2024
… This fear of the Muslim population taking over the country appears as a constant fixture in Hindutva propaganda. In the early ’90s, when the … Yet drumming up demographic fear of Muslims taking over India remains vital to the Hindutva agenda …

The Dramatic Escape From Pandemic Life: Everyday Experience of Watching Television During the Lockdowns

R Kumar - Television Publics in South Asia, 2024
… The re-runs of Ramayana and Mahabharata and their popularity among the viewers present the interlinkages of current Hindutva politics. The state attempted to disguise its negligence and failure in administrating the Covid-19 crisis. Politicians’ …

Pandemic and Politics: The Two “Ps” in a Pod

A Datta - Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in …, 2023
Why are they emigrating from India? Why are they choosing Germany? This chapter sets the tone of the book – with detailed discussions on why the Indians are leaving India and why they are coming to Germany. Through primary data collection from the …

Refuge from the Bovine?

A Datta - Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in …, 2023
In this chapter, I discuss the shadow emigration pathways that Indians are exploiting to leave the country to escape from the political targeting of the authoritarian regime. They are doing so partly because the formalized frameworks like Scholars at Risk …

Between Myths and Monuments: Memorialization in the Koti Chennaya Tradition of Tulunad

Y Shetty - Media Technology and Cultures of Memory
This chapter seeks to analyse the sthalapurana or what is called the ‘edifice-myths’ woven around the construction of hundreds of worship centres for the twin heroic deities called Koti and Chennaya across ‘Tulunad’. Tulunad is a geo-linguistic ‘region’ …

National identification: A psychoanalytic understanding of the role of renaming of streets and cities in India

K Chandrashekar - Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 2023
This paper is an engagement with the problem of national identification and attempts to explain why it is so persistent. Beginning with Freud’s formulations around identification with respect to the mass mind and the moving to Lacan, the paper …

Indian Television and the Rise of the Local: Televised Realities of Localized Sociocultural Experience

RS Jalarajan, AK Suresh - Television Publics in South Asia, 2024
This chapter explores the idea that the influence of television on the localized public provides new pathways for the ‘local’ to emerge out of traditional contexts to new grounds of modernity. The visibility of the localized subjects on the television screen …

Abhilash Pillai's Midnight's Children: Performing Politics through Optics

A SENGUPTA - Theatre Research International, 2023
… the achievement of freedom and Partition of the Indian subcontinent, India–Pakistan wars, the liberation of Bangladesh, the declaration of national emergency in India and censorship, ethnic clashes and communal riots continuing into the present, and …

From Abrogation to Dominion: Navigating India's Neo-Colonial Settler Agenda in Kashmir and Elimination of Kashmiri Identity

M Hussain - Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2023
This paper examines the neo-colonial project of Narendra Modi implemented in Kashmir after the revocation of special status on August 5, 2019. The neo-colonial infrastructure supported by the threads of re-classification of legal residents and land …

[PDF] Introduction: religion and Commonwealth values

T Barringer - The Round Table, 2023
… He deploys his arguments particularly to counter anti-Muslim discrimination in Modi’s India and the challenge of Hindutva but his argument could be extended into a discussion of Islam and Commonwealth values. …

Conflicted and Confused: The Changing Complexity of Masculinity in Zoya Akhtar's Films

A Shields
… insecurity and power gaps that new groups have risen to fill, notably Hindutva and its biggest party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).… Hindutva, whose increasing political power drives this move, has responded by building an image of an …

[HTML] Violent Times

T Kara - Global Intellectual History, 2023
… Meanwhile, history also took on a charged temporal character, especially in the obsessive futurity of Savarkar’s Hindutva. Such density of thinking around the temporal surely accentuates the fact that colonial modernity signalled not simply a …

[PDF] The Christian Right in Europe

GL Mascolo
… In many cases, an important part of the identity of right-wing forces is a religious component, such as the Hindutva (Hinduness) ideology of the right-wing People’s Party of India, the pan-Catholicism of the Polish Law and Justice party, and the …

Where law, politics, scripture and theology intersect: an exegetical examination of 49: 13 in the Qur'an in light of India's right-wing legislation and policies against …

I Panjwani - The Round Table, 2023
… trend wherein its legislation and policies over the last ten years have led to Muslims in India being marginalised – either through their rights as citizens or in terms of the discrimination and violent attacks they experience at the hands of …

[PDF] FROM TOCHARIA TO TORAH: MECHANICS FOR ADAPTIVE COMPLEX EVOLUTIONARY MACRODYNAMICS

J LISSNER - 2023
… An example is in contrasting distinctions of Time and Dating Ontology, from Middle Eastern to South Asian cultures [Hindutva]. Therefore an epistemography or Knowledge Ecosystem of meta-meaning in the etymology of the word Path in …