Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
In 1947, we won our freedom. Nationhood, we must win every single day. For months, thousands of you have written to me with the same question: What can I do for my country?
Today, I have an answer. This Independence Day, I am launching Transform India Initiative: a non-partisan platform where scholars, practitioners and ordinary citizens come together to work on the twelve decisive questions India must answer next.
If you feel called to build, visit TransformIndia.com and tell us, through the form, where you would like to contribute. Freedom was won for us. The India that follows is ours to build. Jai Hind - Gitanjali J Angmo
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Independence Day is about freedom. August 15 is an emotional and intellectual code, invoked to connote a state of mind and existence that knows no bounds except those defined in a compact given unto us by ourselves. The day is the vantage point, our ...
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Kolkata: At Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari says, "I am proud that after 50 years in this important place, I am here due to the people of Bengal. There is no need to discuss why no CM came here, but I am happy to be here. The contribution of Sri Aurobindo is unparalleled...State government is ready to do something for Sri Aurobindo; we want to send the proposal to Dr. Saumitra Mohan, Secretary for the Information and Cultural Affairs Department of the Government of West Bengal."
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Sarkar entered academia when modern Indian history was still largely framed through the binary of colonial oppression versus Indian resistance. From his first major work, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, he demonstrated how ordinary people could be both hierarchical and democratic, communal and nationalist. This commitment to history from below found its most eloquent expression in Modern India, the textbook that helped make him one of the founding figures of Subaltern Studies. Sarkar would eventually distance himself from the group as it increasingly turned towards cultural theory. The historian, he believed, had to take the challenge of communalism head-on.
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August 15, 2026, is Sri Aurobindo’s 154th birthday. It is also the 79th birthday of the modern Indian state. To me, they represent a profound link in the nation’s destiny with one of the greatest exponents of the Veda the modern world has seen. For it was Sri Aurobindo who brought our attention to the spiritual significance of the Veda and how it was the foundation of the entire India culture, civilisation, literatures, arts, darshanas, languages and sciences. As we stare at the increasing takeover of our lives by technology, AI, & the singularity of technology, we would do well to remember the singularity of the spirit that Sri Aurobindo proposed as an alternative to the mechanisation of humanity By: @PariksithSingh
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Want to know more about this quote? On Sri Aurobindo’s birthday, dive deeper into his provocative vision of human evolution, consciousness, and transformation through Vedic wisdom with @PariksithSingh and @MakrandParanspe youtu.be/d5T8Hcyztdw?si… @AmazingVedas
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The Vedas aren’t dusty relics—they’re a message sent across time, lovingly preserved for generations who believed someone would need this wisdom. Could that someone be you? DiscoverЁЯУЦ@VedaforGenZ by @PariksithSingh. Buy now. amazon.in/Veda-Gen-Z-Par… @AmazingVedas @MakrandParanspe
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Vedic Sensitivity
It took me a long while to realize that the sensitivity of the Vedic world was different from modern humanity
How? Notice how aware they were of sound and its nuances. How they were awake to every unit of language and word music! How they responded and used sound as a mode for transmitting power and knowledge
We have perhaps lost that ‘auditory access’ to a universe of pure sound. We are more visual perhaps although the Vedic sensibility is visually very advanced and refined too
One very important shift that the Veda brought in me was an appreciation of the mantrik vibration and its immense ability to transform us. This may be why we need to cleanse our senses with its reverberation
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Vedic Nirukta
Let us look at this dhatu ash- рдЕрд╢्
What do you feel when you say it? To me, an open sound of a- рдЕ is followed by a sibilant рд╢् which closes the tongue to where it nearly touches the palate
The open followed by closure. The soft followed by strong. The gentle followed by harsh. The slow followed by speed
This gives a sense or bhaava of a gentle opening suddenly rushed into force and intensity. Hope that makes sense. This is why the ash- dhatu signifies striking, speeding, force, energy, swallowing etc
And we can see this guna in the words we see in the Veda. Words such as ashva, ashu, ashvin, ashri etc Each signifies speed, force, power
In RV 1.4.7 the device of using ashu twice is brilliant because it takes this quality of ash- and multiplies it by using it in succession in the word рдПрдоाрд╢ुрдоाрд╢рд╡े
Hope you can appreciate the pulsatile movement created by this sandhi and see the exquisite detail of sound in these verses
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If you agree with this understanding of ash- dhatu based on the Guna of its seed sounds, then it becomes clear why meaning comes after the nature or quality of the sound in Sanskrit
That is how the word ashva can mean both the horse and prana because both are swift, energetic, strong and intense
This is the reason we should not fixate on the meaning of Vedic words first but the sensation and feel of the sound. That is how Agni has multiple meanings and so does the word gau and so many other Vedic words. This is the unique quality of Vedic also called Polysemy that the Rishis exploited to the fullest to create a multidimensional world of experience and meaning
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