The bigger question is: have we been so dulled into
non-thinking by hagiographical works that we are unable to accept another view? Dismayed that
other newspapers have not taken up the Peter Heehs issue seriously - it is
almost as big as Salman Rushdie, MF Husain. Chidambaram must send a strong signal to religious
fundamentalists: stop harassing thinkers - if you don't like their work, don't
read it. Apart from 30
intellectuals, politicians from Congress and BJP are supporting Peter Heehs
stay in India
Home minister P Chidambaram will
review the decision to cancel the visa of American
historian Peter Heehs, who wrote the controversial biography 'The Lives of
Sri Aurobindo' in 2008. He will make his decision by Monday, he told reporters.
The Puducherry foreign regional registration office
had told Heehs, who lives at the SriAurobindo Ashram
here, that his visa, set to expire in the second week of April, would not be
extended. Heehs has lived in India
At a press conference in New Delhi
Heehs' biography had created quite a furore when it
was published in the US
However, some ashram residents held protests and
even went to court, saying that he had made "denigrating and unacceptable
remarks" about Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa, better known as the
Mother.
The book received favourable reviews from experts on
Sri Aurobindo studies and historians, including Jawaharlal
Nehru University 's
Romila Thapar, Harvard
University
Historians defend Heehs
The historians said that the protesters had not read
the book but had misunderstood the content based on an unrepresentative set of
extracts . The historians sent representations on March 31 to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and Chidambaram, asking them "to intervene and grant Heehs
his visa at the earliest, so that he is not forced to leave our shores by April
15, as presently threatened" . They also quoted a letter by rural
development minister Jairam Ramesh, who has read and deeply appreciated the book.
"Mr Heehs' biography of Sri Aurobindo,
justifiably commended by Shri Jairam Ramesh (as well as by scholars around the
world), is among the finest ever written of a major Indian nationalist and
spiritualist... It would be greatly to the detriment of our country to be seen
as having driven out an internationally recognised scholar who is committed to
writing biography and history of the highest calibre," they wrote.
Mr. Heehs, author of the book ‘The Lives of Sri
Aurobindo', had drawn the ire of a section of the spiritual leader's devotees
who say the work contains objectionable matters.
PC orders review into historian's visa row Hindustan Times
The ostensible reason being his ninth book, The
Lives of Sri Aurobindo. For years, religious fundamentalists have been
harassing Heehs over his non-hagiographic and more academic treatment of Sri Aurobindo's well-received
biography.
PC orders review into historian's visa row Hindustan Times
Home minister P Chidambaram on Saturday asked for a
review of an order denying American historian Peter Heehs a visa extension.
Heehs, who has been living in India
Cancellation of US historian Peter Heehs's visa to be reviewed:
P Chidambaram Economic Times NEW DELHI:
Home Minister P Chidambaram will review the decision
on cancellation of the visa of a US
Is extremists' objection to his book behind US historians
expulsion? Hindustan Times - Mar 30, 2012
The ostensible reason for the non-extension of
Heehs's visa, according to sources, is his ninth book, 'The Lives of Sri
Aurobindo'. For years, a handful of religious fundamentalists have been
harassing Heehs over his treatment of Sri Aurobindo's ...
The topic of workshop was “DEVELOPMENT OF TRAINING
MODULE FOR EDUCATIONAL MANAGERS BASED ON SRI AUROBINDO'S PHILOSOPHY”
Two days workshop was organised by the Shri
Aurobindo Studies Centre
Updated: 2012-03-30:17-32-12 N4E correspondent Lucknow
A two days workshop was organised by the Shri
Aurobindo Studies Centre under the Department of Education, University of Lucknow
The workshop was inaugurated by Shri R.K.
Mittal (Retired IAS). He was the chief guest at the inaugural
session. Dr. Varun Vidyarthi was the special guest and the program was
presided by Prof. Akhilesh chaube, Head, Department of Education, Universitry
of Lucknow.
Welcome lecture was delivered by Prof. Subodh Kumar,
Dean, Faculty of Education, Universitry of Lucknow and vote of thank was given
by Prof. Amita Bajpai, co-coordinater of the workshop.
The objective of that workshop was to
incorporate important suggestions to develop a training module for
managers of various private and public educational institutions. 30
participants from various educational institutions participated in the
workshop.
We are aspiring that all Sri Aurobindo and
the Mother works would be available for download in the contemporary digital
format so it would be possible to carry...
Sri Aurobindo describes this process: “This
would continue until the point was reached at which Overmind would begin itself
to be transformed into Supermind; the supramental consciousness and force would
take up the transformation directly ...
Here is Sri Aurobindo's answer, the best
that can be given to the second question: “Cast away from you these movements
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