Assorted tweets:
The person who gave us Tuglak, Nagamandala, Bali, Hayavadana and more, also recreated Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in Kannada–Jnanapit Award winner, and littérateur, #GirishKarnad is no more. Karnataka can't thank you enough for your contribution. https://t.co/qD0X4kBDXF
https://twitter.com/ananthshreyas/status/1137935268910997506?s=19
With Girish Karnad's passing, I write for @newslaundry on the decline of India's once robust tradition of literary multilingualism - a tradition that informed, shaped Karnad's own work. I focus specifically on cosmopolitanism in #Kannada literature. https://t.co/AV5O4jGGNu
https://twitter.com/SandalBurn/status/1139847609911136256?s=19
Once upon a time, there was an India—a Karnataka—in which a #GirishKarnad could co-direct and do the screenplay for ‘Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane’, a movie based on a book of the same name by S.L. Bhyrappa (in Hindi as ‘Godhuli’). https://t.co/P7XflyrH2G
https://twitter.com/churumuri/status/1137962439599747072?s=19
Hahahahaha! Sri Aurobindo listened to Baba Alauddin Khan for 4 hours frm his secluded room in Pondicherry. 2 hours in the morning n 2 in the evening. Said: " Alauddin n I were known to each other in our previous lives."
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1142664029845856256?s=19
To do justice to multiple schools of philosophy from India, Aurobindo presents a recommended order of readings in the opening para here. https://t.co/I88JOa4gMm
(I am not recommending this recommendation, but sharing it to prompt the sharing of other such recommendations!)
https://twitter.com/longhandnotes/status/1142643210042261504?s=19
Each individual has to find the right intellectual resources by applying sufficient critical scrutiny. Chasing celebrities is an easy trap for adolescents to get misguided. Even education system or media can be misleading. Political preference also deprives of authentic knowledge
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1140681514390175744?s=19
High culture is almost synonymous with the higher consciousness stressed by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo. This in a way is antithetical to the folk and popular culture lapped up by the subaltern scholars and postmodernist sociologists. No doubt, a huge chasm exists; hard to bridge.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1139824991736721408?s=19
There can be various opinions about the past which keeps on changing but the truth is that contact with European education and culture gave the Bengalis the first mover's advantage. Their position is secure in history; no one can dispute with that or remove them from the pedestal
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1139373173680431104?s=19
Even after successive spiritual experiences, Sri Aurobindo chose the intellectual route to spread his synthetic knowledge and Integral vision. No single text can impart that and the right course perhaps is to rummage through one hundred primary volumes with a childlike curiosity.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1142352498490871808?s=19
6) Hymns 33 - 38 (Verses 384 - 471):
Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 01, Sukta 033 to 038 (including the journey of the Sun and the workings of the Maruts);
with #SriAurobindo's explanation of the basis of His psychological theory for translating the Vedas https://t.co/vmJtv5jrDo
https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1142497402563125248?s=19
“A change of consciousness is the whole meaning of the process of Yoga.” #SriAurobindo To commemorate #InternationalYogaDay2019, the SAFIC yoga class gave a demonstration of Hathayoga, Yugma yoga (yoga in pairs), Mantra yoga - all done as an offering to the Divine Mother. https://t.co/CsaR7K5HfB
https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1142443177514811397?s=19
This book is an incisive rejoinder by Sri Aurobindo 2 Archer's proposition that entirety of Indian philosophy, religion, art, & literature was a mass of barbarism. Earlier titled ' Foundations of Indian Culture' it gives a holistic view of Hindu culture.
https://t.co/lAtYNy95AN https://t.co/TwAJfHLDWb
https://twitter.com/hindueshop/status/1142390207674646528?s=19
All credit goes to Vivek Madhav sir....he is tirelessly serving mother and sri aurobindo without thinking about any name fame
https://twitter.com/omram1206/status/1142459131493801984?s=19
The distinction between name and word is as the distinction between symbol and sign, and we see in this distinction between name and word, symbol and sign McGilchrist's distinction between Master and Emissary modes of attention -- the first and second attentions.
I think we can see here that Castaneda's use of the Toltec terms "nagual" and "tonal" for the 1st and 2nd attentions is the same as McGilchrist's "Master" and "Emissary" modes of the divided brain, and Aurobindo's "Sovereign" and "Minister" relation.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1142470518379036673?s=19
Do you have hurt feelings? Flight Of The Conchords has always helped me laugh at life's absurdities and might be one of the best written shows on TV. A musical parody that can only come from a place of pain. "It hurts our feelings when you say that we are not rappers." https://t.co/KDZeHcyHzN
https://twitter.com/coenesqued/status/1138498394081468416?s=19
"In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you." Abbas Kiarostami, the beloved filmmaker who created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of all time, was born on this day in 1940. https://t.co/rGCLKRagpT
https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1142402697934622720?s=19
Roger Ebert writes criticism and essays with poetic agility. Here is his work that led me to watch The Spirit of The Beehive (1973). A film with more secret cinematic influence on other filmmakers than you can shake a stick at. #HappyBirthdayRoger
https://t.co/KZIA0KIHdI https://t.co/dMM7l4BiTL
https://twitter.com/coenesqued/status/1141024551188353024?s=19
Is it at all a coincidence that film critic #RogerEbert's birthday falls on the exact same day as #TheWildBunch's 50th anniversary? I think not. Check out Ebert's Great Movies list at https://t.co/3iMiC0L2Fe with his great Tough Guy entries, including the Bunch! #ToughGuyTuesday https://t.co/PHPN2W0Vdt
https://twitter.com/RanesHook/status/1141070890974814208?s=19
The decline of democracy will be reversed only if the U.S. again takes up the mantle of democracy promotion, writes @LarryDiamond, but to do so effectively, it first has to repair its own broken democracy. https://t.co/OyevtaCSGa
https://twitter.com/ForeignAffairs/status/1142668012195123200?s=19
I'm an analytic philosopher who just recently discovered the propaganda against continental philosophy is wrong. Sartre, De Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau Ponty (or MMP for friends), Fanon. What should I do? What are some good overview works on these people (or others?)
https://twitter.com/Helenreflects/status/1142550306527428608?s=19
There's a gigantic but interesting book on Levinas by Michael Morgan, "Discovering Levinas"—it's nice for us because he compares and contrasts him with analytic philosophers like Korsgaard, Darwall, etc. It risks anachronisms but #YOLO.
https://t.co/wrbXPgO2DH
https://twitter.com/philoshua/status/1142606377619210241?s=19
Explore #Foucault's thoughts on homosexuality in this OUP blog. A major influence on #queertheory, he examined the issues of power, repression, and sexuality and the ways in which societies penalize those who reject the norms #PrideMonth #philosopherOTM https://t.co/OuI06CYOcq
https://twitter.com/OUPPhilosophy/status/1142401879009136641?s=19
Gutenberg did not invent the printing press: https://t.co/GKQXAA0Xx6 | Remarkable. I remember the headache the Pakistanis caused the W Germans in the late 1940s when they asked for an Urdu typewriter. For Chinese and Korean...
https://twitter.com/orsoraggiante/status/1142631009835352065?s=19
I guess a lesson here for the Rest is to invest in History and not hand over national narratives to European and American universities. But alas, not even bad narratives can be replaced by quackery!
So his YouTube videos will also be a pile of snippets I guess, just like his hollow snippet analysis of rrmr, sv etc :) and iirc, some even recommended a chairperson seat for him in ICHR or whatever https://t.co/ftL8oqKW5u
https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1142466553381658624?s=19
Nothing on earth probably matches premodern/modern bengali literature, it's a mix of rationality, mysticism, culture, poetry that exceeds the best of music, yoga, vedanta. But it's roots to this magnificent blooming lie in the charja poems of deha tattva from a millennium back. https://t.co/V0U0tjZkKi
https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1142416919254818817?s=19
Doesn't matter what u admire or not, or ur zeal in seeking percentage of sanskrit in regional langs, and neither is sanskrit proportion the yardstick to judge literary quality, the flow of thoughts&ideas can come in any decent language,pre-modern bengali lit carries best of it. https://t.co/sLV7BeYoIy
https://twitter.com/iridines/status/1142474180648062982?s=19
From the perspective of the exegetical imperative towards comprehensive synthesis, any religion or spirituality that defines itself fundamentally oppositionally, against another idea or version of religion; atheism, Satanism, SBNR, etc. fails as both religion and spirituality.
Challenge of Panikkar’s pluralism and the path dependent imperatives of the comparative history of religions collide. Not necessarily in opposition...
https://twitter.com/krumbbumm/status/1142511379712098305?s=19
Teach British tourists the truth about empire – they can take it https://t.co/PXdMS8zdbt
I have a problem wth judging cultural artefacts by 'moral' standards. Whether u are RW nd dont want anti-Hindutva stuff like Leila up or liberal nd dont want misogynist Kabir Singh shown, u r in the same camp which thinks it has th right 2 tell every1 what they CAN consume. Stfu
https://twitter.com/utterflea/status/1142678285291098112?s=19
Judge a work by its quality. Does th premise work, is it successful in creating a world, do u c th POV of th charactrs, does it add to your understanding?
2 say something shld not be made or shown or outrage based on its 'moral' shortcomings is the sign of a closed mind.
Kerala has 'great' female gender indices but toxic masculinity is still present in popular culture/everyday life. Many feminists have written how rape scenes were so common in mainstream cinema there. Again, no paradox. Gender indices do not capture intensity of patriarchy. https://t.co/Z25Rdx2hpV
https://twitter.com/varunpatilbeng1/status/1142357844605280256?s=19
Rude Food: Did Coldplay appropriate our culture?Did George Harrison appropriate Indian music?Is Gordon Ramsay appropriating Asian food at his new London restaurant?
Of course not.Indians have always welcomed the cross fertilisation of food & culture https://t.co/JY7tQdovvU
https://twitter.com/virsanghvi/status/1142664325850550272?s=19
If we didn't welcome outside ideas I dont think I would have ever been able to eat Chinese. I can only eat the desified version( I know I know!). Bring it all on and let there be Indian influences everywhere so that all of us can enjoy new food everywhere we go.
https://twitter.com/princesssiggy/status/1142667471649988610?s=19
Not just food, imagine how unidimensional our lives would have been if there weren’t any cross border influences in our language, music, art, literature, clothing etc. It would be a sad colourless life!!
https://twitter.com/ranchisparrow/status/1142667425567014912?s=19
The beauty of learning from this great game...Shami makes a statement with a strong comeback. Cricket teaches you so much about life if you're observing closely #cricketlife
https://twitter.com/shishhattangadi/status/1142685069737259008?s=19
I used to think this is unique to cricket. Then I realised chess also does that. Then tennis. Finally realised that when you see life through the learning lens, you could actually be learning all the time. And growing! #growthmindset https://t.co/MVOEdLjsG0
https://twitter.com/bvhk/status/1142685714162888704?s=19
Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam? Addictive. So much more impactful than the Devdas cult and gave so much space to the women characters. https://t.co/FFeDNiGSUW
https://twitter.com/ammarawrites/status/1142685512391700482?s=19
Prachi Valley: Odisha's Best Kept Secret !
Ancient Prachi river is a part of Mahanadi n is termed as the Saraswati (holiest) river of the east. It has witnessed the co-existence of various religion ideologies like Jainism, Buddhism,Shaivism, Shaktism & Vaishnavism #PrachiValley https://t.co/N10pM1yfVW
https://twitter.com/TaraniTrotter/status/1139595269182390272?s=19
Nowhere in India can one find such a confluence of diff cultures & cults in this small stretch of river valley. Its undoubtedly the mine for archaeologists, historians, scholars etc #PrachiValley #SavePrachi
Loc: Rameswar Temple, Nuasasan, Cuttack @ashishsarangi https://t.co/xC2yZTjyyR
https://twitter.com/TaraniTrotter/status/1139606463779725314?s=19
Oh really sir ! Many places in Odisha have a suffix as 'lo', Kantilo, Brahmanajharilo, Sisilo etc. Sailo might be related with saila (stone) i.e Shailodbhavas (born from stone) dynasty (6-8th cent)
https://twitter.com/TaraniTrotter/status/1139831957871665153?s=19
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