Augustine turns out to be a standard-issue fascist

Rooted and Free - (Essay 2) As teenagers and students, we long for freedom. But with freedom comes the responsibility to take important and life-changing decisions. https://t.co/KEXYd949w5

@IndicAcademy, @IndicBookClub, @AdvaitaAcademy @yoginisd @DimpleAtre @ShefVaidya

https://twitter.com/indictoday/status/1163041902117044224?s=19

Hilarious! They fail to acknowledge that their own forefathers fought for the Brits & massacred Indian revolutionaries, which is a historical fact & in turn question the nationalism of Tagore, who gave up his knighthood. At least read some history🤦🏽‍♂️https://t.co/0zgCmzvliZ

https://twitter.com/IamSourav_b/status/1163206175720169472?s=19

1) Finished translating the eleventh chapter of Prithvirajavijaya.  It is a very convoluted chapter. On the one hand, most of it is involved in re-telling the story of Ramayana. But OTOH, there is a hint that Prithiviraja fell absolutely in love with the portrait of Tilottama.

https://twitter.com/maidros78/status/1163265862318485504?s=19

But Tilak famously wrote a book that Aryans came from the Arctic. Was he trying to feel proud that his ancestors were white? Is that science? https://t.co/bH6siAa4cH

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1163153634139484161?s=19

I respect him as philosopher & nationalist. Scientist - could be a stretch?

With due respect for Tilak as well as for your expressed feelings, please also be aware that Tilak had stood for caste discrimination and was against women's rights!

https://twitter.com/pulindsamant/status/1163306362597568514?s=19

..2 I wrote a letter to magazine.. of course, not published. But how many times have RSS / BJP bothered to write an official rebuttal, protesting at such abuse n gross misuse of word n lies to desc their agenda? If you leave field open, others will come fwd to occupy it fully..3

https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1162956165476601858?s=19

..3 n a "koop mandook" type mentality - that it does not matter as nobody reads them - w/n help; a friend (American Jew) once asked me why BJP/RSS are anti-Jews (b/c of these words as also that N-word used abt them). I explained which party has had what policy wrt Jews/Israel..4

The standard of the leading Ashram journals has gone down miserably, partly because the geniuses have left or too old, partly  due to d "frog in the well vision" n chiefly due to the promotion  of the underqualified to block talented young writers. Ego again!!!

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1162727511911854080?s=19

Let's hope. Most high class scholars of Sri Aurobindo live outside Pondicherry. Only a few like Deshpandeji  @Sampadananda , @drsbasu2115 n a few others are doing excellent work frm inside. Frog in the well vision! People laugh at their fake devotion!

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1163114586305810433?s=19

"The educated Indian,particularly the Hindu,suffers from such a deep loss of self-respect that he's unwilling to be recognized as such.He feels,in fact,deeply threatened by any surfacing or manifestation of the identity that he has worked so hard to, & has been trained to reject" https://t.co/eeaBGj9d0d

https://twitter.com/AbhinavAgarwal/status/1162032122099486721?s=19

The more time I spend on social media, the more I realise that disagreeing with someone publicly is just for instant gratification. I have been guilty of the same. Time to take corrective steps for peace of mind and better mental health.

https://twitter.com/nirwamehta/status/1163286447677300736?s=19

I am not sure if you even know about the heritage of "Kannada Jains". Some of the earliest surviving and finest works of Apabhramsha (ancestral language of Hindi) were composed by Jain monks under patronage of Hindu rulers of Karnataka.

Murkh lemurs! https://t.co/LddqtJYw4V

https://twitter.com/vajrayudha11/status/1163296076448882688?s=19

Had an absolutely amazing chat with Shrikant Talageri where we cover a wide range of issues from Tony Joseph's work, the prob with the scholarship in the Hindutva side & his latest blog on numbers & numerals & their relation to the OIT that he proposes. https://t.co/wZPJxpncMD

https://twitter.com/kushal_mehra/status/1162382161770622977?s=19

The goal of the #1619project is to reframe American history, and to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. https://t.co/Rk1ocNg3tZ https://t.co/cbVb3uSjwU

https://twitter.com/NYTmag/status/1161614177485672448?s=19

Amid the initial joy of the declaration that #Ladakh will now be a Union Territory, locals in and around Leh are now worried that letting in outsiders will come with its own price. Should the locals be worried? https://t.co/CQX6oVleNM

https://twitter.com/moneycontrolcom/status/1163314116414455809?s=19

“the 3 greatest enemies of the nation of its imagination are the morality of India’s constitution; its Muslim and Christian minorities; and its Left and liberal dissenters. We are witness now to the open declaration of war against all these three enemies” https://t.co/f7RT2GRgih

https://twitter.com/sonaliranade/status/1163282810049708033?s=19

This is the clearest argument of the infamous Two Nation Theory I have read recently. Though I don’t agree as far as India is concerned (the reasons should be apparent to anyone sensible who looks at India’s recent history and demographics), one can see how this argmt is potent. https://t.co/tMSDcmR1lM

https://twitter.com/HindolSengupta/status/1163271784470327296?s=19

This fault line was exposed by increase in education and literacy rates during British rule as C. A. Bayly states in "Origins of Nationality in South Asia" and Francis Robinson in "Islam and Muslim History in South Asia”. Further exacerbated by British censuses. 5/N

https://twitter.com/_merajhasan/status/1161586110704865280?s=19

The original Netra Sen & Nirad C. Chaudhuri are dead. But the Netra Sens have multiplied, রক্তবীজের বংশধর. Read about how a current Netra Sen, a Nirad  fanboy, @swapan55 Ji, has been betraying and damaging Hindu Bengalis through his RS interventions:  https://t.co/RVcrl8EZK8

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1163292153323380736?s=19

now reading this ebook by @CatherineNixey #thedarkeningage about the destruction of #greek and #roman #culture by #christians. we are seeing the same in action re destruction/#digestion of #hindu culture in india today by the same folks. https://t.co/UgR36qpsMe

https://twitter.com/RajeevSrinivasa/status/1034285719190003712?s=19

still the same: the unilateral declaration that the old gods are demons. isn't this standard logic applied by uncouth missionaries against hindu deities as well? this augustine fellow, lionized as some great, turns out to be a standard-issue fascist. reminds me of commie rants https://t.co/obxFjKQJE2

tomorrow, aug 17, is the first day of the year in the official malayalam calendar. it's 1194 Malabar Era, dating back to the founding of the port of kollam/quilon. it's chingam (leo) 1. happy new year to malayalis, including @NarenMenon1 @shilpamdas @NnnnRam @IchBinGorg @spv

https://twitter.com/RajeevSrinivasa/status/1162426206999973889?s=19

Sobering read on the tasks required to preserve our values as we are confronted w/ military aggression at the same time w/ morale-sapping influence ops. Not to mention unchecked mercantilism. @BonnieGlaser @AndrewSErickson @JamesKraska @jmohanmalik https://t.co/PdVFL0FKjg

https://twitter.com/SCS_Disputes/status/1163289877456142336?s=19

#SpaceMOMs exists, as a complete film, because it's an idea who's time has come: I don't want any Indian to cringe and cower on the world-stafe for being an Indian. You are the descendent of #aryabhatta. Stand tall. You are second to no one.

https://twitter.com/radhabharadwaj/status/1162946195053924353?s=19

"Today Narendra Modi’s name has also been included in the list of these great reformers after ban on triple talaq, which was infringing on the right of equality to Muslim women"- Sh @AmitShah on #TripleTalaqBill @spmrfoundation

https://t.co/UQe346DkI1

https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1163318613824008192?s=19

https://t.co/chyau5ekmc #Satprem

A short interview. Beautiful. Satprem speaks poignantly of "what is left when everything crumbles".

@kalisbrood @murlignosis

https://twitter.com/RaghuveerBelur/status/1163297084847427584?s=19

One I watch every now and then...also hard to reconcile the anguish expressed in Notebooks to his calm demeanour here...and I wonder what’s taking translators of the Notebooks so long..we really need to know how far he went...

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1163298899097874433?s=19

The first thing that anyone would notice upon meeting with #SriAurobindo were his eyes--mystic & immovable, his gaze fixed on infinity. #IndependenceDayIndia
https://t.co/QFTJ61T3Lb

https://twitter.com/Diff_View/status/1162022684890300416?s=19

"western approach to carrying on the legacy of their epic poetry is shaped by the intellectual ideas of the ancient Greek & Roman thinkers.On the other hand, India's adhyatmic civilization has adopted a different approach to preserving and popularizing the Ramayana & Mahabharata"

https://twitter.com/AndhraPortal/status/1163263856086376448?s=19

"VVS Aiyar became a practicing lawyer...He traveled to England to seek his fortunes, only to spurn a lucrative career and dedicate himself to India's freedom struggle against the despotic British Raj...His commentary on Kamba #Ramayanam was compiled when lodged in...jail"

"VVS Aiyar was fluent in #Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, English, Greek, & was an acknowledged master of Latin, among other languages. He was well placed to study the primary sources in #Indic and Western literature (he mastered French just so he could study Napoleon's memoirs"

Brahmagupta Was 7th Century  Indian Mathematician and Astronomer. He Is the Author of  Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta .He Lived In Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh . His Work Was Translated In to Arabic by Astronomer Muhammad al-Fazari https://t.co/5A0pvrKepS

https://twitter.com/IndiaHistorypic/status/1163131722818445312?s=19

Part 3/5: 25 Year Journey - Becoming a Scholar

Rajiv shares his secrets on how he became a very successful research author, challenging many established intellectual equilibriums concerning India.

Watch On YouTube: CLICK Please watch and post your comments. Watch other episodes in this series here:CLICK

rajivmalhotra2011@gmail.com

Asian historicism before Protestantism

by Amod Lele

We are surely familiar with the pattern by now: members of an Asian tradition are concerned about supposed corruptions in their tradition which depart from the intentions of the tradition's historic founders, so they turn with renewed focus to the historical texts that they take to be at the tradition's centre. We, with our historical hindsight, now know that this Asian concern with texts and founders is an alien importation, the work of colonial subjects aping their Protestant missionary rulers' search for textual historicity. Except for one thing: it isn't. Read more of this post Amod Lele August 18, 2019

Who is afraid of ‘Philosophy’ in India?— A guest post by Mrinal Kaul

One such experiment was made by the well-known philosopher and public intellectual Sundar Sarukkai at Manipal in 2010 where I teach now. His idea was to create a committed space for the study of philosophy, both eastern and western. Unfortunately, that did not happen. Sarrukai decided to leave the institution in 2016 and recently philosophy was also removed from the curriculum. The question is not about philosophy or not-philosophy. ‘Philosophy will survive far better outside these institutions’, as Sundar Sarukkai would put it. The question is why are institutions afraid of serious engagement with philosophy?