Thursday, December 28, 2023

Majoritarianism goes against constitutional imagination

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

I went through your list. Good stuff. But  may I recommend Stanislaw Lem and the Strugatsky brothers? These are a bit slow burning but ultimately much more rewarding than 99.9% of the stuff out there. East Europe elevated Sci fi to literature. A very different evolution.

https://twitter.com/KunalLal84/status/1738881727987327052?t=RiQZ0Trfh8WgcwJewerFHQ&s=19

May I recommend The Dawn of Everything (book) by Wengrow and Graeber and also Meditations on Molloch by Scott Alexander (blog post) for looking at this question in a deep and nuanced way.

https://twitter.com/KunalLal84/status/1740029417911673041?t=U97-xYj_lgSmU4Ss3DGWhA&s=19

I love the phrase "human nature" because whenever someone uses it I can just disregard everything else they say. It's a fantasy like the Tooth Fairy or the Browns's Super Bowl chances but for the most annoying people on earth.

https://twitter.com/DemonicAlias/status/1739718964840706420?t=i4lFQNcOqX2YMYD61m1pmg&s=19

Hi Nate I'm an anthropologist and this is extremely incorrect!

Humans evolved to be interdependent because we are a social species. Capitalism is a system of infinite growth in a finite environment, the only "natural" comparison that comes close to that is cancer

https://twitter.com/hilaryagro/status/1739807518136656170?t=hHxWAdW_6op8sXRtVcnn5Q&s=19

Been thinking more about this and can’t help but wonder that more people need to read this Marshall Sahlins essay. Both Joe and Nate are making a deeply ideological point despite portraying it to be logically self-evident. 

Sahlin’s essay is an important critique of that ideological understanding of history. The point is not to romanticize pre-modern societies as some rustic utopias but to question our premises of progress and development. 

uvm.edu/~jdericks/EE/S

https://twitter.com/fictitious_cap/status/1739879154349379937?t=sF31Sa2J6uPsXrzzqhlBHQ&s=19

Amod Lele

Dec 17

In everyday communities and institutions – families, universities, businesses, clubs – we cannot help but engage in politics, in the sense of influencing or making collective decisions. I think political philosophy does better when it turns its attention to those communities and institutions smaller than the state, where most of our political actions take place: political philosophy should be a philosophy not just of the state but of office politics, of academic politics.

In that regard, I've noticed an interesting commonality between two works whose authors likely wouldn't see themselves as having anything in common: Graeber and Wengrow's anarchist anthropology The Dawn of Everything, and the standards set out by the Project Management Institute. Graeber and Wengrow look at a wide range of anthropological and archaeological sources on how humans organize their societies; the Project Management Institute examines how an individual (a project manager) can get a group of people to succeed at a collective institutional goal.

[PDF] Without it, all virtues are an act.

E Zorn
Different countries in the world have different political systems of governance. Many may profess to adhere to the same or similar ideologies, such as capitalism, socialism, or democracy, but the nature of the State as a governing agency may …

[PDF] Exploring the Role of Disaggregated Incoherent Regime Components on Intrastate Violence and Religious Identity and Out-group Animosity

L Yacuta - 2023
In this dissertation I explore the factors driving of intrastate violence on an institutional and individual level. The first two papers are based off the same theoretical backing – that when intra-regime components do not support one …

Sacred Time and Religious Violence: Evidence from Hindu-Muslim Riots in India

F Allie - Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023
How and when can religious times become focal points for communal violence? In the context of Hindu-Muslim riots in India, I argue that incompatible ritual holidays where one religion’s rituals are at odds with another (eg, sacrificing cows or …

Corporate power and the rise of intangibles: A study of Indian firms

RA Sirohi - Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2023
In the context of the developed economies, recent political economy scholarship has highlighted the growing role of intangible assets (brand equity, software, business processes, patents etc.) in corporate portfolios. Much of this literature has …

[PDF] CHAPTER-14 TOPIC-MEDIATING BODY AND SOCIETY IN VEDIC PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

K GHATWAL - Rebuilding Teaching Learning Competencies in Digital …
… More than worldly materials, knowledge and intellectual plays an integral aspect. … In Gurukul the Educational Activities are such that it teaches how to control anxiety with Yoga and Meditation. Through regular practice of Yoga as a way of Lifestyle …

[PDF] STRESS-RELIEF, MEDITATION, AND THEIR PERVASIVE INFLUENCE ON HEALTH AND ANTI-AGING: A HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE

B Doskaliuk - Anti-Aging Eastern Europe, 2023
… The mind-body connection, including practices like yoga and tai chi, fosters holistic well-being. It emphasizes the role of mindfulness and … In our constantly changing world, stress has become an integral aspect of our daily lives. However, as …

[PDF] INFLUENCE OF STRESS ON INDIVIDUAL HEALTH–A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS

MA Boaz, G Gnanaraj - Journal of Research Administration, 2023
Stress is considered as an integral part of modern life. It is the psychological or physiological reaction that occurs when an individual perceives an imbalance between the level of demand placed upon him and his capability for meeting that …

[PDF] Author Exchange

S Pati, M Banerjee - 2023
… The hegemonic hold of a single party in New Delhi is not just electoral, but a cultural and ideological one through Hindutva or Hindu majoritarianism that goes against the very constitutional imagination of a diverse and plural India. The hold of …

[PDF] The Politico-Economic Dimensions of the Kashmir Conflict-A Historical and Contemporary Analysis

A Abbas, M Khan - Pakistan Journal of Law, Analysis and Wisdom, 2023
The Kashmir Conflict has been a bone of contention between India and Pakistan for more than seven decades. As a consequence of this, the prospects of good neighborly relations have been hampered especially in the realm of economy. This …

[PDF] SUBALTERNITY IN THE WORKS OF ROHINTON MISTRY AND ARAVIND ADIGA

R MISTRY - DIALOGICS OF MARGINALITY IN THE WORKS OF …
… Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance set in post-independence India, for instance, demonstrates how the rise of Hindutva marginalized the Muslims and made it clear to the Parsis that they were an ethnic minority in Hindu India. Further caste …

Sachindra Nath Sanyal

SN Sanyal
Sanyal founded a branch of the Anushilan Samiti in Patna in 1913.[2] He was extensively involved in the plans for the Ghadar conspiracy, and went underground after it was exposed in February 1915. He was a close associate of Rash Behari …

Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture: Introduction to the Play Field Theory

F Lebed - 2024
The psychological dependence of humanity on playing is huge. Its nature and functional utility are unclear. These linked yet contradictory issues have created the intrigue that has fed philosophical thought for more than two hundred years. During …

[PDF] Role of Indian English Literature in Nation Building in Pre-Independent Era: With Special Reference to Raja Rammohun Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Sir Aurobindo

AK Deshmukh
This paper is an attempt to study the role of Indian English Literature in nation building during preindependent era with special reference to Raja Rammohun Roy, Rabindranath Tagore and Sir Aurobindo. Literature portrays human life in all …

Ascetic, Alekha and Ambivalence: The Mahima Movement in Eastern India

S Sahoo, S Mohanty, PK Swain - Review of Development and Change, 2023
Historians and sociologists stride on unchartered terrain when it comes to studying social movements, especially those termed ‘historyless’, the marginal communities. This paper deals with India’s most unique socioreligious movement called Mahima …

Urban Sustainable Development in East Asia: Understanding and Evaluating Urban Sustainable Trends in China and Japan

X Zou - 2024
This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development. Urban sustainability is …

Designing kindergartens in context of sustainable urban development: Foreign experience

I Potapchuk - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023
… The building changes its identity and itself becomes a landscape - a metaphor of the urban jungle, where plants and wild animals become a natural and integral part of the architecture of the object. The project is an illustrative example of the skill of …

[PDF] Connect between Artificial Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence at workplace

A Nandan, M Arya, R Binjola, T Chaudhary
… on mental health and focus need to given on training such as Yoga, Meditation, social outdoor activities which helps employees to bulid stronger … When employees become an integral part of the organization they develop a sense of …

The future is now. An introduction to prefigurative politics: edited by Lara Monticelli and published by Bristol, UK, Bristol University Press, 2022, 276 pp.,£ 80.00 …

N Bertuzzi - 2023
‘If you are reading this book, you’ve probably heard about the concept of “prefigurative politics” before and are looking forward to knowing more about it; or maybe this is the first time that you’re reading about it. Either way, you are in the right place’ …

It was a joy feeling the morning's energy and welcoming it with a prayer. To share a mate tea, chat without schedules and clocks, and let the conversations about …

R Carmona, J Rupayan - Changing Seasonality: How Communities Are Revising …, 2024
Hope Flanagan is a cultural educator and storyteller in the Minneapolis Native community who teaches and leads plant walks in Native communities across the state of Minnesota. Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist …

“We Invite You for Lunch”: Post/Colonial Subjectivities and Performances of Tourism in Puducherry, India

A Chakraborty - Tourism Cases, 2023
… attraction, Puducherry draws in a host of secular pilgrims to Aurobindo Ashram, founded by Aurobindo Ghosh, an Indian nationalist who escaped to Pondicherry from British India and withdrew from politics and resorted to Hindu mysticism and its …

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

DEI and GCED

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

[PDF] Towards Integral Man: Key Indices and Processes of Development in Gurdjieff's “Man Number Five”

H Lloyd - INTEGRAL REVIEW, 2023
This paper has two contributions. The first contribution is to elaborate upon key indices, that Gurdjieff describes, that may be used to identify “man number five” as a distinct conception. Much has been written about work related to “man number four” …

Peace Education and Integral Ecology: Inspiration in Piaget at the Legacy of Pierre Weil

MA Ribeiro - The Transnational Legacy of Jean Piaget: A View from …, 2023
… We observed that mainly the cultural traditions in Asia, such as yoga of Hinduism in India and Buddhist tradition in Tibet, Japanese Zen … traditions and peace research organizations and to promote programs of integral education for peace …

[PDF] THE CONFLUENCE OF INDIAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND ANCIENT INDIAN WISDOM IN THE SELECTED POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

RR HEGDE
… Sri Aurobindo’s vision of integral yoga is the best example in this regard. In contrast the western philosopher like Thomas Hobbes who put forth his idea of social contract emphasized on the importance of individuality as the necessity to …

The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya

SE Lindquist - 2023
… in the Brahminical world and this figure plays an integral role in various parts of the text. In a … While the earliest material does not discuss Yajnavalkya in relation to yoga-it is likely that a … within the ancient" and his association with yoga and …

[PDF] Sri Aurobindo's Yogic Vision of 'Electron'as a Form of Consciousness and the 'Probability Wave'of the Quantum Theory

N Kumar - 2023
… In reality it is still consciousness that works in the energy and determines the form and the evolution of form (Sri Aurobindo, 1979). Modern physics in its quantum theory has taken a decisive turn towards the realisation of such a discovery of Sri …

[PDF] Indian Knowledge System: Nurturing the Course of Time

SB Singh, S Kumar - LITERARY QUEST
India is the fertile land of jnana (knowledge) and when we talk about the jnana that is not confined to cognitive and skill developments as it is generally viewed. The jnana refers to all those physical and subtle knowledge which help to complete the …

[PDF] Finding the Voice of Indian Urbanity–Through the Selected Texts of Girish Karnad and Mahesh Dattani

S Fatima - 2023
In the present paper, I have endeavored to review the development of Indian English theatre since 20th century to emphasize the common themes and dilemmas that the Indian playwrights writing in English had to deal with special reference to the …

Can the subaltern decolonize? The limits and possibilities of decolonial global citizenship education in India

Y Mochizuki - PROSPECTS, 2023
The dominant policy discourse of sustainable development—including that of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—posits that we are facing a civilizational crisis, in which the current, universalized model of “development” no longer holds up …

INDIAN TELEVISION AND THE RISE OF THE LOCAL

RS Jalarajan, AK Suresh - Television Publics in South Asia: Mediated Politics and …, 2023
Television, beyond the limits of being a technological entity and medium of communication, encompasses a wide range of elements associated with populations and their collective existence as units of distinct cultural practices and …

“I Rest as I Move”: Exhaustion, Fatigue, and Somatic Movement

H Saumaa - Integrative and Complementary Therapies, 2023
… To pick up the weights, to dedicate the time for exercising, to see a movement practice as an integral part of one's daily life is another … Yoga can similarly teach us to value rest. In yogic practices such as Hatha yoga and Kundalini yoga, physical …

[HTML] How is it that God “thinks in man”?

GT Martin
… As with Harris and Teilhard, for Indian sage Sri Aurobindo the human being is integral to this process of cosmic evolution now alive in us as our capacity for self-transcendence. “The universe and the individual are necessary to each other in their ascent,” …

[PDF] ORAL LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS, EMOTIONS, BELIEFS AND LIFE-WISDOM

A Kumar - Commerce and Management Volume III, 2023
This chapter focuses on the influence and contribution of unique figures in Indian literature. They are prestigious and mostly bio-lingual writers of regional and English languages. In all an outstanding figure Manoj Das who has also written his eminent …

[HTML] South-South Cooperation and Decoloniality

E Mawdsley - Challenging Global Development: Towards …, 2023
… Whatever one’s views on the value of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy), the forces of Hindutva in … his exposition on decoloniality to the hate-fuelled agenda of Hindutva. There are many now socially …

Technology, innovation and leisure: Leisure engagement in new and unexpected ways

MA Devine, T Gale - Journal of Leisure Research, 2023
The interweaving of technology and leisure has become an integral part of leisure choice, access, engagement, management, and product development. This interweaving has resulted in new and innovative ways people can access leisure …

'We too have the Sun'1: Literatures from the Adivasi and Dalit communities of East India

S Mukherjee - Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India
… The Hindutva group ABKVA sees a connection based on the fact that ‘the Vanavasis find a mention in all ancient scriptures/literatures of our nation. In Ramayana, there are several references like Shabari, Baali, Sugreev, etc., while …

The Anti-Feminist Narrative of the Hindu Right in India

H Naaz
… The research for this chapter was conducted by consulting texts written by Hindutva ideologues and activists, historical accounts, journalistic pieces, news, survey reports, academic research articles and internet sources. The chapter argues …

Female Narratives of Protest: Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia

N Sengupta, SS Sinha - 2023
This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest. The book …

Drawing on Eastern Spiritual Traditions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as Guideposts in an Increasingly Unpredictable World

J Marques, P Kumar, T Culham - Journal of Business Ethics, 2023
Supporting the concept of DEI, yet, perturbed by the volatility that marks today’s societal and professional climate, the authors of this article examined three Eastern spiritual traditions in search of common guidelines addressing contemporary issues …

[HTML] Movement is Medicine: A Look at Physical Activity and Mental Health

H Haslem
The body needs movement daily. It’s very simple and yet complicated in our modern lifestyle. Some common barriers to physical activity include lack of time, social support, interest, energy, motivation, perceived lack of fitness, fear of injury, and joint …

Getting Past the Ego: Modern Advaita and the Cultivation of a Nondual Habitus

E Thorsén - Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies: Lived Religion …, 2023
… Although being less well-known in comparison with other systems such as yoga, Modern Advaita is a well-established part of the range of … Modernized forms of Advaita constitute an integral part of the range of Eastern-derived teachings and …

After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance

A Amin - 2023
… Here was a martial majbuti typical of Hindutva nationalism, intolerant of the open and inclusive society, as we saw in the group’s casual mockery of nearby JNU students, Muslims, liberals and opposers of India’s new discriminatory citizenship …

[HTML] The 'Dalit Idea Of India'or The 'Idea Of A Dalit India?'–Nation, People And Power Politics–Manas Patra

B Jitu
… This blended idea, contrary to its apparent appearance, is not retaliation against the ongoing Brahmanisation in a growing Hindutva paradigm… To what extent we can achieve this idea by negating the Hindutva behemoth depends on the progress …

[PDF] Topological Tropology of VS Naipaul's Islamic Travelogues and Daniel Pipes' Islamic History: Ahistorical Historicism

M Habibullah - CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2023
… Naipaul’s ethnocentrism, as William Dalrymple argues, is substantiated by his commitment to the Hindutva ideology of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and BJP while delivering a lecture to an election campaign assembly of BJP in 2004 …

[PDF] VIVEKANANDA AND THE QUESTION OF THE OTHER

M MANDAL
This thesis on the works of Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) is an attempt to understand how Vivekananda made sense of the marginalized, oppressed and subjugated groups of people, across caste, gender, religion, and race, and what …

The Illiberal turn in Indian democracy: shifting the trajectory of India's foreign policy

V Ashok, V Thomas - India Review, 2023
… In addition to the rise in sectarian politics fanned by the championing of Hindutva ideology by the governing party, the Indian democracy’s deviation in the past few years can be understood through certain legislative changes in the second term of …

[PDF] Rewriting of Hindu Mythology in Popular Indian English Novels

P Bharali
… Some opine that the popularity of mythological writings in recent years has been triggered by the recent wave of Hindutva in India. Mythologist V. … These developments may have been aided by a distinct wave of Hindutva resurgence that …

Learning from Other Religions

D Brown - 2023
One common argument against taking the notion of divine revelation seriously is the extraordinrary diversity which exists betwen the world's major religions. How can God be thought to have spoken to humanity when the conclusions drawn are so very …

Friday, August 18, 2023

History happens just once in a lifetime

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007). Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother. 

12 hours ago — This is the first talk of the series on Sri Aurobindo's magnum opus 'The Life Divine'. It is meant to be a chapter-wise summary. Read More ...
9 hours ago — This webinar is based on looking at Sri Aurobindo as a representative of the Divine upon earth. Read More.
10 hours ago — It is a collective effort of many souls united in their aspiration and devotion to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and the Supramental Force which they have ...
10 hours ago — It is a collective effort of many souls united in their aspiration and devotion to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and the Supramental Force which they have ...
4 hours ago — Swami Vivekananda upheld Advaita's compatibility with modern reasoning akin to scientific research; Sri Aurobindo embraced the Upanishads and Advaita; ...

[HTML] Entangled in the Web of Conflicts

L Butkutė, D Mortelmans, J Sondaitė - European Journal of Psychology Open, 2023
… People talked about learning meditation, attending yoga classes or self-discovery
courses, attending church, or doing sports. Some argued that the only way to go
through the initial emotional turmoil was to become immersed in intensive work. One 

Book Review: Why I am not a Hindu woman by Wandana Sonalkar

Pooja, A Dhilroh, Z Husain - 2023
… According to her, Hinduism is faith-centric while Hindutva is power-centric;
Hinduism cherishes diversity while Hindutva opposes it; … while Hindutva fights
against them. Departing from the usual assertion that Hindutva is bad and Hinduism …

Munshi, Gujarat, and the Patan Trilogy1

R Kothari, A Kothari - Indian Modernities: Literary Cultures from the 18th to …, 2023
This (Aryan) culture, however, is to be found in the sense of continuity; in the
consciousness of Indian unity, in the permanent values in which the Indians have
always seen the fulfilment of life; in the ethical and idealistic absolutes which have …

12 Film as a majoritarian framework of Hindu nationalism

P Jain, A Raina - Film and Place in an Intercultural Perspective: India …, 2023
… In this grand narrative (about Hindutva), the idea of the people–nation is as old as
Indian civilisation. And the upper caste Hindu male, speaking a northern Indian
language is the most legitimate Indian, and every other identity is to be defined and …

A Historian of Technology Watches" The King, His Kitchen, and Other Stories"

B Kagliwal - Technology and Culture, 2023
abstract: Public representation of Indian cuisine is important for historians of
technology. It shows how progress, modernity, and innovation pervade the general
public's understanding of South Asian food history. Based on a popular …

[PDF] EFFECTIVE MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE IN MIND RETENTION INDIAN CULTURE, HERITAGE AND HISTORY FOR STUDENTS

SF Jeya, AR Saravanakumar
… As a result, time and space are integral components of history. The fact that
history happens just once in a lifetime is one of the features of … For instance,
Indian literature and scriptures such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Gita, and Yoga …

Playing it the nation's way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films

P Radhakrishnan, D Ray - Contemporary South Asia, 2023
The generic popularity of Hindi sports films has been overwhelming in recent years.
The article examines this genre of Hindi films through the thematic construction of
the sports‘man’ and its evolutionary manifestation from a masculine figure …

[PDF] We May Disagree, but We All Love the BJP: Populists' Networks and Targeting Opportunities on Twitter

IA Maxwell - Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 2023
… Since its founding in 1925, the RSS has propagated the ideology of Hindutva (“Hindu-ness”):
all Indians are ultimately Hindus because … Championing Hindutva, the RSS has
sought to undermine secular government in favor of an ethnicized Hindu nation-state.Footnote …

Infinite Praise: Beyond the Constituted Finitude of Life and Liberty

S Choudhury - Liberalism and its Encounters in India
… The third dimension that we might extract from Savarkar’s discourse is his
eventual political interest in securing a saturated Hindu Polity which he himself calls
the stakes of HindutvaHindutva includes the politics of constituted state power and …

16 From Villain to Superhero

CS Lanka - Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation …, 2023
… Ramanujan's essay was removed from the Delhi University Curriculum in 2012 in
the context of a strengthening Hindutva movement. 5 Yet, Ramanujan was merely
demonstrating, with specific examples, the various retellings of a well-known story …

Secularism and Its Theological Interior: An Anthropologist's Demand on Faith

A Majumder - Liberalism and its Encounters in India
In this chapter, I investigate the secular persona of the anthropologist as she begins
to ask some troubling questions of faith. I provide an autoethnography trying to show
certain aporias surrounding the self-conscious journey of a secular person (in this …

Varieties of intellectual decolonisation: an introduction

G Hull - Social Dynamics, 2023
… Sai Deepak – who is, like Ram Swarup, a prominent voice in the Hindutva current
of thought and political activism. Sen describes the evolution of Mignolo’s
Decoloniality thinking from its beginnings in a “critique of authenticities” to its mature …

Hinduism, Yoga and Indian Culture: The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

A Vohra, K Ramesh - 2023
This volume is a collection of K. Satchidananda Murty's unpublished writings. It
presents Murty's views on Hinduism, Indian culture, and Yoga. Murty traces the
etymological origins of the term'dharma'and discusses its contemporary relevance to …

Art and Ethics in India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

N Bhushan, AK Mehrotra - The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art, 2023
… At the same time, ethical lessons regarding good and evil characters, and explicit
and implicit conventions of morality have been an integral part of the ancient … He
argued that art was a yoga or discipline that enables the artist to embody an intuition …

[HTML] Gandhi falling… and rising

R Rao - Journal of Historical Geography, 2023
… Among those who passed through it was the young Vinayak Damodar Savarkar –
the ideological architect of Hindutva who inspired Gandhi's assassin Nathuram
Godse and was himself tried for conspiracy following the assassination but …

[HTML] Hindu Civilization and Indian Nationalism: Conceptual Conflicts and Convergences in the Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt, c. 1870–1910

A Mitra - Religions, 2023
This paper is about a particular construction of nationalism at the hands of Romesh
Chunder Dutt (1848–1909), the well-known exponent of ‘economic nationalism’, in
colonial Bengal from 1870 onwards till his death in 1909. In this construction of …

Role of Socio-spiritual Reformers in the Social Well-Being of Contemporary India

PS Sahni, K Singh, E Chopra - Religious and Spiritual Practices in India: A Positive …, 2023
… Shri Aurobindo also proposed ‘integral yoga’, which unlike the regular yoga
focused more on the psychological and spiritual growth than only physical balance
vis-à-vis balance of our mind. Research on the practical experience of individuals …

Religion, Spirituality, and Happiness: Through an Indian Lens

J Agrawal, K Singh, G Saxena - Religious and Spiritual Practices in India: A Positive …, 2023
Religion and spirituality (R/S) form an essential part of an individual’s identity. About
80% of people around the world are believed to be associated with some religion.
Researchers have become increasingly interested in the psychological associations …

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English

M Jaidka, TN Dhar - 2023
… Significant essays on yogic knowledge and experiences of Sri Aurobindo and
some important translations appeared in Arya, but it was discontinued in 1921. Sri
Aurobindo’s oeuvre consists of voluminous work related to philosophy, literature …

MOTHERING THE DAUGHTERS'BODY

SN Abidi - The Gendered Body in South Asia: Negotiation …, 2023
… This idea of nation as a mother became prominent during the nationalist struggle
and has regained momentum; I argue with the current wave of Hindutva nationalism
dominating political discourse in India. The Muslim mother is therefore located in this …

[PDF] Disavowing Naidu: Nationalism and Decadent Poetics in India

S Chakraborty - Volupté, 2023
… 8 ‘In a landmark 1923 book Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?, the conservative leader
and revolutionary VD Savarkar coined the term Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) to
challenge the secular conception of Indian nationhood propounded by Gandhi and …

“You Are Not the Body”:(Re) Interpreting the Body in and through Integral Yoga

EF Johnston - Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, 2023
… Ron and Aadesh, 2 the program’s instructors, sat at the front of the room beside a
customary Integral Yoga … of yoga to the Integral Yoga community's broader
symbolic world. Using the sun salutation drill as an opportunity to do interpretive …

COVID-19 AND THE CHALLENGES OF TRAUMA, TRANSFORMATIONS, AND DEBORDERISATION

AK Giri - The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life, 2023
… There is also a dialogue between Savitri and the King of Death in the
Mahabharata as well as in Sri Aurobindo’s epic Savitri in which Savitri is striving to
revive her … In Afterword to Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, edited by Ananta …

[PDF] International Research Mirror

N SINGH
… Therefore, Sri Aurobindo said that while wealth was divine it remained for a long
time under the influence of the evil forces, and it was time for some good people to
retrieve it for God’s sake and for justice. (Hindu, 2019) …

J Sai Deepak's India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution. Bloomsbury 2021

A Sen - Social Dynamics, 2023
… With vigour, he starts hitching the decolonial wagon to the Hindutva juggernaut. 5
He identifies four schools and assigns them a series of dilettante definitions. The
Modernists, the Postmodernists, the Postcolonials (Subaltern Studies primarily, one …

[HTML] Mirra Alfassa: Completing Sri Aurobindo's Vision

P Beldio - Religions, 2023
… This article seeks to stimulate a new avenue of scholarship on the integral yoga
tradition by critically investigating Mirra’s sources of power that engendered and
facilitated her authority and leadership with Aurobindo that were both continuous …

[HTML] History of Weed

CIA China
… specifically devoted to Lord Shiva, consume vast amounts of cannabis flower and
hash through clay pipes during times of worship, meditation, and yoga (Godlaski,
2012, p. 1068). … Regardless, hemp was an integral part of America’s founding …

Community Psychology: Indian Perspective

R Lal - 2023
The present volume is a compilation of virtual lectures. Virtual lectures were held
from July 10 to August 12, 2020. The community psychology issues discussed were:
Prospects of Community Psychology in India, Community Psychology: Nature and …

[HTML] Good Queen, Bad Queen: Gender, Devotion, and Mythmaking in Women's Histories

S Johansen Hurwitt - Religions, 2023
How do we remember and write about powerful women and the impacts they have
had on history? Who tells their stories, and to whose advantage are those narratives
constructed? And what happens if we look carefully and acknowledge that when …

[PDF] Yogic Perceptions of Aryan-Dravidian Controversy

S Mukhopadhyay
… Sri Aurobindo(1872 – 1950) was a philosopher, yogi, mystic and spiritual guru
who developed the philosophy of Integral Yoga and human evolution. As a polyglot
he was fluent in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, English, French, German, Greek and …

The Emergence of “Esoteric” as a Comparative Category: Towards a Decentered Historiography

J Strube - Implicit Religion, 2023
This case study contributes to ongoing debates about religious comparativism by
focusing on the emergence of the notion of “esoteric” as a de facto comparative
category since the seventeenth century. Scholars have so far restricted their studies …

Mystic Experience as Drama: Chaitanya and Mira

B Naikar - Poetcrit, 2023
… Dilip Kumar Roy happens to be a rare exception to the general rule, because he
wrote this play, Chaitanya (and also Mira) when he stayed in Sri Aurobindo Ashram,
under the powerful influence of the great yogi. Writing a religious play in English …

[HTML] Spiritualizing Anarchism, Making Spiritual Practices Anarchistic

M Losoncz - Philosophies, 2023
… After showing that “spiritual anarchism” appeared in newspaper articles from the
1890s with widely differing meanings, he shows that it was used in a truly affirmative
way from the 1910s, and then from the 1930s, thanks to the Catholic Worker …

Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and Politics

M Miri, B Puri - 2023
This book examines the centrality of ideas such as satya (truth), ahimsa (non-violence),
humility, and respect for understanding moral life in the complex milieu of human
existence. It provides a comprehensive view of how Gandhian ideas have both a …

Enlivening Gandhi and Sanitary Nationalism: Transmuting Health into Materialization of Swaraj

A Das - Studies in History, 2023
… Later, the promotion of physical culture—being a part of Indian nationalism
following the regeneration of the concocted ideology of Hindutva at the closing
stages of the 1890s—was made an essential quality in the counter-hegemonic …

[PDF] THE RELEVANCE OF AUROBINDO GHOSH'S EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION–1986

KC Sabar - International Journal Of History And Political Sciences, 2023
This study examines the relevance of Aurobindo Ghosh's educational philosophy in
the context of the National Policy on Education (NPE) of 1986. Aurobindo Ghosh, a
prominent philosopher and educationist, emphasized the holistic development of …

Satya and Ahimsa: Learning Non-violence from the Gita

B Puri - Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and …, 2023
… Gandhi’s contemporaries like Tilak and Sri Aurobindo (among others) had argued
that the Gita had justified the exception to the law of … In this connection, one might
note that between 1905 and 1910, Sri Aurobindo had written and spoken repeatedly …

[PDF] VVS IYER: The pioneer of militant nationalism in colonial Tamil Nadu

T Balasubramanian, V Venkatraman
… After the episode in Aurobindo’s residence, the police searched Bharati house in
Dharmaraja Koil Street. The officer found only poems by … He returned to India,
albeit to French Pondicherry, and there met with both Subramaniya Bharathi and …

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

S Chakrabarti - 2023
The book examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be
seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism-the two
most crucial avenues of debate and discussion in the public sphere in nineteenth-century …

Self-Architecture for Sukha: Mind++ for Integral Wellbeing

A Choudry, S Ramasubramanian - Handbook of Happiness: Reflections and Praxis …, 2023
‘Happiness Happiness ’ or ‘wellbeing Wellbeing ’ with several synonyms is one of
the most important drivers in human life, but is it a process or an end in itself?
Happiness comes from the root ‘hap,’ literally meaning “to feel fortunate” and acts as …

For Love of Country: Gandhi and Tagore

B Puri - Gandhi for the 21st Century: Religion, Morality and …, 2023
… 438) imagined in continuity with “India’s earlier experiences with large
indigenous state systems” (Nandy, 1994:ix) had perhaps inspired the critiques of the
western nation-state and parliamentary democracy made by nationalists like Sri …

[PDF] God, Panentheism and Theistic Cosmopsychism: A Cross-Cultural Study Case

R Silvestre
Although Western philosophy of religion has developed many useful tools for
evaluating Abrahamic conceptions of God as they apply to different philosophical
traditions, there is a growing awareness that such monotheistic Western approaches …
Even now, few are privileged enough to fly, especially on their own money. It remains a bid deal. It is little wonder that many come to drop the traveler off and in doing so leave their own lives behind for a while and live a dream vicariously?
Because Thou Art: Sri Aurobindo stands like a huge oak spreading its branches over two centuries becausethouart.blogspot.com/2023/08/sri-au Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Founder, Savitri Era Religion and Savitri Era Party. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.