Seven rivers of my life

Assorted tweets

For more details about this upcoming conference hosted at @AuroSociety  and how to submit proposal for a presentation, visit: https://t.co/zyp6mKW6Z0 https://t.co/kGwUw6Y6M4

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Another important event hosted by SAFIC - mark your dates - August 3, 2019. A special lecture by Prof. K. Ramasubramanian on "Golden Age of Indian Mathematics". This event is open to all! https://t.co/sLoK9mOEv5

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1153895162030039041?s=19

Who are the Rasikas? (Part 1) https://t.co/FlYSHl3ubU

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1153894829522182144?s=19

It is said that great seers such as Mataṅga and Bharata, are the founders and propagators of the science of music and dance.

Respectability of the Art of Dance https://t.co/S2NSSNI4L7

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1153693181201883136?s=19

What an inspiring story. Good to know such scholarly saints existed very recently

Today there is a need for #dharmic scholarship to bloom in a national renaissance

The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya https://t.co/U7iLgsNtT1 via @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/HinduLiberty/status/1153885351900921856?s=19

The Sama Veda Yaga of Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti and Indifference to Fame

Part 3 of the profile of a contemporary Vedacharya

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https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1153886146700558337?s=19

The divergent views on the “after” of Subaltern Studies, in turn, reflect the broader postcolonial debate, particularly on the question of the nature of the representation of the subaltern. https://t.co/Pu5Q1jJMFV

https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1153915213915099136?s=19

Are people prudes for not being sexually active? For your #WednesdayWisdom let's bust the myth surrounding it! #FIIMythbusting https://t.co/iGDwavWxfc

https://twitter.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1153915213315317760?s=19

Checks and balances are bullshit. Under single-party control, they make no different, and under divided government, they serve only to obscure responsibility for policy outcomes and thus undermine democratic accountability. The Founders screwed up, BIG TIME.

https://twitter.com/adamkotsko/status/1154044240793497601?s=19

If you are between 21-26, these two books will make for a good read. These will lead the way for you to know what every Indian must know and stay ahead of the crowd.

Both the books are by Sandeep Balakrishna  @dharmadispatch #Aavarana is a masterpiece translation. https://t.co/5MzLbGru4y

https://twitter.com/CASandeepSehgal/status/1085734091889078272?s=19

Did any state petition the HRD Ministry to build an engineering university in their own language? No.

Why is it that every state wants to have an IIT, but none of the IITs teach in any Indian language? For every IIT, we can have a parallel IIT that teaches in the local language. https://t.co/FBl1fORYsm

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153892992656322561?s=19

This is a well intentioned but wrong perspective. Learning Telugu in schools as a subject is irrelevant to the future death of the language.

The problem lies with university education where none exists in Telugu. The language will die if it doesn’t lead to a professional career. https://t.co/5peqeSgvVV

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153732921850826754?s=19

The word that Hieun Tsang used to refer to India “Indu”, as well as the other endonym for India “Bhārata”, both mean exactly the same thing: the land which is fit for Yajña - “Yajñiyo Dēśa”, as Manu Smriti put it. This is the oldest reference to the geographical borders of India. https://t.co/DVzvC156ZD

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1148860624916623360?s=19

The organizing principle for nationhood of India is "Yajña". That is the meaning of the name of our countr. It is attested in our sacred literature. See this thread. Language is sacred, but it is just one part of Yajña. Indu/ Bhārata will remain united.

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https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153928633112813568?s=19

The human body is more than 60% water. The human brain and heart are 75% water. Water is the carrier of our life. Our words and thoughts can be considered as waves on a river, that nourishes us and moves through us.

In this thread, I want to discuss the seven rivers of my life. https://t.co/kkcItS0yi9

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1146750029908107264?s=19

How much do you like ponds? Please join me in posting pictures of famous ponds in your city/town/village in this thread, with interesting facts about them, if any. Use #PondsOfOdisha in your tweet

Starting with the sacred #Indradyumna of Puri.

Pic courtesy: @PURIWAVES https://t.co/GGzaesWYd1

https://twitter.com/OdiaCulture/status/1153505758589280257?s=19

"I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t negotiating my own spiritual perspective of the world when I was writing this book." @MukherjeeRheea in an interview with @JessieLChaffee on #TheBodyMyth  @LAReviewofBooks

https://t.co/Ndo2G0WXxU!

https://twitter.com/PenguinIndia/status/1153981903105613826?s=19

This relates to an inspired art lost with the ancients, revived by Whitman n theorized later by Sri Aurobindo followed by his own practice.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1153895444478664705?s=19

Eliot is a great critic, one of the best prose writers of the 20th century, but his poetry is not "discovered" like Yeats's or Whitman's or Sri Aurobindo's or Tagore's. His poetry is "made up" of wide reading n rarely catches the Infinite thru his words. Not a poet of d future!

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1154017781450334208?s=19

Sir, have u looked at these? Lexicon of an Infinite Mind: A Dictionary of Words and Terms in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri https://t.co/dQoEAF0eZj

Supplement to the Lexicon of an Infinite Mind: A Dictionary of Words and Terms in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri https://t.co/A78FyTDfRT

https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1153654736811384832?s=19

An apposite rumination by @kalisbrood in three parts https://t.co/GOU1TlciVG

The experience of the Aurobindo Āśrama is really important learning principle for all of us, on what to do and what not to do. Having said that, I respect the Aurobindo Āśrama for all it achieved. You have my deepest respects. But we need to better and show the way to the world.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153923085755703296?s=19

You are right that democracy is not easy to establish at local level. But I am convinced that if anybody can do it, it is us Indians. From my perspective, democracy is a form of Yajña. What better place to recognize it as such, than in temples or other spiritual organizations?

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153922303660560384?s=19

I visited Narsapur and Antarvedi 2-3 years back and was searching for English alphabets on signboards but was disappointed. The rural scene is different.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1153588108325036032?s=19

Off topic, but this is the very problem which I'm highlighting consistently. Each major language of India is endangered due to colonial legacy. Abolishing the Central govt by granting sovereignty to the States is the only solution. To have the cake and eat it too is not possible.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1153905746142060544?s=19

Proverbs like 900 सौ चूहे खाकर बिल्ली हज को चली or वृद्धा नारी पतिव्रता are pejorative comments but Today is the first day of the rest of your life since you can't bury the past. From an ethical as well as Evolutionary perspective, permitting a second innings is a prudent option.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1153914521838182406?s=19

I think, the same principle has been alluded to by Sri Aurobindo as Arya https://t.co/TQPOfPbR3t

And Karmayogin https://t.co/MeqZsQIsMp

Btw, the thread should ideally include some references to the Veda. Thanks. @auroviryavaan @drsbasu2115 @bennedose @SpiritWithBody @sakshitrust

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1153934935629037568?s=19

Because Thou Art: Art historian B.N. Goswamy's public lecture https://t.co/W8vW4lYHTU @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad-201014 U.P. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1153735495601410048?s=19

Lakshmanarekha is not a part of Valmiki Ramayana

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Extended version of my review of Catherine Nixey's "The Darkening Age" comparing the aspects of Iconoclasm, Cultural Appropriation and Legal subjugation against the Pagans as carried out in Classical Rome and 16th Century Goa: 

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https://twitter.com/aurvabhrg/status/1050064817032052738?s=19

Off late there is a whole genre of fiction that's based on portraying the aitihAsika and paurANika material within a "realistic framework". Authors use various tropes to explain away the fantastical/magical/divine episodes from itihAsas and purANAs 1/

https://twitter.com/aurvabhrg/status/1149655131366948864?s=19

This is perhaps not a very new genre. Stalwarts such as K M Munshi, S L Bhyrappa, Narendra Kohli, who have dabbled with this genre. K M Munshi's Krishnavatara series tells the story of a brave cowherd who realizes his potential and decides to fight  the ... 2/

However, interpreting them within a realistic framework appears to have come to vogue after colonization. What was it that separated the previous generations who had no problems accepting an ape-like mighty being who could converse with humans, and fly long distances .. 5/

... the contemporary work is very very modern. The characters speak of egalitarianism, freedom and rights, which is really projecting the prevalent modernity into the past where it didn't exist, nor did it have an obligation to exist. 9/

This is how we got some gems such as the concept of a "Lakshmanarekha" (No, it is not a part of Valmiki Ramayana). However, if we are retelling these stories by stripping them off their very essence, then are we even retelling the same thing? 14/

By merely retaining the names of the characters, their relationships and the places they roamed around in, if we insert our own words into their mouths, are we not merely using them for the purpose of propaganda? What end is this genre serving then? /END

https://twitter.com/aurvabhrg/status/1149655158038511618?s=19

Hindu civilization is the tired and exhausted survivor of two determined attacks which were intended to be deadly: the Islamic invasion and the European invasion ~ Koenraad Elst

https://twitter.com/mnshzz/status/1149417552776519680?s=19

No one cares about your plagiarism spiel. Indian humanities has not come up with fresh ideas since Kosambi. All you guys do is low intensity plagiarism only! https://t.co/hJrOTrMpK2

https://twitter.com/SooltanMehmet/status/1149736170693124097?s=19

Even though the Pāṇḍavas were secure, several heroes on their side also lost their lives; a huge part of their army was destroyed. 

Mahābhārata – Episode 74 – The Invincible Bhīṣma https://t.co/81u2P3Bb1J

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1149729051742859265?s=19

As long as I am on the battlefield, you cannot win.

Mahābhārata – Episode 74 – The Invincible Bhīṣma https://t.co/81u2P3Bb1J

Every Hindu child must be made to MEMORIZE the verses in Mudrarakshasa that bring out Chanakya's character so powerfully. These childhood lessons will act as a great bulwark against any challenges in life.

--- Sandeep Balakrishna @dharmadispatch

#quote https://t.co/Ag39uFq2BS

https://twitter.com/_Bhaarat_/status/1149562667515826176?s=19

There's a reason our ancestors said that tradition is precious and should be preserved. Waiting for a Kannada music director who can compose 0.0000000001% of this. 

Raag Pahadi. Lyrics: Kuvempu CC: Kannada warriors

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https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1149740827746299908?s=19

It's the same tradition that uses the same Pahadi Raga & in the hands of Ilaiyaraja becomes this song. Lyrics: Venturi 

https://t.co/rmQbzr3y7R

https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1149743654128381952?s=19

And the same Pahadi Raga takes a romantic tinge in the talented strings of Pandits Shiv-Hari. https://t.co/OpKGw0der9

https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1149744957512491008?s=19

Shubhomita.. Jagjit... https://t.co/NvGN3S3qnl

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Shubhomita .... Lata... https://t.co/55RdtZ8eNS
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Watch "Nigaahen na phero chale jaayenge ham" on YouTube https://t.co/8Vy4d2LObH
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The song is set in raaga Bhimpalashi.

Karvan guzar gaya https://t.co/aEBj0HMbMR
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1149368736769429504?s=19

Watch "Tere Husn Ki Kya Tarif Karu - Leader" on YouTube https://t.co/wyQFOSSL4N
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Immortal creation of Roshan
Watch "Jo Baat Tujhmein Hai Full Song With Lyrics | Mohammed Rafi | Taj Mahal 1963 Songs | Pradeep Kumar" on YouTube https://t.co/q02upv793Q

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1148473494738370560?s=19

I hope it will maintain some balance n what Arnold calls "disinterestedness".
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1149344157049077760?s=19

'Black Prince' was never made. Music by Dulal Sen. So different, outlandish tune. This song is also by Suman Kalyanpur. Sen is just another unheralded talent like G S Kohli, S Mohinder, C Arjun, Iqbal Qureshi, Ramlal & a few others..
https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1148756502196310016?s=19

Indian Islamic “scholars” consciously provided the ideological core of modern jihad and “Arabism” that helped shaped last 200 years of Saudi Islam. One can say the revival of jihadi ideology as core of Islam was from Indian ulema (and all claiming Sufi lineage too).

https://twitter.com/dikgaj/status/1149653630531731456?s=19

Amish Tripathys ignorance of Indian Muslim scholarships shaping of middle east jihad wants ppl to not even see the elephant in the room by turning the lights off but to block their noses so they can’t smell it either.

This is a replug of an old article by @dikgaj @sarkar_swati @DrlathaC and me on how Gandhi and the Nehrus destroyed peasant movement in Awadh in collusion with the British and the Islamists [Khilafatists]. (part 1).  https://t.co/QE2sUFlOKX

https://twitter.com/maidros78/status/1149618333949390849?s=19

I meet so many women these days who say 'fuck marriage.' We are done with baby-sitting adult men. No one wants to tend to the house, family after a long day at work. 

It is men who benefit the most from the institution of marriage yet they love playing the martyr.

https://twitter.com/Purba_Ray/status/1149204279997001728?s=19

Dear young men and women, 

Please don't fall for such narratives and gender wars. 

Marriage is a two way street built upon love, kindness,mutual respect and affection. You care for others in certain ways and are in return cared for in different ways. https://t.co/9EIwnVhOgR

https://twitter.com/sabdavidya/status/1149624861049778177?s=19

Why Smriti Irani deserves our respect for Child Pornography Bill

An excellent write-up by ⁦@ashish40411⁩  https://t.co/sxzEBkpDb1

https://twitter.com/UnSubtleDesi/status/1149650902988414977?s=19

#EndChildSexualAbuse but #DeathPenalty is not the answer. So many voices saying this. But law makers are listening to only the bloodthirsty! @HAQCRC @RAHI_Foundation @aarambhindia https://t.co/o60k4X2DNc

https://twitter.com/enakshihaq/status/1149683826450321408?s=19

"I grew up in Kerala cadre where every Hindu eats beef, every single Nair, every single Brahmin eats beef. I am a great believer in everybody doing according to their wish and will” - Amitabh Kant https://t.co/O7ptIe4J64

https://twitter.com/Cawnporiaah/status/1149737074867621888?s=19

Not in favour of banning beef exports: Amitabh Kant https://t.co/qYrQ8LojKl

The main reason that arguing about day-to-day politics is lame is that you're accepting their frame.

If you want to win, you have to be able to undermine their entire basis for believing what they do: and better, convincing your allies that the enemy is arguing too shallowly.

https://twitter.com/17cShyteposter/status/1149609283941572608?s=19

Alexander made a rousing speech to rally his troops but to no avail. His troops had been on the march for many years, longed for home and didn't want to fight the army that waited in the Northern plains of India.

Alexander gave orders to for retracing their steps homewards.

https://twitter.com/Kishkinda2/status/1149606261710659586?s=19

Story doesn't end here, Alexander would defeat many tribes in Punjab and Sindh before departing but this is taking a bit too long, I will finish this during the weekend.

https://twitter.com/Kishkinda2/status/1149606613893783554?s=19

The Speech of Alexander to his troops in India

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https://twitter.com/PrasunNagar/status/1149621168300625920?s=19

“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."

On Neruda's birthday, his beautiful and humanistic Nobel Prize acceptance speech: https://t.co/GVGbW9lxi8

https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1149725873500803072?s=19

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

Thoreau—one of the deepest, furthest seers our civilization has produced, born 202 years ago today—on seeing vs. knowing and what it takes to really apprehend reality unblinded by our preconceptions https://t.co/71DJWFpH0s

https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1149717307767365633?s=19

“In the street and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean.”

Thoreau, born 202 years ago today, on nature as prayer: https://t.co/h7fLc3iq45

https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1149709753318301696?s=19

Apollo Astronauts, in Their Own Words https://t.co/6QXHucZMUt
https://twitter.com/DiscoverMag/status/1149770770777825280?s=19

Memes, tweets and bots have taken over our democratic discourse, writes Nathan Gardels https://t.co/oEgsC3f91s
https://twitter.com/TheWorldPost/status/1149728388090908673?s=19

Don't police our emotions - climate despair is inviting people back to life #deepadaptation  https://t.co/yhGpaQgPCK

https://twitter.com/jembendell/status/1149746445345525760?s=19

Important piece on climate, emotions and the limitations of expertise. Must read. https://t.co/pXMxMNKNmF

https://twitter.com/GhoshAmitav/status/1149752691259772937?s=19

"The creation of Bangladesh is evidence of the failure of the two-nation theory which could not accommodate the cultural and political complexities experienced by Bengalis. Bengaliness or ethnolinguistic nationalism held more influence over people than did religious nationalism+

https://twitter.com/ArunudoyB/status/1149744287199838208?s=19

I understand, my comment on formation of Bangladesh will trigger barge of comments, however, do also look at the second point:

"Why ethnolinguistic characteristics of various people in India still remain the most important factor defining their identity in many Indian states".

https://twitter.com/ArunudoyB/status/1149749375062593536?s=19

Jain Museum in Pratap Nagari village in Cuttack Sadar is a classic example of how ancient sculptures can be protected in an organized manner. During the excavation work of Puri Main Canal, these beautiful & rare Jain murtis were found. https://t.co/eQPSQt63Ov #Jain_Museum_Pratap_Nagari

https://twitter.com/kalingaheritage/status/1111921161246404609?s=19

Love these pictures from somewhere in Kashmir. An Indian Army soldier with local Kashmiri kids at an interior village. This is the reality of the valley which media often doesn't highlight. Love for the security forces and their passion to secure every Indian whatever it takes. https://t.co/PEG4Tu0OQq

https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1149711528276312066?s=19

The quintessential Indian thali is a cultural exploration on a plate. Time to go on an adventure! #FoodSecrets #MustRead

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https://twitter.com/thebetterindia/status/1149728878568435712?s=19

Did you know that one of Uttar Pradesh’s best-kept secrets is a ‘gulab jamun highway’? Find out more as we unravel the tale of how this sweet became an inseparable part of Indian lives. #MustRead #FoodSecrets #TalesToTell

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https://twitter.com/thebetterindia/status/1149717556401283073?s=19

'70 Years of Secularism' written by Sandeep Balakrishna @dharmadispatch is a volume of remarkable essays which document the cultural genocide that the Nehruvian-Marxist alliance wrought on India over the last seventy years! Now at Garuda - https://t.co/DZiZrQSL3R
https://twitter.com/GarudaPrakashan/status/1075711832504053760?s=19

A Cultural Survey of the Economy | OPEN Magazine https://t.co/H0lJPzeTgQ

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A cultural survey of the economy: Are we finally going beyond Kautilya in our economic thinking?, asks @bibekdebroy, #Budget2019, #TheEconomyIssue2019 https://t.co/c2moIUDPtS https://t.co/Xd5NkyaUJv

https://twitter.com/Openthemag/status/1149626218783768576?s=19

Nobody is a machine.. It's just a phase or state of mind when one is psychologically and physically at the top of their game.  Otherwise the likes of borgs, mcenroes, lendls, beckers, samprases, navratilovas, grafs, william sisters would have never faltered ever.. https://t.co/VkenRXWhbp

https://twitter.com/coolfunnytshirt/status/1149746218324516864?s=19

"The world of spirituality is very wide and there is no need to set up an artificial division between ‘non-theistic’ and ‘theistic’ practices." A wonderfully thoughtful, illuminating and wise interview with @peterheehs by @Getafix2012 - https://t.co/mUrNkRGYO2

https://twitter.com/ranjithoskote/status/1146129189659004928?s=19

Big difference between 15C Vijayanagara and 21C Miss India contest https://t.co/4m8DN3rRfQ https://t.co/uwIwUtMxhN

https://twitter.com/peterheehs/status/1134785474252353536?s=19

Someone should organize an Actual Indian Woman beauty contest - any Indian street in any Indian town could supply all the contestants needed.

https://twitter.com/peterheehs/status/1135074847569076224?s=19

Aurora Mirabilis: Nobody has been to the Premodern India https://t.co/Qc3YoPbUyU @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (U.P.). #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149744173349605376?s=19

Gandhi was a master of the political deployment of ritual

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Modi is a master of employing ritual to political ends, this requires refinement.

No, it is about more than 'political effectiveness'. If you look at the royal rituals, the day to day itenary of our kings, and so on, you will see that the ritualization of politics is integral to the H conception of politics itself. Gandhi's ritualization of his politics

https://twitter.com/ArmchairPseph/status/1147901723903590400?s=19

was not some cynical ploy, it was the natural instinct of a H leader. Gandhi succeeded because he was less westernized than Savarkar, and could deploy a mode of politics that Savarkar was incapable of. Before Gandhi, Tilak had done this successfully.

Sadly, after that, we got a Gandhi rather than someone who could take forward Tilak's work. But at the same time, it was only a Westernized mind like Savarkar's that could have conceptualized Hindutva, the idea of Hindus as a political community, as a nation.

These are Western (the idea of nation-state) and Abrahmic (the idea of a religious identity being also a political one) concepts, appropriated for use by dharmikas as weapons. Only a Westernized mind could have done it. Which is also why nobody in the 'traditionalist' camp could

have done it. Islam could accept a Jinnah as its leader readily because the Ummah has always been a political community, Savarkar was telling Hindus to become one, in the manner of the Ummah, because it was only in that way that the Ummah can be countered.

While a Savarkar could create and germinate that idea, a Savarkar cannot popularize it to Hindus, what Hindutva needed was a leader who could deploy Gandhi-like ritualized, sacralized politics to instill the idea into Hindus.

Modi could have been that, but he seems to have refused the mantle.

Related: Gandhi was a master of the political deployment of ritual too. https://t.co/BOVlPpz9gy

Jinnah became leader of Indian Muslims, Hindus chose Gandhi over Savarkar (who was like Jinnah in that to him Hinduism was first and foremost a political identity). That too is very telling, about both Islam and Hinduism. https://t.co/VlPUCue243

https://twitter.com/ArmchairPseph/status/1147895726963396608?s=19

He is not cognizant of civilizational stakes, he is our Eisenhower

https://twitter.com/doubtinggaurav/status/1147905845012811776?s=19

Eisenhower was v much conscious of the civilizational stakes

His tenure kept the incipient Communist tendencies within US at bay

Never opposed McCarthy until the point when McCarthy went out of control

Also a full fledged supporter of the containment strategy

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1147908743427952642?s=19

None of you will agree, but Modi's public display of humility may be out of his genuine urge for atonement. With age one realises and he seems to be willing to even risk his chair owing to drastic revisionism. Some intellectual may be responsible for this U-turn. @SudheenKulkarni

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1147951806120546304?s=19

Islam doesn't exist by itself; people are born into it continuously. So it's about human beings and there's no uniformity in practice. It's easy to criticise it in an abstract sense but by itself Islam can't do anything. It is a methodological discrepancy. https://t.co/NtZOPetPVc

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147956632850092032?s=19

My point is, blaming Islam as an abstract entity is anomalous. Local degeneration or deformations should be examined individually. So, there should be no blanket condemnation involving billions of people. This much fairness is warranted.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1147960079976525824?s=19

See I'm arguing that whatever happened in the past is by Monarchs who are beyond Democratic or legal interrogation. So when you bring in Islam as an entity or agency, it's anomalous. What the kings did or didn't should be the point of attention but is of no avail. @fourfoldvision

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1109882339033702400?s=19

I reiterate that past Kings are beyond the purview of Democratic interrogation. Discussing them is like wrestling with ghosts. Conflating issues won't bring clarity but your one point agenda is to target the people of a particular religion disregarding centuries of co-existence.

Just like Marx shouldn't be blamed for what Jyoti Basu did to WB, similarly all wrong actions of men shouldn't be put at the door of their religion. Both of us adore The Mother but differ. So perspectives relating to power, politics, self-interest are at fault. Such nuance needed

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1109888094726053888?s=19

Youth symbolises hope and optimism; it also nurtures change. With onset of decline in mid age clinging to past and nostalgia dominate. Legitimising it as preservation of tradition adds to self esteem. Such a defence mechanism buttressed by political ideology turns out to be toxic

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148132264619831297?s=19

the Orchid and the rOse: Sri Aurobindo's fame as a mystic obscured his importance as a poet and aesthetician https://t.co/r3Be8GwJYe

@NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1148120736667561985?s=19

"I feel sorry that Sri Aurobindo 's Future Poetry is not taking wings. I mean, neither  his poetry is studied in any great systematic way nor much of the expected kind being written. Can there be a way out?" Mail recvd this morning from RY Deshpande .

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1148060687643492352?s=19

RY DESHPANDE is unquestionably the greatest living Savitri scholar in the planet.  Let this be a push for all of us to try to do well.

Appreciate his concern but none has inclination for inward look. Everyone look outward, trying to become a 'baba' sitting in his petty corner, throwing pearls of wisdom, seeing his invisible statue, hearing silent clapping. No better than televangelist, only less known.

https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1148105554738331648?s=19

Sri Aurobindo on The Principle of Free Confederation versus The Idea of Self -Determination: The cases of Finland and Poland. https://t.co/2cFME4PEm0

https://twitter.com/drsbasu2115/status/1148139727599493121?s=19

"The advent of the British in India synchronised with a low ebb of  national vitality. It was the reign of passivity, a moment of tamas, of  the exhaustion of a long endeavour–one that periodically comes upon all  nations." Read more in Renaissance,Vol1(5) https://t.co/maSBFbsj0M

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1148105399427588096?s=19

Very well put

There are so many on the Right who hate Gandhi

Yet never quite acknowledge or even begin to understand his "secret sauce"

He was authentically Indian (or at least perceived as such) in a way that Savarkar wasn't

Very hard for Gandhi-haters to digest. But fact https://t.co/ePbpmUJllf

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1147912196392984576?s=19

Many think it was just "dikhaawa"

I don't quite agree

Notwithstanding all his years in South Africa and England, Gandhi was a Desi. An authentic Desi in so many ways

You sense this only after reading a lot of Gandhi

His autobiography is not read enough by Indians...

His sense of compunction upon his father's death, when he was busy seeking pleasure elsewhere...

And the impact of that incident on his later streak of anti-sensuality and austerity...

That's so very typically Indian

Or that other extract later in his auto-bio, where he declares that a maid's service to her master is superior to the wife's service...

Because the wife's service is in part motivated by romantic love

That's such a uniquely Indian way of analyzing things..

It's a shame that the conservative movement has not quite produced anyone like Gandhi who exuded Indian-ness

Nobody has come close..

The hard drinking Vajpayee? Not even in the same planet in terms of exuding Indian-ness

In fact the only person who has come close since independence is Narendra Modi

Yes...Modi

And that explains his success!

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1147914735247118336?s=19

Absolutely true. Emphasis on Ramanama, Gou Seva, calling for Charkha Yagna, hailing Ramcharitmanas as greatest devotional book, calling Tulasidas as prince among devotees 1/5

Countering Aurobindo on Vibhishana and calling him a Satyagrahi against Ravana, calling Prahlada as the first Satyagrahi, making Narsi bhajans as his prayer cum creed, asking for non cooperation in the lines of Sita against Ravana! 2/5

https://twitter.com/karrama12/status/1148092013150998528?s=19

Justifying Varnashrama dharma as science , hailing Gita as his mother, calling Ahimsa as same practiced by Dileepa against the lion as written by Kalidasa, visiting Temples, calling Padmanabha Swamy temple visit as most memorable 3/5

Modi has similarly used the phrases Janata Janardhan for the masses, campaign for votes as asking Ashirvad from people, terming Technology as mahtmay of technology, making temple visits part of campaign 4/5

60 years’ of original work of the rare duo of Ram Swarup & Sita Ram Goel hardly left a mark on the intellectual scene of our country. Both died largely unsung. It is not a small measure of the regrettable situation... By @hesivh ji for The @dharmadispatch https://t.co/PMuYvosUO8

https://twitter.com/_Bhaarat_/status/1148153297800290306?s=19

This is why free speech is a wonderful thing: the more freely these eminences speak, the more they unravel themselves. 

By Sandeep Balakrishna @dharmadispatch https://t.co/xelv9ESUHc

https://twitter.com/CASandeepSehgal/status/1148150771139010560?s=19

Last month, her ministry launched a programme, “Let’s talk loneliness”, to enable exactly that: encourage people to talk about their feelings and reach out to others. “Just a small hi, how do you do, can help,” says Davies. “The community, as it existed in the eras gone by, is breaking — and we need to do something to fill the gap.”

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/worldwide-problem-must-reach-out-says-uks-minister-of-loneliness-5818992/lite/?__twitter_impression=true

https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1147917781561593856?s=19

“Peers” are a resource that can be tapped into to support a wide variety of people in the mental health system. These are people who have lived experiences of recovery in mental health.

https://t.co/LT4XRC7AP7

https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1148162306162876416?s=19

#FromTheEditorsDesk: The structural politics that was once characterised by the back-to-back struggles that the toiling masses were forced to undertake has now considerably declined, or is being completely replaced by electoral politics.

https://t.co/DMY6N9VK8Y

https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1148162306049576962?s=19

This is maybe one of the very first times that a Bollywood mainstream movie has delved into the realities of caste-based violence. Mind you, I say caste-based violence, not caste. - @SumanSaurav92. @ayushmannk @anubhavsinha. #FIIReviews #Article15 https://t.co/zJKzxaokQ6

https://twitter.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1148162305986686977?s=19

Seems like #SandeepVanga has confused love with ownership. In all his defense for slapping your partner or touching them when you want to, there is no mention of consent or a person’s agency. Writes @yamini_pb #KabirSingh https://t.co/aUFfHouOtR

https://twitter.com/SheThePeopleTV/status/1148149526789681152?s=19

[REPLUG] Using the symbolism of 786 in Deewaar, Salim-Javed Halal-ed Hindus thru cinema. Hindus were lulled into the historical reality of their encounters with Islamic rule. 

https://t.co/mqao2bcZgA

https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1148102569647988736?s=19

Hindi cinema post-1947 became the ideological tool of the Indian state founded on a colonial constitution. Likes of Salim-Javed were peddling Secularism/islamism. Look to Raj Kapoor for the poison of socialism, Awara and Shri 420 specially. @dharmadispatch https://t.co/5LdnXbIuOS

https://twitter.com/vikasdrolia/status/1147984943785451521?s=19

In Tamil Nadu, movies have tremendous power. In a systematic manner, the evangelical forces  has captured the movie industry and is running its pet theme through all the movies: Hinduism is spiritual despotism and facilitates exploitation of TN. https://t.co/EFwKPsbtKN

https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1147886527386570754?s=19

Sakshi (1986) and Mandra (2002) are the fine artistic and literary specimens of Dr. Bhyrappa’s profound meditations over nearly half a lifetime. 

Mandra: The Triumph of Ramkumari https://t.co/TyRSIx2RS3

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1148132515913224192?s=19

References:

But, with due respect, the quotation does not reflect is claimed; Gandhiji would have said the same to Muslims too. Non-retaliation & ahimsa were for everyone, not for Hindus alone. But let's move on, shall we? If you disagree, that's fine too. https://t.co/FYUV89AKt7

https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1047858382009298944?s=19

Hahaha...the basic truth, which is as old as the hills, is that violence cannot be countered or won by greater violence, but only by non-violence. Yes, it does help to beat up or defeat the bad guys, but then the hard work of reconstruction & peace-making begins all over again. https://t.co/LcVDl5mNGX

https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1047898541648044032?s=19

I am not defending Gandhi, but trying to understand him. Quoting him out of context, distorting his views, making him a villain for our own flaws will not help. Millions of Indians voluntarily followed him; many others, including Bose, did not. You are free to choose your path.

https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1048938896304693248?s=19 07 Oct 18

Then in the same spirit and logic do not implicate The Mother with any tacit or overt approval of Nehru and Indira outside or without context.

And refrain from telling those who View Gandhi differently that they're wrong and it's a tactical mistake.

https://twitter.com/AloPal/status/1048955599910649862?s=19

There is a lot of good in every person.No human is constructed absolute evil.There r others whose good is the predominant legacy. NOT Gandhi https://t.co/aHhLkqCmlW
https://twitter.com/AloPal/status/880590656434982913?s=19

Gandhi was foolish in giving that advice to Jews.  You will find a lot of worth in him if you stop expecting perfection. https://t.co/y7cxpqKSIb
https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/880504687178522624?s=19
Just bcoz Mahatma Gandhi blundered in dealings with Jinnah doesn't diminish his greatness & creative use of SanatanDharma for 20th C battles https://t.co/3iEue4pt6u
https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/880354326090219520?s=19

Subhash Chandra Bose? RT @_Mauna_: I count three leaders who actively opposed Gandhi without qualms - Ambedkar, Savarkar & Jinnah.
https://twitter.com/KetPan/status/348061209037246464?s=19
RT @_Mauna_ 28 Gandhi, at the very first opportunity, was given up by his same leaders who had held him up as an exemplar during the Brit Raj
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/567732416182108160?s=19
Aurobindo was so right about Gandhi. Aurobindo's blunder was to abdicate his own responsibility to fight Gandhi's pernicious influence.
https://twitter.com/PaulDeoSan/status/348007342719262721?s=19
@SavitriEraParty My point was too many ppl including Aurobindo gave Gandhi a free reign whn thy hd the insight to realize whr he was headed.
https://twitter.com/PaulDeoSan/status/348051100798160897?s=19

@_Mauna_ Sri Aurobindo's major task was trouncing Hitler with his Yogic force. He was surely opposed to Gandhi in many ways but not fully.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/348052694801448960?s=19
@_Mauna_ You are right. But such references are there in Sri Aurobindo's published Autobiographical Writings and allied literature.
Nobel prize can't happen without clutching on to Gandhi narrative. Besides it's not easy to demolish all that has been said in praise of Gandhi. Even saying that Sri Aurobindo was against him won't be wholly correct. How he definitely was an agent of Zeitgeist must be appreciated
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/968173887010648064?s=19

Quest for a historical core for puranas is futile

Assorted tweets:

We could cite the example of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya here. Upadhyaya obviously has his champions on the right, but he has never been absolutely assimilated into the saffron nationalist pantheon where the likes of Savarkar and Golwalkar rest.

Can ‘cold’ constitutional values like fraternity, secularism, liberty ever quell the rage that hatred and nationalism have fomented on the streets, and chill this propensity toward violence?

Love, for example, even tolerant inclusion, is extremely difficult to vernacularise. And yet we have no alternative other than vernacularising our basic constitutional values, of championing sadhbhavana, ahimsa, and a related basket of concepts that may contain more heat, more passion. It’s a tall order to make fraternity, love politically organic. But inclusive concepts — ideological and not ethno-racial — must occupy the mental and spiritual space currently monopolised by exclusive ones.

India and the Indian: Will we never be able to achieve consensus on being legitimately Indian, writes Aakash Singh Rathore https://t.co/MSBIiV2KGK

https://twitter.com/aakash_ironman/status/1144812508332433408?s=19

A very cool collage of my book covers over the last decade. I’ve been lucky to have great designers.

#books #bookworm #booklover #bookshelf #bookclub #reader #readmore #booklovers #published #bookpic #booktography #bookwormfeature #reading #readerlife #bibliophile #bookishthings https://t.co/fMhQcF0qHm

https://twitter.com/aakash_ironman/status/1145311357408952320?s=19

Caste adapts to changing state technologies and political economy, but remains a total social fact, organising every realm of Indian life: legal, economic and political, religious, aesthetic and cultural. This is not to minimise the pernicious nature of colonialism, or ...

Caste Wasn't a British Construct – and Anyone Who Studies History Should Know That https://t.co/58MN36TbHd via @thewire_in

https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1145332082568077315?s=19

Let Gandhi be our guide to show how not to hate in Ram’s name https://t.co/Jn2ZXwhXVR

https://twitter.com/TOIOpinion/status/1145072337483472896?s=19

Hate and and violence in the name of Ram does unconscionable damage not only  to democracy but also to  India’s religious traditions. My take https://t.co/bFnIn1S2sL

https://twitter.com/sagarikaghose/status/1145326299180724224?s=19

There’s nothing wrong with taking a dim view of Aurangzeb or Tipu Sultan if that’s your thing. The problem arises when you start imagining that your Muslim neighbour owes you an explanation for them. [Reup] https://t.co/W3nxddeC6b

https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1144967452171952130?s=19

My piece. Serve Allah, marry a Hindu or wear a burkha, stop profiling Muslim women https://t.co/ZgtHJ6JpKu

https://twitter.com/_sabanaqvi/status/1145325389201330176?s=19

My column on the transformation from Ram Ram and the feminine first Siya Ram to the masculine aggressive Jai SHRI RAM.... https://t.co/hKmjG86Gnh

https://twitter.com/_sabanaqvi/status/1145154831767822341?s=19

In their bid to undermine Arif Mohammed Khan, the intellectual Maulanas have only proved the accuracy of Khan’s assessment. https://t.co/POAro42fQp

https://twitter.com/OpIndia_com/status/1145308501528334336?s=19

The Liberal-Islamist alliance is rattled by Arif Mohammad Khan. The reason is because ⁦@RifatJawaid⁩ type pseudo-liberals are totally regressive, intolerant and hate the Truth, even as they practise misogyny. ⁦@arifmohammadk⁩ exposes them.  https://t.co/Xqjm0peF0t

https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1145322935768403973?s=19

Arif Mohammad Khan is playing a harmful game. He is creating the false perception that plight of Muslims is somehow their own fault. Then by creating terms like Deobandi Fundamentalism - straight out of RW playbook - he is giving talking points for badgering the community more

https://twitter.com/AdityaMenon22/status/1144485019810820099?s=19

Do yourself a favor, please watch Article 15. @ayushmannk is amazing and so is @Mdzeeshanayyub !! Take a bow @anubhavsinha not many have the guts to make such a movie! You should know the hall in my small town in TN was almost full and the audience couldn't stop clapping !

https://twitter.com/vakeel_saheba/status/1145322028330672128?s=19

Despite raking up billions, #KabirSingh reopens the debate over normalization of #rape culture and toxic behavior portrayed in #Indiancinema, reports @sehgal106. #India #movies #ToxicMasculinity https://t.co/TOnTLcHvF9

https://twitter.com/AsiaTimes_In/status/1145309242728968192?s=19

"Don’t look for role models or measures of success in the displeasure of Allah" https://t.co/yg8PmzWZus

https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag/status/1145312024710094848?s=19

Why should she publicise it. its between her and her Allah. It’s like wanting to draw more attention to oneself, instead of trying to move away from attention and false popularity. Those who give up worldly things do it silently & in peace. https://t.co/5kgrAA0K36

https://twitter.com/shahid_siddiqui/status/1145311054651543553?s=19

Brought up on a dose of false knowledge as a believer, you always live in the dread of eternal hell. Anxiety gets more acute when told that you have just one life and an eternal afterlife. @ZairaWasimmm dropped burqa and had a Hindu BF in Secret Superstar, so got hounded by Ms https://t.co/gPnesOCuLw

https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1145302683688898566?s=19

The usual suspects who are butthurt after seeing Nusrat’s sindoor, are drawing a false equivalence between Zaira Wasim & Nusrat Jahan. While Nusrat is clearly enjoying the marital bliss, Wasim is trying to pollute young minds interested in art, by making it look like a bad thing.

https://twitter.com/AsYouNotWish/status/1145290356704985089?s=19

#TIL that Gibbon’s seminal treatise on the decline of the Roman Empire was on the Catholic Church’s list of “prohibited books” because he had squarely laid the blame of the downfall on Christianity..on the indifference of Christian Romans to tend to material needs of Empire

https://twitter.com/sabeaux/status/1145304156099371008?s=19

Didn’t know this about the Life of Brian, either.. https://t.co/uJI8LhC6ad

"More than 30 years and an entire political and economic system away from Chernobyl, we are watching many of our political and economic leaders lie about climate change, as if untruth has some new power to stop physics." Great piece by @brdemuth, must read https://t.co/mu2njw7gsj

https://twitter.com/GhoshAmitav/status/1145313781821648898?s=19

'It beckons you, holds you by your lapels and shakes you till you are ready to open your eyes. For this book is an awakening for the world.' @Ttindia on @GhoshAmitav's bestselling new novel GUN ISLAND.  https://t.co/XairRlOFVC

https://twitter.com/MeruGokhale/status/1145223618005127168?s=19

The #Anthropocene is about more than #climatechange. It is about an entire system of life, designed to maximise resource extraction at the expense of expendable ‘Others’; a global system of racism emerging from the legacy of centuries of colonialism. https://t.co/eldJt7tL0v

https://twitter.com/NafeezAhmed/status/1144278006598459392?s=19

Aryan Race & Hindu Fascism: @RajivMessage dismantles Romila Thapar in this series titled 'Decolonizing Romila Thapar' - do notice how she speaks only within her close cartel club, and never debates her positions. She refused an invite to @JaipurDialogues https://t.co/obZhJuvC4C

https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1144200752937627648?s=19

Read a comment to the effect that using the term “myths” means that the person has no faith & should be committed to an asylum. By that logic, many great AcAryas would be worthy of being committed for holding that myths reflect certain truths outside historical time & space.

https://twitter.com/GhorAngirasa/status/1145278248437219329?s=19

A huge consequence of technological egalitarianism (equal access to technology/resources) is that individuals of very mediocre abilities watch a few videos of famous Hindutva tweeple, get all woke & go around giving their useless opinions on complex theological issues.

Unpopular opinion: Forming opinions & arguments on Hindu theological issues should never be a democratic, free-for-all process. There should be a diversity of opinions, yes; but from a small group of intelligent people. Unfortunately, we can’t enforce that here.

The idea that historical actuality of scripture is essential in order for scriptures/traditions to have any worth/value is shared by both abrahamisms & modern atheism.

By Liam Jerrold Fraser in "The Secret Sympathy: New Atheism, Protestant Fundamentalism, and Evolution": https://t.co/ErZgwQ4LKP

https://twitter.com/Shakra_Kulish/status/1145368930254352384?s=19

I remember a discussion we once had, long ago, on the traditional dating of the Mahabharata and BB Lal's. Am I to assume you have changed your stance?

https://twitter.com/ArmchairPseph/status/1145351790499491841?s=19

My POV is a somewhat nuanced one, the quest for a historical core is futile both in terms of spiritual value and in terms of whether finding it is possible, but we should not assert literalism above the proof of pratyaksha pramana, that is anti tradition

Pointless apoptotic discussions about the historicity, veracity of "Myths" in purANas, shruti, smriti. Personally I'm a student of biology in "modern" Gen next era, if I've to apply science/logic in every scripture because of my "scientific" background I better commit suicide.

Myth is derived from Greek, doesn't mean false in today's sense. Egyptian, Hellenic, Roman scholars of yore held Myths as the historical legends associated with Gods. Now coming to ours, we don't have any such term Myth: it is paurANika/vaidika but definitely not non-historic.

The example I gave of 'anathema'. It was the equivalent of Greek 'prasad'. Got its current meaning because Christians wouldn't touch it. Now we aren't supposed to go around calling our own prasad 'anathema'. That would be foolish.

https://twitter.com/Shatrubhanja/status/1145371285330878464?s=19

Vaidik dharma lives in the Pauranik dharma, which lives in the heart of every Hindu.

Des Raj Goyal was an RSS swayamsevak who left the group & wrote about it. His history of the group's founding is particularly insightful. RSS co-founder Hedgewar, he wrote, wanted: "A militant gang which would not stand duality of allegiance either to persons or to principles."

"... were Dr. Moonje, Dr. Paranjpe, Dr. Hedgewar, Dr. Tholkar, & Babarao Savarkar. The RSS publications mention only the figure (5) & not the names perhaps because all of them were Hindu Mahasabha leaders & the RSS has been shy of owning up any relationship with the Mahasabha..."

https://twitter.com/FriedrichPieter/status/1145316779188719616?s=19

A little-known script from sultanate-era India may be a clue about the era’s multilingual culture

https://t.co/SHasYp2DRW https://t.co/cxBKI5WmMT

https://twitter.com/scroll_in/status/1145371416591773697?s=19

Mangoes turning saffron from green after Modi’s victory is a huge concern, activists say https://t.co/jcysv7KY1H

https://twitter.com/OpIndia_com/status/1145353800821006340?s=19

There’s no such thing as a “tech person” in the age of AI. Social problems are no longer limited for humanities folks and technical problems are no longer domain of scientists or engineers solely. https://t.co/oDhj71lQy6

https://twitter.com/abhisheksurana/status/1145376750265782272?s=19

Probably the best lecture to understand, de-stigmatize, & demystify #depression. If you are a care-giver or have a friend who is going through depressive disorders, this is a great resource to orient+educate yourself. Prof. Robert Sapolsky in Stanford: https://t.co/widSRzKrjG 1/3

https://twitter.com/varungrover/status/1145235224810287104?s=19

It talks about the multiple components (biological, psychological, sociological) that make one prone to depression & is very reassuring in its broad diagnosis of the struggle.

Sadly the video quality is bad but someone has thankfully put subtitles so it's easy to follow.

29 June 2019 marked the eighth death anniversary of K. D. Sethna. As our homage to him, an article titled ‘Years with my mentor: K. D. Sethna’ penned by Dr. Goutam Ghosal has been published in the website of Overman Foundation. To read Dr. Ghosal’s tribute to K. D. Sethna, kindly click on the following link: http://overmanfoundation.org/2019/06/30/years-with-my-mentor-k-d-sethna-by-goutam-ghosal/

With warm regards, Anurag Banerjee

#SriAurobindo

Cricket, chess, or tennis: see life through the learning lens

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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