Monday, December 11, 2023

Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo transcends social concerns

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, SELF (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)

[PDF] How Neo-Nationalism has fuelled the transformation of old welfare-state to new capital-state

D Mohan - The Wire, 2023
This is a two-part review analysis based on the key findings in Oleksandr Svitych’s recent book, The Rise of the Capital-State and Neo-Nationalism, which attempts to provide a political economy approach to the rise of ‘neo-nationalism’ – a populist …

Abrogating Article 370 and Kashmir's exceptionalism: a critical analysis of India's bodies politic

A Bhatia - Critical Discourse Studies, 2023
… The curation of a populist narrative that fosters a protectionist sentiment situates BJP’s primary ideology of Hindutva (conflation of religious and … The 2014 resurrection of BJP, their dispersion of Hindutva, and the perceived disintegration of …

Philosophical and Educational Thoughts of Sri Aurobindo

DR Sirswal - 2023
In this book we included 10 papers from academicians, teachers and research scholars on the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo that touches various aspects of his thoughts. The year-long celebrations to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of …

[PDF] Integration of Spirituality in the Teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo

B Saroj Chandraker - Tuijin Jishu/Journal of Propulsion Technology, 2023
… Sri Aurobindo, in his integral yoga, proposed that human life is a journey towards … Integral Approach to Life: Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga and Vivekananda's call for a holistic approach to life converge in their shared vision of an integrated existence …

[PDF] Swami Vivekananda, Hindu Dharma and 'Social Ethics' in the Nineteenth Century

H Tripathy
… devotion also had a philanthropic role; social service was an integral part of their everyday life in ancient as well as medieval India. … of karma yoga in the context of Hackerian thesis, he says; “there is a far more explicit relationship in the arguments …

[PDF] Missing Links between Veer Savarkar and Rash Bihari Bose: A Historical Study

N De, A Karimganj
Savarkar is an unquestionable nationalist, an ardent anti-imperialist and a fearless freedom fighter, Veer Savarkar had motivated thousands of people both before and after independence. His sacrifice for the motherland still remains in our hearts even …

[PDF] SHOWCASING ANTI-COLONIAL NATIONALIST STRUGGLES

B Dutt - STAGING DIFFICULT PASTS
… Though the RSS is banned, dormant lies the Hindutva politics and deep communalism that refuses to go away even 70 years after … 14 Communalism is a derogatory term used to identify the doctrine that came to be known by name ‘Hindutva’which …

[PDF] “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”: A Study of Cultural Dissension in Pankaj Mishra's The Romantics

M NAYAK - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol, 2023
… In parallel, following the demise of Samar’s mother, his father, with an aura of inscrutability, embarked on a comparable journey of withdrawal from the world by seeking solace within the tranquil confines of Auroville in Pondicherry. This esoteric …

[HTML] A cross-cultural religiology between reductionism and anti-reductionism

G Wang - HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
… , to see the encounter with other’s religion as a personal, and integral encounter in which we do not merely understand other’s religion by … or Brahma, Hinduism teaches four yogas: jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, karma yoga, and raja yoga. Through …

[HTML] The Discourse Analysis of Spiritual Life Zones in Wayne W. Dyer and Muhammad Reza Hakimi's Views

M Khiweh, M Sotoudehnia, M Motia - Comparative Theology, 2023
One characteristic of the modern age is the attempt to separate religion from the secular world, confining it to a specific aspect of life and replacing it with a new form of spirituality. This study compared the viewpoints of Muhammad Reza Hakimi and …

[PDF] MASTERING THE ART OF WRITING: SKILLS, STRATEGIES, AND SUCCESS

AK Uchkunovich - Creativity and Intellect in Higher Education …, 2023
Writing is a skill that transcends professions, cultures, and generations. Whether you're a student crafting essays, a professional composing reports, or an aspiring author weaving stories, strong writing skills are essential. In this three-page article, we will …

Television music curation in the playlist era

M Kaplan - Journal of Popular Television, 2023
… Playlists offer listeners meticulously curated selections suited to fit their taste profile, harnessing the power of curation as an integral facet of music consumption in the twenty-first century. The power of the curation realized by the music …

The view from Mathura: nationalist projections in local perspective

N Tackes - Contemporary South Asia, 2023
… This situation demonstrates how rhetorical and spatial erasure mutually reinforce one another within contemporary Hindutva projects, whereby Muslim sacred territory in India becomes progressively more difficult to access, both conceptually and on …

A Review of “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya”

Rajan - 2023
… To conclude this section, George Burch’s quote is invoked, emphasizing that the ancient traditions of Sāṃkhya and Yoga, as presented in SSP and SYP, are living philosophies requiring further deliberation. These traditions have faced challenges …

Tagore's Solutions for Colonial Degeneration: Indic Societalism, Nation, Identities, and Communities

A Mukhopadhyay - 2023
This book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker revolving around Tagore’s ideas on the seeds of civil society, nation, identities, and communities in the Indic tradition. The author deconstructs Tagore’s concepts …

[PDF] Periodicals and Nation-Building: The Public Sphere, Modernity, and Modernism in Modern Review and Visva Bharati Quarterly

A Singh - Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and …, 2023
… Adhikari Bheda was a practice that gained popularity during the revivalism of Hindutva (as discussed by Sumit Sarkar in “Identity and Difference: Caste in the Formation of the Ideologies of Nationalism and Hindutva”), especially with Swami …

[PDF] Dualistic Realism in Thoreau's Walden

MP Sapkota - Journal of Siddhartha, 2023
… and restraints outlined in yoga. For example, he,“… was a vegetarian, a non-smoker and teetotaler. He remained bachelor throughout his life… (99)”. … Thus, understanding this integral relationship between the Prakriti and the Purusa is to …

[PDF] Hannah Arendt's Vita Activa, Civil Disobedience and Plurality: The Emergence of'Andolan'as an Essential Human Condition in India

S Khalid
… However, such distinct religious or ideologically driven flag hoist emphasizing narrow-sub-nationalism seemingly critical to the mainstream Hindutva nationalism synthesizing state, religion and politics in the country. The conditions of 'Relizens,' 

When the Fourth Pillar Crumbles: Press Freedom in the Time of Right-Wing Nationalism

DS Mini - Journalism & Communication Monographs, 2023
… Today, this has led to a situation where anyone who criticizes Hindutva is accused … Hindutva ideology are readily available. Anirban Baishya’s 2022 article in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies shows how such media ecologies …

Bollywood, Maratha imperialism and Hindu nationalism

K Roy - Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2023
… In 1923, Savarkar published Essentials of Hinduism which constitutes the basis for Hindutva concept. He elaborated this concept further in Hindu Rashtra Darshan (1949). For Savarkar, Hinduism is a spiritual dogma and a derivative of HindutvaHindutva …

Ethno-Nationalist Drivers of the Indian Media Truth-Telling Crisis

A Khan, I Vahanvaty - Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust …, 2023
… It is in this confluence between the press and politics, which sped up, especially since the 1990s, that we demonstrate the impact of misleading public opinion, particularly the way it has helped the Hindutva parties in securing electoral gains. In …

[PDF] Censorship and the Nationalization of Dance in India: An Overview from 1947 to the Present

A Chakravarty - South Asian Dance Intersections, 2023
… Hindutva … and Hindutva nationalism gaining momentum on the other, the 1990s marked increasing tussles over the prevailing assumptions of Indian cultural identity. In the context of cinema, this project played out in efforts to censor dance sequences …

[PDF] Alternative Therapies Across Ages: A Psychological Perspective

P Varma, P Rai, A Ranjan
… because of its chronic nature comes up with a lot of challenges and management is an integral part of life for most of those diagnosed. ADHD-diagnosed people are usually indifferent to reinforcement and thereby are motivated less to indulge in any …

[PDF] The neurocognitive cornerstones of creative thought

MMY Chan, MAL RALPH, G Robinson - 2023
… Functional fractionations have been 244 identified along three spatial directional axes33,52,54; the Rostral-Caudal axis represents the 245 level of abstraction (complex-simple) of stimulus-response associations, the Ventral-Dorsal 246 axis is integral for storage …

[PDF] Monumentality, Seriality and Social Intervention: Sculptures from an 11th-century Workshop at Sunari in Eastern Malwa

S Singh, J Levillain - Arts Asiatiques, 2023
… One of these, the statue of Vishnu seated in meditation as “master of yoga,” Yoganarayana, was brought to Gwalior where it is still on … The stakes, as clarified by Ajay Sinha, lie in identifying the innovation, experimentation and individuality …

[PDF] HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FEATURES OF THE FORMATION OF PHYSICAL CULTURE IN SOCIETY

ЎА Шоназаров - Ethiopian International Journal of Multidisciplinary …, 2023
… Physical culture is an integral … believed that spirit and body exist in an integral way. According to Aristotle, the three types of the … Thus, the philosophical system of yoga is based on the concept that the human body is a reduced …

Pedagogy, Politics, and Betty Dodson's Liberating Masturbation

E Sutton - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2024
… While she is recognized as an integral figure in the history of sex-positive feminism and feminist sex education, beyond these scholarly and activist communities she lacks the name recognition of her movement peers in a theoretical …