Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Wishing everyone a happy #IndependenceDay2024!
Today is also the 152nd birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo.
Two years ago, @devdip and I released our book, Reading Sri Aurobindo, as an offering to the Supramental Sage.
A thread…
https://x.com/gchikermane/status/1823987424948892086?t=GUlLjEDy_goSkPFMOwC8iw&s=19
Hi , I completed reading this book "Living Within" by A S Dalal. Its practical guide for strengthening of mind. I have done @YouTube shorts for this book & I posted the same in @X platform too. I thank @gployee14 for lending me this book. Thankies #books @AuroSociety #auroville
https://x.com/saisramalingam/status/1824383411236086096?t=nNSOYdWCe1WlBCQDaAWbfQ&s=19
As for foreign authors (among whom you can count, by education, Aurobindo, who brought evolutionism in), they have their civilizational baggage, but so do Indians: Ārya Samājīs w/ their colonial-age monotheist spin, Traditionalists w/ their post-Vedic Apauruṣeya spin.
https://x.com/ElstKoenraad/status/1824483470799720694?t=oOKAS3Ai6qw96IwZLvySTA&s=19
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DRS SWAMI
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[PDF] Sahitya Manthan
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S Dalwai, A Singh - Handbook on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public …, 2024
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Ever since Karl Marx–in fact, with some knowing it even before Marx–capitalism had been distributing wealth unequally. Having established himself as one of Germany’s foremost experts on poverty, Christoph Butterwegge’s most recent book is about the …
11 Envisioning Quality in Teacher Education
A Behari, N Ranganathan, M Aneja - … Education Landscapes in India: Governance and …, 2024
As is implicit in the title, the attempt in this chapter is to present a perspective on how quality can be envisioned in teacher education (TE) by focusing on the pedagogical and curricular dimensions of teacher education programmes (TEPs) and briefly …
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V Päivänsalo - Handbook on Religion and Health, 2024
… In a rights-based perspective, freedom can also be seen an integral aspect in viable and healthy spiritual dynamics. The liberty of living up to one’s spiritual values became an increasingly topical issue amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. The Covid …
The Aristotelean Ethic and the Spirit of
M Kock - … Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios …, 2024
… Rishikesh resembles a great, open-air supermarket of yoga. The centers shoot up at each street corner and are concentrated around the … 49 Self-responsible,“fit” subjectivity is so integral to the functioning of our capitalist system that one cannot …
[PDF] INTERDISCIPLINARY DIMENSIONS IN MUTHUSWAMI DIKSHITAR'S COMPOSITIONS
B SANTHOSHINI
… It is more like an integral part of his compositions. The compositions of Dikshitar are overloaded with spiritual, scientific, and devotional approaches. The Literature and Philosophy, mentioned above, represent the reference to literary aspects and …
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T Müller, T Cochrane - Handbook on Religion and Health, 2024
… The sacred ceremony is an integral part of realizing this vision. … Within these spaces there was a strong orientation towards questions of health and healing, with many health-related professionals, such as psychologists, holistic healers, yoga …
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… just an integral part of our daily lives but is also used by scientists to discover new knowledge. A key challenge in leveraging the growing availability of data, however, lies in extracting meaningful insights from the ever-growing sea of information. Data …
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GP Levin - 2024
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Indigenous Resistance in South Asia
MJ Dutta, P Baskey, R Mandi, I Mandal - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of …, 2024
… What is salient at the time of writing this article is the violent co-option of Indigeneity by the far-right fascist organizing of the Hindutva state in India, magnifying at an exponential rate the narratives of Indigeneity and decolonization …
Sharing Jesus with Hindus: Global Witness among Hindu Diaspora
S George, A Kumar - 2024
… In this chapter, Patel investigates the faith of the current prime minister of India, who is backed by radical Hindutva ideology to make India into a Hindu rashtra (nation). Patel explores how the prime minister's Hindu faith shapes his leadership style …
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L Khanna - Contemporary South Asia, 2024
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Employing a queer lens in research, particularly in social sciences and humanities, enables the researcher to move beyond the binary understandings of inclusion/exclusion, equality/inequality that entraps the queer subject merely as a pregiven rights-seeking …
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O Ogunyemi - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2024
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D Sarkar - Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative, 2025
… This has been reinforced by translation and espousal of the life model by the early twentieth-century nationalists like Aurobindo Ghosh, and subsequently inspired by his example by an entire cult of pan-Indian revolutionaries. Around the …
Shiva'Dance-A Scientist Dances with the Sages, A Memoir
S Mehrotra
… Sri Aurobindo, an Indian mystic, wrote extensively on integral yoga48- a union of mind, body and soul. Michael Murphy49, the founder of the renowned Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and George Leonard codified the teachings of Sri …
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BP Pokharel - English Language Teaching Perspectives, 2024
George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara deals with the conflict between materialistic forces and spiritual values and the victory of the former over the latter to infuse the materialistic power of the contemporary society. The implication of material …