Sunday, November 25, 2018

30 books are banned in India

Plasim Radar


Friday, November 23, 2018

Aster Patel to be felicitated with Auro-Ratna award

Plasim Radar

Nikos Kazantzakis, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Zygmunt Bauman - From refusing to give information on how close to 30 books were banned in independent India and how those bans were never revoked, the Ministry finally rel...

The Last Embodied Darshan – Amal Kiran - November 24 is known as the Day of Victory, for, on it, Sri Aurobindo had the experience which promised complete fulfilment of his vision. It is signific...

The Intellect as the Intermediary Between the Higher and Lower Powers of Consciousness - The unique position held by the intellectual reason in the evolutionary process is defined by its ability to not only focus on and impact the outer life of...

Clarification of my relationship with Zero Books - Since Angela Nagle, author of the Zero Books title Kill All Normies, has begun writing anti-immigration columns in pro-Trump publications, I thought it wou...

- In Deseret News, what students need to learn, St. John's College version. So the premise of the school is that human beings do better if they understand h...

Proximate enigmas - I’m delighted—and daunted!—for this chance at engaging the rich discussions of this forum. Nothing I say in this short space can be adequate to their depth...

NDPR review of Jonardon Ganeri’s Attention, Not Self - Review by Sebastian Watzl, University of Oslo Why should we study the philosophical ideas of someone who lived many centuries ago, in a far-away part of th...

Whitehead’s Quantum of Explanation: Thinking with Auxier and Herstein - “Our central idea is that concrete existence explains the abstract aspects of experience and not vice-versa.” -Auxier and Herstein “So long as necessity is...

18.11.1973: Getting a Double Darshan from the Divine Mother - Of course, like probably every disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, on every November 17th for the full day I keep my inner focus, in utter gratitude,...

The Mother Abides – Final Reflections - The Mother Abides Final Reflections (1973–1983) by Nolini Kanta Gupta These thoughts and reminiscences of Nolini Kanta Gupta were written or spoken during ...

The Other Side of the Wind - Quick impressions after seeing The Other Side of the Wind for the first time. I think it might be interesting to see The Other Side of the Wind as a late-c...

Living on Less Than $1 A Day – M.S. Srinivasan - (Review of the book Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Penguin Books) Poverty is a subject of great interest to economists and there is a...

The Finding of the Soul - *Her feet upon a couchant lion’**s **back.* *Botanical Name**: Sansevieria* *Common Name**: Bowstring Hemp* *Spiritual Significance: Joy of Spirituality* ...

The "Self" Sri Aurobindo talked about may be illusory - Recently I came across this wonderful site which can quench the thirst for knowledge by way of discussing five books like Joe Henricho of the ‘collective b...

Hare Krishna - A special offering for Krishna Janamashtami — my humble attempt to capture in photographs a few expressions of the Divinity and the Divine Personality of ...

Material Time - I’m slowly walking along the isthmus in Svaerholt, Norway. My legs are tired from climbing hills and mountains and I can’t move any faster through the gra...

When it Hurts - When you dig and dig some more to find out why something bothers you so much, it hurts. When you discover, or at least you think you have discovered, the...

Goddess Kali and the Big Destructions of Nature - Behind all the destructions - the big destructions of Nature - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the human destructions - wars, r...

Non-essence of Mirambika - What has befallen the world? Those who utter MC, BC to punctuate their speech nonsense now beseech Hot Pants to preserve Mirambika’s Essence! And she a fum...

UPDATE - UPDATE I AM NOT ALTOGETHER WELL I SHALL RETURN TO HOSPITAL TOMORROW FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS. I'II KEEP READERS INFORMED. BEST WISHES. GAVON

Welcome to the new website of Overman Foundation - Dear Friend and Well-wishers, On 29 March 2017, Overman Foundation completed its seventh year of existence. In the past seven years, we have worked to crea...

AurovilleRadioTV – The voices of Auroville

 On Sunday 25th November at 10.30am at Hall of Harmony is Sri Aurobinod Ashram , one of the pioneers and pillars of Auroville, Dr. Aster Patel, is going to be felicitated with the Auro-Ratna award at the Hall of Harmony, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry in the presence of managing trustee Manoj Dasgupta and other prominent disciples.

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