Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Mirra Alfassa was born #ThisWeekInHistory in 1878. She became a revered spiritual leader, holy figure, and yogic guru in India, founding multiple ashrams, a school, and an intentional, self-sustaining community. bit.ly/48ovExy
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For @AtmosMag I went long on #Auroville, an experimental utopian township in India founded 50 yrs ago on a dream by Mirra Alfassa aka The Mother. The last few years have been a tumultuous battle between competing ideas of 'the city the earth needs'. Read:
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With silent meditation we’ll mark the 146th birth anniversary of #SriAurobindo Ashram’s The Mother. Join Us… Team SNSMT
5-6 am | 21 Feb 24 | 9, Pithapur, Cuttack https://twitter.com/SNSMT/status/1759912648194318709?t=AJRNZClJR2NjisxjepgU8Q&s=19
IDivine Possibility
— Selected Writings of Sri Aurobindo
The brief passages collected in this compilation cover the central features of Sri Aurobindo’s vision of life and his method of spiritual practice, the Integral Yoga. Drawn from letters to his disciples and from his major prose works such as The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, and The Human Cycle, the selections focus on all aspects of life and sadhana and in their profundity demonstrate a beauty and elegance of expression characteristic of Sri Aurobindo’s style.
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J Lum, S Mowbray - Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent …, 2023
Writing is an integral aspect of candidature; it’s also an area many Higher Degree Researchers, and supervisors, find challenging. This chapter presents academic or research writing development within a broader ecological model of higher education …
[PDF] HARMONIZING HOLISTIC HAVEN: RISHIKESH'S JOURNEY FROM SPIRITUAL REFUGE TO SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL WELLNESS TOURISM CAPITAL
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… the early 20th century, Rishikesh also started gaining fame as a center for the study of yoga … Yoga is the biggest draw, as Rishikesh is globally renowned for yoga teacher training … There are also newer yoga studios focused purely on asana-oriented …
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This article discusses Hu Xuehua’s Prince of the Himalayas (2006) and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014) across overlapping local, regional and (inter)national imaginaries of Tibet and Kashmir, and considers the possibilities of rendering the …
[PDF] Cultures Differ Differently: Selected Essays of
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… If Hinduism is the empty set, as Doniger says, or a pan of lasagna (an Italian dish), how could we meaningfully hold forth on such entities as Hindu nationalism or even the Hindutva (‘Hindu-ness’) of political organisations and social movements? How …
[PDF] Corporate Majoritarianism: The Case of India
S Tejani - Beyond Neoliberalism and Neo-illiberalism: Economic …
… Hindutva or Hindu supremacy is the main ideological plank of the Hindu … Although commonsense in India has been shifting towards Hindutva from the 1980s, … For workers, political incorporation through Hindutva (and welfare policies) can be a …
[PDF] The Rise of Hindu Nationalism:: A Catalyst for India's Strategic Pivot towards Israel
J Duberstein - The Macalester Street Journal, 2024
… The decade marked both the ascension of Hindutva alongside the BJP and a rise in Islamic extremism. Riots between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs have been endemic in India for centuries, with many scholars crediting the 1992-93 Bombay …
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… Hindutva’s nationalism as a modern masculinist project that drew from puritanical western notions of state and national culture. He sees Hindutva … Footnote 33 Rather than the liminal nationalism of the Independence struggle, Nandy …
Contested rights, unequal citizens: how the Constitution presents paradoxes and hopes of equality for India's Muslim minority
I Ahmed - Australian Journal of Human Rights, 2023
This article examines why the Indian Constitution is central to Muslim politics and political resistance. It examines the tensions and challenges the Indian Constitution and the political rise of Hindu nationalism present to the Muslim struggle for equality …
Extra-territorial Self-determination: East African Decolonization and the Indian Annexation of goa
L Walker
During decolonization, for peoples divided by oceans–such as goans residing along the coasts of the Indian Oceanic world spanning East Africa, South Asia, and elsewhere–there could be no realizable aspiration for making territory, polity, and …
The Great Indian Manthan: State, Statecraft and the Republic (Rethinking India series Vol. 10)
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India is rapidly becoming the world’s largest flailing democracy. India’s institutional framework has been systematically undermined, from within and without. In the tenth volume of the Rethinking India series, some of India’s most eminent persons write of …
[PDF] CHAPTER-24 INDIAN CULTURE AND HERITAGE PROF.(DR.) B. C SWAIN
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Communal Geographies: An Introduction
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… Chandranath and Savarkar who, in 1923, argued that ‘Hindutva’ was not a word but a history. And yet, … My own research has revealed that the concept of Hindutva had entered the vocabulary of Hindus by … Arguably, its links with the Hindutva …
Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism
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… VD Savarkar (1883–1966)—the author of the ideology— famously proclaimed in his seminal 1923 book, Essentials of Hindutva, 'the only geographical limits to Hindutva are the limits of our earth!' India as holyland is the very bedrock of Hindutva …
Consciousness and Mathematical Sciences
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… We address third-person validation of first-person experiences in meditational practices of Surat Shabdh Yoga and topological graph-theoretical descriptions of the cosmology of Radhasoami Faith, using experiments of measuring topological brain …
'The Emotional Work is Part of the Work': Strategies to Maintain Researcher Emotional and Psychological Safety During Challenging Fieldwork
M Freed - Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the …, 2024
… work: not a side issue, but a necessary and integral part of the work, if they are to withstand the … in the confines of your room, or on a yoga mat. Having a routine helps researchers working in … Commit to yoga, meditation, or a breathing practice …
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M Creekmore, N Creekmore - 2024
… At the same time, we can guarantee that relationships are an integral part of the solutions to many of the problems that schools face. Educators across the globe have discussed and expressed frustration with the suggestion that relationships are …
[PDF] Development of the Gurukula Education System in India
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… However, the people of Gujarat had no viable alternative, and his Hindutva was weak and confused. The first essay in this collection, "Democracy: Who is she when she is at home?", focuses on the Gujarat genocide in May 2002, where the killers …
Homing in: Dom Moraes and the felt community of the dissociated in India
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… , when Moraes was writing, India had been a modern nation for over 50 years and was dominated by a majoritarian Hindutva leadership. … -skinned, hegemonic, male identity that is often prioritized by Hindutva believers – and is heavily critiqued …
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This chapter takes as its starting point Kate Marsh’s 2014 article ‘Pondichéry: Archive of “French” India’, and specifically the potential of ‘nostalgia as a means of anticipating an alternative future’(2019 [2014]: 3), in its analysis of Franco-Tunisian …
Promoting Mindfulness and Well-Being with Indian Psychology
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… Sri Aurobindo theorises that in the future, human civilisations and cultures worldwide will turn … the theories of Sri Aurobindo on the personality structure and subjective epistemologies. … personal experiences in Suprarational Labs and Sri …
