Educating the Vital – Art Education for Inner Harmony
Date: October 21, 2022 In her essay on the Vital Education, the Mother writes: As a sign, perhaps, of the
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Conscious Conception and Pregnancy: Listening to a Personal Journey
Date: September 21, 2022 Venue: Online Indian spiritual traditions were never cut-off from life. The attempt of our ancient Indian
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Powada, a Story-telling Performance Art
Date: August 15, 2022 In our Insightful Conversations series we speak with authors, artists, performers, educators, story-tellers and other creative
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Krīḍā- Making Indian Games Cool! A conversation with authors of ‘The Games India Plays’
Date: June 21, 2022 Venue: Online In 1949 when the Ashram journal “Bulletin d’Éducation Physique” was started by the Mother,
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Bringing Indian Culture in Schools: An Educationist’s Experience and Insights
Date: May 21, 2022 Venue: Online One of the greatest secrets revealed by the Indian spiritual knowledge is that only
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The Timeless Tradition of Storytelling – An Art that Educates, Inspires and Elevates
Date: April 21, 2022 Venue: Online For this month’s Insightful Conversation, we speak with Ms. Deepa Kiran, an award-winning storyteller
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Exploring Indian Culture and History through Curated Heritage Trails
Date: March 21, 2022 Venue: Online It is often said that there are three main ways to know India. First,
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Reimagining Tales from Purāna-s and Itihāsa-s: A Writer’s Journey of Engaging with Epic Heroines
Date: February 21, 2022 Venue: Online Over the long march of time and despite all the ebbs and flows in
On Sincere Prayer
Prayer is one of the most common practices we have to connect with the Divine, to establish a relation with
Antaryatra: An Artist’s Journey Within
Date: January 21, 2022 “All great artistic work proceeds from an act of intuition, not really an intellectual idea or
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Renaissance Archives, 2021
Acxess all 2021 issue of Renaissance
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Indian Approach to Psychology: An Educator’s Experience and Insights
Date: December 21, 2021 Venue: Online For this month’s insightful conversation, we focus on an educator’s experience of working with
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Krishna’s Butter: Taking Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita to Children and Youth
Date: November 21, 2021 Venue: Online For our insightful conversations series, this month we bring a delightful and inspiring conversation
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A Creative Gurukul for a New Age
Date: October 21, 2021 Venue: Online “The aim of education is not to prepare a man to succeed in life
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The Art of Heritage Photography – A Conversation with Madhu Jagdhish
Date: September 21, 2021 Venue: Online “Photography is an art when the photographer is an artist.”(The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12,
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Indian History in Indian Education: Beyond Ideologies and Politics
Date: August 15, 2021 Venue: Online “The past must be a spring-board towards the future, not a chain preventing us
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Dharma, Shāstra and Future Society
Date: July 21, 2021 Venue: Online We invited Nithin Sridhar, author of several books on Hinduism and a commentator on
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Yoga and Cultural Misappropriation
Date: June 21, 2021 Venue: Online Renaissance journal team invited Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, Director of the Centre for Yoga
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Why Read the Puranas?
In one of his Bengali writings, published in “Dharma”, No. 17, December, 1909, Sri Aurobindo wrote the following about the
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Sanitation in Ancient India and Implications for Future
A true and all-inclusive Renaissance or Rebirth of India can never exclude conscious care, preservation and rejuvenation of the outer
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India’s National Development in the Light of Sri Aurobindo’s Educational Philosophy
Editor’s Note: According to Sri Aurobindo a true and living education should have three central aims – 1) for an
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Indian Culture, Spirituality and Modern Economics
Editorial Note: “The ideals that governed the spirit and body of Indian society were of the highest kind, its social
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On Pop Culture, Youth and Education – A conversation with Sandeep Balakrishna (3 parts)
Date: October 1, 2019 If we have to be reborn as a society, as a nation, if we have to
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Of Indian Wisdom and Cultural Reawakening: A Conversation with Maria Wirth (3 parts)
Date: February 2, 2019 On February 2, 2019, I had an opportunity to speak with Maria Wirth about her new
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On Making India: An Interview with Aravindan Neelakandan
Date: March 3, 2019 On March 3, 2019, I had an opportunity to speak with Aravindan Neelakandan when he visited
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