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Exploring Indian Culture and History through Curated Heritage Trails 

Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works

Date: March 21, 2022 Venue: Online It is often said that there are three main ways to know India. First, and the best way, is to aspire to realise the truth behind India’s profound and life-affirming spiritual thought. Second is to identify with the deeper truths behind India’s countless stories, particularly the stories told in itihāsa-s (Ramayana

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Reimagining Tales from Purāna-s and Itihāsa-s: A Writer’s Journey of Engaging with Epic Heroines

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: February 21, 2022 Venue: Online Over the long march of time and despite all the ebbs and flows in India’s cultural landscape, one remarkable facet of the Indian literary mind – a mind that has immersed itself in the literature that expresses the eternal spirit of India – can never be missed. It keeps

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Antaryatra: An Artist’s Journey Within

Art and Spirituality, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: January 21, 2022 “All great artistic work proceeds from an act of intuition, not really an intellectual idea or a splendid imagination,—these are only mental translations,—but a direct intuition of some truth of life or being, some significant form of that truth, some development of it in the mind of man.”(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 20,

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Indian Approach to Psychology: An Educator’s Experience and Insights

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works

Date: December 21, 2021 Venue: Online For this month’s insightful conversation, we focus on an educator’s experience of working with college students on Indian approach to psychology, or what she calls as Psychology of the Self. Dr. Aditi Kaul works at Auro University, Surat, which is inspired by the ideals and teachings of Sri Aurobindo

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Krishna’s Butter: Taking Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita to Children and Youth

Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works

Date: November 21, 2021 Venue: Online For our insightful conversations series, this month we bring a delightful and inspiring conversation with Dr. Bhawana Badhe and Mr. Sushrut Badhe on the topic: Krishna’s Butter – Taking Wisdom of Bhagavad Gita to Children and Youth. Moderated by Dr. Beloo Mehra, the conversation brings to light the inspiration

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A Creative Gurukul for a New Age

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: October 21, 2021 Venue: Online “The aim of education is not to prepare a man to succeed in life and society, but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost.”  (The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 120) For this month’s Insightful Conversation section, we are happy to bring a deeply inspiring conversation on a topic close

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The Art of Heritage Photography – A Conversation with Madhu Jagdhish

India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works

Date: September 21, 2021 Venue: Online “Photography is an art when the photographer is an artist.”(The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 241) How do we make our youngsters interested in learning about the great rich cultural and artistic heritage of India? The first and obvious answer would be to have them visit those places which

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Indian History in Indian Education: Beyond Ideologies and Politics

Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works

Date: August 15, 2021 Venue: Online “The past must be a spring-board towards the future, not a chain preventing us from advancing…all depends on the attitude towards the past.”(The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 296) For the Insightful Conversations series, our topic this month is highly relevant for our present and future march as a

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Dharma, Shāstra and Future Society

India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: July 21, 2021 Venue: Online We invited Nithin Sridhar, author of several books on Hinduism and a commentator on various social-cultural-political issues of our times. ‘Īśopaniṣad: An English Commentary’ is his most recent book. Referring to the Upanishads as at once scripture, philosophy and seer-poetry, Sri Aurobindo once remarked that the Upanishads are the supreme work

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Yoga and Cultural Misappropriation

All Life is Yoga, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works

Date: June 21, 2021 Venue: Online Renaissance journal team invited Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, Director of the Centre for Yoga Therapy Education and Research (CYTER), and Professor of Yoga Therapy at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Puducherry, for an interview on this topic, which is also the subject of his new e-book. Yogacharya Dr. Bhavanani shared

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Sanitation in Ancient India and Implications for Future

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

A true and all-inclusive Renaissance or Rebirth of India can never exclude conscious care, preservation and rejuvenation of the outer body of India. For our monthly video lecture, this time we take up a topic highly relevant for civic planning in India of today and tomorrow. With a growing population, the problem of human waste

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India’s National Development in the Light of Sri Aurobindo’s Educational Philosophy

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Editor’s Note: According to Sri Aurobindo a true and living education should have three central aims – 1) for an individual, it is growth of the soul and its powers and possibilities, 2) for the nation, the preservation, strengthening and enrichment of the nation-soul and its Dharma, and 3) to raise both the individual and

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Indian Culture, Spirituality and Modern Economics

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Editorial Note: “The ideals that governed the spirit and body of Indian society were of the highest kind, its social order secured an inexpugnable basic stability, the strong life force that worked in it was creative of an extraordinary energy, richness and interest, and the life organised remarkable in its opulence, variety in unity, beauty,

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On Pop Culture, Youth and Education – A conversation with Sandeep Balakrishna (3 parts)

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: October 1, 2019 If we have to be reborn as a society, as a nation, if we have to raise ourselves to work toward the true mission of India, to fulfill India’s true destiny, we must grow in Shakti. What can help Indians, and especially the youth of India grow in Shakti? What are

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Of Indian Wisdom and Cultural Reawakening: A Conversation with Maria Wirth (3 parts)

India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations at BhāratShakti, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: February 2, 2019 On February 2, 2019, I had an opportunity to speak with Maria Wirth about her new book, Thank you India: A German Woman’s Journey to the Wisdom of Yoga, and also about a few other related topics. We met at the Sri Aurobindo Society campus. The free-flowing conversation which lasted for more

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On Making India: An Interview with Aravindan Neelakandan

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Date: March 3, 2019 On March 3, 2019, I had an opportunity to speak with Aravindan Neelakandan when he visited Pondicherry and Auroville area for conducting a couple of sessions at the Tantrotsav 2019 at Kalarigram. Aravindan Neelakandan is a prolific writer on many aspects of Indian culture and society, and is well-known for his book “Breaking

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