People are angry. The atrocious, most horrible crimes that took the life of a young doctor at the very hospital where she worked has made the nation angry. The disgusting manner in which the state administration, which is supposed to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of citizens, is working to cover up
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Editor’s note: As the world witnesses the heart-wrenching attacks on Hindu temples in Bangladesh, it is time to recall a powerful statement of Sri Aurobindo – “…the creative activities of the Hindu revival have made Indian religion a living and evolving, a secure, triumphant and self-assertive power.” (CWSA, 20: 63). To add more force to
देवी अहिल्याबाई होल्कर, नारी शक्ति का एक प्रज्जवलित उदाहरण – सुमन कोचर Read More »
Sri Aurobindo once wrote that more than the disunity, it was the lack of national feeling among Indians which made the British so easily conquer India. In this context he described the essential difference between national consciousness and patriotism, which he said are two different qualities. “The patriot lives in a rapture of service to
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Date: July 15, 2024 The integral perspective on conflict resolution calls for individual and collective praxis towards building a peaceful and harmonious society. This call is grounded in an evolutionary perspective, which holds that Nature is evolving, often towards a more positive, prosperous, and peaceful direction though the process might be tardy and conflictual due
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Date: July 7, 2024 Of late some imbecile politicians no doubt driven by a diabolic agenda, have been articulating a gem of an idiocy that India was not a nation before 1947. That we owe our nationhood to the British rule because India was never a nation but merely a conglomeration of kingdoms. Going by
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Date: July 1, 2024 “I always thought it [cinema] could be used to good purpose.” ~ The Mother, Agenda, 10: 270 In this series of jottings I will periodically share a few reflections or thoughts on some films which I feel serve an important purpose of making people aware of some of the uncomfortable truths
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Date: June 25, 2024 Nalanda burnt for nine days. Now after centuries, Nalanda has risen again like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes. Civilization always had to defend itself against the forces of barbarism, often unsuccessfully. Nalanda as a university existed 500 years even before the famed European universities of Oxford and Paris came into
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Date: June 24, 2024 While speaking of the nature of Indian Renaissance Sri Aurobindo tells us that it is an attempt and impulse of a “reawakened national spirit” expressing itself in new forms which shall give the spiritual force for a great reshaping and rebuilding. Out of this awakening vision and impulse, the future tendency
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