Education for New India

Our Culture, Our Pride – One-day Workshop for Teenagers

Date: December 27, 2024 Venue: Om Shanti Dham Gurukulam, Sangama – Mekedatu, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team will be conducting a day-long workshop for 65-70 students of ages 12 to 16 who are enrolled at Om Shanti Dham Gurukulam. The theme of the workshop is – Our Culture, Our Pride. This workshop is designed with a […]

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Exhibition on Cultivating Soul-values – Courage, Faith and Concentration

Start date: September 24, 2024 End date: October 24, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka One of BhāratShakti ongoing works – Design for Dissemination – the team regularly researches, designs and curates exhibitions on a variety of topics. PHOTO GALLERY As part of its Invoking Shakti children’s workshop series that BhāratShakti team has been

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Invoking Shakti: 4-day Workshop on ‘Cultivating Courage, Faith And Concentration’

Start date: September 24, 2024 End Date: September 27, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a 4-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 3-18) on the theme – ‘Cultivating Courage, Faith and Concentration’ at Creative School near Bengaluru. This workshop was a part of

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Sanskriti च Svādhyāya – Teachers’ Workshop on Insights from Itihāsas, Purānas and Upanishads

Start date: September 23, 2024 End date: September 24, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka BhāratShakti team was invited by the Creative School co-founders and trustees of The Healing Circle, Ms. Jayashree Ashok and Mr. B. Ashok to curate and conduct an intensive workshop for about 70 teachers on the theme: Insights from Itihāsas,

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Book launch – Antaryatra: Soul Journeys by Beloo Mehra

Date: September 23, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka Dr. Beloo Mehra’s new book titled Antaryatra: Soul Journeys (2024, published by Sri Aurobindo’s Action with Brown Critique Books) was officially launched on September 23, 2024. The book is primarily written keeping the youth of India in mind. So it was perfect that the book

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Decolonizing Indian Cultural Studies with Sri Aurobindo

Date: September 13, 2024 Venue: Tagore Government Arts and Science College On September 13, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver a talk on the topic – Decolonizing Indian Cultural Studies with Sri Aurobindo. This program was organized by the Department of English, Tagore Government Arts and Science College, Pondicherry in collaboration

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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving – A Session with College Students

Date: September 5, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the Recording On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, September 5, 2024, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti, was invited as a Guest Lecturer by the Jindal Global Business School, a specialized institution of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He gave a presentation on the topic “The 6 Thinking

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Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol

Renaissance E-Book 3 Released: July 2024 “Life must blossom like a flower offering itself to the Divine.”~ The Mother, CWM, 14:98 Flowers of the Mother’s Symbol is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. For the 12 issues of Renaissance during 2021-2022, as we explored the 12 qualities of the Mother’s

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Educational Vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother – An Interactive Session with Educational Leaders

Date: 24 July 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society An Interactive Session with a group of educational leaders visiting from CN Vidyavihar Group of Institutions, Ahmedabad was organised by the BhāratShakti team on 24th July, at Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry. The session was conceived of as a preliminary orientation on the Educational Vision of Sri Aurobindo

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Nalanda Lives Again – Narendra Murty

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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Yuva Shakti – Cultivating Virtues for Self-growth

Date: May 30, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Our call is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world,—not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as India’s future ideal, nor those who are enslaved to old religious formulas

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Makings of a Truly Learner-centric Education: Sri Aurobindo and Maria Montessori

Date: May 3, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research, Pondicherry As part of its offerings on the 150th birthday of Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research (SACAR), Pondicherry launched a project titled Sri Aurobindo: A Visionary Among World Thinkers. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, this project has

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Rethinking Communications beyond Polarities – Talk by Beloo Mehra at International Conference

Date: April 8, 2024 Venue: Pondicherry University Watch the Recording. On April 8, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver a talk at the Inauguration ceremony of an International Conference on ‘Future Communications: Rethinking Societies, Cultures and Governance’ organized by the Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communications, School of Media and Communications, Pondicherry

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Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo – PG Course at Pondicherry University

Start date: November 23, 2023 End date: March 12, 2024 Venue: Pondicherry University On Siddhi Divas, November 24, 2023 we announced that under our ongoing partnership with Pondicherry University (the official MoU was signed in August 2023) we had launched a new post-graduate course on ‘Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo’. Much hard work by Dr.

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Humour and Spirituality – An Interactive Session at Tagore College

Date: March 6, 2024 The Renaissance journal team curated and conducted an interactive session with the college students and faculty of Tagore Govt. Arts and Science College, Pondicherry on the theme of Humour and Spirituality — Exploring how humour has been used as a method to impart spiritual wisdom. The initial planning was done by

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Indian Culture and Integral Education – An Interaction with Flame University Students

Date: February 26, 2024 A group of 10 students and 1 faculty member from Flame University, Pune visited Sri Aurobindo Society in the last week of February for a series of educational events and interactions. This visit was part of their ongoing research project on Integral Education. On behalf of Sri Aurobindo Society, SAFIER (Sri

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Workshop on Non-Fiction Writing

Date: 28 February, 2024 Venue: The Dorian House Writers Retreat, Auroville “I can only say generally avoid over-writing; let all your sentences be the vehicle of something worth saying and say it with a vivid precision neither defective nor excessive.” ~ Sri Aurobindo On February 28, 2024, Mr. Narendra Murty, Renaissance author and core team

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From Rational to Suprarational: An Essential Evolutionary Movement for Collective Well-being

Date: February 11, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Uni(Di)versity, Aurovalley Ashram, Uttarakhand WATCH THE RECORDING HERE. On February 11, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver a talk at a National Seminar held in Uttarakhand. The 2-day (Feb 11-12, 2024) National Seminar on Synthesis of Science and Spirituality for the Highest Welfare of Society was jointly

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Rethinking Love and Relationships in a New Light

Date: January 11, 2024 As part of the Annual Youth Camp 2024 organised by AuroYouth, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance Journal, was invited to conduct an interactive session with the participants. The 1.5-hour-long session on January 11 focused on the topic ‘Rethinking Love and Relationships in a New Light’. Love and relationships are the root

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