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
Start date: September 23, 2024 End date: September 24, 2024 Venue: Freedom Land, Doddaballapura, Karnataka BhāratShakti team has been 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,
Dates: September 24-27, 2024 Venue: The Creative School and Freedom Land, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team has been 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’. This workshop is part of an ongoing learning initiative for children and youth titled
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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: 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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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
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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Date: December 18, 2023 Venue: Pondicherry University As part of the ongoing post-graduate course at Pondicherry University, titled ‘Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo’, (read more about the course HERE). designed and taught by Dr. Beloo Mehra from Sri Aurobindo Society, a special lecture was proposed by Dr. Mehra to the Chair of Sri Aurobindo Studies
How does Indian cultural tradition look at the issue of man-woman equality? Are equality and freedom the only values of concern when it comes to an Indian view of feminism? What insights we can gain from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on this important topic concerning our individual and collective life in contemporary society? This
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This series of video lectures by Dr. Beloo Mehra integrates learnings from Indian cultural tradition and Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s teachings on the topic of right attitude towards money. These videos were recorded for PAAVAN app as part of its collaboration with Sri Aurobindo Society.
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Date: November 2, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Time: 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm A group of 70 students along with 10 teachers from The Creative School, Karnataka, who were on a field visit to explore some places in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry visited Sri Aurobindo Society on November 2, 2023. The Renaissance team organized
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Dates: October 10 – 26, 2023 Venue: The Creative School, Bengaluru A poster exhibition researched and designed by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance, is currently on display at the Freedom Land campus of The Creative School in Bengaluru. The exhibition content on the theme – Nari Shakti: Woman, an Indomitable Spirit – is inspired by
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Dates: October 9 to 12, 2023 Venue: The Creative School, Bengaluru VIEW: PHOTO ALBUMS FROM THE WORKSHOP As part of the Renaissance journal’s special theme on Divine Shakti, the Renaissance team conceived, organized and conducted a 4-day intensive workshop on the theme – “Invoking Shakti: The Divine Feminine in Indian Culture.” This workshop was held
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Date: September 25, 2023 Watch the Recording As part of the Renaissance online journal’s September 2023 theme Concentration of Focus, a webinar was organised by the Renaissance team on 25th September, 2023. The webinar titled ‘Concentration and Progress’ presented diverse perspectives from 5 invited speakers. The session was moderated by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance
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