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

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works

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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Seven Steps to Integral Leadership – Talk by Narendra Murty

BhāratShakti Talks, Past Events and Completed Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: April 24, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the Recording On April 24, 2024, Mr Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti was invited as a Guest Lecturer by Jindal Global Business School, a specialised institution of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Mr. Murty gave a presentation on “Seven Steps to Integral Leadership” to the first-year students pursuing

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Poster Exhibition on ‘Our Sweet Mother’

All Life is Yoga, Exhibitions, Past Events and Completed Works

Start Date: 22 April, 2024 End Date: 15 May, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat A poster exhibition curated by the BhāratShakti team is currently on display at the Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat. Dr. Rajeshwari Singh, President of the Sadhana Kendra had requested for some meaningful content for

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

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works

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

Courses and Study Groups, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works

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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Evolution of the Indian Ethos (Samvād series, 2nd edition)

Guest Lectures, Past Events and Completed Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: March 4, 2024 Renaissance Journal team and Auropublications team invited Lopa Mukherjee for the second edition of their series – SAMVĀD which celebrates Authors, Books, and Booklovers. The programme was held on March 4, 2024 at the ground floor hall of Sri Aurobindo Society. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance Journal and Ms. Gayatri Majumdar,

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Significance of Sri Aurobindo’s Symbol

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Past Events and Completed Works

Date: February 26, 2024 Venue: Unity Pavillion, Auroville Watch the Recording with relevant images from the presentation. As part of the Shakti Kumbh 2024, a 9-day event held at Unity Pavilion, Auroville from February 21-29, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to speak on February 26 on the topic – Significance of Sri Aurobindo’s Symbol. The

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

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works, Workshops

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

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Conferences and Seminars, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works

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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Webinar – ‘Sri Rama in Indian Consciousness’

Conferences and Seminars, India-Our Mother, Past Events and Completed Works

Date: January 17, 2024 A bilingual Webinar in English and Hindi was organised by Renaissance Journal Team on the theme of ‘Sri Rama in Indian Consciousness – Bharatiya Chetana Mein Sri Ram’ on 17th January, 2024. The whole webinar was conducted in a spirit of “Satsang” and with an aim to highlight in the light

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Rethinking Love and Relationships in a New Light

All Life is Yoga, BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works

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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SAMVĀD: Featuring Nandini Sengupta and her book – ‘Rani Durgawati – The Forgotten Life of a Warrior Queen’

Guest Lectures, Past Events and Completed Works, Samvād: The Book Series

Date: 15 December 2023 Venue: Society House Watch the RECORDING. On 15th December, 2023, the Renaissance Journal along with Auropublications launched a new initiative titled SAMVĀD – A Series on Books, Authors and Booklovers. This initiative takes its guidance from the Mother who had encouraged the reading of carefully selected literature to cultivate our intelligence

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Sri Aurobindo and the Crisis of Contemporary Culture – Special Lecture by Sachidananda Mohanty

Courses and Study Groups, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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

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Gender Equality from Indian Cultural Perspectives

BhāratShakti Talks, Education for New India, Past Events and Completed Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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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