Samvād: The Book Series

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

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

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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Summarising Sri Aurobindo’s series – “A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture”

On August 16, 2023, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to give a talk based on Sri Aurobindo’s essays titled ‘A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture’. This event was organised at Unity Pavillion, Auroville as part of the Auroville’s celebration of Sri Aurobindo’s birthday. The focus of the 12-day-long celebration was on Sri Aurobindo’s First Dream

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Sri Aurobindo’s ‘A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture’

Date: August 16, 2023 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville WATCH HERE and HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance and Senior Academic Mentor, was invited to give a talk based on Sri Aurobindo’s essays titled ‘A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture’. This event was organised at Unity Pavilion, Auroville as part of Auroville’s celebration of Sri Aurobindo’s

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Uniqueness of Sri Aurobindo’s Writings on Indian Culture

Date: March 28, 2023 Venue: Pondicherry University On March 28, 2023 at the Inaugural Seminar of Sri Aurobindo Chair at Pondicherry University, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to speak on the topic “What is unique about Sri Aurobindo’s writings on Indian Culture?” In her brief comments, Dr. Mehra highlighted the point that it was the

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Study Circle – National Value of Art by Sri Aurobindo 

Dates: October 12, 2022 – November 2, 2022  Venue: Online  A month-long study circle was organised by BhāratShakti and AuroSrishti to closely study and reflect on an important writing of Sri Aurobindo, titled ‘National Value of Art.’ The key driving focus behind this study circle was to identify some of the conceptual and pedagogical principles

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Book review: ‘Sri Aurobindo: The Grand Synthesis’ – A talk

Date: November 1, 2022 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville WATCH the recording HERE. On November 1, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to participate in the Book Release function organised by Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA), Puducherry Regional Center. The occasion was the official launch of Dr. Ananda Reddy’s new book titled

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Appreciating Sri Aurobindo’s Social Philosophy

Date: September 8, 2022 Venue: Savitri Bhavan, Auroville Watch the recording of the talk HERE. As part of its celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, Auroville Foundation and Ministry of Culture, Government of India organised a 5-day programme called ‘Integral Yoga Week’ which aimed to highlight a few essential insights from some of

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Book Reading-discussion – Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo

Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo Date: July 16, 2022 Venue: Aura Bookstore-reading room, Beach Road, Pondicherry Watch a few glimpses of the session HERE and HERE. On the evening of July 16, 2022, Dr. Beloo Mehra, author of ‘Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo’, a book recently published

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Krīḍā- Making Indian Games Cool! A conversation with authors of ‘The Games India Plays’

Date: June 21, 2022 Venue: Online In 1949 when the Ashram journal “Bulletin d’Éducation Physique” was started by the Mother, Sri Aurobindo gave a message to the Journal and the Association —J.S.A.S.A. (Jeunesse Sportive de l’Ashram de Sri Aurobindo). In this message, Sri Aurobindo wrote about the wide-ranging significance and necessity of sports, games and

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Book Launch – “Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo”

Author: Dr. Beloo Mehra Release date: April 25, 2022 On April 25, 2022, during the National Seminar on Sri Aurobindo’s Nationalism organised by Sri Aurobindo Society, a book titled “Understanding Contemporary India in the Light of Sri Aurobindo” authored by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was released. The book is published by Auropublications, the publication

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

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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Dharma, Shāstra and Future Society

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

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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