Date: December 4, 2024 Venue: Online The greatest nations and the most cultured races have always considered art as a part of life and made it subservient to life. ~ The Mother, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 108 As part of our ongoing year-long exploration of the topic – “The Spirit and Forms of Art in
A Conversation on Exploring Human Psychology through NāṭyaŚāstra Read More »
Date: December 10, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Bengaluru At the invitation of Creative School, Bengaluru, the BhāratShakti team researched and curated a 58-poster exhibition titled ‘Hampi: A UNESCO World Heritage Site” to be used as as part of an educational project for the students. The posters incorporated many pictures taken at various places in Hampi
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Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 10Date: October 21, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra India had conceived the whole philosophy of her art, early on in the Vedic period itself, emphasises E.B. Havell in Ideals of Indian Art. The highest vision of the Vedic seers, the vision of the Infinite that is revealed and yet hidden in all
The Sacred Origins of Art – October 2024, Renaissance Read More »
Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 9Date: September 21, 2024 Excerpt from Editorial by Beloo Mehra In Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s vision of integral human development, cultivating a sense of beauty occupies an important place. The Mother said that it is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura at work when we are taught to shun
Purpose of Art: From Beauty to Bliss – September 2024, Renaissance Read More »
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,
Evolution of the Indian Ethos (Samvād series, 2nd edition) Read More »
In 2023, BhāratShakti through its Renaissance journal & Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center (SAILC), Auro University, Surat joined hands to launch a year-long project titled ‘Kala evam Adhyatma’ (Art and Spirituality). Under the auspices of this project, the team organized an online series of Discourses on Art and Spirituality. Through this weekly series, the registered participants
Discourses on Art and Spirituality – 27 sessions Read More »
Date: September 9, 2023 Venue: Puducherry World History Congress, Pondicherry University As part of the First Annual Session of the Puducherry World History Congress, hosted by Department of Tourism Studies, Pondicherry University, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Senior Academic Mentor, was invited to present a special lecture on September 9, 2023 on the topic “Sri Aurobindo on
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In this talk, Dr. Beloo Mehra summarises a few essential points from Sri Aurobindo’s remarkable essay – National Value of Art to bring to light the deep importance of arts education for human development – both from an individual and societal/national perspective. She also highlights that in Integral Yoga and Integral Education, a great emphasis
Three Purposes of Art Read More »
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
Study Circle – National Value of Art by Sri Aurobindo Read More »
Date: September 3, 2022 Venue: Online Watch the full recording of the session HERE. Watch the Q & A session HERE. As part of our ongoing celebrations of the 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of Indian Independence, the Renaissance team of BhāratShakti hosted an online event which featured an illustrated talk
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Date: August 21, 2022 Venue: CESS, Hyderabad – Institute of Human Study Watch the full recording of this talk HERE. To commemorate Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary year, the Institute of Human Study, Hyderabad along with Samvit Kendra and Pragna Bharati under the sponsorship of Ministry of Culture, Government of India organised on August 21,
Indian Artistic and Literary Culture in the Light of Sri Aurobindo Read More »
Date: August 19, 2022 Venue: Matriniketan, Sri Aurobindo Society Institute: AuroSrishti, AuroYajna and BhāratShakti AuroSrishti, Sri Aurobindo Society’s Center for Integral Art, Design and Aesthetics, recently conducted a day-long event on August 19 at Matriniketan. For this event titled ‘The Future of Indian Art, Design and Aesthetics in the Light of Integral Yoga,’ Dr. Beloo
Sri Aurobindo on National Value of Art and the Mother on Art and Yoga: Two Talks Read More »
Speaker: Ms. Rainy Krishnan
Spiritual Interpretation of Art – Rasāsvāda Read More »
Date: January 21, 2022 “All great artistic work proceeds from an act of intuition, not really an intellectual idea or a splendid imagination,—these are only mental translations,—but a direct intuition of some truth of life or being, some significant form of that truth, some development of it in the mind of man.”(Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 20,
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Speaker: Ms. Rekha Rao Date: October 31, 2021 Recording available HERE. This event was a part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022). It marked the beginning of a series of Special Lectures which will be organised under the Theme: India – Our
Ayurveda and Yoga in Indian Temple Sculptures Read More »
Date: September 21, 2021 Venue: Online “Photography is an art when the photographer is an artist.”(The Mother, CWM, Vol. 12, p. 241) How do we make our youngsters interested in learning about the great rich cultural and artistic heritage of India? The first and obvious answer would be to have them visit those places which
The Art of Heritage Photography – A Conversation with Madhu Jagdhish Read More »
