Date: March 3, 2026 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville The second Global Spirituality Mahotsav was organised from March 1 to March 3, 2026 by the Auroville Foundation in collaboration with the government of Puducherry and the Union Ministry of Culture. This celebration marked the culmination of the nation-wide celebration by the Government of India of the
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Start Date: February 16, 2026 End Date: February 22, 2026 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar 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
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Start date: February 12, 2026 End Date: February 15, 2026 Venue: Auro University, Surat, Gujarat BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society (Pondicherry) was a collaborating institution for a recently concluded 4-day International Conference on Discovery and Application of Vedic Knowledge. Hosted at the beautiful campus of AURO University, Surat, from February 12 to February 15, 2026, the
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Date: February 13, 2026 Venue: Auro University, Surat During February 12 to 15, 2026, an International Conference on Discovery and Application of the Vedic Knowledge (February 12-15, 2026), organised by Auro University in collaboration with Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, Surat, La Grace Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, USA, Bṛhat Foundation, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society, SAKSHI Trust,
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Date: February 12, 2026 Venue: Auro University, Surat At the International Conference on Discovery and Application of the Vedic Knowledge (February 12-15, 2026), organised by Auro University in collaboration with Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, Surat, La Grace Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center, USA, Bṛhat Foundation, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society, SAKSHI Trust, Bengaluru and AuroChit,
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Date: January 29, 2026 Venue: Online WATCH THE RECORDING As a follow-up to an earlier symposium titled Antāryatra – A Spiritual Exploration of Puducherry, co-organised with Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, Regional Center Puducherry, BhāratShakti partnered again with IGNCA and hosted an online edition of this programme. The aim of the session was
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Date: January 24, 2026 Venue: Matriniketan As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion session, on Friday, January 24. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Soul of Bhārat. She started her talk
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Release of Renaissance, Volume VII, Issue 1Date: January 21, 2026 Renaissance releases its first issue of 2026 with 8 thoughtful and thought-provoking offerings. Released on January 21, the issue highlights the ideal given by Sri Aurobindo that our efforts to rebuild a New India must be on the lines of the living spirit of the nation,
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Date: January 11, 2026 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the Annual All-India Youth Camp 2026 organised by AuroYouth, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to conduct a session with the participants. The 1.5-hour-long session on January 11, 2025 focused on the topic ‘On Money and Work’. Dr. Mehra’s presentation explored
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Date: January 12, 2026 A Homage on Swamiji’s Birthday If Swami Vivekananda’s life may be called an epic of Karma Yoga, then his passing was not the end of that epic, but the beginning of a subtler and deeper chapter. The power, vision, and resolve that he awakened for the resurgence of India and of
Date: January 7, 2026 The year 2026 marks thousand years of the first attack on the Somnāth Temple at Prabhas Patan by Mahmud of Ghazni. The temple went through 17 brutal attacks at the hands of invaders and haters of Sanatana Dharma. But every time there was an attack there was also a strong resistance
Date: January 1, 2026 Venue: Matriniketan, Pondicherry As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion session on Thursday, January 1, 2026. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – Sanatana Dharma, The Foundation of
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Date: December 17, 2025 Venue: Franco-Tamil Villas, Art and Craft Village, Puducherry On December 17, 2025, the BhāratShakti team organised a symopsium titled ‘ANTARYĀTRA: A Spiritual Exploration of Puducherry’ in collaboration with Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, Regional Centre, Puducherry at the Franco-Tamil Villas situated near the Art and Craft Village. The programme was
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Date: December 13, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan, Pondicherry As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion session on Saturday, December 13, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – The Yogic Attitude Towards Money. The
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Date: December 7, 2025 Venue: Sharanam, Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the 2-day retreat titled ‘Antarjyoti’ organised by Sri Aurobindo Complex Trust and Sri Aurobindo Society State Committee, Karnataka, which was held on December 6 and 7, 2025 at Sharanam, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited as a resource
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Start date: 28 November, 2025 End date: 30 November, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Dhama, Karnataka Photo Gallery The BhāratShakti team conducted a 2-day Residential Workshop-Retreat on the theme – “Four Powers of the Mother” from 28-30 November at Sri Aurobindo Dhama, located in the serene and beautiful natural surroundings at the banks of Kaveri river
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Date: November 24, 2025 Venue: Online Starting with February 2025, BhāratShakti department has been publishing a 16-page quarterly called Renaissance Redux. This e-publication features selections from the vast archives of the online journal Renaissance which has been published since 2019 and presents them in a thematic manner. The four issues of Renaissance Redux – each with a different
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Date: November 22, 2025 Venue: Matriniketan, Pondicherry As part of the residential programme organized by Uditam: Institute for Integral Healing, Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to facilitate a group discussion session on Saturday, November 22, 2025. For her session, Dr. Mehra focused on the topic – The Power that is Mahalakshmi.
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Date: November 21, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Listen to the Recording As part of the 2025 edition of Sri Aurobindo Society’s Annual Women’s Council Seminar (November 20-22, 2025), Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to give a talk on Friday, November 21. The seminar’s theme for 2025 was Significance of Prayer, so Dr. Mehra spoke
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Date: November 19, 2025 This writeup maybe a decade late, but the thoughts are still relevant, I think. Because the film which I am going to analyse briefly here can be said to usher in a new trend in multilingual Indian cinema – that of telling pan-Indian timeless stories in a grand, epic style. A
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