Date: December 14, 2022 Venue: Seminar on Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary, organised by 25th Kochi International Bookfest, Ernakulum, Kochi As part of the 25th edition of Kochi International Bookfest (10-19 December, 2022), a special seminar was organised on 14th December 2022 to celebrate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director,
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Date: December 14, 2022 Venue: St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulum, Kochi On 14th December, 2022, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to facilitate an interactive session at St. Teresa’s College at Kochi. This was a special outreach event organised as part of the 25th Kochi International Bookfest. The venue being one of the oldest and
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Date: November 21, 2022 Venue: Women’s Council Seminar, Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the 3-day Seminar organised by Women’s Council of Sri Aurobindo Society, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti delivered a talk on the topic – Women’s Equality and Freedom: Insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Dr. Mehra began her session by sharing
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Date: 18 November 2022 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Dance alone with rhythm and significance can express something of the occult or of the Divine as much as writing or poetry or art—why should it not and why should there be anything in it condemnable?” (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 17: 739) On 18 November 2022, the Renaissance
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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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Date: October 21, 2022 In her essay on the Vital Education, the Mother writes: As a sign, perhaps, of the decline of civilisation and social decay, a growing vulgarity seems to have taken possession of human life, individual as well as collective, particularly in what concerns aesthetic life and the life of the senses. A
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Date: October 16, 2022 Watch the full recording HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s celebrations of 150years of Sri Aurobindo and 75 years of Indian Independence, the Renaissance journal team had invited Dr. Narendra Joshi to deliver a lecture under the ‘India – Our Mother’ lecture series they have been hosting since last year.
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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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Start date: August 12, 2022 End date: August 30, 2022 Venue: Online & Pondicherry University A complete gallery of pictures from the event can be accessed HERE. At the invitation of the School of Education, Pondicherry University, a special self-directed learning project for M.Ed. students was designed by the Renaissance-BhāratShakti team led by Dr. Beloo
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,
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Talk by Dr. Beloo Mehra at National Symposium held at Auro University, Surat Date: August 17, 2022 Venue: Auro University, Surat To commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, a National Symposium on the Life and Works of Sri Aurobindo was organized by the School of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Auro University, Surat.
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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
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Date: August 12, 2022 Venue: Online On August 12, an online orientation was conducted by the Renaissance-BhāratShakti team as part of preparation for an upcoming final presentation of a creative project on August 30, 2022. At the invitation of the Dean of School of Education, Pondicherry University, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti designed a project
Date: August 9, 2022 Time: 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM Institute: AuroYajna and BhāratShakti Venue: Matriniketan, Sri Aurobindo Society For a full gallery with pictures from the event and a few video clips, click HERE. As part of our ongoing celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of Indian Independence, Sri
Date: August 15, 2022 In our Insightful Conversations series we speak with authors, artists, performers, educators, story-tellers and other creative individuals who are keeping alive, reviving and also giving new forms and expressions to the timeless spirit of Indian culture, history and civilisation. Explore the Series: Insightful Conversations For this special edition in Hindi, we speak
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Watch the recording of the event HERE. As part of our ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary, we have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under the Theme: ‘India – Our Mother.’ For the ninth lecture in the series, Dr. Shraddha Gour Mohanti was invited to share some thoughts on a
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Dates: July 16-24, 2022 Venue: Aura Book Store, Pondicherry As part of the ongoing series, ‘Re-awakening the Bharata Shakti: Toward an Indian Renaissance’ the Renaissance-BhāratShakti team designed and put together a poster exhibition highlighting Sri Aurobindo’s words on who is an Aryan and how to build Aryan character. This exhibition was displayed at the bookstore-reading room at Aura Experience
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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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Talk by Dr. Raj Vedam Date: July 9, 2022 A recording of the session can be accessed HERE. For the recording of Question & Answer session, click HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of India’s Independence, Renaissance Journal team has
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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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