Indian Culture

Self-development for Student-teachers: An online workshop for M.Ed. students

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

Date: June 9, 2022 Venue: Online Dr. Beloo Mehra from BhāratShakti was invited by the Dean, School of Education at Pondicherry University to design and offer a one-day online workshop for the students enrolled in Master’s of Education programme at the university. These students are preparing to be teachers of tomorrow. The workshop was part

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Bringing Indian Culture in Schools: An Educationist’s Experience and Insights

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: May 21, 2022 Venue: Online One of the greatest secrets revealed by the Indian spiritual knowledge is that only when a human being finds and lives from the inner self, can he or she most embrace the universal being and become one with it. Only when one becomes truly independent, self-possessed and self-ruler (swarāt, master

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Seminar – Toward a New India: Prospects and Challenges

Conferences and Seminars, Education for New India, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: May 26, 2022 Venue: Pondicherry University In continuation of the Sri Aurobindo Society’s celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of India’s independence, and as part of the Bhārata Shakti Exhibition event, a half-day seminar was held on May 26th at Sri Aurobindo Society campus. The seminar’s theme was –

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Inauguration of Bhārata Shakti Exhibition

Exhibitions, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Past Event: Inauguration of Bhārata Shakti Exhibition Date: May 20, 2022 Watch a brief video capturing some key moments from the exhibition inauguration HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and 75th year of Indian Independence, a poster- exhibition titled ‘Bhārata Shakti – Mother India, a

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Learner as a soul-in-evolution and Dharma-centric Education

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

Date: May 6, 2022 Recording of the talk available HERE. On May 6, 2022, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver an online talk as part of the YES Talks. YES – Yoga, Education and Spirituality – is an initiative started by Dr. Ramesh Bijlani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, based on the idea

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The Timeless Tradition of Storytelling – An Art that Educates, Inspires and Elevates

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

Date: April 21, 2022 Venue: Online For this month’s Insightful Conversation, we speak with Ms. Deepa Kiran, an award-winning storyteller of international repute. She share with us some thoughts and perspectives on how storytelling can be a powerful means to entertain, educate, inspire and elevate. Ms. Kiran is the founder of Hyderabad-based Story Arts Foundation,

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

BhāratShakti Writings, India-Our Mother, Past Works, Samvād: The Book Series

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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Virtues as Empowerment: Understanding Shakuntala in Mahābhārata

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Public Lecture: Virtues as Empowerment: Understanding Shakuntala in Mahābhārata Speaker: Dr. Geetesh Nirban Date: April 17, 2022 Watch the full recording of the event HERE. As part of our ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022), we have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under

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Exploring Indian Culture and History through Curated Heritage Trails 

Education for New India, India-Our Mother, Insightful Conversations, Past Works

Date: March 21, 2022 Venue: Online It is often said that there are three main ways to know India. First, and the best way, is to aspire to realise the truth behind India’s profound and life-affirming spiritual thought. Second is to identify with the deeper truths behind India’s countless stories, particularly the stories told in itihāsa-s (Ramayana

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

Education for New India, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti, Samvād: The Book Series

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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Divine Feminine in Tamil Literature

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Speaker: Aravindan Neelakandan Date: February 6, 2022 Full recording available HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022), BhāratShakti and AuroYajna have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under the Theme: ‘India – Our Mother.’ For the fourth lecture

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Antaryatra: An Artist’s Journey Within

Art and Spirituality, Insightful Conversations, Past Works, Re-awakening the Bhārata Shakti

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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India’s Mission: A Spiritual Fusion of Religions

Guest Lectures, India-Our Mother, Past Works

Speaker: Dr. Ananda Reddy Date: January 2, 2022 Full recording available HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary (August 15, 2021 to August 15, 2022), BhāratShakti and AuroYajna have been organising a series of Special Lectures organised under the Theme: ‘India – Our Mother.’ For the third

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