Start Date: March 25, 2026 End Date: March 26, 2026 Venue: Online For thousands of years, Rāmāyana has been a living literary and cultural tradition of our land. In fact, it also went beyond the land of Bhārat and captured the cultural imagination of many parts of South-east Asia. A wider view of Indian socio-cultural
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Date: February 17, 2026 Venue: Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat Sri Aurobindo Chair of Integral Studies, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat invited Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society for the 2026 Shri A.B. Patel Memorial Lecture. The lecture-event held on February 17, 2026 at the Department of Biosciences, SPU and
Date: February 16, 2026 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat See full photo-gallery HERE. Sri Aurobindo helps us understand culture as a soul-mind-body complex through which a people’s collective consciousness is expressed. What is the place of art in this view of culture, and how does Art help us know a culture and
Yuvā Shakti – Workshop on ‘Know Bhārat Through Art’ Read More »
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,
Making of Hero-Warriors: Vedic Insights on Integral Education Read More »
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,
Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Indian Renaissance: Insights from Sri Aurobindo Read More »
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
On Money and Work – Session at Annual All-India Youth Camp Read More »
Start Date: 28 February 2026 End Date: 28 March 2026 Venue: Online The Bhagavad Gita is the greatest “self-management manual” in the world. It is the “Krishna cure” for the “Arjuna disease.” We too suffer from the “Arjuna disease” when we feel paralyzed and overwhelmed by the challenges of our lives. Managing
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Date: November 28, 2025 Venue: Om Shanti Dham Gurukulam, Karnataka Photo-gallery The BhāratShakti department of Sri Aurobindo Society was invited to curate and conduct a day long workshop for about 75 students (ages 12-16) on the theme – “Sri Aurobindo and the Indian Freedom Movement” on 28th November, 2025 at Om Shanti Dham Veda Gurukula,
Sri Aurobindo and Indian Freedom Movement – Workshop for Students Read More »
Start Date: November 28, 2025 End Date: December 4, 2025 Venue: Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka As part of a day-long workshop titled ‘Sri Aurobindo and India’s Freedom’, curated and conducted for students at Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka, a 38-poster exhibition on the workshop theme was created and displayed. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti,
Poster Exhibition – Sri Aurobindo and India’s Freedom Read More »
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.
The Power that is Mahalaksmi – Interactive Session for Uditam Read More »
Date: November 18, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the RECORDING. Indian Knowledge Systems Cell, Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College, Sri Anandpur Sahib, Punjab, in Collaboration with Nucleus of Learning and Development organized their Third Edition of Online 2-Week National Certificate Course on “Integrating Indian Knowledge Systems in Academia through NEP 2020: A Vision for Civilizational
Contemporary Significance of Sri Aurobindo’s Spiritual View of Nation and Nationalism Read More »
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
Films that Educate – 2: Musings on Bahubali – Beloo Mehra Read More »
Date: November 13, 2025 Venue: Online – iGOT Karmayogi Earlier this year, an MoU was signed between Sri Aurobindo Society (SAS) and Karmayogi Bharat, a Government of India initiative under the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB). Under this MoU, Karmayogi Bharat and SAS decided to work together in actively building capacity of government officials in India
Date: October 11, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Kolkata Watch the recording HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited by Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, Kolkata to deliver a talk on October 11, 2025. Inaugurated on 15 August, 1941 at the same location, Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir was the first public institute of its kind outside Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry,
Recovering the Aryan Spirit: Some Reflections on the Mother’s Symbol Read More »
Date: September 23, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society On September 23, 2025, the BhāratShakti team organised a workshop titled UTSAHA: Celebrating the Joyful and Contemplative Spirit of Navaratri for the students of Sri Aurobindo Centenary School, Tadipatri, Anantapur Dist, Andhra Pradesh. This 2-hour programme was organised at Sri Aurobindo Society. Participants included 50 students from Class
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Start date: September 19, 2025 End date: September 20, 2025 Venue: Freedom Land, Doddaballapura, Karnataka BhāratShakti team was invited by the Creative School co-founders and trustees of The Healing Circle, Ms. Jayashree Ashok and Mr. B. Ashok to curate and conduct an intensive workshop for about 75 teachers and administrators on the theme: ‘Insights from
Start Date: September 15, 2025 End Date: October 31, 2025 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Bengaluru As part of the Invoking Shakti: Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana workshop BhāratShakti department was invited to design and conduct for 375 students of Creative School, Bengaluru, Dr. Beloo Mehra researched and curated a 150-poster extensive exhibition on Ajanta and
150-Poster Exhibition on Ajanta and Ellora Read More »
Start Date: 15 September 2025 End Date: 17 September 2025 Location: Creative School, Freedom Land, Bengaluru The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a 3-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 10-18) on the theme – “Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’. This workshop is part of an ongoing learning initiative for children and
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