Indian Education

Sri Aurobindo’s Uttarpara Speech: Its Timely and Timeless Significance

Date: October 29, 2023 Venue: Online WATCH THE RECORDING At the invitation of a small group of seekers from the USA, on October 29, 2023, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti and Editor, Renaissance delivered an online talk on the topic ‘Sri Aurobindo’s Uttarpara Speech: Its Timely and Timeless Significance’. Dr. Mehra pointed out that Sri

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Exhibition on Nari Shakti: Woman, an Indomitable Spirit

Dates: October 10 – 26, 2023 Venue: The Creative School, Bengaluru A poster exhibition researched and designed by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance, is currently on display at the Freedom Land campus of The Creative School in Bengaluru. The exhibition content on the theme – Nari Shakti: Woman, an Indomitable Spirit – is inspired by

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Invoking Shakti: Workshop on ‘The Divine Feminine in Indian Culture’

Dates: October 9 to 12, 2023 Venue: The Creative School, Bengaluru VIEW: PHOTO ALBUMS FROM THE WORKSHOP As part of the Renaissance journal’s special theme on Divine Shakti, the Renaissance team conceived, organized and conducted a 4-day intensive workshop on the theme – “Invoking Shakti: The Divine Feminine in Indian Culture.” This workshop was held

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Webinar on ‘Concentration and Progress’ by Renaissance Journal

Date: September 25, 2023 Watch the Recording As part of the Renaissance online journal’s September 2023 theme Concentration of Focus, a webinar was organised by the Renaissance team on 25th September, 2023. The webinar titled ‘Concentration and Progress’ presented diverse perspectives from 5 invited speakers. The session was moderated by Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance

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Summarising Sri Aurobindo’s series – “A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture”

On August 16, 2023, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to give a talk based on Sri Aurobindo’s essays titled ‘A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture’. This event was organised at Unity Pavillion, Auroville as part of the Auroville’s celebration of Sri Aurobindo’s birthday. The focus of the 12-day-long celebration was on Sri Aurobindo’s First Dream

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Indian-ness in 21st Century: Seminar organised with Pondicherry University

Date: August 21, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Click HERE for Seminar Photo Gallery The Renaissance journal team, on behalf of Sri Aurobindo Society, planned and organised an insightful and thought-provoking seminar on “INDIAN-NESS IN 21st CENTURY” in collaboration with Chair of Sri Aurobindo, Pondicherry University. The seminar held on 21st August 2023 at Sri

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Indian Literary Tradition in the Light of Sri Aurobindo

Renaissance E-book 2 Released: August 2023 This book explores the progression of Indian literary tradition over thousands of years, keeping in perspective the innate focus of Indian culture and its natural development over time. Sri Aurobindo’s wide look at the vast canvas and simultaneously an in-depth view of the evolution of Indian literature over millennia helps

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Sri Aurobindo’s ‘A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture’

Date: August 16, 2023 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville WATCH HERE and HERE. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance and Senior Academic Mentor, was invited to give a talk based on Sri Aurobindo’s essays titled ‘A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture’. This event was organised at Unity Pavilion, Auroville as part of Auroville’s celebration of Sri Aurobindo’s

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Education for the New Age: Insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Date: August 12, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata WATCH THE RECORDING As part of the nation-wide celebrations of 150 years of Sri Aurobindo, a special seminar on the theme ‘Sri Aurobindo: Messenger of the Divine Influence upon the Earth’ was organised on August 12, 2023 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata. The organising group, SATIRTHA

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Three Purposes of Art

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

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Lecture-discussion – Sri Aurobindo and India of the Future

Date: July 24, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the Recording HERE. As part of Sri Aurobindo Society’s ongoing celebrations of 150th birth anniversary of Sri Aurobindo, Renaissance Journal organised a special lecture-discussion happening at our campus on July 24, 2023. Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty, a noted academic and cultural historian, was the invited speaker who

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Sanskriti च Svādhyāya: An Intensive for teachers on Indian Culture and Self-development

Start date: July 17, 2023 End date: July 19, 2023 Venue: Freedom Land, Doddaballapura, Karnataka Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited by the Creative School co-founders and trustees of The Healing Circle, Ms. Jayashree Ashok and Mr. B. Ashok to conduct an intensive course for about 70 teachers on the theme: Indian culture and Self-development. This

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Bilingual Poster Exhibition – “Conscious Eating and Cooking”

DATES: June 27, 2023 – July 6, 2023 VENUE: Sri Aurobindo Society Click HERE for a gallery of pictures from the exhibition. A Bilingual Poster Exhibition was organised by Renaissance Journal from 27th June to 6th July, 2023 highlighting a few insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on Conscious Eating and Cooking. This exhibition

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Who is an Aryan and Building Aryan Character: An interactive session with university students

Date: June 1, 2023 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society A group of 22 undergraduate and postgraduate students along with two organisers from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar who were recently in Pondicherry for a study camp visited Sri Aurobindo Society on June 1, 2023 for an interactive session with Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti. The 1.5

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Uniqueness of Sri Aurobindo’s Writings on Indian Culture

Date: March 28, 2023 Venue: Pondicherry University On March 28, 2023 at the Inaugural Seminar of Sri Aurobindo Chair at Pondicherry University, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to speak on the topic “What is unique about Sri Aurobindo’s writings on Indian Culture?” In her brief comments, Dr. Mehra highlighted the point that it was the

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Towards a New Renaissance: Cultivating Soul-values

Renaissance E-book 1 Released: April 2023 “Towards a New Renaissance: Cultivating Soul-values” is a FREE E-book available through Auropublications, the publications wing of Sri Aurobindo Society. It weaves together selected insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on twelve qualities from the Mother’s symbol and presents them in the context of original write-ups by the author.

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Nation in Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of National Education

Date: February 17, 2023 Venue: The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda A recording of Dr. Mehra’s talk is available HERE. Renaissance Editor, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited as a speaker at the National Seminar on ‘Educational Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo’ organised by The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. This event held on February 17, 2023

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Sri Aurobindo and India’s Freedom – Exhibition and Talk

Dates: January 20-24, 2023 Venue: Auro University, Surat Dr. Beloo Mehra Director, BhāratShakti, Sri Aurobindo Society was invited by Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center at Auro University, Surat, to display the exhibition on the topic – ‘Sri Aurobindo and India’s Freedom’ at the university campus. The exhibition was conceived, researched and designed by Dr. Mehra.

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Teacher Education for a New Age: NEP 2020 and an Integral Approach

Date: January 21, 2023 Venue: Auro University, Surat Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti and Editor, Renaissance, was invited as an expert speaker to participate in a 2-day National Seminar organised by Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center at Auro University, Surat. The seminar’s theme was – NEP 2020: The Pathway through Integral Education. About 200 educators

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Gender Equality: A Spiritual Perspective

Date: December 21, 2022 Venue: Pondicherry/Auroville Poetry Festival at Matriniketan As part of the recently concluded Pondicherry/Auroville Poetry Festival organised by Pondicherry Poets and The Brown Critique, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to give a talk on the topic – Gender Equality: A Spiritual Perspective. This topic was chosen to be consistent with

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