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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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 17, 2026 Venue: National Dairy Development Board, Anand, Gujarat Watch the Recording On February 17, 2026, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to a special lecture at the annual Human Resource Development week (HRD) at the headoffice of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in Anand, Gujarat. NDDB is an institution of national
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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
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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: 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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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 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 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: 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,
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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,
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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
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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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Date: November 8, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the recording HERE. On 8th November, 2025, Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver an online talk as part of the weekly YES Talks. YES – Yoga, Education and Spirituality – is an initiative started by Dr. Ramesh Bijlani of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, based
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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,
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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
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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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Date: 12 September 2025 Location: Creative School, Bileshivale, Bengaluru The BhāratShakti team was invited to conduct a day-long workshop for about 90 students (ages 3-9) on the topic of Art Appreciation at Creative School in Bileshivale area, Bengaluru. The specific topic was taken up under a larger theme – “Kala, Sanskriti evam Sadhana’ which made
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Dates: September 2-3, 2025 Venue: Online Watch the Recording of Session 1 At the invitation of the Department of Political Science, St. Xavier’s College, which is affiliated to University of Mumbai, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti conducted two sessions on the topic ‘Spiritual Nationalism of Sri Aurobindo’ with 35 students of B.A. (Political Science, Third
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