Date: January 11, 2025 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society As part of the Annual Youth Camp 2025 organised by AuroYouth, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti, was invited to conduct an interactive session with the participants. The 1.5-hour-long session on January 11, 2025 focused on the topic ‘Love and Human Relationships’. The purpose of this interactive session was
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Start Date: December 27, 2024 End Date: December 31, 2024 Venue: Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka As part of their day-long workshop titled ‘Our Culture, Our Pride’, especially curated and conducted for students at Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka, BhāratShakti team researched and curated a 20-poster exhibition on the theme – ‘The Greatness of Indian
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Date: 27 January, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM Venue: Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti has been invited by Sri Aurobindo Society, West Bengal State Committee to speak on the topic – “Integral Education and a Teacher’s Dharma”. This event will be held on January 27, 2025 at Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, 8, Shakespeare
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Start Date: January 4, 2024 End Date: January 7, 2024 Venue: 30th International Yoga Festival, Old Port Premises, Pondicherry At the invitation of Pondicherry Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC), BhāratShakti Director, Dr. Beloo Mehra, curated a 15-poster exhibition on the theme – Sri Aurobindo on Yoga – to be displayed at the 30th International Yoga Festival
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Date: December 27, 2024 Venue: Om Shanti Dham Gurukulam, Sangama, Mekedatu, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a day-long workshop for about 70 students (ages 12-16) on the theme – “Our Culture, Our Pride” on 27th December, 2024 at Om Shanti Dhama Gurukulam, Karnataka. Om Shanti Dhama is a Registered Charitable
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Date: December 14, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the recording of this conversation HERE. As part of our year-long exploration on The Spirit and Forms of Indian Art, BhāratShakti team recently invited Ms. Jayashree Ashok and Ms. Cyntha Gonzales for a conversation on the topic – Art for Chittashuddhi, Purification of the Heart. The topic was
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Date: December 4, 2024 Venue: Online The greatest nations and the most cultured races have always considered art as a part of life and made it subservient to life. ~ The Mother, CWM, Vol. 3, p. 108 As part of our ongoing year-long exploration of the topic – “The Spirit and Forms of Art in
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Date: November 19, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 4 The Legacy of Our Ancestors The practice of Integral Yoga, as outlined by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, provides the spiritual and practical framework to fulfill the dreams of our ancestors. They envisioned not just political freedom but the complete liberation of the human spirit—a new India where
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Dates: November 15-17, 2024 Venue: Bharat Nivas, Auroville [India] can, if she will, give a new and decisive turn to the problems over which all mankind is labouring and stumbling, for the clue to their solutions is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in
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Dr. Beloo Mehra’s essay titled ‘Spiritual Nationalism and Its Significance for Today’ was recently published in the special commemorative volume of Ritam, a bilingual journal published by Uttarpara Sri Aurobindo Parishad. This special volume brings together articles from various scholars in Sri Aurobindo Studies, and presents a good overview of some of the essential facets
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Date: November 12, 2024 CONTINUED FROM PART 3 Social Evolution: Crisis and Opportunity Integral Yoga and Integral Human Development teach us that the evolutionary process is not random but guided by a divine force. Our role is to align with this force, to repattern our social systems, and to evolve ourselves and society to a higher
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Date: October 22, 2024 The demise of Ratan Tata marks the end of an era. An era of visionary leadership that began 100 years back with Jamshedji Tata, that continued through JRD Tata, finally ended with Ratan Tata. Business for the Tatas was not just about making money and getting rich. It was
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Start date: September 24, 2024 End date: October 24, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka One of BhāratShakti ongoing works – Design for Dissemination – the team regularly researches, designs and curates exhibitions on a variety of topics. PHOTO GALLERY As part of its Invoking Shakti children’s workshop series that BhāratShakti team has been
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Start date: September 24, 2024 End Date: September 27, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka The BhāratShakti team was invited to curate and conduct a 4-day intensive workshop for about 350 students (ages 3-18) on the theme – ‘Cultivating Courage, Faith and Concentration’ at Creative School near Bengaluru. This workshop was a part of
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Date: September 23, 2024 Venue: Creative School, Freedom Land, Karnataka Dr. Beloo Mehra’s new book titled Antaryatra: Soul Journeys (2024, published by Sri Aurobindo’s Action with Brown Critique Books) was officially launched on September 23, 2024. The book is primarily written keeping the youth of India in mind. So it was perfect that the book
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Date: September 21, 2024 Editor’s note: We are happy to feature a series of blogs by Preeti Mahurkar on the theme of “A New India Arising” inspired by Sri Aurobindo’s ‘Five Dreams’. Preeti Mahurkar is a highly accomplished life coach, certified NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioner, emotional intelligence trainer, and career counselor with over 25 years
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Date: September 13, 2024 Venue: Tagore Government Arts and Science College Watch the RECORDING On September 13, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Director, BhāratShakti was invited to deliver a talk on the topic – Decolonizing Indian Cultural Studies with Sri Aurobindo. This program was organized by the Department of English, Tagore Government Arts and Science College,
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Date: September 5, 2024 Venue: Online Watch the Recording On the occasion of Teacher’s Day, September 5, 2024, Mr. Narendra Murty, Research Associate, BhāratShakti, was invited as a Guest Lecturer by the Jindal Global Business School, a specialized institution of O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He gave a presentation on the topic “The 6 Thinking
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Date: August 26, 2024 People are angry. The atrocious, most horrible crimes that took the life of a young doctor at the very hospital where she worked has made the nation angry. The disgusting manner in which the state administration, which is supposed to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of citizens, is
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Start Date: 5 August, 2024 End Date:25 August, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat A poster exhibition curated by the BhāratShakti team is currently on display at the Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Kendra, Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat. Dr. Rajeshwari Singh, President of the Kendra had invited us to curate a special exhibition for
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