Date: August 20, 2023 Venue: Unity Pavilion, Auroville Watch HERE. On August 20, 2023, Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance and Senior Academic Mentor, was invited to be part of a panel discussion based on Sri Aurobindo’s essays titled ‘The Renaissance in India’ This conference event was organised at Unity Pavilion, Auroville as part of Auroville’s
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Renaissance E-book 2 Author: Dr. Beloo Mehra 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
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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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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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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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Date: August 8, 2023 Venue: Bharat Nivas, Auroville As part of the visit by Hon’ble President of India, Smt. Draupadi Murmu to Auroville on August 8, 2023, a one-day conclave was organised by Auroville Foundation on the theme – Aspiring for the Supermind in the City of Evolving Consciousness. Senior Academic Mentor and Renaissance Editor,
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Date: August 4, 2023 As part of the June-July 2023 issue of Renaissance (Click here for Renaissance) focusing on the theme of “Food, Sleep and Yoga”, a special experiential online session titled ‘’Preparing for Conscious Sleep’’ was organised by the Renaissance team. The aim of this session was to translate some of the learning from
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Senior Academic Mentor and Renaissance Editor, Dr. Beloo Mehra participated in a 3-day literature festival organised by Sri Aurobindo Center for Advanced Research (SACAR), Puducherry. The festival (August 1 to 3, 2023) titled ‘Celebration Sri Aurobindo: Exploration of His Creative Word’ was sponsored by Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The inaugural event on August
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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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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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Speaker: Deepshikha Reddy DATE: July 6, 2023 VENUE: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the Recording HERE. For a full gallery of photos from the event, please click HERE. As part of the Renaissance’s latest issue (June-July 2023) on the theme: Food, Sleep and Yoga, a special event was organised by the Renaissance team to conclude its Exhibition
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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Date: June 2, 2023 Watch the recording HERE. The Renaissance Journal along with The Brown Critique organised a webinar celebrating Sri Aurobindo’s poetry. This event held on 2nd June, 2023 was a part of the Renaissance journal’s ongoing theme – Life, Literature and Yoga. Four speakers were invited for the webinar, and the discussion was
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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
Start date: 16 April, 2023 End date: 28 May, 2023 As part of our ongoing work for the upcoming issue of Renaissance on the theme – ‘Food, Sleep and Yoga,’ Biswajita Mohapatra from Renaissance team conducted FOUR practical sessions on conscious cooking and healthy eating. These were organised with the help of Ms. Gayatri Majumdar
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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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