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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Birth Anniversary of Surendra Nath Jauhar 'Faquir'

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Savitri Satsang with Narad at Savitri Bhavan - Part 50 - B1C4 (p 46 - 47)

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12 hours ago — Birth Anniversary of Shri Surendra Nath Jauhar 'Faquir' : Special Assembly. Independence Day Celebrations: Special Assembly Sri Aurobindo's Birthday ...

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Sri Aurobindo 's writing is deep, his vision multifaceted and the vibe which come through it is clearly from higher planes of mind. @Reverie_me1 · 1. 0. 5.

Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: a spiritual epic poem about human evolution and consciousness

We have evolved from matter to life and from life to mind but Sri Aurobindo believes that evolution can continue beyond the human mind. There is a higher form ...

Dr. BELOO MEHRA FRIDAY, 14 AUG | 6:30 PM IST PODCAST: PARTITION MEMORIES

Sri Aurobindo Society's Post. View organization page for Sri Aurobindo ... Through the lens of memory, Partition-related literature, and Sri Aurobindo's ...

Sri Aurobindo Ashram scandals and BJP government silence

Three major questions surrounding Sri Aurobindo Ashram, its heritage and properties — and one bigger question: Why is the BJP Government silent?

AYODHYA — Questions surrounding the Sri Aurobindo Sadhanalyaya land and the reported correspondence over the property.

DELHI & PONDICHERRY — Questions over property use, management, transparency and accountability.

SANTINIKETAN — Concerns over the future of Aurobindo Nilay and reported plans for new construction near a historic site.

Pranam Alok Da. Mentally, I find Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to be complete in all aspects. ...

13 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo as God, too tall, as described in Savitri, where some people find Savitri too high!

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17 hours ago — VIP VAK. Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

"Political Romanticism extends Schmitt’s attack on the individual and quarantines political subjectivity under the name Romanticism." From our new issue, Alexander Freer's "Carl Schmitt, Romanticism, and Political Form": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

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More people should read up on how they created this Empire. Diwani rights, ring fence policy, subsidiary alliances, debt traps, ally disarmament, succession control, Doctrine of Lapse, misgovernment clauses, tariffs. More than wars, contracts built the British Raj.

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A scientist inside a dream can discover the physical laws of that dream world, but can never use science to discover they're dreaming. bit.ly/4gbwDHc Andrew T. Jaffe argues this isn't a gap science will fill: consciousness is prior to the world science describes.

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We absolutely need to be understanding this on a deeper level. There is no view from nowhere. You cannot define what you are within because the instruments you're using to do that definition are also within the the thing too. This consciousness argument is a fallacy.

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The spiritual and metaphysical impoverishment, and excessive feminisation of the West has created a whole culture of naive idealistic empaths, I call them Victimarians, looking for some cause to champion. As with all naive and sincere empaths they are prey for narcissistic manipulators and predators, whether on an individual level, or as is the case here, on a collective level. I am writing about this in my current work in progress, called Egregore Ascendant. - M. Alan Kazlev

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Can ancient wisdom speak to Gen Z? Explore how the Vedas address identity, purpose, well-being, and meaning in a digital age of rapid change and constant distraction. Watch Amazing Vedas! youtu.be/iZm_Vo1FihU?si… @PariksithSingh @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas @VedaforGenZ

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The Veda speaks in layers, symbols, wordplay—and even humor. Read it only literally, and you miss the poetry. Join @PariksithSingh and @MakrandParanspe as they uncover its hidden meanings. youtu.be/Zk2yV7vLnCM?si… @AmazingVedas

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Stop confusing stillness with meditation. Dhyana is an inner fire—a yajna that demands intensity, discipline, and action. Don’t retreat. Burn brighter. youtu.be/24oAMMQMv_0?si… @PariksithSingh @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas

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Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva: by Janaki Bakhle, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2024, US $45.00 (cloth), 520 pp., ISBN: 9780691250366

K Jaywant - 2026

Janaki Bakhle notes that upon the death of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1966,
Govindswami Aphale composed an epic poem and suggested it be sung to the tune
of the Gita-Ramayana, for the events in Savarkar’s life were as foundational to Hindu …

[PDF] Amartya Sen's Gift of India's Cultural Identity and a Voice of Heterodoxy in the Argumentative Indian.

PK Panda - Lokaratna Volume XX Folklore Foundation, India ISSN …, 2025

… The face of Hindutva is never disfigured, the Muslim has been shared with a
shelter nearby and the Christian is saluted at times to fetch the modernism of
civilizations. India always is able to come around the selfishness of nationalism and …

The electoral language of caste in India: The politics of shared identity

AK Suraj - Discourse & Society, 2026

Social identities are not merely descriptive categories but discursive resources
mobilised in electoral practices. The caste-based electoral appeals in Indian
elections, exemplify how identities are performatively invoked and normalised in the …

No flat earth: today's planet and its urban extensions

S Kipfer - 2026

… Nitin Bathla’s chapter on highways in Hindutva’s India gives us a sense of what is
at stake when bringing these questions to the study of extended urbanization: the very
future of politics in a world of multiple existential crises and rising fascist violence. …

Assemblages of exclusion: populist nationalism and the cultural politics of the Chalo India campaign

M Puthan Purayil, M Puthan Purayil - International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2026

… the campaign’s potent formation within the populist nationalist habitus of Hindutva
politics. Put it differently, the article casts light on the … It contends that the Chalo
India campaign must be understood as an assemblage within the practice of the …

[PDF] ARTICULATING THE MARGINS: CASTE AND RESISTANCE IN ANTS AMONG ELEPHANTS

MTKP Darshni, K Ravichandran

Sujatha Gidla’s Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of
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K Parashar - 2026

I know Aranya Padil, who uses the pen name Aranya for their writing, in many
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What the Galgotias University fiasco says about the fashioning of a new Indianness

S Srivastava - 2026

The fiasco earlier in February involving a Chinese robot-dog, a private university that
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R Ranwa, S Thapar-Björkert - The Sociological Review, 2026

… Under the ascendancy of the BJP and the consolidation of Hindutva politics,
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Religion-related mobilisation frames as a counterforce against far-right Hindu nationalism in India: The case of Ambedkarite online activism

T Menšíková - 2025

… With its central question of whether and how activists employ religion-related
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[PDF] THE USEFULNESS OF MANUSMṚTI IN RESOLVING THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS

S Mistri

The main aim of this article is to reveal the view of the ancient Indian tradition-bearer
Manusmṛti towards the environment. By investigating one of the main causes of the
current environmental crisis, it is shown how the Vedic tradition-following …

Diminishing Space of Muslim Personal Law in Post-Independent India: Political Identity, Nation State, and the Impact of Liberal Epistemology

M Saif, MN Hasan - Legal Transformation Muslim Soc'y, 2025

… Hindutva politics in India seeks to subsume Muslim identity with a vision of a
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Mapping exclusion: Muslim women's education in West Bengal from colonialism to the present

M Putatunda, SS Hoque - Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2026

This article explores the systematic exclusion of Muslim women in West Bengal’s
education system. Through descriptive, historical analysis and empirical
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[PDF] Deepening Fault Lines: Leadership and the Future of Ethnic, Religious, and Cultural Conflict in Nepal

HL Joshi - Unity Journal, 2026

Identity‑based conflicts often emerge from deepening fault lines in ethnic, religious,
and cultural contexts. Nepal has witnessed several identity‑related incidents in
recent years; however, these incidents were limited in scope and intensity, and were …

Rohingya Repatriation: An Elusive or Achievable Agenda?

M Rahman, AR Khan, MR Islam - 2026

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the Rohingya refugee crisis,
examining it as a critical ‘time bomb’with implications extending far beyond
Bangladesh to affect South Asia and the global community. The book explores the …

Monday, August 10, 2026

Meaningless strings of initials

When Honour Becomes Alphabet Soup

India has developed a peculiar habit of giving public institutions, infrastructure and places extraordinarily long official names in the name of honouring historical personalities. Ironically, the practice defeats the very purpose of commemoration.

Districts, towns, colonies, airports, universities, academies, educational institutions, roads, buildings, parks, bus stands and countless other public assets are routinely named after eminent figures using their full names and honorifics, such as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Alluri Sitarama Raju, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi, Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, P. V. Narasimha Rao, Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan, Devi Ahilyabai Holkar, Swami Vivekananda, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy, Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, and many others.

The outcome is almost always the same. These lengthy names are rarely used in everyday speech and are often ignored even in official communication. Instead, they are reduced to meaningless strings of initials; CSMI, ASR, NSCB, SVPNPA, PVNR, NTR, YSR, IGNOU, KBR, LBSNAA, LNJPNICFS, IGIA and RGIA. Once a name becomes alphabet soup, the connection between the institution and the historical personality disappears. Most people no longer know whom the initials represent. The very objective of naming the institution after that individual, to keep their memory alive in public consciousness, is lost.

A fresh example emerged yesterday, on 1 August 2026. The newly inaugurated international airport at Bhogapuram near Visakhapatnam was named after the legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju, who led one of India's earliest armed freedom struggles against British rule. Within hours, however, it was already being referred to as ASR International Airport. The purpose of the naming had been defeated before the airport even began operations.

Neighbouring Nepal demonstrates a more practical approach. Its principal airport is simply called Tribhuvan International Airport, commemorating King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah with one distinctive name that everyone remembers and uses. India already has successful examples too. Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru honours the city's founder, Nadaprabhu Hiriya Kempegowda, through the single name "Kempegowda", while the Atal Tunnel commemorates former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee with a simple, memorable name that has entered everyday vocabulary.

The lesson is obvious: one distinctive name is enough.

Official names should not merely display respect; they should keep the person being honoured alive in everyday public life. Since public infrastructure exists to be used, shorter names are easier to read on signboards, maps, tickets, flight displays, navigation apps and railway announcements. They reduce visual clutter, improve usability and reflect how people actually speak. Citizens instinctively say Shivaji, Netaji, Patel, Indira, Vivekananda or Ambedkar, not lengthy ceremonial titles that eventually degenerate into alphabet soup. Short names are also stronger public brands—easier to remember, pronounce and adopt.

Some historians and administrators argue that full names preserve dignity and prevent ambiguity. Those concerns deserve consideration, but they are outweighed by a simple fact: a commemorative name that almost nobody uses has already failed. Where ambiguity exists, governments can simply adopt the most distinctive and widely recognised part of the person's name, such as:

- Alluri Sitarama Raju → Alluri

- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj → Shivaji or Chhatrapati

- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose → Netaji or Subhas

- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel → Sardar or Patel

- Indira Gandhi → Indira

- Rajiv Gandhi → Rajiv

- Jawaharlal Nehru → Jawahar

- Nandamuri Tarakrama Rao → Nandamuri or Tarakarama

- Dr. Marri Chenna Reddy → Marri or Chenna

- Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi → Gopinath or Bordoloi

- Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee → Ramdass

- Chaudhary Charan Singh → Charan

- Lal Bahadur Shastri → Shastri

- Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar → Ambedkar

- P. V. Narasimha Rao → Narasimha

- Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy → Rajasekhara

- Biju Patnaik → Biju

- Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan → Jayaprakash

- Devi Ahilyabai Holkar → Ahilyabai

- Swami Vivekananda → Vivekananda

The objective is not to diminish respect but to maximise remembrance.

The Central Government and every State Government should undertake a systematic review of all public institutions, infrastructure and places named after historical personalities. Wherever official names have become excessively long and are routinely replaced by acronyms, they should be simplified to a single distinctive name or, where necessary, two words.

Such a reform would preserve dignity while making commemorative names practical, memorable and widely used.

A commemorative name succeeds only when people speak it every day. A name that survives only in government notifications or is reduced to an unintelligible acronym has already failed.

Real honour lies not in the length of a name, but in keeping that name alive in the daily language of the nation. - M. Nageswara Rao

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Reverence is born of devotion, not the penal code. Legislating patriotism through prosecution betrays the essence of national pride.

This law fits into a broader, deeply counterproductive pattern: whenever the #PseudoHindutva Sangh Parivar touches any cultural or national issues, it weaponises them. Instead of nurturing genuine reverence, their deracinated heavy-handed intervention routinely alienates citizens and breeds resentment. The latest casualty is Vande Mataram.

Turning a freedom-movement symbol into a jail-backed loyalty test triggers revolt, even among those who respect it. Coercion achieves the opposite of its intent: animosity toward the heritage it claims to protect. - M. Nageswara Rao

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A few days ago, I delivered a talk on "Vision and Strategic Leadership" to mid-career academicians at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) in Hyderabad.

Over tea after the lecture, a participant approached me with a direct, yet, hypothetical, question: "If you were Education Minister, what single policy measure would you implement to drastically improve the quality of Indian education?"

Without hesitation, I answered, "I would reserve at least 50% of all teaching positions—from primary school to the university level—for Brahmanas."

Taken aback, he said, "But you are a Shudra, not a Brahmana!"

"This isn’t about personal caste identity," I explained. "You asked me how to bring about systemic transformation in education. Civilisationally, the Brahmana identity has been dedicated to learning, scholarship, and teaching for eons. Why shouldn't we tap into that vast, time-tested reservoir of wisdom to elevate our education? Only fools would let go of that enormous pedagogical wealth".

He paused for a moment, silently digesting the thought, before nodding thoughtfully.

True leadership is not about personal identity or divisive politics; it is about leveraging a nation's greatest inherent strengths to solve its toughest challenges. - M. Nageswara Rao

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Thursday, August 06, 2026

Abhijeet Dipke and Prashant Kishor

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Can India's Gen Z Change Politics Like US Students Did? - Frontline - The Hindu

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The Cockroach Janta Party continues to demand the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for the alleged mismanagement of competitive ...

Who is Prashant Kishor? Former political strategist hands Modi's party first defeat since 'cockroach' protests

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Bankipur Byelection 2026: BJP's Shock Defeat in Bihar - Frontline - The Hindu

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From Jantar Mantar to Bankipur, a new vocabulary of politics – BJP, Opposition must pay heed

1 hour ago — Five days earlier, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan had stepped down after protests led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.

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"The Cockroach Janta Party had called off its nationwide protest only after the Government of India assured us that no punitive action would be taken against ...

Unemployment to be made nationwide issue: CJP's Dipke

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Is the Mood in India Changing?

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How Prashant Kishor's Bankipur victory could reshape Bihar's political landscape

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Prashant Kishor vs BJP: Why Bankipur Is More Than Just a Bypoll

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Prashant Kishor: Why India's political start-ups rarely succeed

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Did Gen Z protests drive Prashant Kishor's stunning bye-poll win in Bihar?

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How Prashant Kishor Shattered BJP Fortress In Bankipur

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Prashant Kishor: How India's best-known poll strategist

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[PDF] Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the making of modern Indian nationalism

T Balasubramanian, VVD Litt

… During this period, he wrote his famous work Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?, which
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In 1923, the Indian National Congress session at Kakinada passed a resolution …

[PDF] Negotiating Modernity and Caste: A Comparative analysis of Savarkar and Periyar

A Sharma - AIJFR-Advanced International Journal for Research, 2026

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[PDF] Ambedkarite Expression of Non-Normative Desires: Interrogating Caste-Based Marginalisation in India's LGBTQIA+ Movement

A Soni, D Malhotra

… through efforts to integrate queer, trans, and gendernonconforming individuals
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[HTML] Mukesh Kumar, Between Muslim Pīr and Hindu Saint: Laldas and the Devotional Culture in North India

M Boivin - 2026

1 Mukesh Kumar’s book focuses on Laldas (1540–1648), a contemporary of Dadu
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Rajput pride and Mughal harmony: The evolution of Jodha's image in Hindi cinema

A Gandotra, V Jain - Humanities and Social Sciences: A Multidisciplinary …, 2026

This article critically investigates how historical storytelling constantly revises and
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[HTML] INDIA 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent, by Audrey Truschke

A Tripathi - Journal of Indian Knowledge Systems, 2026

… Truschke’s work, unfortunately, reproduces many of these tendencies – whether
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An analysis into the consequences of Hindutva historical revisionism on domain of historical memory in India in the 21st century

S Banerjee, A Banerjee - Humanities and Social Sciences: A Multidisciplinary …, 2026

… Therefore, Hindutva historical revisionism remains the focus of this study in
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either an endorsement of or condemnation of the wider agenda behind Hindutva for …

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A Sharma, A Sehrawat, TK Chandola - 2026

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O my God, MD Trump

… Under such a vast and at the same time, narrow definition of Hinduism, when this
paper speaks of radical Hinduism, it refers to groups that have been brought
together under the Hindutva agenda; an assemblies of Hindu organizations and …