Sunday, July 01, 2018

Cicero and Seneca were steeped in Greek literature

With farsightedness, Syama Prasad called to link education and industry

The New Indian Express-8 hours ago
His formidable reputation as an educationist and an uncompromising nationalist, led the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Puducherry select him as the ...

Remembering Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the man who gave us ...

India Today-27-Jun-2018
Vande Mataram has been India's national song since 1937. Sung by generations of Indians to evoke the motherland, the song was written by Bengali writer ...

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose: Feared Even in Captivity by Santanu ...

Free Press Journal-23-Jun-2018
Interestingly, the book points out, “After Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sri Aurobindo, and Lal Lajpat Rai, only Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose remained truly Indian ...

Passion for Sustainability and Women Empowerment Ensured Anjali ...

The Weekend Leader-25-Jun-2018
... that offered alternative education led him to Auroville, an international city built to promote universal love by spiritual leaders Sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa, ...

A champion of Purna Yoga

Telangana Today-23-Jun-2018
TVR is an ardent follower of Sri Aurobindo, a freedom fighter and philosopher; he quotes Aurobindo and says, “All life is yoga”. He says that yoga as a form of ...

Some of History's Bizarre and Ironic Coincidences

The Wire-22-Jun-2018
(M)atter shall reveal the Spirit's face”, Sri Aurobindo Ghosh spoke of how India attained freedom on his own birthday, August 15. Of course, his own association ...

The Mother And The Revolutionary – The Story Of Sri Aurobindo And ...

Swarajya-21-Jun-2018
Many years later, upon their first meeting she would identify this figure as Sri Aurobindo. But for the time being she found few answers to her questions in the ...

Flawed education system, the cause of hatred in India, says Bollywood ...

eNewsroom-18-Jun-2018
So without understanding we hate each other. Sri Aurobindo calls it lower instinct. So Maati is a story of two countries, two religious communities and two people, ...

Defining Indian Civilisation

The New Indian Express-10-Jun-2018
I will not attempt a systematic scholarly study, but will try to extract a dozen “master ideas,” to use Sri Aurobindo's term, which have been that civilisation's prime ...

When the RSS took the battle to pseudo-secular forces

Daily News & Analysis-09-Jun-2018
The duo reaffirmed the ideological currents led by the philosophy of Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Lokmanya Tilak and BC Pal. The fundamental basis of ...

2045: An immortality Odyssey?

The New Indian Express-15-Jun-2018
In a footnote to a chapter in his magnum opus, The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo wrote, “Even if Science—physical Science or occult Science—were to discover the ...

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Sign up for Short Online Courses from 9 July | Empowering Relationships | Introduction to Integral Studies | Transpersonal Psychology | Toward a Superconciousness | Contact elearn@gnosticcentre.com https://t.co/XRrgO2pOPz

Ancient lessons for modern times: my column in @htTweets on why leaders must be consultative and compassionate, and learn to slay anger: https://t.co/HX6YGZAsii

I think this move by Minister Sushma Swaraj to remove compulsory address verification for the passport is the first and only genuine reform move by BJP government in its 4 years. 
If the abuse by BJP trolls has goaded her to do this then the trolls deserve to be thanked.

Proposal to close the University Grants Commission (UGC) can be termed as a major reform venture. Fixed and outdated syllabi has become the bane of knowledge acquiring process and the free progress system recommended by The Mother & Sri Aurobindo should be applied to all stages.

The questions and answers seem to have been written by the same person. A genuine interview is perhaps an oxymoron now!

Only a hundred handles or so speak about Hindu interests stridently whereas those fanaticism is not apparent in people's daily life. Writers are making a career but such abstraction of the word Hindu is turning it lifeless which ultimately will be abandoned by everyone like Modi.

Nasty words frequently appear online. Right-wing trolls attacked even the BJP's Sushma Swaraj after she intervened in an inter-faith couple's passport application, write @Ullekh and Amita Shah https://t.co/00gQJaAUhq https://t.co/H1mdyRtWec

43rd Anniversary of Emergency: RSS Played Double-Game as Usual https://t.co/64qbdi0G0I

#Hindu Activism outside the #Sangh Parivar https://t.co/SPZEVUwMZz #culturalnationalism #hindutva

De-Monotheising the Human Mind the Hindu Way https://t.co/e9QCnqjDuz #blackmass #demonotheising #hhr

Rationalists threatened in India

Brinda Karat inaugurating seminar "The World of EMS":
"RSS vows each of its members to stand by #HinduRashtra & thus make them stand against the basic tenet of democracy & secularism enshrined in our constitution. Modi who speaks volumes on democracy must 1st decry the RSS oath." https://t.co/Q5vBPjOPvu

We Are Living In A Lawless Society: Nilanjana Roy

From The Ku Klux Klan To Cow Vigilantes: A Scholar Explains Why Lynching is Terrorism https://t.co/PsSYFOapDQ

Leaving you with a list of Indian women writers to look forward to this year! https://t.co/uAAtQkulga

Another one for lovers of language -- this poem by Cuban scholar Gustavo PĂ©rez Firmat describes my feelings about English quite accurately: https://t.co/sshmNJLInd

The otherworldly aurora borealis, or northern lights, begin high in the Earth’s atmosphere—at altitudes from 60 to more than 250 miles—when charged particles from the sun become trapped in the Earth's magnetic field. The result is a colorful, dancing light show. https://t.co/R3cgRVSSQB

The set of all points at a certain distance from point F can be seen as an infinite bicone. The points at a certain distance from line d can be seen as a plane rotated around d by angle arctan(k). Their intersection gives you the said conic section which is projected on x-y plane https://t.co/d2fSTUeAaS

If you are broadly aware of how Congress destroyed India's social fabric I insist you read this. This well researched, outrage free piece will ensure you lose your sleep. I did. Must  Must read. https://t.co/mdpMw5Ty3v

Akshar Prabhu Desai article insults Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar role in making the Constitution of India. He has omitted more venom on SCSTs who are outcasted members of Hinduism than Muslim issue. More or less"RSS Mouthpiece". I syrongly protest contents of this article

As hawa changes, BJP allies light a Bonfire of the Vanities: Abheek Barman On February 7, 1497 in Florence, followers of friar Girolamo Savonarola made a bonfire of objects of ‘vanity’ supposed to be misleading Christians to the path of no redemption.… https://t.co/TDvBYrWkXB https://t.co/uFuNVguUAY

How Long Before We Raise A Storm Over Crimes In Indian Churches? https://t.co/7xLB0mmSbr via @swarajyamag

Along with that, I believe my 'Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help' in rhythmic verses without 110 inane interpolations such as 'chaaturvsrnyam mayaashrutam' and sans theological spins too dersves one's attention. Just try, it's a free ebook. https://t.co/7W7w6XtbQc

If you are looking for a reader-friendly work, not an academic tome, on Islam, the Janus-faced cult of Muhammad, to gain hitherto unavailable insights into the psychological disorders of its faithful, here it is, that too as a 'free' ebook.  https://t.co/gPW2lyaoEl

Arabic Translators Did Far More than Just Preserve Greek Philosophy https://t.co/EFJNWTG3hG via @thewire_in

Nationalism shouldn’t undermine international law | analysis: HindustanTimes “The wise man builds bridges; the fool builds walls.” That was the sentiment splashed all over Chinese editorial pages last week, when the United States imposed 25% tariffs on… https://t.co/I39UFFtnez https://t.co/ChoiDYISfg

Limitations of the Primary Potential Forms for World Unity https://t.co/iaVoucnxSK

Sir even though I agree having Sri Aurobindo as the guide at that time would have been very beneficial to us, but let's not forget that what #SriAurobindo has given after his self-exile from politics is much much much more valuable..

Marketime: Modi steers clear of the imaginary glory of Hindutva https://t.co/mTxNwB1ZS9 @NathTusar @_NAN_DINI @Joydas
This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose,
From her blind unwilling substance must emerge
A beauty that belongs to happier spheres.
- Sri Aurobindo (SAVITRI)

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