Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo's arrival in Pondicherry - the significance of 4th April Matrimandir.
The special opening allows the first ray of the rising sun to penetrate directly into the crystal at Matrimandir, an event that happens only once a year in this day.
#Auroville
https://twitter.com/JayantiRavi/status/1775766211177197775?t=9_grEKDoek1xygOhJGd46w&s=19
"This little door on the eastern side of Matrimandir beholds a sacred memory for all those who love Sri Aurobindo. Only on the 4th of April, every year, this door opens during the sunrise. Every other day of the year, the door remains shut;.."
#Auroville #SriAurobindo
https://twitter.com/JayantiRavi/status/1775766125265178763?t=l8sBtISQXCdTk8YcPswECw&s=19
If you live in a country and can freely call its government a dictatorship, it is certainly not a dictatorship.
https://twitter.com/MisraNityanand/status/1775101767027745110?t=QzQyjh6vGnwWgixeR6DRiw&s=19
While limited FoE is one feature of dictatorships, the two are not one and the same.
What defines dictatorship is not the FoE, but the concentration of powers to one autocratic person or group, with weakened institutional constraints to what they can do. Even if they rule by the people’s popular choice.
As I said they are related but not one and the same.
Totalitarianism and Dictatorship - related but not the same.
https://twitter.com/bhAratenduH/status/1775408081658052700?t=RXa0uyILxdNG9xpTZeRybw&s=19
Indeed, Totalitarianism emerges in an atomised society and acquires the shade of the prevalent political system. The most common form of totalitarianism in effect today is democratic totalitarianism.
Your view goes contrary to every single word I have read on the subject. Either we are talking about different things or you have something new to say on the subject that scholars have missed for a century.
Hannah Arendt, Alexis Tocqueville, J.L. Talmon, Tomislav Sunic to name a few. Diversity is not the symptom of an atomised society. I insist that we are talking about different things.
The totalitarian tendency is agnostic to ethnic composition because the breakdown of communities can and has happened in all kinds of societies.
https://twitter.com/infinitchy/status/1775438824308638113?t=TLeDyZLxaP8S3L8v5RuNwA&s=19
The route to totalitarianism need not necessarily be violent. It can be achieved through peaceful and perfectly legal means. The least talked about deleterious consequence of modern liberal democracy is delegitimisation of all non-State institutions. Democratic exceptionalism abhors any intermediary between the State and citizen. To explain, the State in a modern democratic polity is considered as 'the representative' of all citizens. Implicitly, it is expected that the citizens' primary and predominant loyalty should be to the State alone, making all non-State institutions illegitimate unless expressly sanctioned by the State. That is to say, all institutions exist upon the sufferance of the State. The constitutional and jurisprudential neglect of family which is the fundamental building block of any society is rather deliberate. For, the democratic State perceives family as a barrier in its direct equation with, nay control of citizens. No wonder that across all modern liberal democracies the institution of the family became the first casualty. The atomised and the disintegrating Western societies are living examples of the destruction wrought by the democratic statism. And democratic exceptionalism precedes democratic totalitarianism.
https://twitter.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1775537337553801384?t=NcaXSFWQGyRPryctII2WkQ&s=19
Nice explanation but blaming democracy looks a bit harsh since in spirituality too the family can be a victim. Of course these are theoretical positions for in reality such neat detachment may not be possible. Further spiritual grounding provides multi-layered checks and balances.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1775588929292685521?t=cgML-dLtexVnQX-ax7EKmw&s=19
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