Tuesday, June 18, 2024

People of evolved religions have no binaries

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

... Sri Aurobindo in a systematic manner. He has authored 25 books. --- An offering to Sri Aurobindo on his 150th Birth Anniversary by Sri Aurobindo Centre ...
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Arising from, Arriving at 'Integrality': Delving into the Wisdom of Sri Aurobindo via Bindu Puri's Reading Sri Aurobindo

A Mishra
… of Sri Aurobindo to contemporary Indian philosophical discourse. This discussion is devoted to reviewing recent scholarship around the vision and wisdom of Sri Aurobindo, … and understanding of both books, the strengths and lacunae in …

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P Chacko
… Hindutva futurism Abstract: This presentation to argue that authoritarian populist politics in India utilizes populist discursive and mobilizing strategies to advance a ‘Hindutva … The symbolism of Hindutva futurism has been epitomized by an archetypal past-cum-future …

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J Anand
… (I am reminded of the followers of Hindutva in our times for whom anyone and everyone who does not support them, are all put into one category and called Marxists !Interestingly, I am told that Muslim religious fundamentalists in India have …

Views From an Anti-Caste Movement: Caste, Labour, and Religion in Sangharsh

D Janarthanan - Social Change, 2024
… commonsense serving as handmaidens of caste inequalities and as gestative surrogates for Hindutva does not provide a sufficient scaffold for understanding. Unless we are satisfied with the portrayal of dalit partakers of Hindutva as ‘rice …

Anti-Caste Movements, Resistance, and Caste: An Introduction

J Abraham, D Janarthanan - Social Change, 2024
… If caste practices wear the imprint of the effects of larger processes like colonialism, globalisation, or capitalism, they are also shaped by state policies like the implementation of reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs), or the more …

[PDF] Tagore's Ideas of Patriotism with Reference to Gora

D Bhattacharya
… Gora‟s patriotism, which moves within the parameters of Hindutva, is partial and remains to be incomplete. Patriotism based on the worship of the nation lacks vision and judgement. Completely immersed in blind patriotism, Gora waits for a new …

Staging: Intercultural Publics

SJH Kim - The American Historical Review, 2024
… —Rabindranath Tagore in the 1910s, MK Gandhi in the 1930s, and Swami Yogananda in the 1930s—and Hindu texts inadvertently aided the Hinduization of Indian culture, a process that gained momentum in India in the 1920s with the …

[PDF] Structural inaccessibility in legal representations: A day in Guwahati High Court

G Salil
… The Karnataka Police SIT which was formed a year later has found links to right-wing Hindutva-organisations between some of the 17 suspects they have caught, including the supposed murderer himself. Yet, the situation is not helped by the fact …

[PDF] Emergence of the regional political parties in India: an Analysis

UR Kar
… The Hindutva ideology remains the foundation of the right-wing political group known as the Shiv Sena. In the 1980s, the Shiv Sena saw tremendous growth, and in the 1990s, it attained national prominence. Sena has been charged with starting …

[PDF] Policy Diffusion Among Domestic Political Parties in Multiparty Systems: An Analysis of Election Manifestos of Indian Political Parties

P Nasrin - Hatfield Graduate Journal of Public Affairs, 2024
Do political parties adopt each others’ ideas? This research argues that parties are more likely to employ party platforms from electorally successful domestic parties in a multiparty system while seeking public office. Focusing on religious issues as the …

Transnational Anti-Gender Politics

A Holvikivi, B Holzberg, T Ojeda
… queer movements in India need to be understood in relation to Hindutva fascism. This political project develops in relation to other global … anti-gender politics with the Vatican but with Chinese party communism or Hindutva nationalism? What if we …

[PDF] Unintended Consequences: Withdrawal from Documenta

T Smith - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 2024
… During November 2023, one member of the newly appointed Finding Committee was pressured by the new documenta management to resign due to his opposition to an event in Mumbai in 2019 that equated Zionism with Hindutva, while another …

[PDF] 'Development Has Gone Crazy': The Gujarat Model of 'Unequal'Development through Neoliberalism and Hindutva

R Akhtar - South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2024
… As India opted to liberalise its economy in the early 1990s, we arrive at the fourth key moment in which Hindutva and … Hindutva and neoliberalism do not attempt to address these dichotomies, I suggest that this is because unequal development is …

Engaging with a Nation: Representations of India in the 21st Century

S Biswas - 2024
… It discusses key themes such as nationalism in the contemporary Indian context, the concept of Hindutva, Islam nationalism and queer … and the Hindu nation, if they obey the duties prescribed by the Hindutva ideology of motherhood. This …

Indian Americans: Visibility and Influence

S Sirohi - BIDEN AND BEYOND: The United States Rethinks …, 2024
… Some Indian and Pakistani Muslim Americans said he had not condemned Hindutva politics in India strongly enough even though he had condemned Islamophobia in strong terms — the new touchstones of diaspora and leftist politics. “If …

Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline

J Merchant - 2024
… ultraright Hindutva movement, Hindu nationalism has emerged as one of the government's key strategies for maintaining legitimacy in a stalled-out economy where both public and private investment have been declining for over a decade …

Fractured Narratives and Pandemic Identities: COVID-19, the (Post) Apocalyptic, the Dystopic, and the Postcolonial

OP Dwivedi, A Wansbrough - 2024
… and simply as symptoms of the westward movement of hegemony, from the imperial moment of the British Isles in the 19th century to the republican moment of US hegemony in the 20th towards the command economy of China in the 21st and …

[PDF] Queer Cost of Living Crisis: Interdisicplinarity (RSE Seminar Series)

Y Taylor, RK Dasgupta, H Marzetti, P Matthews - 2024
A conversation that took place as part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded Queer and the Cost of Living Crisis Seminar Series The Series is part of Yvette Taylor’s RSE Personal Fellowship on Queer Social Justice. The Queer and the Cost …

[HTML] Friends or Foes: Is Unamendability the Answer to Democratic Backsliding?

S Suteu - Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 2024
Unamendability is often viewed as a ‘lock on the door’ that can keep enemies of constitutional democracy out, at least for a time. Unsurprisingly, it has also been invoked as a potential bulwark democratic backsliding. While it may not entirely …

The New Governance of Religious Diversity

T Modood, T Sealy - 2024
Religious diversity is a key feature of countries across the world today, but it also presents governments with very real challenges. Controversies around religious free speech, symbols, social values and morals, and the role of faith leaders as critical …

Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India: By Alf Gunvald Nilsen. Abingdon: Routledge, 2024.

C Kuanr - 2024
… Nilsen argues that the binaries prevalent in subaltern studies limits the understanding of the ongoing defiance by dalit organisations against the incumbent Hindutva upper caste violence of the present (20). Threaded throughout his …

[PDF] “In her exhaustive and comprehensive study of the nonviolent struggle of Thomas Christians in India, Clara Joseph challenges the commonly held belief that India's …

R Jahanbegloo
I believe this book offers essential insights on this topic. For me, one of the most striking revelations was the discovery of hidden links between Portuguese military and trade ambitions and the imposition of celibacy on the clergy of the Thomas …

[HTML] Transcending Trauma: Exploring the Role of Spirituality in Psychiatry

C Giroux, I Song, D Patron
… Spirituality is therefore an integral aspect of human experience, often encompassing practices aimed at enhancing well-being and connection. These practices, which include yoga, deep breathing, meditation, and engaging with nature …

[PDF] From Rural Outcasts to Urban Cosmopolitans: Spiritual Healers in Seoul

L Sarfati - Journal of Urban Ethnography ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶ …, 2024
… Similar to other cases where hypermodernity and the internet have become integral to vernacular traditional expressiveness, here too “… Her online self-introduction resonates with New Age terminology and practices like yoga and Buddhist …

[PDF] Behavioral and Attitudinal Constraints to Tourism: An Empirical Study of Local Residents in Badrinath Shrine, Uttarakhand

A Dhyani, G Dimri, A Dhyani, RP Dimri, SK Lal… - International Conference on …, 2024
As the primary objective, this research paper is an attempt to identify the role and then to provide remedies against the Behavioral and Attitudinal Constraints to Tourism of the local residents as the secondary objective. The study was carried out …

[PDF] Neighbourhood Renewal Area Annual Report 2018/19

NI Statistics - 2024
… • 24 yoga classes (15 people at each) … Yoga (8 people) • … The childcare services are an integral part of the success of the Centre providing much needed support for parents who may be in employment or training. …

[PDF] AN EXPLORATION INTO PANCHAKOSHA VIKAS (FIVE-FOLD DEVELOPMENT): A FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENT OF INDIAN TRADITION WITHIN INDIA'S NCF …

M Singh - Jamshedpur Research Review, 2024
… Yoga balances and aligns the koshas through asanas, pranayama, meditation, and self-inquiry. Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medicine, … For centuries, the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Yoga Sutras have taught spiritual searchers about …

'The richest, most powerful countries in the western world, those who believe themselves to be the keepers of the flame of the modern world’s commitment to democracy and human rights, are openly financing and applauding Israel’s genocide in Gaza', wrote Arundhati Roy wrote earlier this year, in a column widely read around the world. 

https://x.com/alon_mizrahi/status/1802242376787759246?t=icMQz12Boa8pu0D7FnL-vw&s=19

Derrida inspires deeper engagement with words, literature and culture. I don't consider him a philosopher as much as a thinker, in the best sense of the word.

https://x.com/primal_tweet/status/1802772906801316250?t=d0NEwQoVUrq55rABvVUICw&s=19

Next up is Markus Gabriel's newest book "Sense, Nonsense, and Subjectivity". 

Probably the most extensive treatment of subjectivity in the "New Realist" tradition (at least since Gabriel's "The Meaning of Thought"). 

Let's see how it goes.

https://x.com/Cominsitu/status/1802935822724841749?t=LGSr7PTFUL50HjlLz1JciQ&s=19

Saw the Hindukush/Pamirs! Reminded me of how the Aryans crossed them on their way to India in 1500 BCE. Here they found the most fascinating substance mentioned in the Rig Veda, watch here (youtu.be/EpR9FAcsReM) to know what!

I got really lucky that the plane dipped just as we were flying over the Hindukush/Pamirs. Quite a sight!! Can't believe this journey of the Aryans is something that the RW in India is ashamed of and wants to deny despite incredible evidence, here (youtu.be/EpR9FAcsReM)

Why is the RW in India ashamed of its amazing history? Discuss (15 marks)

Aryan migration is a fact, dodo! Here's genetic proof, read the full paper here (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…)

https://x.com/tishasaroyan/status/1802700603321204790?t=dovTepoMebNyJLjMJFk7Mw&s=19

Yoga-Vedanta is the way to understand the secrets of the Self-aware universe within us, not any scientific theory, religious belief or political ideology. Awaken to your Inner Being and you can transcend time and space, name, form and number to the Self of all.

https://x.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1802925252588028196?t=LvCY0v1pD0tAEV6YQG5UOg&s=19

Hindutva aks Hinduism aka Sanatana Dharma is a universal religion even though it originated in India. Savarkar's attempt at defining who is a Hindu by anchoring it to India (Pitrubhumi, Punyabhumi) has the danger of particularising the universal Hindu religion to a territory... 

God has not created religion, nor is he/she/it unconcerned about your religion. In fact, he/she/it is not even concerned with you at all. It is people's quest to know: who they are, where have they come from, who has sent them, why are they here, where will they go, etc. Over aeons people have compiled their life experiences and explorations into these unknowables which have come down to us as body of knowledge. That body of knowledge about unknown in essence is about Hindu and all other evolved religions. As a result of their preoccupation with truth seeking, people of evolved religions have no binaries, have no injunctions to be followed under pain of punishment, no conversions, and no anything. Hindus and all others following evolved religions live and let live whatever you follow or don't follow them. And it is these peace loving evolved religions which are annihilatory attack by the intolerant established religions.

https://x.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1802926121073119520?t=YFxNxmSnx77dD27oLZSwPg&s=19