Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
The fourth book in the INDIAN LIVES series that I edit is out. Peter Heehs’s magnificent biography recounts in riveting detail how Mirra Alfassa made the journey from the art salons of Paris to becoming ‘The Mother’ of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Available online and in bookshops.
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Two biographies of The Mother has been published this year.
1) The Mother : A Life of Sri Aurobindo's Spiritual Collaborator by Peter Heehs
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2) The Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram: Co-Creator of the Integral Yoga by Patrick Beldio
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[HTML] Is There an Unholy Collusion Between Science and Religion in India? Interrogating Meera Nanda, of the Five Horse Angels
P Bilimoria - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2025
… any kind, be that creation ex nihilo, deus ex machina, intelligent design (the demiurge/potter-model), emanationism, emergentism, immaculate or coitus conception, or some version of evolutionism as extracted from Sāṃkhya ontology …
RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP IN INDIA: INSIGHTS FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP RESEARCH
C Brighia, C Miskab - Advances in Global Leadership, 2025
We adopt an indigenous perspective on the emerging economy of India to identify and assess antecedents of responsible leadership (RL) across the micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. This setting is rich in cultural, linguistic, and social diversity …
[The Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute is experimenting with AI generated videos as a contemporary means of reaching the public with presentations on Spiritual Culture. Please forgive any defects and limitations as we learn how to implement this technology.
[PDF] ORIGIN AND ITS GROWTH OF INDIAN DRAMA: A CONCISE CHRONOLOGICAL STUDY
J Islam, MN Hossain
… The most striking feature of Sri Aurobindo’s plays is that they deal with the different cultures and countries in different epochs, ringing with … in the total content of Sri Aurobindo’s dramatic literature. In matters of plot construction and …
In Love with the City: Aesthetics, Belonging and Development in the Wall Murals of Bhubaneswar
J Tripathy - Society and Culture in South Asia, 2025
Indian urban planning is not merely dependent on visual solidity solidity and awe-inspiring infrastructure but also on aesthetically pleasing spaces that offer alternative ideas of city as geographies of contemplation and affection. In their effort to create a narrative …
[An article on the life of Nirata and her association with the Mother authored by Anurag Banerjee has been published on the website of Overman Foundation. To read the article, kindly click on the following link:
https://overmanfoundation.org/
[PDF] The Mainstream and the Periphery: A Search for Missing Link between Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and Aruni Kashyap's The House with a Thousand Stories
AS Paul
… What is to be noticed is that Aurobindo does not deny the mixing of multifaceted aspects of culture, rather he ensconces an assimilation of whatever is alien and foreign to India into the age -old Indian spirit and ethos. This assimilation can create …
[PDF] RAMANUJA'S SRI-BHASHYA: A HERMENEUTICAL ANALYSIS
MR Neog - Drsti.
In this paper we discuss an effective teaching of Ramanuja’s Sri-Bhashya as one of the most prominent among the major works of philosophical and mystical texts. Ramanuja has bequeathed three studies on the Brahmasutra such as, the Vedanta …
Exploring Apophasis Across Traditions: Upanishads and Medieval Christianity
S Velassery
Page 1 Indian Philosophy: Past and Present Sebastian Velassery Exploring Apophasis Across Traditions: Upanishads and Medieval Christianity Springer Page 2 Indian Philosophy: Past and Present Series Editor Bindu Puri, JNU Campus …
[HTML] How concepts do activism: as worlds, aids, cells, and currents
D Cooper - Cultural Studies, 2025
What is conceptual activism and how should we understand the form and affordances of the concept as it takes shape within it? Drawing on interviews with twenty-three interdisciplinary academics, along with social theoretical and empirical …
[PDF] Mainstream Weekly
N Sukumar
… the social laboratory for Hindutva. Jan Bremem1 has analysed the well-entrenched nature of the Hindutva movement and its predecessors in … The price these previously denigrated segments have to pay for their acceptance within the Hindutva …
The Union of India: Bodily Unity in Indian Law and Literature
S Suresh - Law & Literature, 2025
A cartographic anxiety haunts the Indian collective psyche and its institutions. This persisting anxiety over cartographic forms emerges from, this article will argue, a primordial dread of the body in fragmentation, a generative phantasmagoria, that …
[PDF] CONTEMPORARY INDIA
KA Jacobsen - ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY …
… Hinduism is an immensely diverse and pluralistic phenomenon and should not be mistaken for the political movement that uses a homogenized idea of Hindu identity (Hindutva) to mobilize for a hinduization of India and produces fear among the minorities …
“Who Do We Say That We Are?” The Story of the WCC's Exploration of Christian Identity in a Multireligious World
C Amos - The Ecumenical Review
This article discusses the work of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in developing an understanding of Christian self‐understanding in the context of religious plurality, setting out a Christian theological rationale for interreligious …
[PDF] SOCIO-POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF SUFIS ON THE FORMATION OF BENGAL SULTANATE AND ITS RELEVANCE TO THE PRESENT DAY BANGLADESH
A AL MASUD, M ZAKARIA, MR ISLAM, A UDDİN
… For instance, when after the death of Sultan Ghiyathuddin Azam Shah, Raja Kans tried to establish Hindutva supremacy and hegemony in Bengal, Nur Qutb Alam stood firm, dismantled the project of Hindutva protect and thereby succeeded in reestablishing …
Making management Hindu: SK Chakraborty and the indigenisation of homo economicus
D Moodie - South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2025
… It is plain to see how this formulation aligns easily with Hindutva imaginings. Yet, as this article has sought to make clear, the indigenisation of homo economicus is a project that does not just serve the aims of Hindutva. It brings together and cuts …
[HTML] The 'Spiritual'and the 'Religious' in the Twittersphere: A Topic Model and Semantic Map
F Winiger, G Schneider, J Goldzycher, D Neuhold… - Journal of Religion, Media …, 2025
One of the principal challenges of religious studies is the lack of a widely accepted normative definition of the terms ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality.’ Responding to recent calls for methodological innovation in this field, in this paper we present a “bottom-up” …
Secular State: Its Importance and Limits
B Parekh
… Over time the Hindutva-based BJP gained popular supremacy and power, and posed a serious threat to the security and identity of the minorities, especially the Muslims. Secularism is a valuable goal but it can cause havoc if it is defined and …
Reconfiguring Char as" Heterotopia": Poetics, Politics and Polemics of Miya Poetry in Assam
N Paul - Migration, Identity and Resistance in the Postcolonial …, 2025
The structure of the nation-state is grounded in a coeval process of building walls around the “self” and excluding the “other” to ensure the unchallenged hegemony of the “self”. The modern nation-making process, essentially a derivative discourse …
[PDF] Exploring the Flight from Nepali Eth-nic Identity in Manjushree Thapa's
S Laha
Nepal, the small Himalayan nation, has long served as the picturesque land of beautiful snow peaked mountains, scenic landscapes. In spite of that beauteous nature, one is unable to forget the fact that the denizens of the nation remained for …
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