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There is no book as yet on the global traditions behind Sri Aurobindo’s prose, poetry and plays, as the chief focus so far has been on his links with Indian scriptural texts. Placing him in the global context, as a creative artist and thinker, has become an impelling necessity. Who were his favourite European and American authors? And who could be the other writers, apart from Shakespeare and Whitman, whose memory he was carrying in his poetry and plays? Who were the authors from the West peeping in through his majestic prose, along with the Vedic-Upanishadic rishis? In many ways, this maybe called a pioneering work, as also a systematic investigation into Sri Aurobindo’s sources and innovations. The book examines his links with poets and critics of the East and West, and a few philosophers as well, whose shadows hover over here and there, fleetingly though, in Sri Aurobindo’s texts. His own admissions and disclaimers have been guiding lights.
Sri Aurobindo, Global Tradition and Beyond
By Sarani Ghosal Mondal, Goutam Ghosal
Sarani Ghosal Mondal is an Associate Professor of English in the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at NIT Goa. She has been engaged in Sri Aurobindo research for over two decades and has written and lectured extensively on Sri Aurobindo’s poetry, plays and prose. Her other areas of interest include Applied Linguistics, Culture Studies and Comparative Mysticism. She is the recipient of NoliniKanta Gupta Award (2024) for her contribution to Sri Aurobindo Studies.
Goutam Ghosal is former Professor and Head of the Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; an institution of world learning founded by Rabindranath Tagore. He was the Chief Editor of The Visva-Bharati Quarterly from 2005 to 2007. Apart from Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, his areas of interest include 19th Century British and American Literature, Shakespeare's poetry and Rabindrasangeet.
Two pioneering books by Dr Sarani will formally be released by Prof. Swapan Datta , ex-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, from Oxford Book Store, Kol, on 25 Aug at 5 PM. Prof. Siddhartha Biswas(CU), Prof. Indrani Sanyal n Professor Aparajita Mukherjee (JU) will grace d occasion. - GG
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Ultra Traditionalist and extreme modernists are both equally holding back India's progress. Take the essence of what is good in the past and remould the future with some new essence in the mix from the One eternal source. Don't cling blindly to everything in medieval texts.
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Are our gut senses of good and evil a reliable moral compass? | bit.ly/4ghfmfI Psychologist Jordan Theriault-Brown argues morality is in fact an energy-saving trick of the brain. Our brains crave a predictable world, and moral feelings enforce rules that make our behavior predictable.
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Shashi Tharoor's review:
Felicitously written and incisively argued, Ramanan Laxminarayan's Bacteria to Buddha is a powerful reminder that even our greatest technological feats have been propelled by cooperation and mutual goodwill–and only by strengthening both can we weather the turmoil of an increasingly fraught world.’
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Oh wow that's pretty much the thesis of neuroscience take on this in our book Journey of the Mind goodreads.com/book/show/6050… "You are an illusion stitched together by the chorus of a vast constellation of experiences. You can only emerge if there is a chorus and not just noise or computation. You are thirty-seven trillion cells cohering as one entity." saigaddam.medium.com/consciousness-…
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Do ethics matter in politics? Evidently not in India these days. The use of law enforcement agencies, judicial interventions and state-steered media expenditure collectively reduce the standard of politics to levels below commonly accepted ethics of an electoral democracy. There is no point in moralising about this. A race to the bottom is a game two can play. When things reach such levels, a nation"s political process shifts to a point where foreign parties directly, indirectly and diplomatically get involved in domestic politics. Opposition parties are not stupid. They do what they can when such help arrives. Sometimes they don't even know how it happens but are happy to make use of this. When it rains in your garden yoy don't say "Hey Mr Cloud, where did you come from? "
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The coarsening of public discourse, the lowering of intellectual standards, the heightening of hatred and division, the dilution of integrity, the propagation of nonsense, the pampering of violence, the subjugation of law, the disregard for Constitutional norms, the unwavering belief in and commitment to propaganda, the twisting of history, the weakening of educational institutions and standards, the protection of the criminals, the fattening of the cronies, the fudging of the data, the erasure of voters, the normalisation of corruption... difficult to say which of these will turn out to be the most damaging.
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The strategy was simple and devastating: do not storm the institutions. Infiltrate them. Permeate them — their word — gradually, patiently, over generations, placing Fabian-trained people in positions of influence in government, academia, media, and the civil service, until the institutions produce Fabian outcomes without anyone having to announce a revolution. The revolution would happen – but slowly, invisibly, bureaucratically, democratically. By the time anyone noticed, the institutions would already have changed.
They founded the London School of Economics in 1895 – the institution that trained generations of politicians, civil servants, economists, and journalists across the entire Commonwealth and beyond. They were instrumental in creating the Labour Party in 1900. They shaped the BBC. They designed the British welfare state. George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Keir Starmer – the list of Fabians who shaped British and global politics is not a footnote. It is the history of the twentieth century’s left, stated plainly... They were patient. They were deliberate. They were effective. And the civilization that produced Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and Churchill barely noticed until it was very late.
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Marcuse — godfather of the New Left — published Repressive Tolerance in 1965. The most influential political document most people have never read. Its argument: tolerating wrong ideas is itself oppression. True tolerance requires the suppression of intolerant ideas. Tolerating everything is repressive. Suppressing the wrong things is liberating... The left decides which movements are regressive. Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance but in its name. The most sophisticated justification for censorship ever produced, dressed in the vocabulary of liberation... They did not implement his argument cynically – they implemented it sincerely, because they had been taught it as philosophy.
This is why cancel culture does not feel like censorship to the people practicing it. The journalist who demands a speaker be deplatformed genuinely believes she is defending free speech. The HR department that fires the employee for the wrong opinion genuinely believes it is creating an inclusive environment. They have been taught that this is what tolerance means. Marcuse taught them.
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7. A civilization stands on three pillars: truth exists and is accessible to reason; good is distinguishable from evil; and there is an inheritance worth transmitting. The Frankfurt School attacked all three – systematically and with considerable intellectual sophistication. It produced a generation that knows how to deconstruct and has forgotten how to build. That sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.
The ultimate achievement was to make destruction feel like progress. Every inherited institution became suspect; every constraint became oppression; every act of preservation became reactionary. Deconstruction became the default, while construction became something that needed to justify itself. The answer is not another theory.
It is the thing the Frankfurt School most feared: the builder who simply builds, the scientist who follows the evidence, the father who transmits what was transmitted to him. The deconstruction machine runs on the assumption that nothing is worth building. Prove it wrong. Tell the truth, have courage, and build.
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