Monday, February 24, 2020

Sri Aurobindo, Pal, Tagore, Gandhi, and Savarkar

20-May-2018 · After Savarkar and Sangh Parivar, it is Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo who are going to come under attack. At the moment they are softening the field and preparing the ground.

Sri Aurobindo: Astronomers also have recently started doing it. (Laughter). Dr. Manilal: Do they count them as ... Dr. Manilal: Have you read Savarkar's speech, Sir? Sri Aurobindo: Yes. What about it? Dr ...

17-Oct-2015 · Read more about Dayananda, Aurobindo, Vivekananda and Savarkar: Hindutva's Big Four on ... Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The ...

18-Mar-2019 · Unlike Golwalkar and Savarkar, he embraced Islam, Christianity and Buddhism. ... Another great inspiration for the Hindutva brigade was Sri Aurobindo, but even his nationalism was not ...

28-Feb-2017 · From Sri Aurobindo to Lokmanya Tilak, Swami Vivekanda to Veer Savarkar, Mahatma Gandhi to Guru Golwalkar, Hegdewar to Deoras, Mohan Bhagwat to Dr. Swamy – all have tried to define ...

It is undeniable that Hindu Maha Sabha ideologue Savarkar spoke of reviving the "race spirit" of the Hindus. So did Golwalkar. Sri Aurobindo even used the term "Aryan race", which to him meant exactly the same ...

On 29.12.40 Savarkar gave a speech in which he said that the British could not be defeated. Sri Aurobindo commented: "Nonsense. They were saved by Divine Intervention. They would have been smashed if Hitler ...

31-Mar-2016 · What was the common thread that united Hindu nationalists Dayananda Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar? With their thinking, discourse ...

29-Mar-2017 · What we need is not to go back, but forward to something new, what Sri Aurobindo called “ new creation” in Foundations of Indian Culture. It includes and exceeds what was attempted thus far.

03-Sep-2019 · How Savarkar's utterances for the sake of Hindu reform often rubbed Hindus themselves the ... Sri Aurobindo around 1914 found out that the Vedas were written with a "double" meaning: ...

The renowned revolutionary, Nalini Kishore Guha, introduced Keshav and Narayanrao Savarkar, younger brother of Veer Savarkar, into the Anusheelan Samity, a secret revolutionary organization, and according to ...

Hindu nationalism has been collectively referred to as the expression of social and political thought, based on the native spiritual ... Sri Aurobindo was a nationalist and one of the first to embrace the idea of complete ...

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist. He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual ...
Literary works: The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga, Savitri

07-Jan-2016 · PDF | On Jan 1, 2007, Koenraad Elst and others published Savarkar, Hinduness and the Aryan Homeland | Find, ... his inclusion of Savarkar along with Tilak and Sri Aurobindo poses acute ...

Shri Bharucha, an old Congress leader said that Govt must take S's help for solving the problem of Punjab since he was ... S thought Aurobindo was a great philosopher and Vivekananda's Rajyog a masterpiece.

05-Nov-2004 · The issue of Savarkar conceals within it potent vials of poison which will destroy India's ... tradition as interpreted by Sri Ramakrishna, Bankim, Vivekananda, Rabindranath, Sri Aurobindo and ...

08-Mar-2016 · On 2 April Sri Aurobindo telegraphed Dr BS Moonje, head of the Hindu Mahasabha and C. Rajagopalachari. ... @Parikramah Their Guruji is Golwalkar, even Savarkar is not wholly welcome.

... Oak Pravrajika Atmaprana Purusotm Nagesh Oak Savarkar Sister Nivedita Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo And the Mother Sri Ramakrishna Swami Atmasthananda Swami Bhuteshananda Swami Budhananda Swami ...

Swatantrya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was the greatest human being born after Lord Shri Krishna. ... Veer Damodar Savarkar was one of the greatest Indian freedom fighter who always looked for a chance to ...

02-Nov-2019 · Gandhi talked of daya, Savarkar said it made Hindus weak: Authors debate what is Hindu Rashtra ... He added that Mahatma Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda's version of ...

Savarkar, on the other hand, coined the term in his essay Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? (1923) ... Swami Dayananda, Lokmanya Tilak and Sri Aurobindo right down to Guruji [sic] Golwalkar and Deendayal ...

Sachidananda Mohanty · 2012 · History
On the other end, M. S. Golwalkar and others of the Right wing persuasion admire Sri Aurobindo for his ... thinker Jyotirmaya Sharma put Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Savarkar ...

Debating Nationalism: Aurobindo, Gandhi, Pal, Tagore and Savarkar ... written during the period of 1905 to 1923 and chronologically, these are: Sri Aurobindo's Bhawani Mandir (1905), Gandhi's Hind Swaraj ...

by YS Fletcher · 2016
On 8 July 1910, the Indian revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, en route from arrest in... ... In India earlier that same year, a sedition prosecution threatened the well-known radical Aurobindo Ghose, recently ...

Sri Aurobindo: It is because of the empty space that he feels important. Nirodbaran: What empty space ... Satyendra: Savarkar says Hindus have never been conquered by the Muslims after 1677. Sri Aurobindo ...

It has had many prophets: Dayananda Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and V.D. Savarkar. But it is M.S. Golwalkar, the 'Guruji', who is its authoritative exponent for the Rashtriya Swayamsevak ...

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (विनायक दामोदर सावरकर) (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966, commonly ... is not sullied by the placing of the portrait of Shri Savarkar in the hall of honour in the Indian Parliament." ...

Debating Nationalism: Aurobindo, Gandhi, Pal, Tagore and Savarkar. ... these are: Sri Aurobindo's Bhawani Mandir (1905), Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (1909), Bipin Chandra Pal's The Spirit of Indian Nationalism ...

This is the website of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a community in Pondicherry, South India.
Missing: savarkar ‎| Must include: savarkar

07-Sep-2018 · Recent western scholarship has been attempting to convert Sri Aurobindo into a secular icon, ... on the so-called unmentionable communal leaders such as Dr. Hedgewar, Golwalkar and Savarkar, ...

30-Jan-2019 · Around this time, Britain was temporary home to many leaders of India's freedom struggle—besides Nehru, Sri Aurobindo, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, among ...

Title : Debating Nationalism: Aurobindo, Gandhi, Pal, Tagore and Savarkar; Author : Anil Dutta Mishra and ... these are: Sri Aurobindo's Bhawani Mandir (1905), Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (1909), Bipin Chandra ...

23-Aug-2017 · HDFC Bank under its #CSR initiative, in partnership with Sri Aurobindo Society announced the extension of ZIIEI program nationally. It aims to familiarize government school teachers with ...

06-May-2019 · On 6 May 1909, Sri Aurobindo was acquitted in the Alipore Bomb Case (officially known as Emperor vs Aurobindo Ghosh and others), a significant episode in the history of India that marked the ...

07-Nov-2018 · Enough has already been said about ideologues like Golwalkar and Savarkar — the way they ... to elevate man, as Sri Aurobindo imagined, to a higher level of psychic/spiritual evolution; ...

... goes beyond the existing inquiry into Hindu identity, nationalism and culture, through the writings of thinkers Dayananda Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

Born and raised in Bangalore, Vikram Sampath completed his schooling in Bangalore at the Sri Aurobindo Memorial School and Bishop Cotton Boys' School. He...

16-Oct-2016 · Madan Lal Dhingra, Veer Savarkar, Mangal Pandey, Aurobindo and many . ... Sri Aurobindo's spiritual collaborator was Mother— Mira Alfasa— a Sephardi Jew and initially a disciple of Max Théon ...

12-Sep-2019 · It is worth noting that everything here, from installing the busts to defacing Savarkar's face to removing all ... from the movement and some were diverted to the spiritual path like Sri Aurobindo Ghosh.

The way the spiritual sense of boycott becomes inseparable with its political sense to Sri Aurobindo. KEYWORDS : Sri Aurobindo ... Vinayak Damodar Savarkar took a part in Tilak's Swaraj Party etc., gained their ...

13-Jun-2019 · One of them was Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, a great revolutionary, thinker and writer, ... movement and great Hindu thinkers like Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, Lokmanya Tilak, Adv. Deshpande, S. M. ...

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Flood of transforming influence pours

"All fanaticism is false because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth." -Sri Aurobindo, 23.10.39. 
Clearly, this includes Hindu fanaticism too. 
Let's not make a virtue of it.
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1228735638783983616?s=19
Practise your own faith & traditions so that they become strong & sensible--as Swami Vivekananda did--rather than being a fanatic yourself. You claim others are destroying Hinduism. To defend yourself, you become unHindu & fanatic?Then you'll become just like those you oppose.
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1229071665486684160?s=19
Hope by "all forms of God" includes Islamic, Christian & other forms of worship? Then you wouldn't be a fanatic, Sir. Let us remain Sanatanis, no? Rather than becoming the mirror image of the worst of those we're trying to oppose.
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1228877511729143808?s=19
Sir, I hope you're aware that your tweet itself is an eloquent example of what you claim doesn't exist: to say that a Hindu can NEVER be a fanatic is a statement typical of a fanatic. Your bullying aggression is divisive of the very Hindu unity that you seem to seek.
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1229016194755121152?s=19
"We don't even know who Gandhi is!! Instead of making Gandhi an external ghost, look at the ghost of Gandhi within yourself. We need stop blaming Gandhi for our problems." profound words from @MakrandParanspe today at a session on Sri Aurobindo & the idea of India @Gnostic_Centre
https://twitter.com/psitsgayatri/status/1228961873455874048?s=19
Sri Aurobindo is hugely misappropriated by a fringe political wing begging votes in his name. His nationalism was universal and pluralistic which binds whole humanity in one cord. ABVP doesn't even aspire to reach this goal
https://twitter.com/Nimai_Swain/status/1229473225584693249?s=19
The solution is in doing one's work selflessly and letting the Divine do His work. If people choose to play the games of padre and pundit, it is only themselves to be blamed.
https://twitter.com/Nimai_Swain/status/1229087385889062912?s=19

#Auroville’s true mission: The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness...
Auroville’s role in manifesting the New Creation | Auroville https://t.co/cZrgvd4JzX
https://twitter.com/aurovilletoday/status/1229039644467191808?s=19

that and making an effort to be anti-racist in the poetry i choose has led to me discovering lots of cool new (to me) poets like Phyllis Wheatley and Sri Aurobindo, so I don't feel particularly bad about "o no i can't put the proto-fascists in here"
https://twitter.com/elliottdunstan/status/1228769552097579008?s=19

So this is really a "delusion," what Hindu's call Maya Lila, which the venerable tradition of @capracourse  @BernardoKastrup @DrDCWahl @AlanWattsOrg, Haridas Chaudhuri, Sri Aurobindo, etc. is so eloquent in illuminating.
https://twitter.com/MarkRiva/status/1228702982788780039?s=19

The Ten Terrains Of Consciousness maps these intermediary stages that Sri Aurobindo is talking about here. Go to https://t.co/SXsm30GEXi https://t.co/hu5mrt00aW
https://twitter.com/TenTerrains/status/1228456649507168258?s=19

"We who have been lucky enough to be on the hither side of the partition...welcome you with open arms & we shall exert every nerve to give you help. In the great struggle for India's freedom your families have fought side by side with us & if we fail... 
#IndiaSupportsCAA https://t.co/4sV9tuVFRQ
...to do the outmost we can by way of assistance we shall have betrayed the ideals that have served us as beacons in the past..." -Philosopher, political thinker, & disciple of Sri Aurobindo, Amal Kiran, edited the English fortnightly "Mother India" from Mumbai #IndiaSupportsCAA https://t.co/FatP7zmUR3
https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1228710224535543809?s=19
Between 1949-1950 most of the editorials that he wrote were seen, corrected, passed by Sri Aurobindo himslef who considered "Mother India" to be his own paper. This editorial titled "To the Refugees of #EastBengal" & was written in 1949 & approved by the Sage #IndiaSupportsCAA https://t.co/SgsoGG4wO3

When Nehru-Liaquat Pact was signed, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee resigned from Nehru Cabinet- Director SPMRF Dr @anirbanganguly speaking at a seminar on "Sri Aurobindo and India's Future" at Gnostic Center, Bijwasan, Delhi. https://t.co/uLcA0JBkuj
https://twitter.com/spmrfoundation/status/1228971817127137280?s=19
Sri Aurobindo used very strong words for Pakistan. He said, 'Pakistan is created by Force and Fraud. And when a nation is cemented only by anti-Indianness, in the long-term it's a liability to the whole world'- Director SPMRF Dr @anirbanganguly https://t.co/xAuQA88Ozj
The way forward is "Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Viswas" and this sense of victimhood & siege falsely perpetrated in order to monopolize the votes of one community must end...
Paid homage at the sacred Relics of Sri Aurobindo enshrined in the Centre, which is doing great work https://t.co/UAJBzIhHsK

Sri Aurobindo's work is finding salience in Chinese universities https://t.co/UrYKO5hKFl
[About time Indian universities wake up to his wide and deep work on consciousness, poetry, politics, world affairs...]
https://twitter.com/gchikermane/status/1226517088627355648?s=19

Thanks for the suggestion, but for this podcast, it needs to be new books (last five years). So if someone has written a new book on Aurobindo, I'd be happy to look at it and see.
https://twitter.com/cmalcolmkeating/status/1229145531680604160?s=19

It is not entirely appropriate to place Sri Aurobindo in the category of "English" literary figures. Just coz he wrote using English doesnt mean his works belong in the English literary tradition or canon. His major works flow from a yogic consciousness & that is their TRUE value
https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1227629943057735680?s=19

Am happy the philosophy departments ignore Sri Aurobindo, if by malice or ignorance doesn’t bother me...because all that Sri Aurobindo wrote was from experience and not a mere philosophy..would be a categorical error if we applied the term philosopher to Sri Aurobindo
The Vedic Rishi wouldn’t call himself a philosopher, a dealer of mental ideals and possibilities..I don’t mean to discount utility of philosophers and philosophies...after all they accustom the common mind to higher things..but the Dharmic types are all about experience if we see
Hardly any..the last 200 or even 300 years have thrown up tremendous beings..Paramahamsa, Vivekananda, Tagore, Bharathi and more..but, in my view, none approached the ideal of the Veda..all played with its peripheries including Shankara...only Master got there and more...
Sir, because it would deprive us and humanity the purpose and utility of his works. If approached as philosophy, one views it as a possibility and nothing more, one remains poor and miserable. Approach it as one of many attainable statuses and all is an adventure..
How we are ready to receive His aid and influence is the determinant Sir..he doesn’t seem to have limitations and labels..a patient flood of transforming influence pours in His vicinity..and am not content to partake it with a spoon...
Yes, I adore Master but the adoration is not blind...one can lay out microscopic details of how this seems to work...as shown thus far!!
Sir..aware to extent shown thus far..and also sense of being the arrow that slays an issue...each of us do it, whether consciously or aligned to and at what proportion is issue...yet all good Sir 🙏
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1228717797464625153?s=19
Hence, the Kavi of the Veda and his utterances will always elude the linguist, philologist and every other mental tool of inquiry and examination, though they have their limited utility; the Seer-Poet soared borne by a flame of aspiration, so should they who wish to study them.
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1229404282404794369?s=19

What is East West Psychology? Well one aspect is studying ancient texts and helping to show how they are relevant for today's audiences. 

In his most recent book, Meditations on the Isa Upanishads: Tracing the Philosophical Vision of Sri Aurobindo, cha... https://t.co/cd4Q9eHqHt
https://twitter.com/CIIS_SF/status/1227362485797359616?s=19

"If you read Gandhi's Hind Swaraj you'll see he had a view of what India should do after getting rid of the British. This is the reason to remember Gandhi today," said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat reports @iyersaishwarya.
https://t.co/9J11a6l5yK
https://twitter.com/TheQuint/status/1229445803539697669?s=19
Mahatma Gandhi was a hardcore Hindu, need to be more like him: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
The Print's Neelam Pandey @NPDay reports
https://t.co/llMtRrdAv5
https://twitter.com/ShekharGupta/status/1229460525907464193?s=19

But honestly speaking, today there is no place or very limited scope for classical communism. Today Haves aren't factory owner & havenots aren't factory worker, thus. However, today Communism has undergone change, thus we have Neo Marxism. Many ideas hold good, today in many form
https://twitter.com/ArunudoyB/status/1229443234700464131?s=19
If we look closely at India, we will find, we have adapted, what Andre Gunder Frank, German-American economic historian & Samir Amin, Egyptian-French Marxist economist proposed & were chief exponents of Dependency Theory. Thus everyone adapting the old, in some new form+++.


The Modern Age (and Mind) is in a state of decay and degeneracy. The "rational pursuit of self interest", once conceived as the foundation of liberty, has now decayed into narcissism and "the culture of narcissism" -- Mr. Trump being its apotheosis.
https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1229464228257361920?s=19
1st error here: the "rational" and efficient were assumed to be equivalent to the moral and the ethical. The crisis of ethics shows this is not true, and "post-rational" (or "irrational exuberance") already shows up that dubious equivalency. /1
2nd error: this "self" or "selfhood" never really understood itself at all, and is now in a state of confusion and perplexity about itself, confusing itself with what is only image and self-image (largely constructed by propaganda, too). /2
So, the whole principle of "the rational pursuit of self-interest" (otherwise called "classical British liberal values") is in a state of crisis, and is no longer considered a sure and certain guide to the "good life".

Interesting study on the persistence of misinformation, people are influenced by incorrect information even after it has been corrected and they believe the correction:
https://t.co/oySb7WlSbf
https://twitter.com/_Nisarga/status/1229201937482100736?s=19

"Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead." – Friedrich von Schiller https://t.co/gPeF8cLeAV
https://twitter.com/ScrewedbyState/status/1229200919528714241?s=19
Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management - Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) Ghaziabad https://t.co/YGoEhdLyp7
Harnessing Western Philosophy for Self-Management
TN Mohapatra
SAMSMRITI SAMS Journal 10 (2), 16-17 2016
Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management
TN Mohapatra
Nitte Management Review 9 (2), 1-18 2015
https://t.co/35A274GeOu
#MirraAlfassa #SriAurobindo #WorldUnion #SAVITRI
I haven't read it but appears to be a good overview. There are many other books also. Hope you check. Thanks.
[The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo: Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion
Brainerd Prince
Taylor & Francis, 20-Jan-2017 - Religion - 252 pages]
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1229153216140476416?s=19

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Thursday, February 06, 2020

Why pick on one person?

Probably the biggest damage done by the BJP-RSS fanboys is spreading total defeatism and negativity in Hindu ranks. They have thoroughly run down Hindu confidence, undermined their courage, and tried to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of another partition in the next 50 years.
https://twitter.com/maidros78/status/1222703899187929088?s=19
Inflating Muslim numbers, making Hindus think that they will become a minority in the next 50 years, playing up Islamist power in the streets, and insisting Hindus are finished, and that voting BJP can only delay the inevitable demise of Hinduism in India. All of which are false.

One of the biggest misconceptions Hindutvavadis have is that most average H don't know M rulers were evil and need to be told endless dreary stories to show that they more. What H need to be the told about & what Hindutvavadis themselves need to be told about is pre-Islamic India
https://twitter.com/ArmchairPseph/status/1155090335162179585?s=19
The biggest barrier to H political identity is the lack of pride or prestige associated with the 'Hindu' label, which itself comes from being told by both Hvadis and secularists that their ancestors were losers.

Most people know that the numbers we use today originally came from India. But very few people wonder how the words that we use for these numbers came to be. Are they just random? No.

In this thread, I will argue why it is so. I will develop a theory for how these words arose. https://t.co/kZXkesb1at
https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1139589009422901251?s=19

Rajaji was first one to moot / accept this - then Sardar Patel - n then किसी ... n still would not have happened in CWC but for the intervention by your Mahatmaji, sir. So stop peddling these inane innuendo please, sir.
https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1225363583443197953?s=19
And @PMOIndia may like to read this book by someone who certainly can't be accused of being a "Nehruvian "Liberal": https://t.co/qMuufWR5nx
Shri Arun Shourie extensively quoted from this book - in defending book by Shri Jaswant Singh who was expelled from BJP for that - allegedly upon the demand by a certain BJP CM! Here is a sample: https://t.co/iIrycpoule
..
HVS:
Patel was so fed up with League’s tactics in interim govt that he saw endless intrigue/troubles ahead in working with League, so it was better to have a clean separation rather than pinpricks everyday. Nehru too had lost all hopes of a joint action with the Muslim League.
AS:
Sheshadri’s book is not the only one that documents lapse of Congress leaders. Prof RC Majumdar nailed lapses in his lectures published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, and in his "History of the Freedom Movement in India"...2
..2
All these books and many more can be stretched to cast the same doubts on the role of Patel, as one of principal leader of Congress...
agree... but why pick on one person?
yes; agree.. their fault was not taking this - partition based on religion (Cong was party too that) - to its logical end.
https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1225367715981848576?s=19

Absolutely. The usual half-literate intellectuals try to make a distinction between "nationalism" and "patriotism" based on something Orwell wrote—and of course, they didn't have the patience to read his full essay. 
https://t.co/hQZvJhlFxu
https://twitter.com/sandipanthedeb/status/1210078193379528704?s=19
Then they quote Tagore. Tagore wrote so much that he can be quoted to suit anyone. Eg: "(Christianity and Islam) have distinct enmity against all other religions. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions."
"The Muslims cannot confine their patriotism to any one country. I had frankly asked them whether in the event of any Mohammedan power invading India, they would stand side by side with their Hindu neighbours to defend their common land. I was not satisfied with the reply I got."
https://twitter.com/sandipanthedeb/status/1210080730954399744?s=19

Another tiring quote. People like Gandhi and Tagore spoke and wrote so much that they can be quoted to try to prove any point at all. Here's one from Tagore (next tweet) that is "clear evidence" that he hated the Abrahamic religions. 1/2
https://twitter.com/sandipanthedeb/status/1217340599646355456?s=19
"There are two religions in earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These are Christianity and Islam. They are not satisfied with observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions.” Works. Vol 24, Pg 375, Vishwa Bharti; 1982.

Tagore was so much concerned about ecology and its direct relationship with freedom! "Re-reading Tagore to Become Human" by Aseem Shrivastava raises some grave questions in the Freedom Issue of @Openthemag https://t.co/y3Mcogrk7B
https://twitter.com/vibhuarora/status/1029387989493972992?s=19

“The danger to us is not so much external as internal. Reactionary forces & communal organizations are trying to disrupt the structure of free India. They do not realize that if disruption comes they will also be swept away” Nehru in 1947. Echoes also of Tagore’s view.
https://twitter.com/kaushikcbasu/status/1223072307951886336?s=19

Mahatma Gandhi, in a statement addressed "To Gujaratis", 14 January 1948:
"All Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians and Jews who people this country have an equal right to it. No one can say that it has place only for the majority and the minority should be dishonoured."
https://twitter.com/Ram_Guha/status/1217044732284526595?s=19

It was only Manmohan Singh who tried to change the words of Mahatma Gandhi, saying that Muslims have the first right to the resources of India, and the Dimmis have to be contended with what the Muslims give them. But he could not do that.
https://twitter.com/mvnair212/status/1217045624366891008?s=19

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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Ramachandra Guha's courage to be silent on Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo’s study of the Veda examines the philosophic system of the Vedic mystics, the meaning of Vedic terms, and the sense of Vedic symbols and the psychological functions assigned to the Gods. Get 'The Secret of the Veda' here : 
https://t.co/sgQwbvnCB2 https://t.co/rzfYKo06Vs
https://twitter.com/hindueshop/status/1204596749240684546?s=19

Sri Aurobindo's interpretation of Hinduism is acceptable to people from all religions. He removes the veil of the secrets, which tell humanity that d  variety in  worship is a must.This yoga never asks u to change yr religion. This is not the Yoga conducted by "beosayi saints."
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1204624209290285057?s=19
It's difficult to distort the true nature of Hinduism with Sri Aurobindo around. Even Aurobindo Ghose was a humanist, though the leftists don't understand the Nature of his Nationalism, which is exactly Tagore's Nationalism barring his critique of Nationalism between 1916 n 1917.
People like Ashis Nandy n Dipesh Chakrabarty couldn't penetrate into the essence of Aurobindo Ghose's Nationalism. Also they failed to understand the politics of Sri Aurobindo as a transformed stuff of Aurobindo Ghose's credo.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal3/status/1204422883184766977?s=19
If Ramachandra Guha stays back in India, who else do we need? He is the greatest historian of all ages   also he has that great courage to be silent on Sri Aurobindo's contribution to Indian freedom! Bravo!
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1204695809704349696?s=19
Lack of references from Sri Aurobindo indicates a  colossal ignorance of Hindu pundits! Or it is difficult to distort Hinduism with Sri Aurobindo's commentaries! Sri Aurobindo is the ultimate of authenticity. Ignore him n be sure the non- Hindus won't trust your thesis!
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1204050835946164225?s=19
Or it maybe that supreme egoistic  confidence: " I am a great scholar! I've read many books! I am greater than Sri Aurobindo! I have bagged so many awards! Sri Aurobindo has no awards!" Don't misunderstand me. This is the psychology of not referring to him.

It was during his exile in Pondicherry that Bharatiyar came into contact with Aurobindo, and leaders like Lala Lajpat Rai and VVS Aiyar. He assisted Aurobindo in publication of the journals Arya and Karma Yogi.
https://twitter.com/GabbarSanghi/status/1204597346186608645?s=19

For those who might not know, it was Bharathiyar who taught Thamizh to Sri Aurobindo. Apart from translating some Azhwar poetry to English, this knowledge of Thamizh also led to Sri Aurobindo formulating his essay Origins of Aryan Speech https://t.co/DmY21ixyDP 🙏
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1204663138664112128?s=19
Sri Aurobindo advised him to read Walt Whitman on his query how to write great poetry.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1204699031491923968?s=19
I haven't kept track of so much of noise around NRC and CAB but my sense is that something fundamentally changed yesterday and States and Regions getting Sovereignty will be an eventuality. But I don't think it's the peaceful path towards #WorldUnion as dreamt by Sri Aurobindo.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1204206206505508865?s=19
In times like this, it becomes apparent why a broad consensus around Sri Aurobindo's political philosophy is needed to navigate the nation out of obscurantist outlook. No amount of muscle flexing or chest thumping can justify or validate what's basically defective or anomalous. https://t.co/DwT3KKGfAT
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1204417362868334593?s=19
Repeating for the nth time:
It's not about this bill or that bill. States have to awarded Sovereignty under a lose Federation. Colonial legacy has to be buried. Sri Aurobindo dreamt of a #WorldUnion and all must support Evolution's direction.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1204094453767536640?s=19
Sri Aurobindo's dream of #WorldUnion provides the broad principle and how it works out is certainly not linear or clear. Nor historical examples are the only guide. What's important is Evolutionary direction and for that no one is more reliable than #SriAurobindo. #FiveDreams

East had indeed more revolutionaries but West had a considerable numbers too. Also, most of the top ranking revolutionary leaders & ideologues came from West, Subhas Babu, Rashbehari, Aurobindo, his brother, many others. Don’t forget the fountainheads of their inspirations+
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1204362262707867648?s=19
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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Man's main drive is towards transcendence

Hindu Studies in a Christian, Secular Academy
 Vishwa Adluri

  • Balance. Finally, unlike the comic strip at the top, I think it's important to find a balance of academic and non-academic focus. You may think that, with having to learn new languages, keep up to date in multiple areas of research, teaching classes, attending talks, etc., you don't have time for hobbies or rest (or your family, if you have one!). The pressure in graduate school is immense. But in my opinion, it's important to find time to do things which are not related to your work. Read some fiction. Take some hikes. Play with your dog or cat. Meet people outside of academia. Your mental health (and your work) will benefit from it.

Cross-posted at my personal blog.

Malcolm Keating | May 29, 2019

more than mirrors, others eyes and words complimenting people even if they themselves consider themselves ugly looking, is more precious to all - across the gender-board.
https://twitter.com/tlbhuvaneshwari/status/1011095095137980416?s=19

Hard to believe. Half the over 40 women in the US are juggling kids and jobs and desperately looking for some guy to replace their husbands who ran off with his 25 year old secretary because she has an unlined face and her boobs haven't sagged. I'm not being mean, I knew several https://t.co/LKJ3FqQn9w
https://twitter.com/RajeevSrinivasa/status/1117054138557186049?s=19

First of all, shouldn't Central University, Puducherry, should be renamed Sri Aurobindo Central University? Is there an intellectual, scholar, savant, yogi, or spiritual master to match his stature? Then, we should name another university thereabouts after Subramania Bharati. https://t.co/iY0am3K1nT
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1010965431790854144?s=19
https://twitter.com/MakrandParanspe/status/1010967502212550656?s=19

Minds without Fear by Bhushan and Garfield

JR Groves - Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion, 2019
… Nevertheless, if we take a longer view, such as Aurobindo's view that Vedic culture had declined with the superimposition of Afghan, Persian and European Civilization the idea of an Indian Renaissance during British mle is quite defensible …

PDF] SPACE IN CONSCIOUSNESS

A Mukhopadhyay
… who sleep.” 1 This Consciousness has been identified by Sri Aurobindo as the “Superconscient Divine Purusha” … Gnostic beings live in the Supramental consciousness as Sri Aurobindo coined the word, being the last grade so far …

Looking Back at Capital Account Convertibility: India–China Syndrome

S Mukherjee, AK Karmakar - The Gains and Pains of Financial Integration and Trade …, 2019
… Copyright © 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited. And she learns by failure and progress by fall. And battles with environment and doom …. All sides she sees and turns to every call. — Sri Aurobindo, 'Savitri' (Book Three, Canto Four, Page 337). Introduction …

Everyday Aesthetics and the Indic Goddess Traditions: An Aurobindonian Approach

A Mukhopadhyay - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 2019
… This is the issue I am going to explore in this essay, with particular emphasis on certain aspects of the Indic goddess traditions - through the lens of Sri Aurobindo's figuration of the Mother Goddess in The Mother and Savitri …

THE GODDESS IN HINDU-TANTRIC TRADITIONS: DEVI AS CORPSE.

A Sundriyal, SN Hore - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 2019
… The myth of the Sati pithas, through Sri Aurobindo, foregrounds a "theo-aesthetics of fragmentation" (100), where Prakrti willingly sacrifices her being so that "unenlightened beings", through the practice itself, can uplift themselves spiritually …

[PDF] Multiculturalism in Indian English Literature

VB Rani
… The other major poems in Indian English literature- Sri Aurobindo‟s “Savitri” and Jayanta Mahapatra‟s “Relationship- from this perspective” … In poetry, AKRamanujan, Jayantha Mahapatra, Sri Aurobindo and R. Partha Sarathy exemplify the four types respectively …

History, Evolution and Scientific Revolution

DP Chattopadhyaya - History of Science and Philosophy of Science: A …

Art as an Aid to Resolve Tension

G Raghunath - On Art and Science, 2019
… Madras (1964)Google Scholar. Sankaran, A.: The Theories of Rasa and Dhvani. University of Madras (1973)Google Scholar. Savitri: In the light of Sanskrit Poetics, Souvenir on Savitri, Sri Aurobindo Nivas, Baroda (1984)Google Scholar. Tagore, R.: The Religion of Man …
A Besant
… this unique city. While the Mother was the person who implemented Auroville and made it a reality, the following philosophies for which the concept was built upon came from the revolutionary Sri Aurobindo. His core contributions …

[PDF] Understanding the Power of Mind for Organizational Growth

SS Sengupta
… actualization. However, according to Sri Aurobindo man's main drive is towards the transcendence of his humanity. Sri Aurobindo's motivation is a motive of the soul towards the Divine. He replaces Maslow's Page 9. metamotivation …

[PDF] ALEKSANDAR USKOKOV/Sucharita Adluri, Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Rāmānuja and the Viṣṇu Purāṇa 81 FRANK J. KOROM/Naomi Appleton …

CS PRESTON, W Doniger, MC Nussbaum… - 2019
… Although titled Hindu Worldviews, the primary sources mentioned therein, besides limited discussions on well-known modern figures such as Sva¯mı¯ Viveka¯nanda and Srı¯ Aurobindo, confined to the end of the …

[PDF] Book Review of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

GT Martin
… The great Indian philosopher Sri Aurobindo declared that the Universe becomes conscious of itself in us (1973, p. 49) … Applied Spirituality: A Spiritual Vision for the Dialogue of Religions. New York: Harper Element Books …

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Monday, September 02, 2019

Declared ideological positions are at odds with true scholarship


Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum
(SELF since 2005), Ghaziabad. #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

An acerbic, acidic criticism of critics throwing tantrums on behalf of Prof emeritus #RomilaThapar - Asked to be Accountable: Or how the Rules of the #JNU Founders has Boomeranged on Them https://t.co/VznyZ5ZGdN via @dharmadispatch
https://twitter.com/RatanSharda55/status/1168496149239480320?s=19

Madam, not declaring positionality biases is against academic rigour; declaring them saves you from perpetual dissimulation and the constant hypocrisy of pretending you approach issues from a position of  neutrality. Btw, no-one does that. The dispassionate observer is a myth.
https://twitter.com/ahlade/status/1168485342850224128?s=19

Sad day for the study of Indian history when iconic historian like Romila Thapar who inspired generations to understand India's complex historical past, has her credentials questioned! Would EH Carr or AJP Taylor, Britain's eminent historians have ever faced this sort of scrutiny? https://t.co/VxqN04EdYq
https://twitter.com/MaliniP/status/1168219171219476481?s=19
I definitely think declared ideological positions are at odds with true scholarship as it closes the mind to different trajectories of thought & precludes enquiry that falls outside the realm of these declared positions! https://t.co/g0V9hx7BTn
https://twitter.com/MaliniP/status/1168464924965842945?s=19
Hobsbawm was a declared Marxist. To my knowledge, while Romila Thapar uses some Marxist tools of historical analysis, she's a professional historian, relying on classical methods of  historiography, epigraphy etc. https://t.co/J9kB4wvXSs

Well. Am not too sure whether it is justified to deny academic positions to 'declared' Marxists and declared Rationalists. Am sure you don't mean that. And I know Romila does not subscribe to Marxist Historiography as such and in any case she is a scholar par excellence.
https://twitter.com/VKrishnaAnanth/status/1168462920620986368?s=19
Eric Hobsbawm was denied Professorship for long because he held on to his Marxist convictions Bertrand Russel's teaching assignment called off due to his rationalist convictions. Am not saying these to deny Romila her standing as historian. I had the privilege being taught by her

It may not be a coincidence that every Hindu-hater, from Beverley Nichols with his fanatic Christian supremacist convictions to Periyar with his Dravidian racism, to Paul Courtright with his pretensions of Freudian deconstruction, loves to hate Ganesha.https://t.co/3gGj8d66Mq
https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1168454379675893761?s=19

Odia movie Bhakta Salabega (1983) will be screened on 6th Sep evng 6.15pm under FJF's Smrutichhaya 17 at Jaydev Bhawan, BBSR.A book on the film will be released. Plz attend to feel the iconic movie n convey your love and respect to the old masters. (PC-Surya Deo) @OdiaCulture https://t.co/hxXInxFVGD
https://twitter.com/TaraniTrotter/status/1168538256037670912?s=19

“After a few generations the collective memory can no longer preserve the authentic biography of an eminent personage; he ends by becoming an archetype, that is, he expresses only the virtues of his vocation, illustrated by paradigmatic events typical of the model he incarnates.“
“...This is true not only of Gautama Buddha or Jesus Christ but also of far less influential personages, such as Marko Kraljevic or Dieudonné de Gozon.” -Eliade
https://twitter.com/krumbbumm/status/1168567123003805696?s=19

Primary exclusions from NRC are Hindu Bengalis. Not Muslims. Hence the media has lost interest. Even a few weeks back @dillidurust was pedaling the victimhood of Muslims being harassed on NRC, blocked me when exposed. This is the rot in Indian media
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1168466246708318208?s=19
Identify the Netra Sen Sanghi Ji s. Those who would sell out their birth community to further their own prospects in BJP-RSS. Through silence or support of NRC. Eminent examples: @swapan55 Ji @KanchanGupta Ji @tathagata2 Ji @sanjeevsanyal Ji @abhijitmajumder Ji @anirbanganguly Ji
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1168469988929224705?s=19

Indian Economic Crisis – A Tale of Western Media https://t.co/0j048PbbzU
https://twitter.com/singh_shreepal/status/1168571524204437504?s=19
Here’s an essay by @tylercowen on the moral imperative of economic growth. https://t.co/bDIxTIpB1P 
Like @kpanyam he qualifies it with ‘sustainable’...I’m not sure of the inter-generational tradeoff in a country with hundreds of millions living in poverty.
https://twitter.com/acorn/status/1168529372841558016?s=19

So many people expressing happiness over the Romila Thapar affair seems something like toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in significance for them.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1168574775939125251?s=19

While publishing the revised edition of Savitri in 1993, Sri Aurobindo Ashram also brought out a separate slim volume collating the old and new lines or passages. A similar compilation is needed for how much old history has been replaced by new findings published by RW journals.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168417254972612608?s=19
Constitution is about how to capture power by distributing favours and patronage. So how to keep the flock together assumes utmost importance and for that all kinds of identity is utilised. However certain books in libraries offer resistance, silently; because the author is dead.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168584673817063425?s=19
While a day has so much of variety in terms of circadian rhythm and allied psychological rollercoaster that we ride, annual Merry-go-round of seasons seems to have no noticeable effect or causal factors in human functioning. This disconnect is surprising when even sea sees tides.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168444579340644352?s=19
Feel Philosophy: Crystal doors of inner planes https://t.co/5sehsdzP6I
SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE,
OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.
#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion
Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar,
Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum
(SELF since 2005), Ghaziabad.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168457748314390529?s=19


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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Past poems are given new life in Savitri

Assorted tweets:

Feel Philosophy: Bharata Federation as the nucleus of World Union https://t.co/0XjOWSQvro
#WorldUnionDay #FiveDreams #SriAurobindo #WorldUnion #SavitriEra @NathTusar
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1163681675697643520?s=19

Nothing definite is yet known about the functioning of the universe or even the human body which is hostage to various Hormones and Enzymes. Since we undergo several phases of thought and mood within 24 hours, philosophy, culture, and spirituality serve as cushion against gloom.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1163689633982455814?s=19
Fine, nothing to dispute with that, especially the feeling and experience aspect except that I was arguing about the logical demands of rationality. Encounter with Gita should lead to something more rewarding in terms of authenticity and utility. But your preference is different.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1163881130174455808?s=19

A report of the special lecture by Sandeep Balakrishna @dharmadispatch highlighting the key ideas he presented, is now up on SAFIC website. Pictures from the event are also included.
Video recording of the full event will be released shortly. https://t.co/2G8qmecnal
https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1163659475527639041?s=19

The kind folks at @AUROSAFIC have published a fine report of my recent lecture at their campus on the Luminaries of the Modern Indian Renaissance. It was an honour and privilege to deliver the address.
Sri Rama Jayam 🕉️🕉️🕉️ https://t.co/1Ljyi3vNmY
https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1163746118846468097?s=19

A Case for India: A Glimpse into how the British Plundered India and Destroyed a Great Civilisation https://t.co/WGelog74Xk by Sandeep Balakrishna ji @dharmadispatch
https://twitter.com/CASandeepSehgal/status/1163657881721307136?s=19

Rajiv Malhotra got exposed when he started his tirade against Raja Ram Mohan Roy.  Now he's after Tilak....He surely must be aware of what #SriAurobindo & Swami Vivekananda had to say about Tilak, still pandering to falsehood.... Something somewhere is horribly wrong. https://t.co/MvMyNT7BaO
https://twitter.com/BharatPronam/status/1164054174016741376?s=19

Can’t you do better than petty insults? Are you qualified to say who is a Shastri and what is Veda? I was translating the Vedas for Sri Aurobindo publications before you were born. I long ago discarded western intellectual biases against India. You perpetuate them. @AatishTaseer https://t.co/UxXH8z9ws1
https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1163998665280589824?s=19

Reading others often develop biases and create artificial boundaries (which really don't exist) to thought process. What's most important is ability to question logically and come up with original ideas.
https://twitter.com/smart123boy/status/1163677848780939264?s=19

If you're familiar with the works of Sri Aurobindo you will understand why "indoctrination" cannot be applied at all.
https://twitter.com/AloPal/status/1164015756591259648?s=19

A work is the Mother's work only when it is inclusive, n not sectarian n personal braggadocio of half-educated people.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1163681411028545538?s=19
By Iyengar's biography I don't mean the 1945 one, which Sri Aurobindo corrected. I mean the larger one, finished by 1972 n went through some editing later. Entitled: Sri Aurobindo: a biography n a history. Of his 400+ books n monographs, this alone will make him immortal !
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1163831141293424640?s=19
In 1938 Iyengar had received D. Litt. for his book on Lytton Strachey, the notorious debunker as artist. 7 years later he switched over to a man who had " left the human shore". He hd to readjust his tools, had to kneel down to interpret. A sattwic critic is not a hagiographer.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1163853934554804225?s=19
V.K. Gokak's book Sri Aurobindo:Seer and Poet has long gone out of print. The chapter on the allusive style of Savitri shows his unmistakable memory of English Literature. He promptly detects which line Sri Aurobindo is recreating in a new context.
https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1163724964710641665?s=19
Those old academic professors took Savitri as a work of art, knew dat the structure n style hv  been deftly manipulated for a specific purpose, to enlighten a specific double voyage. Those style experts throw significant light on its theme, which can't be separated from its style
Many past poems are given new life in every Canto. Gokak, Iyengar, Sisirkumar Ghose, Prema Nandakumar n others have opened  our eyes to those subtleties of this modern n future epic.

SriAurobindo and TheMotherMirra were perhaps of the greatest Saints who did much to make the world harmonious. I love them.
https://twitter.com/brahmavidvariya/status/1163836262354051072?s=19
I think Raja RamMohan Roy was British stooge, hence only he had all those awards and rewards. The greatest of the leaders was SriAurobindo, I think...
https://twitter.com/brahmavidvariya/status/1163827731454259200?s=19

Bhai, my humble thought here. In our zeal to glorify the Master, we should not use language that is not befitting of His disciples.
Walk into an airport bookstore or even a bookfair, hardly are you able to find a Yoga book of the person who has written 30+ vols over 15000 pages.
https://twitter.com/paroksham/status/1163650538388328448?s=19

LOL, yes and even one page of those 15000 pages outweighs all the others put together. I did not seek to glory. However, that does not necessarily mean disregarding ignorant & simplistic pablum from this crude intellect that likes to name-drop Sri Aurobindo between yugas.
https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1163850285657350146?s=19

For those not familiar with Sri Aurobindo and/or the Veda..here is a brief pin sized excerpt..read and savour this passage of exceptional beauty..a rapture courses through us to read and wonder on its implications..leave alone touch some of these states https://t.co/fOwLX2Hsax
https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1163800490347380737?s=19

Sri Aurobindo may have given us the key to all traditions, from Iran to Central America & the banks of the Rhine, the secret of all seekers of perfection, from Eleusius to the Cathars & alchemists, for we do seem to find everywhere that ancient Memory of a great transmutative + #Satprem
https://twitter.com/RaghuveerBelur/status/1163786409976590337?s=19

“The Current Hindu Upsurge in Sri Aurobindo’s Light” – Prof. Mangesh V Nadkarni  https://t.co/clndpmnmQo
https://twitter.com/anuradha17may/status/1163760883492741122?s=19

If a Bengali was rewarded by the Brits, almost certainly he had damaged Bengalis in some ways (the word almost was used 2 account for exceptions based on outstanding abilities). Exact same statement can be made for BJP-RSS. Read how Swapan & Kanchans rise: https://t.co/RVcrl8EZK8
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1163875907121111041?s=19

No fixed way to understand Sri Aurobindo. By assiduously following what he wrote in his books & letters, which is Tapasya; by enjoying the Rasa of his poetry; or simply by love & worship of the illiterate. Streams & rivers of all kinds move towards the ocean in their pilgrimage. https://t.co/UL3KTscOwP
https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1161709563097178112?s=19
Pseudo-seculars tried for 70 yrs to bring down Hinduism to a level of creed, cult & commandment, essence of other religions. Saviours played into their hands, not realising it isn't defined by achar, but bhakti. "It is not circumscribed by the confines of a single country." (SA)

Everybody suffers a memory loss, talking about only Kabhi Kabhi Trishul & Umraao Jaan! Pity. Khayyam did greater things in Shola Aur Shabnam, Lala Rukh, Mohabbat Isko Kehte Hai, Shagun, Shankar Hussain... https://t.co/BEdtroWLfW
https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1163687002199355392?s=19

Poor memory is contagious. After long 8 hrs I suddenly remember Khayyam composed those incredible non-film bhajans (ghazals too) by Rafi in 1961. Madhukar Rajasthani's words.
"Paaon Padu Tore Shyam"
"Tere Bharose Nandalala"..& others.
Listen: https://t.co/XeylmJ9yLP
https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1163727989999144960?s=19

Bhai this is not a “complex song”. It is a very good song
If you want complex songs of Latadidi, listen to “नैनों मे बदरा छाये बिजली सी चमके हाय” by Madan Mohan.
Or “मालवून टाक दीप” (marathi) by Hridaynath Mangeshkar
These songs are a sample of the prowess of Lata as a singer https://t.co/tsp9kgS3jz
https://twitter.com/Kal_Chiron/status/1163659887026438144?s=19

This song has haunted me for thirty years. And today its composer is no more. Khayyam called it his most complex creation, and was stunned that Lata needed only a single take for it. He couldn't believe it. And neither would you.
Remembering you. https://t.co/jBszeeMtyz
https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1163506301902573568?s=19

Seeing Janta praising inexplicability of Gulzar’s lyrics and complexity of khayyam’s tunes, Marathi maanus be like -
I see your Gulzar+Khayyam. I raise you to Hridaynath+Grace.
I am yet to understand what kavi wants to say in “भय इथले संपत नाही” after all these years
https://twitter.com/Kal_Chiron/status/1163664194350137344?s=19

I dont claim to understand music at all, but IMO the most difficult song would be केव्हा तरी पहाटे, उलटून रात्र गेली ...
Poet: Suresh Bhat Music: Hridaynath Voice: One and only Asha tai
https://twitter.com/puneriarka/status/1163665094263345152?s=19
Agree... + Malvun taak deep... (Lyrics by Suresh Bhat)
Lata dincha awaz matra awadat nahi ganyat.
Romantic watatach nahi, mayaticha watata gana.😬🤪
https://twitter.com/AniruddhasT/status/1163665933727965184?s=19

Girls trips are life events that have a high return on emotional, social, and monetary investment and almost always live up to the hype, writes @SanjanaPegu. #MoodOfTheMonth #Travel
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https://twitter.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1161540457995722752?s=19

One of the perils of modern life is that the desire for security and the need for satisfaction can't sustain themselves in equilibrium for the extended life spans of human beings.
https://twitter.com/puram_politics/status/1164057996575428608?s=19
It's an essentially intractable and unsolvable problem. You cannot throw money at it to solve. Money makes it worse more times than not.


"This mire must harbour the orchid and the rose," cooed Sri Aurobindo in Savitri echoing the urge when nothing was there upon this planet. And we tweet today. So, nothing is intractable, "It's the hour of the unexpected."
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https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1164060975986696192?s=19
Be it RM or DF, critical appreciation is the key. No one is perfect, so avoiding us & them approach is essential. True for all great men or saints and savants. Necessary to remember the cases of Savonarola, Bruno, or Galileo. Unadulterated adulation is an adolescent's infatuation
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1164069660125364224?s=19

I wonder sometimes if there is a systematic effort going on to erase Bengali greats from the annals of history. The very first target was Tagore, then RRM Roy followed by Vidyasagar. Now J.C. Bose.
https://twitter.com/pavittarbhai/status/1164056925689901056?s=19

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