Sri Aurobindo´s birth anniversary falls on August 15

Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar

I had the good fortune of receiving the blessings of Purna Bhaina at Sundargarh and Nimapara during the early 80s. Pranam. #SriAurobindo [ଶ୍ରୀ ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣଚନ୍ଦ୍ର ମହାପାତ୍ର ସ୍ମାରକୀ କୃତଜ୍ଞତା ସଭା | ୨. ୮.୨୦୨୧ | ସଂନ୍ଧ୍ୟା https://youtu.be/Ahi49G19TBM via @YouTube]

I don´t think there can be any clear distinction between socialism or capitalism in India. It has been a seamless journey punctured by technology and communication. V.P. Singh also did help. One thing led to the other and the history is interesting. Bollywood too played its part.

Well put. The then political leadership is to blame for banishing #SriAurobindo from national discourse. Admirers of Gandhi, Tagore, Subhas, and Vivekananda saw to it that Sri Aurobindo isn´t given any prominence. Followers of Lohia, Ambedkar, and Savarkar were equally nonchalant

Elst himself didn´t care to read the works of #SriAurobindo adequately and his knowledge is constrained to that extent. Still there is time to make amends.

Ram Swarup surely was inspired by #SriAurobindo but only to justify his own convictions on resurgence of India. Most intellectuals of India lost the opportunity of recognising #TheMother and Sri Aurobindo. It continues till today because no Baba endorses his name or his books.

#SriAurobindo´s birth anniversary falls on August 15. Focus on this great philosopher and poet can generate awareness about his lifelong work on evolution of a higher consciousness for ushering in harmony. Thanks. @SavitriEra

I don´t disagree with you but as long as the democratic machinery is espousing it, reservation deserves respect. If some party in future is ready to abolish it, then it´s good. Till then, it´s not fair to find fault with this provision.

I don´t disagree with you but as long as the democratic machinery is espousing it, reservation deserves respect. If some party in future is ready to abolish it, then it´s good. Till then, it´s not fair to find fault with this provision.Castes can't be wished away like that; it's alive and kicking in countless villages. #SriAurobindo formulated the broad principles but to apply them in the present conditions may not be a sound strategy. So symmetry and uniformity are still distant dreams.

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Castes can't be wished away like that; it's alive and kicking in countless villages. #SriAurobindo formulated the broad principles but to apply them in the present conditions may not be a sound strategy. So symmetry and uniformity are still distant dreams.

Please avoid disparaging remarks about other professions. We are in an interconnected world; just playing our part. Geography is uneven; society is so complex. So expecting symmetry and uniformity may not be appropriate. Further, a good and well paying profession is not enough.

Crores of people live in the villages but this urban trend of applauding celebrities is a curious phenomenon. Caring for the underprivileged hasn't lost its relevance. A fraction of money and energy spent in luxury and fun can do wonders for the deprived sections of the society.

India has seen enormous prosperity in the course of the current century but rural poverty hasn't waned due to growth in population. And these are staggering numbers. No solution in sight for this economic disparity but appropriate policy tweaks can certainly alter the situation.

Many of our old Odia songs are incomparable in melody and rendition. Many individuals have painstakingly put them on #YouTube for the benefit of the public. Many thanks for their efforts. But, a quality video apposite to the song with #Odia related visuals is rather rare to find.

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Sri Aurobindo toiled for the larger issues of nationhood and human destiny

Sri Aurobindo had already given the definitive turn & animating impetus to Indias fledgling movement & fixed for it the goal of full freedom. Despite that subsequent leaders continued to vacillate but the idea was entrenched forever & impelled leader after leader including SCBose

During his self-imposed retreat Sri Aurobindo concentrated on the most severe form of inner tapasya & a herculean spiritual labor the likes of which has not been done & the effects of which we havent even begun to comprehend + using his Yog-shakti to guide events in India & world

In a nutshell it would have been much easier for Sri Aurobindo to have remained limited only to the political field. In any case he had already seen inwardly & proclaimed long back that dramatic world-events & massive upheavels wud inevitably result in India's independence.

Through occult sight, foreknowledge, yogic trikaladrishti, what Gita refers to in the line "vedaham samatitani vartamanani charjuna bhavisyani cha bhutani"

Neither I nor Sri Aurobindo (to my knowledge) has claimed to "solve" India's problems pertaining to British rule with occult practices. In any case his vision was proved true with the British Empire becoming impossible to sustain after WW2.

As for rann-chor it was a queer sort that stayed in full public view of the British right in their imperial backyard. If that was his intent he cud have run to much more comfortable life in any number of places. He in fact resisted British & French pressure & inducements to do 

Importance is a very broad term. You have to understand the true scope of the work that Sri Aurobindo did to get an idea of his importance. Merely getting British out was not so much the problem as subsequent events have proved but the larger issues of nationhood & human destiny.

It is these intractable and perennial issues that Sri Aurobindo took into his hand in the time that remained to him in his earthly body after he came to Pondicherry.

The ousting of the British was merely one step towards a much larger goal. What would be the use of British being ousted if the result was a failed kleptocracy & porous, de-moralized & ignorant little weakling of a despoitc, parasite goonda state that calls itself a "republic".

Yes, but the problem is much deeper. Why Nehrus? Why Cong? Why feku BJP? Why even Brits? The prblm is a loss of national consciousness. It was to dig this out at its roots, revive it in himself, recast it for our age & project it into future indefinitely that Sri Aurobindo worked

It is these intractable and perennial issues that Sri Aurobindo took into his hand in the time that remained to him in his earthly body after he came to Pondicherry.

The ousting of the British was merely one step towards a much larger goal. What would be the use of British being ousted if the result was a failed kleptocracy & porous, de-moralized & ignorant little weakling of a despoitc, parasite goonda state that calls itself a "republic".

Yes, but the problem is much deeper. Why Nehrus? Why Cong? Why feku BJP? Why even Brits? The prblm is a loss of national consciousness. It was to dig this out at its roots, revive it in himself, recast it for our age & project it into future indefinitely that Sri Aurobindo 

https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1402377672232218637?s=19

Hägglund is asking what a good human life is

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Hard Times: Martin Hägglund's “This Life” and the Pomodoro ...

Nov 21, 2020

Amod Lele

Martin Hägglund's This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, published in 2019, has already become a minor academic sensation – being reviewed in the New Yorker and Guardian as well as being the subject of a day-long conference at Harvard. I recently had a chance to read the book. There is much that I disagree with in it, but I see what all the fuss is about. I think the book is worthy of several posts, and will examine it in detail in the coming weeks.

I will begin with what I appreciate about the book. Above all, I appreciate that Hägglund is a philosopher in the true sense: he is a genuine lover of wisdom, and a seeker of it. Hägglund is asking questions that Socrates and Plato and Aristotle asked, about what a good human life is. I am not sure how much wisdom he has actually found, but just seeking it is rare enough in this age of technical specialization. It is a sad but unsurprising irony that this most deeply philosophical author – like the subjects of Examined Life – teaches in a department of literature and not philosophy. 

Amod Lele

Martin Hägglund develops a neo-Marxist politics that is deeply informed by qualitative individualism – quite appropriately, since qualitative individualist ideas inform Marx himself, especially in the theory of alienation. Hägglund wants to envision what a social world without alienation would look like.

Possibly the core distinction in Hägglund's thought is between a "realm of freedom" and a "realm of necessity" – and he identifies time as central to both of these.

Continue reading "A dream of democratic socialism"

Amod Lele | January 17, 2021

Amod Lele

For the most part, the study of non-Western philosophy has tended to focus on the continent of Asia. There are many good reasons for this. More than half of humanity lives in Asia. And Asia has long, rich traditions of philosophical reflection that have survived and left their works to us – unlike the thought of Mesoamerican traditions, where so much was pillaged and destroyed by the barbarian Spanish invaders. 

If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything

20-May-2019 — Hägglund, by contrast, wants us to fix our ideals and attention on this life, and more of it—Camus's “longing, yes, to live,  ...

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom is a book by philosopher Martin Hägglund, which pursues a critique of the religious ideal of eternity and reconceives faith in secular terms as the fundamental form of practical commitment. Through new interpretations of G.W.F. Wikipedia

Originally published: 5 March 2019

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Sri Aurobindo is getting more limelights

My article in the strange journey of Bengali Hindu progressivism: from cosmopolitan internationalism to invoking the threat of ‘outsiders’

https://twitter.com/swapan55/status/1331807023327969280?s=19

OPINION | Bengal has a history of peculiar exceptionalism. @swapan55 writes on Bengal's history of peculiar exceptionalism

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https://twitter.com/ttindia/status/1331787509106356226?s=19

Today, when we talk about Aatmanirbhar Bharat, we remember Sri Aurobindo.

His vision of self-reliance included keeping our mind open to best practices from all over and excelling.

He also had a dream of furthering education and learning among the youth of India. #MannKiBaat https://t.co/oMYn6IVh5I

https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/1332925844092641281?s=19

What Sri Aurobindo teaches us about Aatmanirbhar Bharat and the vitality of education. #MannKiBaat https://t.co/m8pfSXCaa9

https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1333021801887059969?s=19

Great to see @narendramodi emphasizing Sri Aurobindo, who has been regarded as the Rishi behind India's Independence Movement and the seer of future India and future humanity.

https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1333074547990556672?s=19

The main Vedic text I have studied and found inspiration in is Rigveda, following Sri Aurobindo and Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni. There are deeper yogic meanings to all its mantras, yet few know these and academia ignores them. Gayatri Mantra is but one example.

https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1330319985013628929?s=19

The problem with invoking Sri Aurobindo is that he invokes the spirit of Vedantic Questioning...

Even the Gods of Death are not spared by the Nationalist Nachiketas... https://t.co/cNC9I7kGfd

https://twitter.com/raghav4india/status/1333076211442958336?s=19

We are indeed grateful to @PMOIndia @narendramodi ji for his inspiring words on Sri Aurobindo in his #MannKiBaat today. https://t.co/Zseocn0SZE

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1332951401727574020?s=19

Before embarking as a footsoldier in the struggle for realising PM @narendramodi's vision of #SonarBangla, offered homage, this morning, at Sri Aurobindo’s shrine at his birthplace - Sri Aurobindo Bhavan- in Kolkata... #EbarBangla https://t.co/p44eJKqE0i

https://twitter.com/anirbanganguly/status/1332562019438923776?s=19

Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee stands as an iconic symbol & lighthouse of inspiration & resolve in our struggle for realizing the dream & vision of #SonarBangla. He strengthens our sankalpa to #SaveBengal.

Offered homage to him this morning at Red Road #Kolkata. #EbarBangla https://t.co/tm4r7GdeIh

It is good news for us that Sri Aurobindo is getting more limelights these days. The Congress forgot his name since 1969!

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal3/status/1332960033814970370?s=19

PM @narendramodi: He also used to say that Swadeshi means that we give priority to the things made by our Indian workers and artisans. It is not that Sri Aurobindo ever opposed learning anything from abroad

#MannKiBaat

https://twitter.com/DDNewslive/status/1332930351367299073?s=19

Other than the cultural history of Bengal, this article gets the political history of India wrong too. Claim: C. R. Das, Subhas Chandra Bose, Bengal revolutionaries charted a path different from the rest of India. A short rebuttal in the thread below: https://t.co/4LD5Xk7kFx

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1332702629231779842?s=19

C R. Das had become Congress President and subsequently founded the Swaraj Party along with Motilal Nehru. In opposition to Gandhi. The Swaraj Party established a foothold in all of India & forced Gandhi to a political retirement for a few years.

Swaraj Party was the strongest in Bengal but had strong presence elsewhere too,looking at the luminaries who joined it, eg, Vittalbhai Patel, Vallabhbhai’s older bro. How can any 1 in right mind say C R Das charted a path different from rest of India unless Gandhi is their India?

The Revolutionary independence movement was the strongest in Bengal but had presence in many other parts of India, eg, Punjab. Bengal revolutionaries helped organize the revolutionary movement in United Province, South India. Read: https://t.co/r9wLfAI2KU

So, how can any one say in his right mind that the Bengal revolutionaries charted a path different from the rest of India? Implication being that the revolutionary freedom fight was confined to Bengal alone. What a gross injustice to the exemplary revolutionaries from elsewhere?

Finally, the elephant in the room - Subhas Chandra Bose. He became the Congress President defeating Gandhi, Nehru, Gandhian Congress Working Committee. The strong support from Bengal played a major role in his victory, but it won’t suffice by itself. Read: https://t.co/aYNq2lrH2e

In his battle for Cong Presidency Subhas Chandra Bose received strong support from Punjab, Karnataka, Madras province, United province etc https://t.co/aYNq2lrH2e How was he moving different from India, unless Gandhi, Nehru, Gandhians are your India?

Must Anglophiles be ignorant in even the subject they received their doctorate in, even when that doctorate was awarded by a reputable institute? Sad!

The claims I expect are a product of supercilious ignorance- but the messaging is insidious. Bengal has remained outside India throughout, now is her opportunity to join India, read Hindia. And the messaging also denies a historical fact-Bengal led the freedom movement of India

This article reveals the enormous problem the BJP-RSS faces in Bengal. It has no one who knows the history of Bengal, nor has any lived experience there, nor has any affection for Bengal. So, the messaging will be off. Thread follows:  https://t.co/4LD5Xk7kFx

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1332521194243887105?s=19

First, let us discuss the deeply flawed knowledge of recent history of Bengal revealed through this article, ironically authored by a Bengali-born, who has a doctorate in history and from a reputed institution.

Claim: Until the advent of Swami Vivekananda, the Bengal Renaissance movement entirely discarded the Hindu heritage of Bengal, except for Bidyasagar, Bhudeb, Bankim. This claim shows an acute ignorance of the history of the Hindu reform movement of Bengal.

The Bengal Renaissance started with Rammohan Roy, leading to Brahmo Samaj. The entire movement was deeply Hindu, just not the Sanatani kind. Rammohan Roy got Sati banned through arguments based in Hindu scriptures.

To say, Rammohan discarded the Hindu heritage of Bengal is indicative of the worst of Right Wing ignorance of history, and a deeply perverted notion of Hindu heritage of Bengal as also misogyny. Is the Hindu heritage of Bengal only widow burning ?

Then the Brahmo Samaj. Brahmo Samaj was a Hindu Reform movement, again not the Sanatani kind, and stopped the conversion to Christianity. Urge reading a good summary of its contributions given in Indian Struggle, by Subhas Chandra Bose.

The writings of Shibnath Sastri, Michael Madhusudhan Dutta, Kaliprasanna Sinha (eg, authoritative translation of Mahabharat from Sanskrit which is read till today) are stellar examples of Hindu heritage of Bengal.All predate Swami Vivekananda. Nothing cosmopolitan in the writings

Sad that a man promoted as the intellectual face of currently a major party in Bengal has no knowledge of writings of such stalwarts. Of course, even worse he has a Phd in history from a reputed institute. And writes on history of Bengal. Anglophiles do not need to be ignorant!

Now, let us come to the lack of lived experience in real Bengal. That would be knowledge of Bengali literature post independence, popular Bengali movies, and discourse in Bengali homes. The commentary in the drawing rooms of Anglicized elites do not count, sorry.

Yet,what does the author believe is culture of Bengal? Lenin, Stalin,Ho Chi Min, Mayokovsky,Pablo Neruda.Tells me that the author has not read any Bangla literature post 1947, nor seen any popular nor avant-garde Bangla movies.Effectively he didn’t live in Bengal, even if he did!

Let’s look at the writings of the stalwarts of Bangla literature post 47. Jibanananda (a bit), Sharadindu, Ashapurna, Tarashankar, Samaresh, Satyajit, Sunil, Shirshendu are some names that readily came to my mind. None of them wrote of Neruda, Mayakovsky, Lenin, Stalin,Ho Chi Min

Their works, at least the celebrated ones, are set in urban and rural Bengal and sometimes elsewhere in India. The characters were mostly Bengali. So, very little cosmopolitanism. Educated Bengali homes read those, discussed those.

Growing up in an educated middle class Bengali home (i.e., a Bhadralok home), I never heard of Neruda, Mayokovsky while in Bengal. I heard of Neruda later after moving to US. It is in US that I read the translation of one Russian classic. Mayokovsky, I heard this evening

But, I did read the major works of the literary stalwarts mentioned in my thread above.Their works capture Bengali society reasonably well (Sunil misses the relig. component in middle class homes due to his communism). But you won’t read of Neruda, Mayokovsky, Stalin, Lenin there

Next, the popular and avant- garde Bengali movies. The popular genre were the actings of Uttam Kumar, Soumitra, etc. Most of those movies are set in urban and rural Bengal. Characters are Bengali. 0 cosmopolitanism. No Neruda, Mayokovsky, Lenin, Stalin, Ho Chi Min.

The avant garde ones - direction of Satyajit, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak. Tapan Sinha straddled in both avant- garde and popular categories. Again, same story - set in urban, rural Bengal mostly, characters are Bengalis.

And the characters do not read nor discuss Lenin, Stalin, Ho Chi Min, Russian classics, Mayokovsky, Neruda. At least largely.

Guided by these, the leadership of BJP-RSS, which is entirely outside Bengal, would miss educated Bengalis entirely! Finally, read the article, you will singularly miss any affection for Bengal. But then, you can’t love something you haven’t experienced.

All that comes across is a mind entirely focused on protecting the interests of Hindi speakers&imagining threats to them that do not exist.But then the same politician entirely ignored the plights of Hindu Bengalis in Assam.Just reinforces who the real masters of BJP-RSS in WB is

I see on SM quite a few Bengalis sympathetic to BJP-RSS who certainly know much more about Bengali culture, literature, history than the politician author in question. But, then showing subjects in good light is rarely the object of colonizers. End.

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1332534832581238784?s=19

Scratching my head vigorously 4 long,I could find a bit of cosmopolitan internationalism in 2 popular Bangla works: 1) Sukanta’s Thikana amar cheyecho bandhu ঠিকানা আমার চেয়েছো বন্ধু 2) Sunil’s Purbo Paschim পূর্ব পশ্চিম Just 2,but even that’s only a bit! https://t.co/4LD5Xk7kFx

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1332717427105337347?s=19

I could not recall a single popular or avant garde Bangla movie showing Bengalis discussing Lenin, Stalin, Mayokovsky, Russian classics, Pablo Neruda etc.

Sukanta’ Thikana Amar Cheyecho Bandhu song, sung by Hemanta https://t.co/DGMEgZFt0Y Topic is internationalism,but appears to conclude at a contradictory note -says, finally we meet at our own country, Swadesh. Explicit cosmopolitanism is limited 2 1 mention of 4 foreign countries

Bhupen Hazarika’s Ami Ek Jajabor https://t.co/DGMEgZFt0Y Most internationalist in the Bangla popular genre. He is Assamese, but the song is Bangla.

The third will be Bhupen Hazarika’s আমি এক যাযাবর song. Hazarika is however Assamese, and though the song became a hit in Bengal where Hazarika lived for some time, it was probably originally Assamese. So, we get a grand total of 3, even that nowhere near what Swapanji posits.

https://twitter.com/maidros78/status/1332854290885406720?s=19

There is actually a comprehensive examination of the Bengali renaissance in Pandit Sibnath Sastri's `রামতনু লাহিড়ী ও তৎকালীন বঙ্গসমাজ'. If @swapan55 had read that, he would have known just how totally Hindu Bengali reformers were.  BTW, there is an English translation of the+

+same book called `A History of Renaissance in Bengal - Ramtanu Lahiri: Brahman and Reformer' edited by Sir Roper Lethbridge.

Why hit and hurt the Bengali distinctiveness which has inspired the country for ages? 

Chaitanya rebelled against the Islamic rulers of those times in the footsteps of Sri Krishna. 

Even the Gitapress Founder Hamuman Prasad Poddar ji got his spiritual visions at Shimalapal.

https://twitter.com/raghav4india/status/1332890008781524993?s=19

https://twitter.com/Aban__Ind/status/1332695687289421830?s=19

You will find amazing similarity between say Jawhar Sircar & Swapan Dasgupta (both ideologically opposite) in the way they spread falsehood abt Bengal's history. 

In a Lit fest, both Swapan & few other Left-Liberals agreed that Bengal's "golden age" was during British rule 🤡🤪

Funny thing is ,In recent times, the only person who came somewhat close to writing authentic history (from ancient times to modern times) of Southern fringes of Calcutta was a member of Communist party !!! He wrote a well researched book though with some usual Leftist biases.

1) Boral, on southern fringes of Kolkata near Adi Ganga. 

Several archeological excavation near the 800 yrs old Tripura Sundari Mandir were done.

2 idols of Vishnu from 7th/8th century AD (apart from many other idols of Hindu deities, sculptures, artifacts) were discovered. https://t.co/0l69IXbUsN

Greco-roman style of sculptures found, more than 2000 yrs old.. 

https://t.co/kuRzQcKkXX

https://twitter.com/Aban__Ind/status/1332708648028491777?s=19

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Pan, Penguin, and Plutarch

As I re-read this article by @MNageswarRaoIPS ,more I undrstnd Indian constitution's abrahmic nature

1950,SC gave itself total power 2 decide whthr a particular practice/tradition is essential 2 Hinduism or not

R they experts?

Y did hindus then not revolt?

https://t.co/BTLHVLcbIi

https://twitter.com/RituRathaur/status/1308272715183190021?s=19

Using these powers judges decide how much 'charnamat," should be put on Mahakal Shivling, whether sabri mala should be open for women against its temple rituals, whether animal sacrifice should be allowed in hindu temples or not?

Who are they? Expert in hindu scriptures?

"My own view is that the 'education bubble,' like any asset bubble, is not merely a financial crisis. It is a moral crisis: a misallocation and distortion of value. The underlying problem of the modern university is a crisis of integrity and purpose." https://t.co/CCxE7QFpDa

https://twitter.com/A_Man_in_Full/status/1308228477842329601?s=19

This is excellent, @JoshHochschild, truly excellent. I think you should be part of any effort to completely rethink and restore higher education. You put your finger on so much here. The colleges that survive will be those who know their mission and believe in it (i.e., "Lindy").

A few chapters into the book and can say it is a very easy flowing, engaging read. 

@harshmadhusudan was one the first people I started following on this platform n its great to be reading his book after a few years 🙂 

Wishing Harsh and @RMantri more success in the years ahead. https://t.co/yFhPn5wpx3

https://twitter.com/pratyasharath/status/1308474704378826753?s=19

Pls explain:

On the one hand, I find many Indians worldwide among the highest accomplished in various fields 

On the other hand, I find huge majority are poor in IQ, work ethics, reading skills, argumentation; BUT big on emotions, lofty self-image & lots of BULLSHIT/BAKVAS

Why?

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1308504812493955072?s=19

Many former school/college classmates retired from top posts tell me youth caliber has DECLINED over recent decades. 

-Reservations lowered the quality?

-Malthusian over population?

-Bad education

-Fake westernization

-Other?

Pls comment

Cricket, Bollywood, and Music keep the youth busy. No incentive in reading. Basically, no intellectual quest. Lack of acquaintance with Philosophy proper is the cause.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1308506791123189760?s=19

“Thamus, are you there? When you reach Palodes, take care to proclaim that the great god Pan is dead.”

-Plutarch, ‘The Obsolescence of Oracles’

https://twitter.com/krumbbumm/status/1308502688800231427?s=19

Penguin found dead on Brazilian beach after swallowing entire face mask during voyage from Patagonia, autopsy shows. It’s so easy just to cut them up. 💔😔

https://t.co/NPih0UB9Q4

https://twitter.com/XposeTrophyHunt/status/1308498472438386688?s=19

These ill-conceived projects will cause irreparable harm to the Sundarbans.

https://twitter.com/GhoshAmitav/status/1308500199648698370?s=19

"Paying attention to ergonomics isn't just about making you more efficient, it's about making sure that you feel good and wholly yourself when you're working – so you have the time and energy to do all the things you want to do outside of your job." https://t.co/HIbfsEbqRz

https://twitter.com/CIIS_SF/status/1308490452908355587?s=19

Everything You Know About ‘Good Posture’ Is Wrong

Could the way you’re aiming to hold your body be making pain worse?

Amelia Harnish Sep 3

https://elemental.medium.com/everything-you-know-about-good-posture-is-wrong-cca9b941b651

The tempo of life reaches a frenzy, and yet we feel stuck. One balm for our internet-accelerated age: read old books https://t.co/Q5RTcz6K6W

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1308511503302225924?s=19

We asked some of the best thriller writers working today what their own favourite books in the genre are. They reeled off plenty of classics – but some other choices may surprise you. Find your next pageturner here: 

https://t.co/Qxn2ZVsnT3 …

https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1308511450663735301?s=19

Reviving ancient traditions to save the future. For more ideas and innovations helping to protect the world's forests, visit UpLink: https://t.co/RLpdSweNaH @WEFUplink @1t_org https://t.co/MIgmA7hahC

https://twitter.com/wef/status/1308511390785630208?s=19

The rise of the Global monoculture is one of the reasons, people are loosing originality. Non-western societies r a disproportionate victim, because the monoculture is west driven. But, if youth caliber was so great in the past, we wouldn't be carrying Nehruvian BS on our heads.

https://twitter.com/Bhikhshu/status/1308508690119622660?s=19

High natural background radiation is a constant presence in the lives of those inhabiting some coastal regions of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. https://t.co/GqkyqTOkEi

https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1308503932612870146?s=19

Archives | “My Lords should wear a burqa and roam the court corridors to hear the way lawyers talk about the judges,” Dushyant Dave said. “You will get a first-hand account of the rotting justice-delivery system.”

Atul Dev in: https://t.co/fWPppjgLll

https://twitter.com/thecaravanindia/status/1308503838882582529?s=19