MARRYING
THE FUTURE - The best way to remember Nora Ephron Ruchir Joshi, The Thin
Edge - The Telegraph. Sunday , July 1, 2012
The
fact is, women in control, whether corporate or political, have not always
brought emancipation for women (or people in general) and we can justifiably
shudder at the betrayal of different feminist dreams by women in power from
Indira Gandhi to Margaret Thatcher to Benazir Bhutto to Jayalalithaa, Mayawati
and Mamata B.
It’s
a truism worth repeating that feminists are not always socialists, just as the
converse is true, that feminists aren’t always for gay rights or for a better
environment or for many of the other things that progressives love to clump
under one large utopian umbrella.
Hard power of soft
diplomacy IRA PANDE - In
conversation with journalist Shankkar Aiyar, Albright held her audience captive
for almost an hour and a half, holding forth on a range of issues from world
politics to her 'pin-messages'. Listening to her clear answers and her courage
in taking on some nasty questions head on, one realised that an intelligent
career diplomat makes an impression that no waffling politician can. Highly
educated and brought up in a diplomat's home in London ,
this Czech-born woman is by now a world citizen and at home in Europe, the
Middle East and Asia .
Was she born to be a dancer? | The Asian Age Mar 22, 2012 - Ranjana Dave
Tamil
writer and independent researcher C.S. Lakshmi (Ambai) remarks that “born to
dance” is a phrase mostly used after the dancer has become successful. Girls
take up dance for several reasons… In Ways of Seeing, John Berger argues that
the social presence of a woman is different from that of a man. He writes,
“A
woman’s presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can
and cannot be done to her. To be born a woman has been to be born, within an
allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men. The social presence of
women has developed as a result of their ingenuity in living under such
tutelage within such a limited space. But this has been at the cost of a
woman’s self being split into two. A woman must continually watch herself. She
is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself.”
Should women dress
modestly? from Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & The Mother ...railed
against women for
tempting men with their seductive and skimpy clothing, and sought to sequester
them and restrict their dress choices. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother said that
the primary cause is not the external agent (women) but the gap in the human consciousness which needs to be
sealed. This article examines their insights on this ...
Fundamental groups are plotting a planned and systematic attack
from Savitri Era Open Forum - Mar 7, 2012
...especially women, expose
their lower bottom on the body by wearing shorts and go out on the streets,
even to the markets? How many traditional Indian ashrams serve non-vegetarian
food to their inmates? This is a reality in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and a big
attack by some fundamental groups who are plotting a planned and systematic
attack to the ver...
Peter Heehs does not criticize Sri Aurobindo where he deserves
to be criticized from Savitri Era Open Forum - Apr 2, 2012 ...to
the women’s movement (and
even the Mother only seems to give it very cursory attention), and I’ll
probably attribute to this to basically conservative Hindu background, but we
have to acknowledge that despite this background he made a number of
progressive statements about women’s
intellectual, physical and other capabilities that were not genera...
Get rid of heteronormative and gender essentialist biases
from Savitri Era Open Forum - Apr 2, 2012 ...men
and women will become
like each other before the end of days. And it is hardly a coincidence that the
radical feminist and gay liberation movements happened after the Shakti entered
the Earth’s Inconscient, and the world was infused with a certain atmosphere due
to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s spiritual work. People were filled with ideas
of li...
Creative people easily rationalize their dishonest behavior
from rainbOwther - Apr 25, 2012 ...thinking
about women. Same doesn't
hold true for females, researchers say Comments (30) BY RHEANA
MURRAY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Seen in movies like
"The 40 Year-Old Virgin," sometimes men don't know what to say in the
presence of a woman. Men just can’t think straight when women are around. Researchers are
study...
Non-marriage based communities from rainbOwther - Apr 25, 2012 ...on
International Women’s Day from Kafila by Nivedita
Menon MARCH 8, 2012 - Excerpts from my forthcoming book Seeing like a Feminist (Penguin India/Zubaan Books). Women have to learn to remake themselves completely, but even
more significant is the fact that the entire period of their lives before this
singular event of marriage, is spent in antici...
Oedipus complex may not apply to other cultures from rainbOwther - Apr 25, 2012 ...women-military-combat-roles But I do
have concerns about women in
front-line combat, I think that could be a very compromising situation, where
people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission,
because of other types of emotions that are involved," Santorum continued.
"It already happens, of course, with the camaraderie...
Understanding women on
spiritual basis from rainbOwther - Nov 14, 2011 ...Women in Sri Aurobindo’s
Philosophy Deepak Sharma, Associate Professor, SGND Khalsa College, University
of Delhi, Delhi – 110005 The present paper attempts a study of the problem of
feminism as a spiritual problem with special reference to the philosophical
traditions of Sri Aurobindo. By Aurobindo’s philosophy we mean the writings of
Sri Aurobindo...
Our physical
nature offers an inert obstruction to any radical change - The Yoga of
Self-Perfection and the Triple Transformation, by Richard Hartz on Mon 13 Aug 2007
Sri
Aurobindo makes this point in a chapter of The Human Cycle entitled “The
Suprarational Ultimate of Life”—the longest chapter in the book, whose
extensive revision indicates the importance he gave to it… As instances of
vital ideals of this kind, he continues, we need only note, however imperfect
and dim the present shapes, the strivings of love at its own self-finding, its
reachings towards its absolute—the absolute love of man and woman, the absolute
maternal or paternal, filial or fraternal love, the love of friends, the love
of comrades, love of country, love of humanity.
It
is relevant to note that one of these ideals, “the absolute love of man and
woman”, is the theme of the ancient story of Savitri and Satyavan. If Sri
Aurobindo, instead of completing The Synthesis of Yoga and other works, devoted
most of his literary energy in his later years to an epic based on this legend,
it was evidently because through this tale of the victory of love over death he
could symbolise a truth that was central to his message… Moreover, the debate between Savitri and
Death provides an opportunity for bringing out the significance of the ideals
which Sri Aurobindo saw as signs of a suprarational influence… In Book Ten,
Canto Two, “The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal”, and in “The Debate of
Love and Death” which follows, he takes up precisely the question raised in The
Human Cycle. 12:02 PM
[You write, “Films offer us not a critique of our political narrative of sovereignty and law but rather a constant re-presentation of this narrative.” Could you elaborate and provide some examples of films of the last three years that do that?
ReplyDeletePopular films are generally not trying to make policy contributions to our political debates; they are not trying to engage in a revolutionary reconstruction of the state. Rather, they are keeping before us the founding myths of the political order.] Interview with Paul W. Kahn, Author of Finding Ourselves at the Movies by Hope Leman
http://criticalmargins.com/2014/01/29/interview-paul-w-kahn/