Nehru spoke at Delhi, Sri Aurobindo at his ashram in Puducherry

The Power of Things from Larval Subjects 

It is not for the philosopher to be telling the artist, activist, scientist, etc., what they should be doing… –political articulation should arise immanently from within collectives themselves.  Intellectuals should not play the role of a “vanguard voice” telling the people what they “really” should be concerned about.  I suppose this is the influence of Ranciere on me…

I have no desire to abandon critiques of ideology and continue to practice them myself.  However, discursive critique can only take us so far.  It’s possible to wipe away the ideological mystifications, reveal the obfuscations, etc., and still have unjust social hierarchy remain intact… Our thought needs to become geographical in a very literal sense… Again, this is not a call to abandon discursive critique.  It still has its place and has made significant contributions.  But we do need to broaden our horizons and begin to see a world as if the hammers were broken.

Assam Floods – A Repetitive Disaster from Centre Right India by Pulakesh Upadhyaya

The biggest disadvantage one faces while dealing with any natural calamity is its unpredictability, and the inevitable element of surprise. 

Empirical Evidence, Sexual Harassment, and the Economic Way of Thinking from Marginal Revolution by Alex Tabarrok

What the theory and the empirical results are saying is that people exposed to a higher risk of sexual harassment are paid more, just as people exposed to a higher risk of death are paid more… Nevertheless, the principle here is clear, the way to think about these issues is not to throw out economic reasoning but to apply the reasoning ever more deeply.

Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history - K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - 812 pages - But of course, both before and even after the hectic Calcutta period, Sri Aurobindo was involved in - or at least deeply concerned with - the tenor and tempo of political life in the country (and the world) ; and whether from behind the ...

Sri Aurobindo: A Contemporary Reader Sachidananda Mohanty - 2012 - 180 pages - Preview World Affairs: Beginning with the thirties of the last century, Sri Aurobindo evinced keener interest in world affairs than before. Linked with this was his growing concern for India's future. He expressed his grave anxiety about the ...

Life in Sri Aurobindo Ashram Narayan Prasad - 1965 - 319 pages - People wondered why Sri Aurobindo was giving so much support to a sworn enemy of India like Churchill. Sri Aurobindo's concern was not for Britain, the United States, India or any other country. We must understand the significance of...

Spirit of Modern India: Writings in Philosophy, Religion, and Culture - Page 236 - Robert A. McDermott, V. S. Naravane - 2010 - 338 pages - Preview The "larger cause of humanity," of which Nehru spoke at Delhi, was also very much the concern of Sri Aurobindo as he hailed the freedom of India at his ashram in Pondicherry. Nehru was at the very center of events, Sri Aurobindo was in ...

The philosophy of evolution in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin Jan Feys - 1973 - 276 pages - Reiterated appeals to resume his political activities, even on behalf of Mahatma Gandhi, were persistently rejected by him.23 How are we to reconcile this non-committal attitude with a theoretical social concern? Aurobindo himself gives ...

Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: integral sociology and dialectical ... - Page xviii - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - 336 pages - Preview

But one is advised to bear in mind that the vision Sri Aurobindo refers to is not an effortless achievement, it needs a lot ... But Marx's concern for the exploited and the poor, and his rational analysis of the causes and cures of the ...

The perennial quest for a psychology with a soul: an inquiry into ... - Page 542 - Joseph Vrinte - 2002 - 568 pages - Preview He has "never understood the impulse of 'Aurobindonians' who say that Aurobindo's system is 'complete'. ... in his writings these issues are definitely one of his major concerns, although they were not his central or ultimate concern.

The persistence of religion: an essay on Tantrism and Sri ... - Page 96 - Kees W. Bolle - 1971 - 134 pages - Preview Aurobindo's concern and tone, however, are quite different when he speaks about "birth" and "caste," in his Essays on the Gita. x) He rejects the complicated caste system of modern India on the basis of the Gita (18, 40-48), ...

The Indian Imagination: Critical Essays on Indian Writing in English - Page 41 - K. D. Verma - 2000 - 268 pages - Preview 22 This shakti, pure consciousness, manifests itself in Savitri who exhibits the same concern as is reiterated by Aurobindo: "Heaven we have possessed, but not the earth; but the fullness of the Yoga is to make .

The Phenomenon of Teilhard: Prophet for a New Age - Page 119 - David H. Lane - 1996 - 189 pages - Preview 107 Unlike Teilhard, who stressed the need for the transformation of humanity as a whole, Aurobindo's chief concern was for personal transformation. He saw the transformation of the future as the work of a few gifted individuals, ...

Yoga and Indian Philosophy - Page 164 - Karel Werner - 1998 - 190 pages - Preview The latter is reflected in Aurobindo's concern for the redemption of the whole universe. But Aurobindo's inspiration is drawn also from much older sources, particularly the Vedic hymns. On the other hand, the deep influence of the ...

Dante and Sri Aurobindo: a comparative study of The divine comedy ... - Prema Nandakumar, Prema Nandakumar - 1981 - 160 pages - An infinitely more difficult task now, for Sri Aurobindo has had to take note of all knowledge down to his own t1me. ... explosion" and galloping technology and assimilated into that unification the concerns and values of all time.

Between Jerusalem and Benares: Comparative Studies in Judaism and ... - Page 248 - Hananya Goodman - 1994 - 344 pages - Preview But the Vedas are not the only inspiration for Sri Aurobindo's thought. The Brahman-Atman equation of the Upanishads ... To go into this would take us beyond our immediate concern, crucial though I believe it to be if metaphysical and ...

Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination - Page 213 - John Charles Hawley - 1996 - 299 pages - Preview But for Aurobindo the revolution meant more than a series of sporadic boycotts, fiery protests, ... and commitment were transformed into a much more universal and comprehensive concern for true human freedom and a new world order.

Sociology, ideology, and utopia: socio-political philosophy of ... - Page 39 - Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - 236 pages - Preview The immediate concern of Sri Aurobindo is to remind the people of India that revivalism associated with false subjectivism that often leads to national egoism, is inadvisable for them. He is in favour of doing "the same thing [ie, ...

The social role of the Gītā: how and why - Page 179 - Satya P. Agarwal - 1998 - 475 pages - Preview Embree also highlights "Aurobindo's concern with the social results of mystical intuition", and points out how Spiritual evolution is intimately linked with problems of harmony: Aurobindo envisages that the achievement of the state of ...

Indian English poetry and fiction: critical elucidations: Volume 1 - Page 70 - Amar Nath Prasad, A.N. Prasad Rajiv K.Malik - 2007 - 269 pages - Full view Though he reinterpreted the Vedas along his own lines, he did in fact brought out their essential concern with this world which was necessary corrective to the dominant inwardness of later Upanished. Like Rabindranath Tagore Aurobindo ...

Foundations of Indian Psychology: Practical applications - Page 160 - R. M. Matthijs Cornelissen - 2011 - Preview Sri Aurobindo's chief concern is not merely with the acquisition of information placed at our disposal by the science of the West 'in an undigested whole or in carefully packed morsels', but the major question is not merely what science ...

Social science and social concern: felicitation volume in honour ... - Page 335 - B. K. Roy Burman, S. B. Chakrabarti, S. M. Kulkarni - 1988 - 590 pages - Preview Its logical development was the kind of organic Hindu nationalism that Sri Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) theorized. Aurobindo's case is typical of other charismatic leaders of the independence movement which shows the way in which...

Decolonizing International Relations - Page 200 - Branwen Gruffydd Jones - 2006 - 275 pages - Preview 22 I have no intention to join issue with historians as to whether religion did become for Sri Aurobindo "a royal road for honorable retreat," for it is not central to the concerns of this chapter. However, it needs to be said that his ...

Issues of identity in Indian English fiction: a close reading of ... - Page 48 - H. S. Komalesha - 2008 - 195 pages - Preview Aurobindo's chief concern is to project nationalism as a form of resistance politics to the state oppression. Hence for him, Nationalism is a manifesto, not merely political, but essentially spiritual and religious that demonstrates ...