November 07, 2018

A column of light that chases the shadows away

The Real Faces Of New India:   By Anjan Roy   We are hearing about creating a New India or Naya Bharat. From the Prime Minister to political parties we are hearing about plans and programmes for creating this New India.   But a New India […] The post… https://t.co/hmE6nq0b0f

Got my copy of 'Making of New India' by @anirbanganguly @bibekdebroy https://t.co/PSLetDHNVC
https://twitter.com/PreritaC/status/1059365090087047168?s=19

Growing Up Surrounded by Books Has a Lasting Positive Effect on the Brain, Says a New Scientific Study https://t.co/lRBR1pPw0D https://t.co/8v3zmsxL8j

"This attack on his rights sets a dangerous precedent and makes every writer in this country vulnerable to similar attacks." PEN Delhi on the arrest and incarceration of Abhijit Iyer-Mitra. https://t.co/WrJmAWUy0M

Sex Slavery in Islamic India: Enslavement of women, children and men, followed by their sexual exploitation was an integral part of the Muslim rule in Medieval India.
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The fear of Hindu consolidation frightens socio-political powers based upon Abrahamic and Marxist ideologies, hence they use the disguises of liberalism, feminism, environmental protection etc to strip them of their religiosity writes @RaghuBhaskaran. https://t.co/m36850IrJu
https://twitter.com/Pragyata_/status/1059402990325501952?s=19

History has to be viewed objectively and in a politically bipartisan manner. Doing so, we find that the left and the right are remarkably similar in their choices and values - the vicious fight is over which set of individuals get to rule. Read:  https://t.co/OqNuZ2GPyb
It’s astounding that both the right and the left accuse each other of betraying the freedom struggle. Because both are right. We compare the choices, show both did the same things. Shadow boxing must end.

#MyPiece - Ayodhya controversy: Modi’s lust for power will cost India dearly if the government shows disdain to Supreme Court https://t.co/g4R08e53yW via @JantaKaReporter
https://twitter.com/ashoswai/status/1059360967178510336?s=19

Brilliant piece.  I always say let us invert the process/sequence. But the counterfactual paradigm is better, especially under uncertainty.  Must read 4 traders.   https://t.co/wF11TqXwd7
https://twitter.com/sonaliranade/status/1059471509121449984?s=19

Along with Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai and Aurobindo, Bipin Chandra was one of the extremist group, was also influenced by M.G.Ranade. He  initially worked as a headmaster in Cuttack, and later took up journalism, starting weekly Paridarsak from Sylhet.
https://twitter.com/GabbarSanghi/status/1060081095775944704?s=19

Sri Aurobindo had foreseen this situation 100 years ago and had predicted a civil war. How correct he was in his assessment. Read his prophetic words on elusive Hindu-Muslim unity and danger of a civil war.
https://t.co/q9TdThN5Pi
https://twitter.com/Rajamoorthy1969/status/1059739382234537984?s=19

The British empire is still being whitewashed in UK schools – this must change  https://t.co/XWL2lWlTXv https://t.co/OCMFr1xl2T

For the first time, we will have Native American women in Congress. It took only 229 years! #Midterms2018 https://t.co/KFDsFaAezW

"A table isn’t inherently feminine, but it’s feminine in French, so French people will be more likely, if asked to describe a table, to use feminine-like adjectives."
Robert Lane Greene (@lanegreene) discusses language and its relation to the mind. https://t.co/cpOfoVw8HZ

"We didn’t always think of ourselves as individuals. We didn’t always think the pursuit of money and markets was natural."
The best books on How the World’s Political Economy Works, a #readinglist by @BrownUniversity economist @MkBlyth https://t.co/8ksJ3xWORT

भाजपा नेता शांत प्रकाश जाटव ने  चमार रेजीमेंट की भारतीय सेना में पुन: बहाली की मांग दोहराई, चमार रेजीमेंट के सैनिकों को स्वतंत्रता सेनानी के दर्जे की मांग https://t.co/RPtIWK5qAd via @indianobservers

Here is the video of the online conversation on "Reimagining Bharat Bhasha Myth, Challenges and Possibilities" with @bhAratenduH Ji, presented by @indicanetwork : https://t.co/YeYl4lvQf9 @IndicAcademy @IndicBookClub @indictoday @vipulkocher @yoginisd

Sanskrit for Children
The beauty and the scientific significance of the Sanskrit is something that opens several possibilities for the children who grow up with it, not only in terms of learning new languages, but also in terms of insights into a world of wisdom.
https://twitter.com/Sampadananda/status/1060095354174038016?s=19

#Sanskrit Class 680 by Dr D Narasinga Rao- https://t.co/MvnSvZ8rTp https://t.co/MvnSvZ8rTp

#_R_M_ | @RamMadhavBJP : People, politicians, the judiciary and the administration, all have distinct yet complementary roles that ensure democracy’s success. If one institution shirks its responsibility, democracy is weakened to that extent
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has suggested that whereas institutions such as marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance must be governed in line with Article 14, the rites of worship and certain customs deserve protection under Article 25 : @Swapan55 
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Basic ground reality no 1
The leadership of the Sangh is not infallible and omniscient. They rely on multiple sources and different people to give them historical context, cultural ie shastraic context and current ground reality. While they can seek out different opinions /2
https://twitter.com/zeneraalstuff/status/1060039500112351232?s=19
they will always be restricted by what information they can get.
Basic ground reality no 2
When the rubber hits the road and things come to a head, it is the Sangh Parivar and affiliates that has the cadre, discipline and the actual gumption to get the job done. /3
And finally, remember that they had the humility to acknowledge when they were wrong and the integrity to course-correct. That is what we have to appreciate. It is also that quality that we must utilize to our advantage /7
There will always be people in the Sangh willing to give you a patient hearing, whether you're arguing for free gas connections or for upholding tradition /END

#_M_V_N_ | @MVenkaiahNaidu : The Government of India has launched “India For Humanity” in order to take the message of Mahatma Gandhi to all parts of the world over the next year. It seeks to celebrate the great values of humanism, which Gandhi embodied 
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Dark side of India’s night lights: As states prosper, rich-poor gap in districts widens
Praveen Chakravarty @pravchak, Congress data analytics chairperson, writes: https://t.co/ISn32rOQxp https://t.co/W1KJRHdNTn

With decriminalisation of homosexuality, Indian Army is worried that men can now legally have sex with other men  https://t.co/lT4sxkiLGI

Pre-modern, pre-Section 377 Queer Ramayana shows sages desiring Rama’s body
Ujaan Ghosh @ujaanghosh and Amrita Choudhury write: https://t.co/SnxNRaLWiO https://t.co/SF2RoFtPg5

Anti-Semitism of Hindu Nationalists made me a target of their attacks https://t.co/ejDuWCmDDU

“Staying sharp means staying connected ( and not to the screen) “ https://t.co/GHxRbj1CQP

Music, meditation, pets & volunteering. Nice piece on ways to boost health & happiness from @DrAseemMalhotra https://t.co/elaa1MHYTe

In my personal experience Twitter trolls are the best mind readers- they can divine motives which never existed. But intellectuals are the greatest - They can even read the minds of the long dead 🤡 https://t.co/HHXtSI8xkT
https://twitter.com/dravirmani/status/1059509017196855296?s=19

Given how anti Hindu every political party in India is, its time 2 take a hard look at the system and ask the fundamental question how different they are. We do show by comparing the icons of BJP-RSS with CPI & Urban-Naxals. The results are shocking. Read: https://t.co/OqNuZ2GPyb
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1059390740080541696?s=19

Must Read for JNU Haters: JNU promotes a diverse yet inclusive campus, gives space to radical voices across the political spectrum, & upholds a tradition of dissent, protecting the rights of free speech & promoting the values of democracy. https://t.co/BxIKfGwv57
https://twitter.com/ashoswai/status/1059580853058068480?s=19

The strongest memory is the Badbadiya Daka. A rough translation is invoking the ancestors to visit us on that well lit evening. All the family members together light a bunch of jute sticks and hold up d light to the sky so that the ancestors descend in darkness but leave in light https://t.co/BO9xEY2ziE

@ShashiTharoor sadly you do not appreciate Roman Circuses as structures to be marveled even after so many centuries, it is certainly not Clowning around . Your Roman connection is limited to Italian Mafia at 10 Janpath ! Aam Aadmi right now is in great mood with Ease of Living! https://t.co/IQU58HGJPf
https://twitter.com/prettypadmaja/status/1059578428465336320?s=19

It is modernity not tradition which leads to garbage and pollution. 
Delhi's pollution is due to crop-burning from chemical farming. Traditional agriculture can save us. But the fallout of toxic modernity becomes a pretext to attack more traditions.
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https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1059294841828503553?s=19

Why Philosophers of Science (and others) Should Use Twitter - Daily Nous https://t.co/46JUdUqlGx
The alarming rise of a power that knows no borders, and how we resist https://t.co/RdqfyEzxtC https://t.co/cR7HzsFEgH

Evolution is making us sick and for the first time we can stop it https://t.co/flbGPY50E2 https://t.co/rgjrNfxkBJ

The Integration and Enlargement of the Ethical and Aesthetic Sense in Human Development https://t.co/CbHK2YYVnR

#Food is never simply a matter of culture in India. It is identity and #caste identity in the first place, and subsequently a proud exclusionary quotidian practice.
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At height of this famine a record of 320,000 tons of wheat was exported by the British between 1877-1878. During this man-made famine the British ran ‘reliefs’ which were really slave labour camps where Indians were worked to death. The New Scientist is revising colonial history. https://t.co/SaVC74PQPz
https://twitter.com/crimesofbrits/status/1059372102015430656?s=19

From marriage to urination, here’s the Sanatan Sanstha complete guide to being a good Hindu
Shivam Vij @DilliDurAst writes: https://t.co/XpLCtoyWIZ https://t.co/Vt9xbSqWK6

From Iqbal to Gandhi, rediscovering what Rama means for Indians https://t.co/eHIjraE7i7 | @NavedAshrafi https://t.co/cRVf2UrCtm

This thread. 
Summarizing Rama's questions to Bharata on governance. Popularly known as the Kacchit Sarga, this is the 100th Sarga in the Ayodhya Kaanda.
Thanks @pranasutra for translating the key verses from this sarga. https://t.co/WnFY1Q7Wm6
https://twitter.com/aurvabhrg/status/1060092486742368256?s=19

The Four Key Pillars of Sanatana India that Sustains it: @dharmadispatch echoes my thought that stressing too much on individual rights with no reference to India’s culture is leading India to ruin and remorse. Should honour Veda Vyasa and not Hobbes https://t.co/diwXihvaWF
https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1060098934868267008?s=19

Hobbes's vision was an outgrowth of what he saw as a dog-eat-dog culture which he generalized to the entire human race. Vyasa expounded Dharma based on what the Purpose of Existence is and came out of sublime Realizations and not foolish reactions to life.
https://twitter.com/HeritageMouse/status/1060100699403382784?s=19

#ScrollMagazine | Kashmir, Partition and displacement: Multiple strands come together in Nilima Sheikh’s new work https://t.co/UGZhZeQNVp https://t.co/9JzM3foFV6

Congratulations to Jayant Tiyadi , journalist from Malkangiri for writing the story of Police- Maoist firing from a commonman's angle .Heart touching story .Click on the webcast by ETV Bharat Odia ବାନଙ୍କୁ ସାବାସି ଦେଲେ ଡିଜି, ମୃତ ଗ୍ରାମବାସୀଙ୍କ ସାହା କିଏ ? -  https://t.co/aXbxKrd7pZ
https://twitter.com/santakar/status/1060100520864505857?s=19

This thread will be about real Mughal contribution to India. No, we're not going to mock them genocidal mass rapists who're but bastard spawns, but we will genuinely attempt to look at their contributions in Indian space. I promise, this is but a sincere attempt.
https://twitter.com/bahutbadadanda/status/1060081818651815937?s=19

It turns out that blood vessels tend to efficiently span the body and deliver resources to all of a creature’s cells while reducing the strain on the heart. This simple insight has given birth to a growing batch of successful theories that use the idea of an optimised biological structure 
https://aeon.co/ideas/when-science-hits-a-limit-learn-to-ask-different-questions

Shelley’s aesthetic theory was a variation on the Faust legend, but there inspiration comes from demons. Frankenstein’s monster is rather born from our minds – a shift in understanding creation. Still mysterious, inspiration is now germinated within. 
https://aeon.co/ideas/my-odious-handiwork-frankenstein-is-about-art-not-science

FOUR GREAT ASPECTS OF THE MOTHER
The Mother's recitation from Sri Aurobindo's book, with her historic video recordings and photographs.
Film is based on 1954 documentary by Dr P. Sanyal, and produced by Department of Physical Education of the Sri... https://t.co/FBz3B57j7D

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#SriAurobindo #Maa #SriMaa #TheMother #SriAurobindoAshram #SriAurobindoAshramDelhiBranch https://t.co/iVJiEEHCjH
https://twitter.com/AurobindoAshram/status/1059307154212093957?s=19

#Ayodhya is Ajodhya in Odia and many other languages. Sarayu is Saraju and Yamuna is Jamuna. Odia is the only Classical language among all north Indian languages apart from Sanskrit. Babaji Maharaj Sri Ramakrishna Das helped establish the Sri Aurobindo's Relics centre in Ayodhya.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1060012291431706626?s=19

Not many Odia persons are active on Twitter. Among those who have displayed their intellectual might and contributed their mite to the national discourse, @devduttmyth, @ashoswai, and @pratyasharath are prominent. More power to their pen and brain. @OdiaCulture @odiapuanews #Odia
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060130353921384450?s=19

Hindutva votaries are hell bent on establishing a puritan cultural order conforming to mythological descriptions. That the reality is far more complex and many-layered than any stretch of poetic imagination is often forgotten. Thankfully Sri Aurobindo wrote sense a century before https://t.co/ILrr6V7QVb
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1059931312637698048?s=19

Hindutva enthusiasts emphasise culture, religion, and tradition over current needs, reason, and evolution. Each individual is free to decide his own way but imposing uniform lifestyle over vast groups of people in the pretext of tradition and promoting superstition is problematic.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060005830865575936?s=19

Democracy, secularism, judiciary, liberalism, modernity, or science & technology: Indians have got all these almost free; without undergoing tortuous social and intellectual upheavals. How they have evolved in the West and at what price will ever inspire for generations to come.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1059494817506435074?s=19

A telescope, microscope, or stethoscope display the power of science and the urge for precision in knowing things beyond ordinary senses. The kaleidoscope however does the opposite and points to the infinite expanse of the universe and innumerable variations of its choreography.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1059922731267964928?s=19

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Erotic vocabulary earlier in time; Poison and jealousy is now deeply ingrained https://t.co/JQGcXyV6IH @NathTusar @Abhina_Prakash

“Loving the truth more than winning an argument. That is the key philosophical virtue.”
Philosophy in a Divided World, a #readinglist by @mcgillu Professor Carlos Fraenkel https://t.co/6EhuAInqxp
https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1059951061639815168?s=19

The Development of the Reason Is a Unique Evolutionary Stage in the Human Being https://t.co/IcYGq7EuuA
https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1059944108276494340?s=19

[PDF] The Significant Individual, Values and Social Evolution
J Ramanathan, G Jacobs - CADMUS
… It illustrates the process and defines the strategy needed for the future evolution of global society and human unity. A prayer, a master act, a king idea Can link man's strength to a transcendent Force. –Savitri, Sri 

[there is only a messy kaleidoscope of disparate and incongruent ways of being which would resist the urge to bring about consensus. Thus great ideals of progress and perfectibility in human institutions have to be given up in the face of real human lives] https://t.co/c56ZrNHbtV
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060000154873286656?s=19

[obstacle is dissolved.
Then Thou appearest in all Thy splendour, in the dazzling force of Thy infinite glory; at Thy contact the flame changes into a column of light that chases the shadows away for ever.
And the Word leaps forth, a supreme revelation.]TM
https://t.co/p8awvrFuKl
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1059989973762420736?s=19

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