Savitri Era Learning Forum: Overcome juvenile love for own culture

November 02, 2018

Overcome juvenile love for own culture

India's role in bringing about the unity of the whole of mankind assumes pressing urgency at the moment. The Life Divine possesses a central position in this momentous adventure. “It is the most thought-provoking and thought-shaking book" said S.K. Maitra. https://t.co/B0txCYdBps

Many get addicted to managerial responsibilities and use it as an alibi for not reading for want of time. But one must be strict with oneself to have a solid grounding in reading during one's thirties and forties. That is the best gift one can give oneself https://t.co/JMJZ0RndTx

Savitri Era: The "Self" Sri Aurobindo talked about may be illusory https://t.co/2uX2GMcbID

Savitri Era Learning Forum: Sri Aurobindo is absolutely ahead of his times https://t.co/rh6KH0OSl5 @NathTusar #SriAurobindo #MirraAlfassa

Hindutva enthusiasts are busy fighting people like @Ram_Guha and @ShashiTharoor whereas the real challenge is to grapple with Sri Aurobindo and how he redefines Indian tradition and wisdom. Just mentioning him along with Vivekananda or Dayananda is a lazy exercise which must stop.

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Superior modes of research and instant access to diverse knowledge-sources constitute an exceedingly advantageous situation for the mankind. Indians need to overcome juvenile love for own culture and the sense of (false) superiority and exceptionalism, a trap made by careerists.

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Defending faith and tradition compulsively won't provide the critical faculty. Arguing that faith is autonomous and unchallengable is anomalous and anti-intellectual. Idols, icons, or statues are part of community life but reclaiming individual freedom and free thought is crucial.

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Visited Ambedkar memorial in Noida ten days back. Hardly a dozen visitors or so. Surely needs promotion and appreciation. https://t.co/HyWTcLXpvY

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Reimagining and Refashioning Integral Management - Tusar Nath Mohapatra, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF) Ghaziabad https://t.co/YGoEhdLyp7

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[Biographers usually focus solely on Aurobindo's life as a politician or sage, but he was also a scholar, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a social and cultural theorist, and the inspiration for an experiment in communal living.] Book by Peter Heehs https://t.co/FbTBpMZ1dm

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Integral Yoga Psychology:The Delusional Thought-Space and Cosmic Consciousness https://t.co/hKGdghAaCM

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Appreciating the Dichotomy of Ethical and Aesthetic Culture in the Societal Setting https://t.co/cRihFMHsoh

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Day 1 of @mlrlitfest :

Session on Sri Aurobindo's Idea of Spiritual Nationalism-Going beyond European Idea of Nation States,

Dr Vinay Chandra Banavathy in Conversation with Dr Nandan Prabhu. #MangaluruLitFest https://t.co/jw0pWb1bnB

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“In dividing human qualities into masculine and feminine, sexism separates everyone from parts of themselves.”

Acclaimed philosopher and psychologist Carol Gilligan picks the best books on gender and human nature.

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"You only have to look at any country plagued by AIDS to see that Catholic dogma is appallingly damaging and there is no moral justification for this, only a dogmatic religious justification."

Acclaimed philosopher Mary Warnock on morality without God.

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Swagato Ganguly’s book, Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India: Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment demonstrates how the British colonial regime used Indian idol worship—or to use the more pejorative term, idolatry—to demonise the natives. https://t.co/m8UipVTZou

Devdutt Pattanaik on Why Indian Mythology Is Relevant in Western Workplaces Too https://t.co/L52rxu782g

Writing in the #AsianAge @patralekha2011 asks : Should faith and tradition be allowed to take precedence over the orders of the Supreme Court? Your answer is here (Views of @Swapan55) https://t.co/nguMVTLvtp

#_S_D_G_ | @Swapan55 : Whether the unique traditions of the #_Sabarimala_ temple — other Ayyappa temples allow women access — should be constitutionally protected or subsumed by the larger principle of gender equality is a matter of serious debate https://t.co/tjFznyX7Fd https://t.co/DxmFVlwGbL

#_S_D_G_ | @Swapan55 : Applying a uniform constitutional criterion on all religious customs may seem like viewing the Hindu way of life through a Semitic prism that can have troubling consequences | #_Sabarimala_

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If Kolkata is written in Bengali as কলকাতা, then why it is कोलकाता in Hindi is difficult to understand. In fact, the correct name in English should be Kalkata without incorporating the Bengali pronunciation. Similarly, Delhi should be Dilli and Pilkhuwa in UP should be Pilakhua.

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Ok, so thread with quick summaries of the films I'm watching at MAMI (@MumbaiFilmFest), in case my idiosyncratic tastes might be of use to you in picking what to watch, 1/x

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Satyajit Ray's cinema makes it big on the international stage

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BOOK] Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood: The New Independent Cinema Revolution

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