November 08, 2018

UCC is against all tradition, will steamroll customs

@IIASShimla 5th Tagore Memorial lecture on 14.11.18 at @iicdelhi Please spread the word. All are welcome! https://t.co/PDPQP1BkEQ

Babur, Aurangzeb Give Way For Raja Raja Chola: All India Radio To Retell Story Of Chola Empire In Hindi as part of its series featuring great kings and famous personalities of India https://t.co/gcvkIeIcCj via @swarajyamag

Bipin Chandra Pal, who was born on 7 November 1858, is best known as a part of the radical freedom-fighter trio Lal-Bal-Pal: https://t.co/5A87O4HyoD https://t.co/lKVwMcE0ZL

#_K_G_ | @KanchanGupta : Much as his critics would love to brand him as a “Hindu fundamentalist” or even a “communalist”, Girilal Jain, as "The Hindu Phenomenon" shows, was a Hindu who was proud of his cultural heritage ... contd | #_Books_
https://t.co/0TzUQznmG4 @vijayvaani https://t.co/fUAKaUvW8M

Within the Hindus, there will always be raging debates between the orthodox, traditional and modernist tendencies. You simply assume the Sangh Parivar to be of one type & feel betrayed when some of its positions are of another.
https://twitter.com/_Mauna_/status/1059878762387509249?s=19
You seem to want a UCC. Don't you realise a UCC is against all tradition? Will have the power to steam roll customs based on modernist whims. Similar contradictions exist in other areas as well. These need reasoning & debates. Not name calling.

Seems like a Liberal stance. A welcome change! @viryavaan @zeneraalstuff

Spare a thought for those idiots who keep trolling without even having an iota of idea what they are barking about. Must be mentally tough for them to maintain that level of lunacy.
https://twitter.com/ibnebattuta/status/1060143632928231425?s=19

Hatred for Bengalis is in the DNA of both ⁦@INCIndia⁩ & ⁦@BJP4India⁩ .Read about the exploits of Rajagopalachari, Patel (BJP-RSS icons) of which Nehru (INC icon) was a part. Because the same demographics control both. Wednesday evening read:  https://t.co/OqNuZ2GPyb
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1060140307264782336?s=19

India’s cultural richness and the wide expanse of its spiritual knowledge and icons, are important pillars in Modi's approach to diplomacy. https://t.co/SOLsEguaqX

Celebrating the #bestdays with #bestbooks. This #Diwali, let's talk all things #mythology with @devduttmyth's 40  works. We're trying to figure out which of these to pick up. Suggestions? https://t.co/S6IxoGdJNb
https://twitter.com/SiyahiJaipur/status/1060129576112685056?s=19

The Sabarimala temple issue: Rights, Liberties and Traditions
 https://t.co/ZmTWDHqRlO

Conversation with a Verdict- Reading Justice D Y Chandrachud’s mind. https://t.co/smQkDWuHcP

Savitri Era Learning Forum: A column of light that chases the shadows away https://t.co/G7T1tVjATx #TheMother #MirraAlfassa #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

The Great Evolutionary Step of the Development of the Self-Conscious Soul in Mind https://t.co/MOM0PAfvtK

Reading Savitri with Dr Alok Pandey (TEXT).
"Though Sri Aurobindo describes here how life emerged from matter, He also gives us in a gist the secret of all evolution... https://t.co/GOWiW2zPHB

Man’s right is to pursue the Truth freely and to approach it freely in his own way. But each one ought to know that his discovery is good for him alone and is not to be imposed upon others.
#TheMother #IntegralYoga #Religion https://t.co/5CtiGBmGiU
https://twitter.com/integralyog/status/1060362861048786944?s=19

Complains galore: imposition of English, imposition of shuddh Hindi, imposition of festivals, imposition of GST etc. The original sin however is the imposition of a fiction called India. Dismantling it can solve many problems; States deserve Sovereignty. https://t.co/9iAAicBwoU
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060409219524943872?s=19

Mohan Bhagwat undoubtedly is the Man of the Year, 2018 who pulled the rug from under Hindutva firebrands. Although, many suspect him to have pulled a fast one since he appears to be running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, he is unmistakably getting down to brass tacks.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060417642186588160?s=19

By dropping the word "Dharma," many try to pose as ethical persons but an examined life is not an easy proposition. Reading The Mother & Sri Aurobindo's works makes us aware as to how deep and wide the gaps between the canons of ordinary morality and demands of Vedic virtues are.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060435548651823104?s=19

Many jobs offer the opportunity of free travel and often intellectuals get addicted to such hospitality. Corruption crops up and compromise creeps in as usual corollary. Pushing warped logic becomes the norm since he who pays the piper calls the tune. And, then sets in the ruin.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060421695436152832?s=19

Kings ruled and built; created hierarchies and modalities to reign over mass minds and also to rein in rebellion. All these must be under critical scrutiny now, in a Democratic society as diverse as India. Tradition can't be shoved down the nation's throat hook, line, and sinker.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060147724744564739?s=19

The militant camp within Congress represented by Lal-Bal-Pal could be identified as the source of Hindu nationalism, writes Anand Teltumbde @AnandTeltumbde in the @UNESCO Unesco women philosophers’s journal December 2017. Sri Aurobindo is not mentioned but he favoured #WorldUnion
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060398390201073665?s=19

'As a society, we have started to lose the ability to set rational metrics on the basis of which we form our opinions on any issue.' https://t.co/kmhIJIMIrj

Wealth is the product of knowledge and English its means. But government fanatics have trapped the poor in India into perpetual poverty by blocking access to English. I'm astonished at how bad is the English of the poor.
https://twitter.com/sabhlok/status/1060404424168759296?s=19

If there is one personal finance article you read (& act on) this Diwali, it should be this cracker by @monikahalan
https://t.co/TtcK1RVLGG
https://twitter.com/PositiveGamma/status/1060194476033855488?s=19

Thank you so much. Hindi plans are there already. And totally agree with your suggestion. Kadak Hindi has pushed everybody away from the language. @HarperCollinsIN
@jilpanz https://t.co/GIQ24wPle1
https://twitter.com/monikahalan/status/1060359107834716160?s=19

We must stop popping pills and start taking a dose of social medicine. My article in today’s @TheSun newspaper inspired by the announcement of Secretary of State for health @MattHancock support for social prescribing. https://t.co/Owt4zlpfS3 @shekharkapur #sugar #obesity #NHS https://t.co/EHGeuerfZM
https://twitter.com/DrAseemMalhotra/status/1060145929783832576?s=19

Unmitigated and pervasive sexual harassment at the workplace is pushing women out of the workforce and increasing socio-economic inequalities. https://t.co/eWosXarWvF

Female characters and role models are conspicuously missing in Satyajit Ray’s works for children.
https://t.co/C4PyG9DXuv https://t.co/rJY3yW6Dht

Whether it is Rahul in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Rancho in 3 Idiots (2009) or Barfi in Barfi! (2012), a woman’s personal or professional space is often taken for granted. ... And with the consequent disproportionate numbers, can we even begin to look for examples of female sexual agency?
Picture abhi patriarchy hai: Studying Bollywood’s sexism disease
@IshanMehandru, assistant manager at Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Ashoka University writes: https://t.co/FEbN6hk1lV https://t.co/YX4JURoKHd

even in the higher castes the woman intellectual is not worth the man intellectual. Issue N° 4-5: Intellectuals, Philosophers, Women in India: Endangered Species December 2017http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/resources/periodicals/women-philosophers-journal/issue-n-4-5/

[For Foucault the subject is socially constituted; however the subject as a free being is also capable of (re)constituting him/herself because all the converging, intersecting, socio-historical lines which shaped the subject are contingent, not necessary.] https://t.co/iYKGwnkbAR

[My problem is that my training as an analyst does not suffice to unlock the riddle of existence...This means that one suffers not only from repression of one’s biological drives but also can suffer from suppression of the sublime. (Reddy, 1988)] Soumitra Basu (2001) @drsbasu2115
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1060164909177155584?s=19

[As a scientist, I really do believe the scientific method is quite powerful for explaining the world but it is not very good at discussing the human condition. ...Can you really reduce something as complex as love to the density of some neurotransmitter?] https://t.co/I5rhMJ1Wz3

["The problem is that although MRI can tell us where things happen, it can’t tell us *how* things happen."] Instead of Where or How, Sri Aurobindo wrote a poem called Who which perhaps provides the most satisfying answer to the riddle of this world. https://t.co/LEGaqsA6G4
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1060169641258110985?s=19

"It’s a tiny book and in it he describes the whole of quantum electrodynamics without a single equation”: @marcuschown on @ProfFeynman's QED:
https://t.co/arO2mH6fRw https://t.co/2lrLqhFfsK

Technology doesn’t solve humanity’s problems. It was always naïve to think so. Technology is an enabler, but humanity has to deal with humanity’s problems. Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’ - The New York Times https://t.co/8edlb4AJXq
https://twitter.com/harsh8848/status/1060538820817494016?s=19

Salute you Gramsci! We need you today! https://t.co/ahIdojLE9a

Effects this significant have appeared in the past, only to vanish when more data is taken. https://t.co/yLlDGIKnHj

Preface To Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd's Autobiography "From A Shepherd Boy To An Intellectual--My Memoirs" https://t.co/vhPL8XpmlL

No question and I'm rooting for @Iyervval 's release. Am not into virtue signalling. Sticking up for FoE no matter what. Today it's Abhijit, tomorrow it'll be someone I may dislike. I've stood up for Kamlesh Tiwari, Neha Dixit, Tareq Fatah, Ram Guha. Across the ideological spectrum.
https://twitter.com/rupasubramanya/status/1060527746344935424?s=19
This is about the law. Criminal defamation involves the state against an individual. Where the individual concerned is on opposite side of the ideological spectrum, you've supported the law, but when a friend like @Iyervval involved you don't. So you've revealed your inconsistency.

When Muslim League started making noises about partition of India, G. D. Birla was delighted and wrote to Rajagopalachari that they should just let Muslims continue their propaganda and accept the partition demand when the Muslim League commits itself 2 it: https://t.co/OqNuZ2GPyb
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1060542373279735809?s=19

Shakespeare as an Instrument of Epistemic Violence
S Niyogi - English Studies in India, 2019
… remaining under this spell. Aurobindo Ghosh, a contemporary of Rabindranath Tagore and renowned for his belligerent nationalism in early life, described the world of Shakespeare as “romantic”. Shakespeare's world is “romantic …

Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India
S Saha
Page 1. Sharmistha Saha Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India Formation of a Community through Cultural Practice Page 2. Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India Page 3. Sharmistha Saha Theatre and National Identity in Colonial India …

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