November 20, 2021

Universe awaits a gradually unfolding harmony

Savitri Era: Sri Aurobindo wrote a dozen books with different philosophical frameworks savitriera.blogspot.com/2021/11/sri-au Tweets in original by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956) , Founder, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF-2005), Savitri Era Religion (2006), & Savitri Era Party (2007)
Listen to "The Nature of the Subconscient" by Sri Aurobindo Studies.
Listen to "Solving the Existential Crisis of Humanity Through the Evolution of Consciousness: A Self-Growth Interview With Santosh Krinsky" by Sri Aurobindo Studies
Apropos Destruction seen from an Aurobindonian perspective namahjournal.com/doc/Actual/Edi
On the disparity between intrinsically discrete thought and intrinsically continuous sensory experience and the resulting misrepresentation of physical space
I just uploaded “Gita Study Group, Chapter 7.1-3.mp4” to #Vimeo:
Rigveda won't make sense in translation Harsh. Read Sri Aurobindo's Secret of the Veda first to get some hints!

[HTML] Personal Practice and Healing

M Srinivasan
… Through the ages, meditators, teachers and seekers like Plato, Rudolf Steiner
and Sri Aurobindo, suggest that what we experience with our five senses are merely
the physical emanations of more subtle levels of reality. We are immersed within a …

Class, caste and agrarian change: the making of farmers' protests

S Kumar - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2021
… It traces the rise and fall of the farmers identity popularized by Charan Singh and
then the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), its dissolution and replacement by Hindutva
in the 2013, and its more recent return with the farmers protest. It explains why …

Confidence Issues during Athletic Injury Recovery: A Systematic Literature Review

R Hoeft - 2021
… The following literature review will synthesize why confidence is an integral
component to athletic performance, how it plays into other … An integral piece of the
recovery process that impacts both emotions and psychological preparedness is one’s …

Information Technologies in Training of the Extreme Profile Athletes

A Nepomnyashchiy, A Bersova - XIV International Scientific Conference “ …, 2022
… Sri Aurobindo and Mother presented humanity with more than 20 volumes of
description of spiritual experience and the foundations of integral yoga. And all
these grandiose results in the field of human limit research were achieved only …

[PDF] Learning to Live Together Harmoniously: a conceptual framework

J Patel - Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
… The multiple embedded case study selectively samples alternative schools that
aim to bring about education for local equivalents of LTLT and were founded or
inspired by Aurobindo, Gandhi, Krishnamurti or Tagore (summarised in Table 1).The …

Aging and Longevity

KK Bhattacharyya - Rethinking the Aging Transition, 2021
… Yoga not only has excellent therapeutic potency but also has the potential to
improve the quality of life, thereby being an excellent … As a lineage of the Vedic
concept, some Hindu cultural beliefs and practices are considered integral parts of …

Aging and Spirituality

KK Bhattacharyya - Rethinking the Aging Transition, 2021
… In the journey of the soul (including our life course when the soul becomes an
integral part of our mind), it has to pass through different states… “Yoga-guru”
Patanjali described a combination of eight different levels in yoga practice to …

Chosen trauma and saffronization of India

RQ Ahmed, M Tamoor, MW Saleem, IB Summar - International Area Studies Review, 2021
The research undertakes the structural transformation of India by the ideology of
Hindutva embodied by the contemporary government of the Bhartiya Janata Party.
This study is a first of its kind as it attempts to decipher the genesis of this …

Rethinking the Aging Transition: Psychological, Health, and Social Principles to Guide Aging Well

KK Bhattacharyya
… His integration of Eastern and Western thought and his promotion of the time-honored
practices of yoga and meditation are very much in tune with the accumulating
empirical research in support of these practices. Dr. Bhattacharyya displays a true …

[PDF] ASSASSINATION OF GANDHI: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

D Benish Khan, N Akram, Z Mehmood - Pakistan Journal of International Affairs, 2021
… The study delves the motives of fanatic Hindus and protagonist of Hindutva
behind the murder of Gandhi. Nehru became the visionary … Savarkar was blamed
for corrupting the youth through his idea of Hindutva. When Godse was dropped out …

(Un) making democracy

JK Abdurahman, S Ghoshal, D Rosner, A Taylor… - Interactions, 2021
… Through the writings of BR Ambedkar, we can appreciate that Hindutva is not an
anomaly of Hinduism but the logical extension of Brahminism or caste oppression
encoded into its core makeup. We must annihilate caste, work toward the end of …

No Room for Dissent: Domesticating WhatsApp, Digital Private Spaces, and Lived Democracy in India

P Williams, L Kamra, P Johar, FM Khan, M Kumar… - Antipode, 2021
… We show here how the digital places our participants inhabited had become
encoded with neo-Hindutva logics and the boundaries between digital-physical
experiences blurred in the (re)production of a Hindu nationalist future. Alongside …

The Politics of 'Hate'

M Dutta
It has been historically true that the presence of the Rohingya along with other
communities is visible in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar since the colonial times.
Besides, Malaysia and Thailand also provide shelter for the Rohingya, who are …

Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife by Kareem Khubchandani

SC Bolton - Journal of Asian American Studies, 2021
… Chapter 1 analyzes the contradictory cultural impulses of Hindutva normativity
that draw on British colonial antecedents and the anxieties around westernization
under economic modernization. Chapter 2 takes up the unenviable though brilliantly …

[HTML] Vedic ideas

A Samaj, S Bhagavan
Krishnaism is a sub-tradition of Vaishnavism wherein Krishna is considered Svayam
Bhagavan, meaning'Lord Himself'and it is used exclusively to designate Krishna as
the Supreme Lord.[24][25] Krishna is considered as an avatar (manifestation) of …

[HTML] Shiva lingam

S Magnus, B Tinsley
… [118] Some contemporary Hindus, states Doniger, in their passion to spiritualize
Hinduism and for their Hindutva campaign have sought to sanitize the historic
earthly sexual meanings, and insist on the abstract spiritual meaning only. [118] …

Buddhist Majoritarianism and Ethnocracy in Sri Lanka

N DeVotta - Sociological Bulletin, 2021
… That in turn has led to an ideology (which some have called Sinhalatva, perhaps
in reference to next-door India’s Hindutva) that claims minorities live on the island
thanks to Sinhalese Buddhist sufferance and should therefore be cognisant of their …

[PDF] 8 Land and ethnicity

L Arambam - Northeast India
… The landslide victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the national elections
of 2014 and the aggressive campaign for Hindutva had also contributed to the
complexification of the Northeast regions relationship with the national polity and …

Hindutva and Donald Trump: An unholy relation

RK Singh - The Anthropology of Donald Trump
Hindutva as a right-wing ideology shares similar characteristics with the ideology of
white supremacy. The overwhelming support by the majority community and the rise
in ethnic and religious nationalism are the major reasons for the rise of right-wing …

[PDF] Educating 'Temple Cultures' Heterogeneous Worship and Hindutva Politics in Kerala

OB Roopesh - Sociological Bulletin, 2021
Contrary to the popular imagination of Kerala as a secular, rational left bastion, the
state is witnessing Sangh Parivar's active presence in the domain of temples and
everyday culture. This study attempts to examine the anxiety of Rashtriya …

Reflections on Bangladesh at 50

N Hossain - Contemporary South Asia, 2021
ABSTRACT The pandemic meant the celebrations of Bangladesh's 50th year of
independence in 2021 were more subdued than hoped. This Viewpoint article
reflects on the messages and the silences emerging from the international articles …

How do People Become a Mass?

S Gandesha - 2021
In opposition to the view, on the one hand, that suggestions that we are witnessing
the rise of fascism are needlessly alarmist, and, on the other, that fascism is
ubiquitous and coextensive with capitalism, Theodor W. Adorno understands …

COMPANION TO INDIAN DEMOCRACY

PR deSouza, MS Alam, H Ahmed
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary experiences of
democracy in India. It explores the modes by which democracy as an idea, and as a
practice, is interpreted, enforced, and lived in India’s current political climate. The …

[PDF] INDIA IN CENTRAL ASIA: INTERESTS AND ISSUES

MT Biswal, R Pradhan
Abstract: Central Asia constituting five independent Republics such as Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is India’s proximate neighbour.
Their re-emergence into the Asian geopolitics not just changed the political …

THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES IN INDIA

S Somanaboina
The persistence of caste inequalities, discrimination and exclusion of the Shudras in
an independent India despite the adoption of egalitarian principles in the Indian
Constitution reveals how deeply entrenched is the system and the specific …

EXPLORING SOUTH ASIAN URBANITY

U Mukhopadhyay
The interest on cities, particularly in the South Asian context, has created a
significant stir since the inception of globalization during the turn of the millennium.
These cities, with their uniqueness as well as a model of ‘chaotic’urbanism, have …

[HTML] Indian guinée cloth, West Africa, and the French colonial empire 1826–1925: Colonialism and imperialism as agents of globalization

T Masaki - Economic History of Developing Regions, 2021
ABSTRACT This study focuses on the global trade of guinée cloth mainly produced
in French India and exported to French West Africa from 1826 to 1925. The article
first re-examines the guinée cloth and its role in the western Sahel. Second, it …

Meaning Matters: The Political Language of Islamic Populism

I Rakhmani, V Hadiz - The Palgrave Handbook of Populism, 2022
… We draw on comparisons with the Hindutva movement in India as well in order to
gain more general insights into the forging of religiously derived languages of
populist politics—especially via the media and the processes of electoral politics …

Citizenship as Politics and Performance of Religious Identity: Hindu Refugees from Sindh

M Bhatia - Sociological Bulletin, 2021
Drawing from the ethnographic insights and experiences of Pakistani Hindu
refugees in Rajasthan, India, this article examines their agency, politics and
dilemmas. It illustrates how they actively participate in the process of their ‘becoming …

Blasphemy laws' evolution

SB Abbas - Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws, 2021
this chapter explores the claim that the Islamic state has historically used blasphemy
laws for political and social control. A brief background of Islamic law after the
Prophet’s death is given to throw light on how the laws evolved. It is important to …

Conclusion. The affiliates: where to?

SB Abbas - Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws, 2021
… We also have religious ideologies and nuclear arms; India is no exception, with
its Hindutva nationalism, as was seen during the Ayodha riots of 1993. Muslims in
India were terrified through the state machinery as the police watched Hindu …