Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
"He thought of the writer Aldous Huxley’s description of an ideal totalitarian state, a condition he thought applied to Indians: they were inside a prison whose walls they could not see." - from a riveting excerpt of @rahulabhatia 's new book. Out now!
https://x.com/narayani_basu/status/1828325846714597455?t=ggGisBGVR0TVRjWwFLzyiA&s=19
Dawn Fire, Auroville - 152nd birthday celebration of Sri Aurobindo
A symbolic rekindling of the flame of aspiration carried by the Charter that was placed inside the Urn along with the earth from around the world. It's like reinvoking that call for humanity and its future.
https://x.com/AurovilleMedia/status/1828328581543481569?t=An3CEYPKg2HsUejIE1-rfg&s=19
Oh that's true, I think it's a very radical idea, without any precedent to it. I don't think it will happen anytime soon because it challenges so many norms. The theoretical advantage is very obvious imo. Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga is a tremendous possibility. Whether or not it actually succeeds is irrelevant to me. What matters more to me is that serious efforts are put into the cause because the possibility is unbelievably good in my eyes.
https://x.com/AnmolRasto89079/status/1828458699372868030?t=sFYxllBsCFf0XIQjfCE58w&s=19
On the occasion of International Day of Democracy, AuroBharati, Sri Aurobindo Society, Union Territory of Puducherry presents Sri Aurobindo Integral Study & Research Forum on the theme ‘India’s Contribution to the World of Democracy’ 15/09/ 2024 at 06.p.m.docs.google.com/forms/d/1W1VOz…
https://x.com/Drkktripathy/status/1828510013054161143?t=3UPpDEp0uyVtxt8-3x921A&s=19
World Sanskrit Day was celebrated by AuroBharati, Sri Aurobindo Society Puducherry focusing on a week-long theme ‘Vedic Heritage & Tradition’ from 19-25 August, 2024.
https://x.com/Drkktripathy/status/1828510598734221673?t=sSzJOwp3IJeQLx2QlMPgdA&s=19
Bharat Vaibhav: Diversity of Expressions & the Cultural Unity of India by AuroBharati, Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry, 5th September, 2024 05:00 pm Registration Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1ilKRV…
https://x.com/Drkktripathy/status/1828510792880148765?t=r_tUzDrvO90N84tRi3e1tw&s=19
Last week The Atlantic featured an article on the rising popularity of race/IQ science on the right (theatlantic.com/technology/arc…). The obvious point that "intelligence is not like height" sparked an unusual amount of whinging. I wrote about how this is now more true than ever. The specific claim in the article was that genetic variants for intelligence "predict only a small fraction of someone’s IQ score", unlike for height. This is true today and it will remain true, because the heritability of IQ is much lower than that of height. Full post here:
open.substack.com/pub/theinfinit…
https://x.com/SashaGusevPosts/status/1828182439153349081?t=Q-mHc7pVQ6TLUjeBwECBCg&s=19
Great thread. In a similar vein, I'm gonna take this opportunity to take this hot, controversial & incredibly politicised topic to make a couple of points about measurement theory (which usually makes people go to sleep). 1/
IQ OTOH, is measured by a range of abstract reasoning tests (verbal, spatial, maths, memory etc). The idea is to avoid measuring education or learning, but it's a pretty abstract category, and the tests are rather unnatural and artificial. Face validity? Kinda sorta maybe.
https://x.com/ArthurCDent/status/1828285850570109163?s=19
Although we do not know exactly how creativity works, we do know that it is itself an evolutionary process within individual brains. For it depends on conjecture (which is variation) and criticism (for the purpose of selecting ideas). So, somewhere inside brains, blind variations and selections are adding up to creative thought at a higher level of emergence.
@DavidDeutschOxf The Beginning of Infinity. Chapter 15: The Evolution of Culture. Page 501.
https://x.com/DeutschExplains/status/1828454658014126486?t=tMUpLlNIlwXv_416t7OUUQ&s=19
We will never know exactly how creativity works, but we can at least know that it is active in the cosmos and not the figment of individual human brains. Individual brains are its creation.
https://x.com/ThouArtThat/status/1828646215065665777?t=scKSfIq6gJD9x3n1W2NNHw&s=19
Everything in our environment here on Earth is structured by evolution and selection - we should not take as granted the universe can spontaneously do things we see everyday, from making complex objects in high abundance to performing computation - all evidence points to those things emerging via selection and time generating information and by no other mechanism
https://x.com/Sara_Imari/status/1828467113390154239?t=B4g8m0I0yODOBmJA45pJTA&s=19
"For our early human ancestors, every social interaction held potentially life-threatening importance. We still carry this psychology with us today. We will endure minor and sometimes even extreme discomfort to avoid the negative judgment of strangers."
https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1828547286546153559?t=2O2bVr7iVdcAcEfnLUGNdA&s=19
Sharing excerpts of my forthcoming @PrincetonUPress book, "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx." This passage on Mill explores the effects of concentrated wealth on legislation. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
https://x.com/LayWilliams/status/1828127894125813767?t=4V3VT8QVhm5C2pMJcZIBJw&s=19
AM Steketee, SM Harden - Public Health in Practice, 2024
The purpose of this commentary is to describe combinatory play as a practice for elevating creativity and well-being among public health professionals. Albert Einstein introduced combinatory play in a letter to a colleague, and, in this …
A Deshmukh, F Janssen-Lauret - The Philosophical Quarterly, 2024
We argue that Indian speakers’ discourse about reincarnation represents a counterexample to the ordinary-language evidence for the Kripkean thesis of material-origin essentialism. Advocates of the essentiality of origins contend not only …
S Bhushan - 2024
… Vasudev, Swami Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar have been instrumental in interpreting and propagating Hindutva as a way of life. It has been explained as the Designer of Hindutva. Hindutva has been established as an icon of Oneness …
A Clarke - Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2024
… In the months since the violence, many journalists, community leaders, and academics have made reference to the influence of the nationalist movement, Hindutva, and the increasingly Islamophobic rhetoric and policies coming from …
A Singh - The Routledge Handbook of Tribe and Religions in …, 2025
… The Hindutva forces that are trying to develop the ideology of … Hindutva politics since the 1990s have used this religio-cultural proximity as a marker of Adivasis being Hindus. They are trying to appropriate the Adivasis as their supporters by …
H Tilley - Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, 2024
This essay uses the parable of "The Blind Men and the Elephant" alongside two vignettes relating to the British and American Empires to explore a series of propositions about the world in terms of teaching the science/knowledge divide in …
D Shankar - Culture, Theory and Critique, 2024
… Sahana Udupa terms 'enterprise Hindutva' has triggered conflicting reactions to everyday incidents, highlighting the need for a new language to address unique problems faced by vegans and animal rights activists whose politics clash with …
JS Deepak - Intellectual Decolonisation: Critical Perspectives, 2024
… foot soldiers of Hindutva on December 6, 1992, the temple now stands as a monument to the decay and death of an inclusive, secular Indian state. This chapter is a short chronicle of that death foretold. J Sai Deepak, a prominent lawyer …
S Mathur
… The Hindutva movement is associated with right-wing extremism and has spread to Hindu communities worldwide. This resurgence of Hindutva … The opposing view describes the Hindutva movement as Hindu fundamentalists responsible for …
Y Ziwei
… In The Year of the Runaways, Tochi, a Chamaar, is denied employment by landlords because of “the elections,” and his family are even slaughtered by religious extremists who vow to restore the purity of Hindutva; In A Fine Balance …
R Chowdhury
… context where the epitomised view of masculinity becomes deeply entrenched in Hindutva ethos. Muscular nationalism, she notes, is the … militant Hindutva patriarchal politics (Banerjee 274). Banerjee’s discussion on muscular nationalism …
AD Miller - Foreign Affairs
The polarisation of society in the 21st century has become a significant threat to both state governments and the functioning of national communities themselves. Issues of religion and religiosity, placed within the framework of secular institutions, have …
M Aidnik - The Public University as a Real Utopia: Towards a …, 2024
This chapter engages with the issue of academic freedom as a particular real utopia. The provision of academic freedom is one of the core aims of university governance. Having focused on institutional governance in the previous chapter, I now want to …
RA Peerzada, A Sharma, AA Gurumurthy… - Human Geography, 2024
Analyzing the trope of “light but tight” education frequently used in India's New Education Policy 2020, this paper examines the mutually reinforcing ideological connections between neoliberalism and neoconservatism in the state's latest vision …
H Alibalaei, J Ilavarasu - Journal of Applied Consciousness Studies, 2024
… This scoping review of 28 articles on yoga and meditation revealed three main themes: the effect on the physical body, the impact on the … Yoga and meditation are believed to possess extraordinary powers, intellectual capabilities, and mental …
SK Verma, M Pandey, A Sharma, D Singh - Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2024
… Ayurveda emphasizes the integration of yoga and meditation practices to enhance overall well-being. Yoga postures, breathing exercises, and meditation techniques are recommended to balance doshas, promote mental clarity, and …
V Vinu, JN Srikanth, K Nagendra Prasad, L Dsouza - 2024
… Modern Yoga literature discusses several styles of yoga as well as the importance of being taught by a guru [2]. The history of yoga is … SBY as part of other yoga-like prajna yoga, multi-sensory yoga, and Multimodal Mandala yoga was …
R Banerjee, D Sahu - Journal of Applied Consciousness Studies, 2024
… In this work, we restrict the meaning of psychic prana to an energy form integral to the internal state and in concurrence with volition, imbued with goal-directed intrinsic teleology (or intention). Psychic prana or energy must be distinguished from purely …
AC Shivaram, J Ilavarasu, R Bhat - Journal of Applied Consciousness Studies, 2024
… discussed in Patañjali’s Yoga darśana and an information flow model proposed based on Sāṅkhya and Yoga darśana. Sense perception as a … This study demonstrated a measurable decrease in entropy and an increase in integral area …
RK Ruchi
Public parks are vital for the well-being of senior citizens, offering spaces for social engagement, physical activity, and mental rejuvenation. This study explores how specific park landscape features contribute to the well-being of seniors. Using a …
M Corbett, K den Heyer, L Merriweather, J Miller - Engaging with Meditative Inquiry in …
… Humanity has an integral connection between individual personhood and the ontological we (Merriweather, 2019). That is, community … I started doing hatha yoga in 1968 and found that doing the asanas were very helpful and triggered an …
PK Balachandran, S Observer
Though he failed as a President due to various factors and had to abdicate his presidency, there were many personal attributes favourable to GR. These personal attributes profoundly augmented his victory at the Presidential Elections. He was …
S Khan, K Chattopadhyay, A Vanaik, M Navid
… it too cannot, programmatically speaking, significantly distinguish itself from the BJP; they all support an economic policy of compensatory neoliberalism, a foreign policy of nationalist belligerence coupled with a pro-US strategic orientation, and …
