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April 16, 2025

Macaulayan Orientalist Sri Aurobindo

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

An article on the life of Nirata and her association with the Mother authored by Anurag Banerjee has been published on the website of Overman Foundation.

 

To read the article, kindly click on the following link:


https://overmanfoundation.org/nirata-the-embodiment-of-sincere-devotion-by-anurag-banerjee/


With warm regards,

The Overman Foundation Team.


An article authored by Paulette Hadnagy entitled “Matrimandir—The Soul of Auroville” has been published on the website of Overman Foundation. To read the article, kindly click on the following link:


https://overmanfoundation.org/matrimandir-the-soul-of-auroville-by-paulette-hadnagy/


With warm regards,

Anurag Banerjee

Founder,

Overman Foundation.


On the occasion of Sudha Sundaram’s 88th birth anniversary, an article on her life authored by Anurag Banerjee has been posted on the website of Overman Foundation along with many of her photographs. To read the article, kindly click on the following link:


https://overmanfoundation.org/sudha-sundaram-in-memoriam-by-anurag-banerjee/


With warm regards,

The Overman Foundation Team.

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“Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole” – The Mother

RSS, BJP, DMK, INC, nationalists, communists, religionists, atheists, politicians, activists – STAY OFF Auroville!

https://x.com/Nimai_Swain/status/1912433131157618860?t=tzYZpkuBl2x84KeOU-N6Vw&s=19

Look what a swamp you've landed us in. To impress upon us the Vedas' meaning, you pass both the explicit source text & millennia worth of Ācāryas by to refer us to the Macaulayan Orientalist ("Indian in blood, English in intellect") Sri Aurobindo, rejected by traditionalists.

https://x.com/ElstKoenraad/status/1911872826455331068?t=T8ByMg7n_8o4I8T3o1tybg&s=19

On Twitter I always have to engage w/ hotheads replying to things I never said. What I said is not that I, but that your revered Aurobindo, no less, satisfied Said's  definition of an "Orientalist" & your own definition of a "Macaulayan". Which in my vocabulary isn't a slur.

https://x.com/ElstKoenraad/status/1911876491899531671?t=o_Msa_kbKD0OjXMpo0_b8A&s=19

1/ The battle over Auroville's future centers on the Crown Road project. 

What began as infrastructure development has become a fight for the township's soul, with residents facing evictions & a government that refuses to listen. thenewsminute.com/long-form/insi

https://x.com/thenewsminute/status/1912488680956260448?t=lp9I1glsX1yerltdIBKIyQ&s=19

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