June 30, 2025

Champaklal's first meeting with Sri Aurobindo

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

songs in Sanskrit, Hindi and Gujarati on The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, set to music by himself. At present he is a full time music teacher in Sri Aurobindo ...
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On Champaklal's birthday 2 Feb....

https://youtu.be/PJOCCalFfqk?si=6h-gDSPnJ-6-SHtx

I still think one of the best movies loosely based on emergency - yet woven with a nice romance - great performance by Sanjeev kumar and Suchitra sen .. was “ aandhi “ .. was banned and then released later.

https://x.com/_pallavighosh/status/1937705497764987017?t=gDZf6LOjqwCBHgBR2i_e3g&s=19

Beg to differ. The best one so far has been @IAmSudhirMishra ‘s “Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi” with @kaykaymenon02 , Chitrangada Singh n Shiney Ahuja. #Emergency

https://x.com/nistula/status/1937708119473139730?t=nVwnJHZISn1mN9ySvQTqnw&s=19

I have always felt that aandhi just brushed passed #EmergencyIndia1975 . It didn’t quite deal with the subject. It was more about human relationships. But still they banned It. Mere Apne dealt with the situation leading upto the Emergency in a more upfront, head-on manner

https://x.com/missartola/status/1937707688810402269?t=5UF0qmVEWonOUVk0dgbm-Q&s=19

What about Kissa Kursi Ka?

https://x.com/kitsharma/status/1937708754964750838?t=RjpIu-5U8SCLC-UR0Dl7-Q&s=19

[HTML] To hug or not to hug? Public and private displays of affection and relationship satisfaction among people from Indonesia, Nepal, and Poland

D Kocur, Ł Jach, M Sitko-Dominik, S Dhakal, N Sharma… - PLOS ONE, 2025
Displays of romantic affection, both public and private, contribute to improved well-being, reduced stress, greater life satisfaction, and enhanced relationship satisfaction. However, cultural norms significantly influence the expression of affection …

Tagore's Sriniketan Experiment

SK Paul, S Dutta - Best Practices in Sustainable Development Goals, 2025
T The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a collection of seventeen worldwide accepted objectives formulated in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These goals …

[PDF] Revitalizing Higher Education through Indian Knowledge System in the Light of NEP-2020

P Sahoo, U Khuntia - Critical Journal of Social Sciences, 2025
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Tamil Nadu: Hindu Nationalism in Dravidian Land

CJ Lillelund - Forum for Development Studies, 2025
… According to Sudipto Mondal, a journalist and political observer, it is now possible to discern ‘a new generation of lowered caste Hindutva leaders in the state where the [Hindutva] movement has been traditionally kept alive by Tamil Brahmins and a …

[PDF] Populism and Anti-Establishment Discourses in Dravidian Politics: Effects on Party System Stability in Tamil Nadu

P Thiruppathi - South Asia Journal for Minorities, 2025
… Phase 2: Class Divides – There was dilution of the ideology of Dravidianism under the impact of Hindutva, class within OBC, and … characterized by the decline of Dravidian ideology and the ascendance of Hindutva, which compelled Dalits and …

“HALALKHOR”: THE UNTOUCHABLES OF

M INDIA
This paper aims to explore the history of a specific community known as the “halalkhor” in Indian society. They worked as scavengers and household servants in early Modern North Indian society and, due to their religious exclusion and engagement …

[PDF] Political Homogeneity and Minority Exclusion in South Asia: A Comparative Study of India and Bangladesh

I Ahmed, MR Khalili - South Asia Journal for Minorities, 2025
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The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood, by SHENILA KHOJA-MOOLJI

F Masood - 2025
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On the sources for critical Muslim geographies: Rebellion and tradition

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AB Soage - Critical Journal of Social Sciences, 2025
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Born without a country: discourses of non-state actors in Tibetan diasporic media in India

B Roy - Asian Ethnicity, 2025
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Exploring Retention Strategies for Women Employees: A Study of Selected IT Organizations in India.

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June 27, 2025

The individual engages with the universal consciousness

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

songs in Sanskrit, Hindi and Gujarati on The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, set to music by himself. At present he is a full time music teacher in Sri Aurobindo ...
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8 hours ago — Is there any difference between the life of someone who follows the Bhagavad Gita and someone who follows the teachings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo ?
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The Human Cycle - Sri Aurobindo : Chapter IX - Civilisation and Culture - Para 3 to 4. The Life Divine Online Study · 1:19:00 · The Human Cycle - Sri Aurobindo ...
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172-173). No views · 21 minutes ago ...more. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo : E-library ... Lecture series on Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga (by Ranganath), pp 172 ...
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Born September 9, 1929, in Baudh (then Phulbani District, Madras Presidency), Devendra Satpathy became a dedicated freedom fighter through Odisha’s Prajamandal movement. He later joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram and studied at Christ College, Cuttack.

#Odisha #OdiaIcons

https://x.com/odiagatha/status/1938076148455641533?t=_21AlENzBO4QhyLheP_SsQ&s=19

Sri Aurobindo on the elimination of war

motsac.org/warandselfdete

https://x.com/drsbasu2115/status/1938636854284489181?t=4DpRtlW2T65QbMsYevAsgQ&s=19

Great light on the topic of  Supramental and its action  in Sri Aurobindo's own words.

On the descent of supermind, the evolution of a gnostic species, and the futility of speculations about all that, by @ujmpondy open.substack.com/pub/aurocafe/p

https://x.com/PactAuroville/status/1938491525123727583?t=dcXw-W2K-bLezBwMVE-VVw&s=19

This Cambrian animal is the "missing link" between bilateral (head and tail) and radial (starfish, no front or rear) symmetry.The fossil record is full of such transitional species. It makes me think what short-lived post-human "missing link" stages will appear in the near future

https://x.com/akazlev/status/1938300225397096465?t=Lmb1-Ry-UIAMCWtRfHfwEA&s=19

"One reason there was this explosion of culture was a period of relative peace after 1454. The five major Italian states did a deal recognising spheres of influence and the amount warfare was reduced."

https://x.com/five_books/status/1938583376862011770?t=5OKwt57Sqhzn7ieRPWFkAQ&s=19

A noteworthy feature of #JimMasselos’s historical writings on Bombay is his sharp awareness of the ambiguities, contradictions and tensions that structure the social worlds of the city. 

https://scroll.in/article/1083895/

Prashant Kidambi writes about the historian's love for Mumbai.

https://bsky.app/profile/scroll.in/post/3lsltffsqq22h

A handbook on #omnipresence has just been published with OUP, with, among others, chapters also on #SanskritPhilosophy, #Philosophy in the Islamic world, Buddhist philosophy etc.

#GlobalPhilosophy

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/60555

https://bsky.app/profile/elisafreschi.bsky.social/post/3lslczodhnk2m

INDIRA GANDHI'S EMERGENCY SAVED INDIA

Honouring Indira Gandhi’s Courageous Legacy:

On this historic 50th anniversary of the Emergency, June 25, 2025, we pay tribute to Indira Gandhi’s fearless leadership in invoking Article 352 of the Indian Constitution to shield India from a perilous cascade of chaos and conspiracy.

https://x.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1937808484642570510?t=QMh2EriGBHX31UhETH_-iA&s=19

[PDF] Transcending the Paradigm of Mind: Aurobindo's Psychology of Consciousness

TJ Paul - ReseaRch essence
… Sri Aurobindo opines that we are ignorant of this truth because we identify consciousness with the individual. The individual engages with the universal consciousness on both a subconscious and superconscious level. The embodied …

[PDF] Lives on screen a study of select malayalam biopics

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… In this article, he focuses on the post-studio era and television as significant sites of biopic production. With tables of biopic subjects … to investigate Hollywood's cultural context in the latter half of the twentieth century and how it created public …

Nationalism in India: Multiple Dimensions and Ideologies

B Chakrabarty - 2025 - books.google.com
This book explores the diverse ideational visions of key leaders in India's freedom struggle, highlighting both their differences and similarities. While rooted in distinct political and …

[PDF] Counterview: India's past deserves more than apologia or amnesia

RS Krishna - 2025
The article “India’s complex history cannot be wished away through textbook revisions–it must be confronted”, by Hasnain Naqvi published in Scroll on May 3 claims to defend the complexity of Indian history from ideological tampering. But behind its rhetoric of “confrontation” and “complexity” lies a deeper discomfort with the idea of India as a coherent civilisation. What it actually defends is not history per se, but a specific historiographic orthodoxy: one that
emerged in the postcolonial decades and became hegemonic in our textbooks, universities and public 

[PDF] Divergent epistemologies for policy transfer: Comparative Examination of the disciplines of 'Development Studies' and 'Public Policy'

S Pellissery, S Das, R Sanil
Over sixty years, precisely since the end of World War II,‘Development Studies’(DS) as a discipline had dominated to inform the policy advice in the countries of Global South. United Kingdom, where the discipline originated and thrived, primarily trained …

Managing conflict in global virtual teams: a study in cultural intelligence

S Varma, R Awasthy, M Adya - European Journal of International Management, 2025
Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) based projects provide a robust experiential learning environment to develop and enhance the global mind set and workforce readiness of dispersed teams. Yet, this learning environment can be negatively impacted by …

The Exotic and the Ecstatic: Studies of Two Brass Bands from Rajasthan and the Global Music Market

A Mathur - Journal of World Popular Music, 2025
… He is the facilitator and designer of a music production course at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Creativity, New Delhi. Abhishek also works with the online platform Norient as the producer of a podcast series called Timezones, which …

[PDF] From Swamp to Sanctuary: Park Ravne 2 in Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina as a Vision-Driven Model of Ecological Rebirth, Archaeological Discovery, and Cultural …

S Osmanagich
… Founded in 1968 as an experiment in human unity, Auroville features community-led ecological projects, cultural pavilions, and spiritual architecture. Like Ravne 2, it rejects commercialization and centers collective well-being and cultural identity …

Born without a country: discourses of non-state actors in Tibetan diasporic media in India

B Roy - Asian Ethnicity, 2025
Diasporic media preserves the diasporic community’s self-representation and cultural identity while fostering connections and converting them into dynamic media creators. Studies in diasporic media, especially those of Tibetan non-state actors …