Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Small and fertile islands studded with ports

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra 

11 hours ago — ... Sri Aurobindo terms, 'psychicisation'. Chomsky's vision of stimulus free language as an instrument of thought reveals the two planes of language, the one ...
17 hours ago — Readings From Sri Aurobindo " By Karan Singh ". EMI / HMV. Regular price Rs. 3,850.00 Sale. Default Title. Add to cart. Vinyl Record Condition.
The mind of the Westerner is a Mediterranean full of small and fertile islands, studded with ports to which the owner, a private merchant, eagerly flees.

12 Remembering Mariamman

S Stephanides - Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora: Indian …, 2023
… When I reached the famous Ashram and sat to meditate in the aromatic silence of its garden, I read and contemplated Sri Aurobindo’s geography of the spiritual imagination in his writings on the Upanishads. I was struck by his image of the …

In his foreword to La Tragédie d'Appasamy, author Sully Govindin states that 'no fiction has addressed the theme of return to the ancestral land'¹ (2007: 6) in …

V Rao - Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora: Indian …, 2023
… Within the town, jeeps carrying protestors shouted slogans against the Aurobindo Ashram as rumours fast spread that Sri Aurobindo and The Mother were against Pondicherry’s merger to the Indian Union. During this commotion, the household …

[PDF] FEMININE AWAKENING IN THE NOVELS OF KAMALA MARKANDAYA

SR Mehra
… Keeping in view the nature of Indian family, Sri Aurobindo says, “The primary impulse of life is individualistic and makes family, social and national life means for the greater satisfaction of the vital individual. In the family the individual seeks for the …

[PDF] IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS (HRM) PRACTICES ON JOB SATISFACTION

N BIRWAL, S KUMAR, A BANDHU, N AKHTER
Human resource management practices studied include those used for hiring new staff, enhancing existing workers' skills, and evaluating their performance. Four hundred faculty and staff members from public and private universities in India were …

[PDF] How do teacher educators engage with Indian education policies?

A Nangalia - 2023
Teacher educators are criticised in Indian education policies, academic research, and media reports for failing to implement policy reform. These criticisms centre around teacher educators’ practice being lecture-based, promoting rote learning …

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

A James, A Kubo, F Lavocat - 2023
… He has conducted fieldwork in France, Europe (on Buddhism in the West), Nepal (on Buddhism and Shamanism), the United States and Israel (on Jewish messianism), and South India (in Auroville). His research now explores the relationships between …

[HTML] Kapila's Violent Fraternity

J Patterson - Global Intellectual History, 2023
Kapila’s Violent Fraternity is both a richly researched study of the political ideas that were foundational to the birth of modern India, and a provocation to reconsider how we understand modern political thought itself, as a product of this moment and its …

Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal Metropolitan Cinema

RB Mehta - South Asian Review, 2023
… In contrast, articulations of twentieth century historical traumas or events have been nuanced, though both kinds of films are clearly symptomatic of Hindutva-aligned nationalism. The material conditions of Indian cinema have changed, and …

[PDF] India: Developmental challenges faced by a dual economy

Y Yang - Global Policy, 2023
… For example, the rise of Hindu nationalism, particularly the ascent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which openly advocates Hindutva, has played a central role in India's sharp decline in democratic accountability since 2014, as seen in Figure 1. In …

Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation: A Comparative Theology of Divine Possessions, by Joshua Samuel

BM Varghese - Journal of World Christianity, 2023
… Dalit conversion to Christianity becomes problematic to Hindutva nationalism due to its subversive nature and resistant agency. As a preamble to his discussion of Dalit divine possessions, Samuel makes critical remarks about the “God of Dalits.” …

1 Between Myths and Monuments

Y Shetty - Media Technology and Cultures of Memory: Mapping …, 2023
… with the socio-economic modernity they brought; a large-scale migration to Mumbai and the Gulf countries, thereby creating transoceanic connections; an increased presence of the private organizations in both education and the health …

[PDF] Democratizing Spiritual Sphere: Radical Bhakti Traditions in the Telugu-Speaking Region in India

C Gopani - CASTE/A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 2023
… Gail Omvedt rightly pointed out that the subaltern intellectuals’ utopias historically negated both Gandhi’s Ram Raj and the idea of Hindu majoritarian Hindutva Raj. Bhakti radicals’ life and struggles were organically connected with subaltern masses …

[PDF] Teaching Dalit Bahujan Utopias: Notes from the Classroom

N Sukumar - CASTE/A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 2023
… As Social Darwinism is being confronted in the classroom, Hindutva groups in the university are deeply rattled. For the purpose of this article, only the feedback from the course—Dalit Bahujan Political Thought is being discussed. The feedback was …

One of the most disgusting things in India today is the business of accusations being traded without basis and without recourse to or recognition of any independent third-party assessment. Any culture in which there's no respect for objective assessment is a lesser culture

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1721554497284239507?t=V124Fcgj7nbv3XJrchxpJQ&s=19

When history is contested it ceases to be a common ground. Prefer those who discuss the present and future to those who cite history to justify their wrongs. Without an agreement on who the witnesses to #History should be, it makes no sense.

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1721556840557977682?t=22rKwuOfp4to9SbG--Tqfw&s=19

This is one reason why "Greek tragedy" is apt.. there is total and absolute inability to see what the other is thinking... Their blindness is to think that these are not a "real people" and can be convinced to give up all higher level dreams and be happy as a conquered but comfortable people/refugees...

https://twitter.com/omarali50/status/1721634919032758304?t=0SvusYbBB2WLz0feM9sfyA&s=19

@hydertext It happens with bipolarity, One day you behave like you have defeated superpower/technologically superior power with your grit & belief and next day you pretend to be victim of same powers. You're stuck in your make believe world but your actions have consequences.

https://twitter.com/luckyfresh/status/1721637257759867068?t=ZYQQX7BMebGsslYur5dHEg&s=19

This is a common refrain, but is it correct?  Biden is clearly pressing israel to kill a few less civilians, Trump wud encourage them to kill more and get it over with quickly. In terms of intent, Biden is clearly more humane than Trump. In terms of results, Trump may save more lives (by getting more done quicker) but he does not have any sympathy for Palestinians and makes that very clear.. Biden, poor senile president that he is, does have some sympathy..

https://twitter.com/omarali50/status/1721624752975192342?t=-QcxK1_PkEoQTSlbf1FmzQ&s=19

No one assured me that the country I was born in will be a highly developed one. So, no frustration on that count. No one gave any firm indication that human misery will vanish. So, no disappointment on that score, either. That leaves only The Mother & Sri Aurobindo to rely upon.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1721304436675670351?t=iSPA2pbwOQArB_n52hJafw&s=19