Monday, February 05, 2024

Sanskrit and Integral Psychology

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

The 7th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium is scheduled on February 15-17, 2024 and will be held at Unity Pavilion, Auroville, Puducherry, India.

More info :- 

iscls.github.io

Register here :- https://twitter.com/_samvadah_/status/1754056655795519989?t=NfXbWLVS-CF8xg-HgiHlqg&s=19

Auroville Sanskrit Literature Festival - which is going to happen from 7th to 8th of February 2024. 

All are welcome to participate in this festive

#Auroville #SanskritLitFest #InternationalConference https://twitter.com/JayantiRavi/status/1754383860383744411?t=fuxzAubmLbpnnCf_v3Z2-A&s=19

New Episode! "How Does Experience in One Lifetime Become Useful in Future Lifetimes?"

reference: 

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology , Chapter 6, Some Answers …

Player links & show notes: https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1754518431796236516?t=TJ6jTdFYkhR1VaUfKFEbGA&s=19

AuroBharati, Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry University,  & Banaras Hindu University cordially invites for the interactive session on “Integral Psychology.” Study in India Exposure Program, 2024-Pandit Deendayal energy University & Edith Cowan University (ECU),7-2-2024. https://twitter.com/aurobharati/status/1754376945855508551?t=Ja99uGR_r6TO_sZpavgeeg&s=19

[PDF] Sri Aurobindo's Principles, Philosophy, Nationalism And Education: A Critique

S Mandi - Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics Culture, 2023
Sri Aurobindo is a great educationist, philosopher and nationalist. He has made an extremely special contribution to the subject of education. In real-world applications, he combines Western and Indian philosophy. We move from materialism to …

Peripheral Urbanization as Queer Identity in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

J Fedtke
In an interview with Decca Aitkenhead, Booker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy addresses the fact that she and her work have often been called “the voice of the voiceless,” pointing to the inadequacy of the moniker from her perspective:“it makes …

[PDF] Silent Sufferers Unveiled: Exploring Women's Trauma through Shahnaz Bashir's Scattered Souls

S Mohsin, M Hayat, S Akhter - Pakistan Journal of Terrorism Research, 2023
… This research aims to bring to the fore these marginalized voices that are suppressed by larger nationalist Hindutva narratives. Bashir's stories, acting as conduits, offer a glimpse into their concealed struggles, revealing the suppressed …

Jigisha Bhattacharya Bhuvaneswari Bhaduri killed herself at the tender age of 17 in 1926, after failing to carry out a political assassination-a task assigned to her in the …

L Menstruation - Contemporary Gender Formations in India: In-between …, 2024
… The culture of Hindutva and the economy of neoliberal capital have further resulted in the marginalisation of women in more complex ways than ever before. Even if women can be divided into white-and blue-collar jobs within the formal …

[PDF] Romance, Aesthetics, and Progressivism in Marathi Literary Culture: Narayan Sitaram Phadke and the Modern Marathi Novel

U Anjaria, A Nerlekar
This chapter explores the interplay between sexuality, caste, and power in early-20th-century Marathi literary culture by engaging with the works of Narayan Sitaram Phadke (1894–1978), a renowned Marathi novelist. Phadke’s writings emphasized materiality and body, …

[PDF] To my friends, Jutta Holländer and Peter Schmidt-Holländer.

J Holländer
Religions have accompanied mankind since the beginning of its existence, and there are many indications that its development was facilitated by them. Analysis of the history of homo sapiens also allows the conclusion that its success has been …

[PDF] MORE THAN RESENTMENT: THE AFFECTIVE APPEAL OF RADICAL RIGHT-WING POPULISM

HG BETZ - Populism and Migration
… 60 Kinnvall, Catarina:“Populism, ontological insecurity and Hindutva: Modi and the masculinization of Indian politics”. Cambridge Review of … Kinnvall, Catarina:“Populism, ontological insecurity and Hindutva: Modi and the masculinization of Indian politics” …

[PDF] Caste Inequalities in Contemporary Assam

S Ray, P Das - Economic & Political Weekly, 2023
The prevalence of caste-based inequalities in contemporary Assam is examined in this article. Although scholars in the context of North East India in general have examined caste–tribe relations and racial discrimination, caste-based disparities …

A POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES APPROACH

S Roy - The Epic World, 2024
… Driven by an ideology of Hindu chauvinism (Hindutva), they sought to justify the demolition of a sixteenth-century mosque reputed to be built on the … This essay earned Hindutva ire for describing alternative, regional, and subversive versions of …

Conflict, Violence, and Reconciliation

DFE Pilario - Fratelli Tutti: A Global Commentary, 2024
Already in its opening chapter, Fratelli Tutti makes explicit some of the enemies of fraternity and social friendship:“War, terrorist attacks, racial or religious persecution, and many other affronts to human dignity”(FT 25). These forms of social violence that …

Queer Desi Formations

G Reddy
“What is it about the desi queer community in this city?” Ganesh, a self-identified queer, cosmopolitan, Hindu, upper-caste/class man, who had recently moved to Chicago, asked me irritatedly. 1 “It’s bizarre! This is the only major city that I have …

Facing Caste: Engaging with the Privileged

S Noronha, B Choksi - Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2024
The structural inequalities perpetuated by the caste system are a grave challenge to creating a just society. The education system pays short shrift to this topic and caste discrimination is spoken about without holding caste privilege accountable …

[PDF] Islam and the Contemporary World

K Hussain - 2023
… These have been tarnished in the last few years with the Hindutva ideology and the narrative that is reverberating across the world. We have also seen the emergence of the religious right here in the US and this movement is now coming to …

Translation and Anticolonial Revivalism: SR Rajwade's Appropriation of FW Nietzsche

M Kulkarni
The renowned theorist of nationalism, Benedict Anderson, employs the trope of “an inverted telescope” while describing the often defamiliarising representations of Europe or the West in non-Western, postcolonial parts of the world. 2 The visual …

Remembering partition in diaspora films

S Sadasivan, AG Roy - South Asian Diaspora, 2024
… Further, in recent years, Hindutva ideologies have been on a rise at the national level (with … This rise in Hindutva nationalist sentiments build on the nineteenth century nationalist idea … , Chadha's film, released in 2017 during the Hindutva …

[PDF] Politics and Propaganda in the Films: Critical Engagement with the Kashmir Files

MM Waggy, KW Hassan
… This sense of loss and erasure is precisely what Hindutva, or Hindu nationalist forces, have capitalized on since 1989. Instead of treating Kashmir as a political matter, the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies have turned it primarily into a …

Healing the Bloody Line: Suturing Indians and Pakistanis into Hindi Cinema and Pakistani Telesoaps

AG Roy - Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2024
The asymmetry of political with social, linguistic and cultural borders and the contradiction between national citizenship and cultural belonging is now an established trope in the discussion of borders in Partition Studies. Less examined is …

[PDF] Major Powers' Interests in IOR And Implications for the Region

SKH Hashmi, BB Haider, I Zahid - Journal of Nautical Eye and Strategic Studies, 2023
… The way India interacts with its neighbours and the Hindutva policies of discrimination inside the nation show that it lacks a leadership vision. Due to India's obstinate stance, SAARC was unable to thrive like other alliances. It plays a saboteur’s …

'To instil the feeling of patriotism': Bharat Mata temples in the construction of the religion of nationalism in India

I Tirkey - National Identities, 2024
… Here, we see that the Nyas made use of the day by drawing attention to the Hindutva cause, as seen by the speech made by the chief guest, while also presenting the status of Bharat Mata as universal. The day is an example of the …

In the name of dignity and respect: international migration and the ethnopopulist backlash

HG Betz - Migration and Nationalism, 2024
Few major contemporary sociopolitical issues have provoked as extensive, passionate, profound and prolonged an emotional response among the general public as has international migration. In general, the emotions evoked by migration …

[PDF] Jammu and Kashmir After August 5, 2019: The Ongoing Struggle for Human Rights

Y Zaib - International Journal of Kashmir Studies, 2023
This study delves into the aftermath of the Indian government's amendments to Article 370 on August 5, 2019, and the subsequent revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status. Ongoing reports indicate a disturbing pattern of human …

[PDF] ABROGATION OF ARTICLE 370 IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR: A STEP TOWARDS HUMAN CATACLYSM

MM Mahire
The present study has been conducted to examine On August 5, 2019, the Indian government repealed Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. The dissolution of Article 370 successfully ended the independence and specialisation of Jammu and Kashmir …

5 Whose Blood Is It Anyway? Locating Menstruation, Women's Rights

J Bhattacharya
… The culture of Hindutva and the economy of neoliberal capital have further resulted in the marginalisation of women in more complex ways than ever before. Even if women can be divided into white- and blue-collar jobs within the formal …

14 The Evidence of Rape

T Verma, R Gajjala - Contemporary Gender Formations in India: In-between …, 2024
… The onus here is on the feminists, who often have the loudest voice in these movements, to assess their caste, class and religious privilege (especially as the Hindutva narrative dominates the current discourse) in call-out movements and …

14 Religiously Literate for What Context?

K Niemi - Religious Literacy in Secular Religious Education …, 2024
The concept of “religious literacy” has gained traction in educational practices during recent decades, particularly in contexts like the UK (Hannam et al., 2020, p. 215). One example is the locally agreed syllabus for Religious Education in Norfolk, UK …

[PDF] From Resolution to Revocation: Charting the Impact of Article 370 on Security Council Dynamics

M Hasnain, S Qurban - International Journal of Kashmir Studies, 2023
The research study focuses on the impact of the Revocation of Article 370 on Security Council resolution, with a special focus on the historical perspective. This abrogation has all of a sudden not become part of the internationally disputed …

[PDF] Dark patterns: How design tricks manipulate users

N Naren - The New Indian Express, 2024
… For the first time, a thick line has been drawn, perhaps unintendedly, between political Hindutva and religious Hinduism, but few expect … Hindutva opponents must understand that assertion of Hindu-ness is an integral part of project …

[PDF] Promoting Intersectional Development Research Case study report| Number 3

C Collaborative, C Foregrounding - 2023
… The Indian case is indicative of a wide-ranging institutionalisation of a Hindutva ideology that marginalised all who were framed as other. … extremist Hindutva ideology has been multipronged and extensive. The paper lays out multiple …

SOUTH ASIA

I Firdous, I Bashar, S Ramachandran, A Basit - Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses, 2024
… Recent developments indicate that Hindutva violence has gone global, too. As in India, Hindutva supporters abroad are issuing threats and attacking Sikhs and Muslims. Violent clashes have broken out between Hindutva groups and Khalistan …

Digital Shadows

B Mok, S Basha - Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses, 2024
… rift between the fringe pro-Hindutva extremists and the mainstream pro-government elements of the Hindutva movement, particularly with … in anti-government narratives being circulated on fringe proHindutva online Telegram channels. Many …

[PDF] A Nation of Imaginaries: Negotiating India's Collective Identity through Mughal Miniatures

A Mohammed-Khaja - 2024
… an urban space where Hindutva ideals take shape aggressively against a Muslim Other, inscribing the Hindutva imaginary deep into the … The intellectual father of Hindu Nationalism, Savarkar introduces Hindutva as a way of life and notes three …

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Bias towards Humanities

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Aurora Mirabilis has seen 7645 hits this month. I have been tending a number of such blog-sites since 2005 which contain innumerable links and hints to varieties of knowledge sources. As Director of Savitri Era Learning Forum, I have a bias for Humanities.

auroramirabilis.blogspot.com/2017/05/for-so…

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1740984535767204193?t=g6xgIviItLr8QHn8S5QaJA&s=19

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Facets of India's Illiberalism

C Jaffrelot - 2023
… This new orientation relies on an ethno-nationalist ideology, Hindutva, that is embodied in a century-old movement, the RSS, which has developed a huge network across society (including a student union and a labor union). This network …

[PDF] Mainstream Weekly

C Kumar
… In doing so, BJP did not just benefit electorally but also fulfil its aims of building a civilisational Hindutva state. Here it is essential to highlight the role played by RSS at the root level. RSS considers tribes ’Vanvasi’, meaning those people live in the forest. …

Between the divine and digital: Parsing Modi's charismatic avatar

S Rai - Media, Culture & Society, 2023
This article explores the production of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s saintly charismatic avatar and the mediations of this avatar that seek to bestow him with exceptional authority. It shows how Modi’s avatar is being incarnated along three …

[PDF] “Our blood is becoming white”: Race, religion, and Siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India

G Reddy - American Anthropologist, 2023
“Our blood is becoming white.” This was a constant lament I heard from siddis in contemporary Hyderabad, India—third‐ and fourth‐generation descendants of East African slaves and soldiers recruited by the local ruler or Nizam in the 1860s to form …

Pranab Bardhan, A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries

A Dawer - 2023
… Bardhan notes that, particularly in India, Hindutva right-wing forces invoke historical events to formulate tropes and stereotypical danger from Muslims to stoke further insecurities, which results in the rise of majoritarianism (p. 30). Central to the …

Personalization of politics through visuals: Interplay of identity, ideology, and gender in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election Campaign

D Shome, TA Neyazi, SWT Ng - Media, Culture & Society, 2023
… It is the creative use of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in addition to economic nationalism that has allowed the BJP to emerge as a … However, what is most significant in this image is the pronounced intersection between Hindutva and …

A decolonial birth for anthropology

B Singh - American Ethnologist, 2023
“What good is anthropology?” Rather than accepting a predetermined notion of the good, I ask, What ancestral spirits animate anthropology as a vocation? In pursuing this question, I turn to the inaugural issue of American Ethnologist, which, I suggest …

Liquid Sovereignty: Post-Colonial Statehood of China and India in the New International Order

A Karmazin - 2024
This book project studies the variation of sovereignty in international order by analysing how the general model of sovereignty is localised in the political practice of two major non-Western rising powers, namely China and India. It aims to …

Recognising and Misrecognising Shahrukh Khan in Pathaan

N Majumdar - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… in 2000, shows one of many ways in which the long arm of Hindutva extremism has been with us. One could similarly trace the multivalent … We can still do that, but given the current context of Hindutva power, we can also ask students to consider …

The Pathaan Effect

R Mazumdar - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… Ira Bhaskar describes the film as an intervention against Hindutva propaganda regarding Muslims and their lack of loyalty to the nation. She claims that the generic structure of the action spy thriller necessitates a commitment to patriotism, which …

Cinema in the Age of Social Media

RS Vasudevan, R Thomas, SV Srinivas, S Siddique… - BioScope: South Asian …, 2023
… Social media forms the infrastructure through which emerge not only the political organisation of Hindutva and the spectral figure of the … form that allows Dutta to formulate a documentary aesthetic that challenges Hindutva’s purifying politics to lay …

Pathaan: Action, Sensation and the Spectre of the Muslim

S Ghosh - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… The trolls and foot-soldiers of Hindutva have for years run hate campaigns to ‘kill’ SRK’s career and reputation. Their efforts intensified after the Narendra Modi-led government came to power in 2014. A film that dared to call itself Pathaan was …

Shamelessly Dancing with Pathaan: Reflections on Censorship in Time of Hindu Nationalism

M Mehta - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… The objections to ‘Besharam Rang’ adopt and cultivate Hindutva-looking practices, which seek to generate dichotomies, fix identities and create boundaries. Such practices invite us to view Padukone and Khan not as actors but as ossified …

[PDF] A Legacy of Loss: No Return Address: Partition and Stories of Displacement

E Marino - Testo e Senso, 2023
… massacre of Sikhs, after Indira Gandhi’s assassination11, in the demolition of Babri Masjid, attacked by a Hindutva mob in 1992 (allegedly, the mosque had been built on the site of Rama’s temple)12, and in the 2002 Gujarat riots, ignited by the …

On Pathaan: Betrayal, Commitment and Belonging

I Bhaskar - BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2023
… In the post 9/11 world, with rising global Islamophobia and its repercussions in India, where it has been coupled with the increasing percolation into the social fabric of Hindutva beliefs and ideologies, SRK continued to reiterate his secular identity as …

[PDF] Breaking the Silence: A Critical Analysis of Dalit Women's Worldview in Urmila Pawar's Motherwit

K Singh - Creative Saplings, 2023
The Dalit group is among the most oppressed under the contentious but widely accepted social structure known as caste, but some Dalit women have experienced even worse subjugation. The perspective of oppressed Dalit women is examined in …

[PDF] The Shaheen Bagh Strike: Muslim Women and Political Protest in Contemporary India

M Biswas - Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social …, 2023
The Shaheen Bagh protest in New Delhi highlighted the changing dynamics of Muslim women’s participation in socio-political movements in India. This paper argues how Muslim women proved themselves to be concerned citizens while …

[PDF] Radical Perspectives: A Radical History Review book series

DJ Walkowitz, B Weinstein
… For Rao and his ilk, Indian historians need to abandon their Marxist and Western hiseoriographicalways to make way for a Hindutva-infused … , we are thus called Ponto insist on a protean and divcrse past that rejects an instrumentalist and triumphalist …

[PDF] RE-VISITING THE TRADITIONAL CONFLICT: ANALYSIS OF KASHMIR DISPUTE USING CONSTRUCTIVIST FRAMEWORK

ZB Inam - ISSRA Papers, 2023
This article seeks to explicate the interpretative analysis of Kashmir dispute. The epistemological shift in the global politics requires the appreciation of endogenous and exogenous factors. The Kashmir conflict is a perpetual strand between India-Pakistan …

[PDF] Unraveling Bollywood's Propaganda: A Framework for Analysing Political Narratives in Indian Cinema

A Palasseri - Journal of Communication and Management, 2023
This research paper delves into the intricate relationship between Bollywood cinema and propaganda. Bollywood, India’s film industry, has been a powerful force in shaping national identity and cultural norms. However, as with any form of media …

[PDF] Demystifying the state of Minorities in Contemporary India: Reading Amit Masurkar's Sherni (The Tigress) from the Vantage Point of Marginality

P Sengupta - CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2023
… The Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party has diligently subscribed to Hindu fundamentalist (Hindutva) principles from the very germination of … These include anti-conversion laws, blamed by human rights groups for empowering Hindutva …

[PDF] 'Tribal Development'-Perspective from Below

A GOPI - Journal of State and Society, 2023
… The underlying element in this consideration and approach was that the tribes are also a part of the Hindu population, in a way, in support of the interests of Hindu religious followers, or more specifically, promoters of Hindutva politics. This type of …

[PDF] Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below: By Justin W. Henry. New York: Princeton University Press, 2022, xv+ 277 pages, ISBN …

BS Hewage - Journal of Global Buddhism, 2023
… Citing Banu Subramaniam’s theory of archaic modernity, Henry highlights how the shared desire to discover “procedural knowledge” (127) from deep antiquity to use in the present connects both the Sinhalese Ravana movement and India’s …

[PDF] On the Threshold of Social Changes. The Translation into Sanskrit of Choma's Drum by K. Shivaram Karanth

M Karcz - … IN SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURES AND ARTS, 2023
… What is more, Sanskrit is perceived by Hindutva activists as «a symbol for unifying Hindus around Hindutva» 28. It is significant, that Hindutva … Truschke 2020= Audrey Truschke, Hindutva’s Dangerous Rewriting of History, «South Asia …

[PDF] One Sari, Three Different Ways to Drape It: Trademarks, Religion, Language, and Morality in Post-Colonial India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Z Jafri - UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, 2023
… By including only Hindu, Sikh, and Jain names in the official guidance of prohibited marks, India may also project a certain vision of Indian identity in line with the “pseudo-secularism” and Hindutva ideology espoused by Modi and the BJP …