Tuesday, January 24, 2023

India’s democracy has experienced a participatory upsurge

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), President, Savitri Era Party (2007) and Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006)

Designing worlds beyond the grand global futures challenges

JM Gidley - Routledge Handbook for Creative Futures, 2022
For millennia, humans have struggled to predict, control, and understand the future.
Our forebears sought advice from oracles; read the stars through astrology; debated
concepts of time and future philosophically; wrote utopias and dystopias; and, in the …

[PDF] Spirituality and Management–Perspectives and Practices: Insights from Indian Wisdom

S Mukherjee
Sri Aurobindo, probably the most profound seer-philosopher of modern India, had
given us the … with silence and solitude (Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo).
Moreover, the practice of …

The Moral, Philosophical, and Spiritual Basis of Gandhi's Transformative Nonviolence

D Allen - Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern …, 2022
… Some are violent, right-wing, Hindutva Hindus who reject Gandhi and his
insistence on absolute nonviolence as betraying and weakening Hindu identity.
Some are Maoists, Naxalites, and others who reject Gandhi’s absolute nonviolence …

[PDF] Contribution of Rabindranath as a follower of Sanskrit education

P Mondal - Sprin Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022
… familiarly termed devotion: भिक्तः, knowledge: �ान and works = कमर्। The
Gita describes quite a few distinctive processes of yoga, but … Apart from these
intellectual aspects of education, Tagore includes art not as a special attainment but …

[PDF] Rabindranath Tagore and his multi-faceted philosophical approach

S Biswas
… In this regard, Raghunath Ghosh comments, “Sri Aurobindo has shown that a
man possesses Superman in him. He has given the name of the Absolute as
Superman which is new in Indian tradition. Here the highest honour is given to …

Indo-German exchanges in education: Rabindranath Tagore meets Paul and Edith Geheeb: by Martin Kämpchen, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2020, xi+ 199 …

S Mukherjee - 2022
… If, on the one hand, Aurobindo Mohan had his share of professional stints in
Europe – eg being appointed as ‘Temporary Collaborator to the League Secretariat’
in 1938 and 1939— apart from his dedication to lecturing on, as well as translating …

Man-making, Nation-building, and National Reconstruction: The Engaged Hinduism of the RSS and the Vivekananda Kendra

G Beckerlegge - Journal of Dharma Studies, 2022
… Despite the scale of the practice of sevā by Hindutva-inspired organizations,
scholarly studies have tended to focus on the political rather … This chapter
explores examples of sevā activities drawn from two Hindutva-inspired organizations …

[PDF] Sanskrit as a Connecting Bridge to the Indian Past

HOD Priti Sriranjan
Sanskrit is more than just a language; it serves as a window into India's past.
Unfortunately, Sanskrit is hardly utilized in Indian workplaces and academic
institutions even though most of our texts were written in this ancient language. As a …

[PDF] Role of Ramayana in Transformation of the Personal and Professional Life of Indians: An Empirical Investigation Based on Age and Regions

H Pallathadka, LK Pallathadka, TK Devi - Integrated Journal for Research in Arts …, 2022
… According to Sri Aurobindo, "Valmiki's work works as an agent of infinite power to
mold Indian culture, it has been presented to be loved and worship figures like Ram
and Sita who were so divine. Figures like Lakshmana, Bharata, and Hanuman were …

[HTML] Indian Democracy's Paradoxical Moment

R Verma, A Mathur
India’s democracy has experienced a participatory upsurge in this decade. A far
greater proportion of the electorate is coming out to vote in assembly and parliament
polls. An increasing number of women are voting and contesting. More parties are …

[PDF] India: The World's Biggest Democracy No More?

S SETH - アジア研究, 2022
… The other significant development was the rise of Hindutva, a politics premised
upon the ideas that India is a Hindu nation; that the Muslim minority have hitherto
been pandered to in the name of what is in fact ‘pseudo-secularism’; and that …

[PDF] The Changing Contours of Proletarianisation

KS Chalam - And more...
The social proletariat and the economically marginalised communities are
deliberately drawn into a process of lumpenisation sans proletarianisation. The
capitalist state and Hindutva combine methods and techniques to entail dropouts …

Book review: Koushiki Dasgupta, Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva

S Chaturvedi - 2022
… Dasgupta invites readers’ attention to fact that Hindutva, in its original incarnation (cultural
Hindutva), differs in its appeal from its constructed avatar, that is, political Hindutva. It
is through these two tropes of … The recent dramatic ascendance of Hindu Right in (India’s) …

[PDF] On Dialogue and Art of Listening: Rethinking our Classrooms

A Pathak - 2022
Administration is the premier national institution engaged in all aspects of
educational policy, planning, and administration. Originally established in 1962 as
the Asian Centre for Educational Planners and Administrators, it is today conferred …

[PDF] PASTORAL AND TRAGIC ELEMENT IN THE POEMS OF THOMAS HARDY

RAJK VERMA
Thomas Hardy is known for writing novels but his first love was poetry. His poetry
had a great influence on later poets such as Philip Larkin, Robert Frost, WH Auden,
WB Yeats, Dylan Thomas and Ezra Pound. His poetry is characterized by pervasive …

[HTML] Examining the living metaphor in the Indian Constitution

S Gangwar, A Pagedar - Jindal Global Law Review, 2022
… (namely Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Parsis) from Pakistan,
Bangladesh, and Afghanistan a swifter path to citizenship, these instruments are
rightly condemned for systematically disenfranchising and discriminating against …

Pursuit of Meaning in Life and Human Flourishing: A Phenomenological Study

V Kumar - New Horizons in Workplace Well-Being, 2023
Though meaning in life is one of the indicators of positive functioning, yet scant
attention is given to it in organizational context. Positive leadership attempts to
facilitate realization of meaning in life for different people. The present chapter …

Of Homelands and Revolutions

P Dhar - The Popular Front and the Global Circulation of …, 2023
… It shows how Aurobindo Ghosh, the Swadeshi activist and one of the founders of
the narrative, acknowledged “outside influences,” like … Here I will present
Aurobindo and his tenuous relationship with the Socialist International and MN Roy’s …

The historiography of Indian Education: 1920-2020: the socio-political influences on the growth of the discipline

PV Rao - History of Education, 2022
In India, the history of education has traversed a unique path in the last hundred
years. The political influences guided the discipline, but at the same time, they were
also contested and critiqued in equal measures. History of education as a discipline …

[HTML] Shruti Kapila. Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age

G Poddar - 2022
… Dispelling a common misconception, this chapter also brings up Savarkar’s
atheism and the categorical distinction he made in his writings between Hinduism
and HindutvaHindutva represented a “future-oriented theory of violence and a …

[PDF] GLOBAL HINDUPHOBIA: CONSTRUED, CONSTRUCTED, AND UNLEASHED FROM THE WEST

L Vemsani
… of Hindu festivals by organizing hate campaigns through organizing Hindutva vs.
Hindu debates and discussions. The recent ‘Holi against Hindutva’ celebrations are
not as simple as they seem, as they are allied with the Hindutva vs. Hindu campaign …

[PDF] Rashtirya swayam sevak sangh: Popular myths and locked minds

A Pandey
The present article is a modest attempt in summarizing and analyzing various myths
propagated time to time by researchers, academicians and political groups in India
against Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). In India, several misconception and …

Right to Freedom of Religion in Indian Democracy Issues and Challenges with Special Reference to Public Order

JS Chandpuri, RL Shah - Issue 3 Int'l JL Mgmt. & Human., 2022
… Religious frenzy and communal riots are the product of the hindutva politics of the
country as well as the perverted mentality of hindu-muslim religious Gurus.
Akbaruddin Owaisi once said that just remove the soldier for 15 minutes, we will …

[PDF] Indian Nation as an Idea Determined Time to Time

V Kumar
… Cultural nationalists like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sri Aurobindo and VD Savarkar
worked long and hard for the cause of nationalism. They wrote about India, Indian
people, religion and culture and developed a discourse that glorified Indian …

[PDF] PUNJAB KESARI: LALA LAJAPAT RAYS VIEWS ON RELIGION AND INDIAN NATIONALISM

T Balasubramanian, V Venkatraman
Popularly known as Punjab Kesari or the Lion of Punjab, Lala Lajpat Rai was one of
the greatest leaders of India, who actively took part in the Indian fight for
independence from the British rule. Blessed with exceptional organizing abilities …

[PDF] Ungodly visuals: confrontations, religion and affect in the everyday lives of atheists in India

N Gupta - Global Sceptical Publics
In 2014, a Bollywood film titled PK made headlines for its engagement with ‘non-religiosity’.
The film tells the story of an alien and his (mis) adventures on earth in search of a
medallion-like communicating device he needs in order to return home, a device …

Social and Political Concerns of Lata Mangeshkar: An Ambedkarite Perspective

P Ranjan - Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2022
Playback singer Lata Mangeshkar was the uncrowned queen of Indian music for
over seven decades. Her songs were heard and admired not only in India but also in
many other countries including Pakistan and Bangladesh. This article is about her …

Seeking Space in Post-Partition Bengal: Reading Kalyani Thakur Charal's Autobiography Ami Kano Charal Likhi through a Gender and Caste Perspective

S Gayen - Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2022
Space for Dalits is either hierarchically organized or publicly restricted or perpetually
excluded from mainstream Indian society. The process of ‘Othering’ and
abandonment of the outcastes for possessing a space, sanctioned by the laws of …

[PDF] John Dewey's Perspectives on Education: An Observation

MK Reddy
Education is one of the important aspects in human life. It helps an individual to
transform from an immature state to mature state by gaining skills. If there are
problems in providing the right sort of education, it leads to many disturbances in …

Interrogating, Confronting and Reconstituting Displacement and a New Politics, Poetics and Spirituality of Dwelling: The Ethics, Aesthetics and Responsibility of Home …

AK Giri - Writing in Times of Displacement
… Here I bring the perspectives of Sri Aurobindo and Gandhi together to understand
resistance against displacement and also the strength and tenacity to create new
lives and homes. I further refer to the Satyagraha launched by people in the …

[PDF] Girish Karnad's Folk Plays: Quest for Indigenous Theatrical Idiom

P SOBTI - Research Journal (Arts), 2022
… Karnad was deeply influenced with the dramatic style of Sri Aurobindo and
Tagore and like them used Indian legends, folktales and histories to delineate the
contemporary situations along with literary purport. Drama is considered to be the …

Asking the Right Kind of Questions: Seeing India through the Eyes of Slavoj Žižek

V Varatharajan - Writing in Times of Displacement
… The movement transcended to the politicization of Hinduism when its intellectual
representatives embarked on a quest for political identity with the advent of thinkers
like Vivekananda and Aurobindo. The subsequent Anushilan Samiti, a violent …

[PDF] MA 101 POLITICAL IDEAS AND CONCEPTS IN EARLYINDIA

N Sankhya, V Yoga
1. To familiarize the students with the various schools of politicalthought 2. To impart
students with knowledge advocated by various political philosophers on state
andpolitics 3. To enable critical thinking and analysis of the state-societyrelations. 4 …

[PDF] The Shadow Lines: Interrogating the Great Divide

PK Singh, N Asthawan
The article The Shadow Lines: Interrogating the Great Divide questions the concept
of border and Partition-a solution to the problems of social unrest on religious
grounds or political motivation. During the British Raj feeling of suspicion and hatred …

One Size Does Not Fit All: Undressing the Performance of Bodies in Popular Culture

MB Asbury, E Cook, A Crumbaugh, D Danowski… - 2022
… Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture examines the integral role that
popular culture plays in scholarship and teaching. We use it to critique culture and to
exemplify theory. We use it to understand public discourse as well as help us to …

[PDF] Rebuffing Bengali dominance: postcolonial India and Bangladesh

W van Schendel - Critical Asian Studies, 2022
A vast literature analyzes how Bengali identities developed in colonial India. This
article steps away from both celebratory approaches and a focus on the colonial
period. Instead, it explores how non-Bengalis increasingly challenged Bengali …

[HTML] Secularism and its discontents in New India

PK SHOME - Politics, 2022
… While Hindutva is a political ideology based on the works and principles
enunciated by Vinayak … to toe the party line that India is still a liberal democracy
albeit with a Hindutva twist. … Secularism is what we the people of India (read …

[PDF] On the explanatory adequacy of the Hindutva-as-Brahmanical model

G Raghuvanshy - Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2022
… If the Hindutva movement is Brahmanical, how can it be the choice of those it
seeks to oppress? … This article concludes that describing the Hindutva movement
as Brahmanical raises many …

State and Nation: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?

P Chatterjee - Studies in Indian Politics, 2022
… in which each part is given equal respect can effectively challenge Hindutva
hegemony. … under Modi’s leadership did not emphasize the Hindutva agenda at all.
Instead, it focused on … Amit Shah, turned to an aggressive pursuit of its Hindutva …

[PDF] Facing the Emergency DownDog–On the Political Appropriation of Yoga

S Kemmerer - Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, 2022
… As the article shows, the image is used as a way to frame the perception of
Hindutva politics, diverting attention away from the nationalist … , np) but “seeks to
alter our perception of yoga, India and Hindutva” (McCartney 2018, 2). Instagram …