Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Decoloniality and cultural representations in Nisha Pahuja's The World Before Her
SD Bhat - Culture and Religion, 2023
This study is an investigation of juxtaposed ideological paradigms represented in Nisha Pahuja’s documentary The World Before Her. Examining the correlations between Western and colonial cultural influences and the felt need for going back to ‘home’/roots …
Krishna's Crucial Role in the Mahabharata: A Divine Catalyst
NR Gopal - The Creative Launcher, 2023
… The Bhagavad Gita holds its prestigious place as an integral segment of the Indian epic Mahabharata. Unveiling an interlude amidst … righteousness (dharma), selfless service (karma yoga), devotion (bhakti yoga), and meditation (raja yoga). As …
Religion and medicine in Sanskrit literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the politics of an epic plant
A Cerulli - Situating medicine and religion in Asia, 2023
… It is well-known that conservative Hindu groups in recent decades have mobilised millions of proponents of Hindu nationalism and Hindutva (‘… The Ram Setu controversy is another example of Hindutva objections to meddling with religious …
[HTML] Balancing the Poles of the Seesaw: The Parallel Paths of Eckhart and Hindu Vedānta toward Oneness with God/Brahman
J Liu, Z Wang - Religions, 2023
… Just as the philosophy of Vedānta is distinguished herein as Vivekānanda into four types of yoga, Karma Yoga is an “essential union”, and Bhakti Yoga is a “mystical transforming union by Grace”. Karma Yoga is a unique proposition from …
[HTML] When the Body Speaks: Body-Mapping the Somatic Symptoms of Stress in Hospital Social Workers
J Sabbagh, M Fox, N Ray - The British Journal of Social Work, 2023
Impact of workplace stress is a significant issue for social workers in hospital practice. This study aims to understand somatic stress in hospital social workers, the physical embodiment of stress and recognition within employing organisations and education …
[PDF] Medicine within a Cultural Ecosystem: Representations of Nature in Tamil Siddha Medico-alchemical Texts and the Integrating Role of the Siddhars 'Literature
I Kędzia-Warych - Cracow Indological Studies, 2023
… The enigmatic discourse in the medical part of Vaittiya Kallāṭam serves yet another purpose, namely, it integrates the chapter on medical knowledge with the other two parts of this work concerning alchemy and yoga. The alchemical and yogic …
Courage to Move: Somatic Movement, Dance, and Feeling Safe in the Body
H Saumaa - Integrative and Complementary Therapies, 2023
… instructor who is not judgmental is integral in letting go of unnecessary judgment. Cynthia Bargar noted that in yoga classes she felt like she … In yoga I felt like you have to do this the right way and there's only one right way. It almost brought me …
The Molecular Mechanism of Obesity: The Science behind Natural Exercise Yoga and Healthy diets in the Treatment of Obesity
R Yadav, P Singh - Current Problems in Cardiology, 2023
… and yoga and its … Yoga is a combination of various agents which focus on lifestyle, diet, meditation, self-awareness, right postures, and proper breathing technique of an individual, all acting at same time for the establishment of …
FLOURISHING FROM HEAD TO TOE
D Vella-Brodrick, A Gill - Routledge International Handbook of Positive Health …, 2023
In the quest to understand how humans can feel well and function optimally many theories, approaches and models have been presented from scholars and practitioners specialising in a range of disciplines. Naturally, proponents from each …
[PDF] 2. Playing with Integration: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Older Migrants
A Asikainen - Rethinking Integration
… Therefore, I suggest taking play seriously by considering its meaning as an integral part of sociocultural integration. In the next section, I … , being a doctor, going to university, teaching jazz music, and doing yoga. Alternatively, they may …
Spirituality and mental health among South Asians in the United States
P Singal, A Chopra - Psychiatric Annals, 2023
… Yoga and meditation play an integral role in alleviating symptoms of mental health disorders … A recent meta-analysis and meta-review concluded that the practice of yoga and meditation … among South Asian immigrants found more than …
[PDF] Exploring Mob Lynching in India: A Look at Historical Parallels, Causes and Consequences
P Basak - RABINDRA BHARATI JOURNAL OF POLITICAL …, 2023
This paper provides an analysis of mob lynching, focusing on its historical context and its prevalence in contemporary India. The study explores the concept of mob lynching as a form of collective violence driven by emotions and irrationality …
[PDF] Kashmir Issue During Modi Era: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistan's and Indian Print Media
M Azam, AA Akram, G Mustafa
… The Congress authorities, being secular in nature, maintains democratic concepts domestically and absorbs stress from numerous Hindutva … With the upward push of Narendra Modi within the wake of the global conflict on terror, Hindutva ideology …
Ritualizing Politics and Politicizing Ritual: A Study of Kullu Dussehra
D Sarkar - Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2023
… The narrative has a historical connotation in Hindutva politics.It is an occasion for the right-wing political parties to consolidate Hindutva. As the events commemorate two mythological events propagating ‘the victory of good over evil’ and ‘protector of …
Nationalism and Dynamics of Federal Politics in Contemporary India
K Srinivasulu - Indian Journal of Public Administration, 2023
… The present context of debate on Indian nationalism, informed by the unitarian Hindutva view as against the pluralist nationalist views, calls into question the importance and place of spatial political and cultural identities which renders the …
[PDF] An ldea in Danger of Extinction
S Muralidharan
… its allies within the Hindutva ideological fraternity struggled to transform their power to mobilise a mob into an electoral plurality. By the mid-1990s, the BIP seemed reconciled to the impossibility of fitting the complexity of Indian society into …
[HTML] Indigenous revival and resistance around the world
J Martínez-Alier - Land, Water, Air and Freedom, 2023
Indigenous revival and resistance around the world 561 together with the environmental movement. Other important social movements also overlap to some extent with environmentalism, ie the working-class and agrarian movements (Chapters …
[PDF] Human rights and secularism in conflict with Hindutva: the Water controversy
A Singh - Antropologia Portuguesa, 2023
… Abstract This article analyses tension between human rights (including secularism) and Hindutva, the Hindu nationalists’ discourse. … , secularism and Hindutva/Hindu nationalism is discussed conceptually. This is followed by a discussion of the …
The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between
A Khalid
The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between; Exploring Gender, Race and Insecurity from the Margins Page 1 Page 2 The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between The Politics of Silence, Voice and the In-Between: Exploring Gender, Race and …
Caste and comics: an interview with Samarth
N Muruganandan, S Venkatesan - Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2023
Indian graphic narratives of the post-millennial era have increasingly addressed pressing social issues such as casteism, environmental degradation, and urbanisation among others. Comics about caste typically showcase the remarkable …
[PDF] Hate Speech and Offensive Content Detection in Indo-Aryan Languages: A Battle of LSTM and Transformers
N Narayan, M Biswal, P Goyal, A Panigrahi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.05671, 2023
Social media platforms serve as accessible outlets for individuals to express their thoughts and experiences, resulting in an influx of user-generated data spanning all age groups. While these platforms enable free expression, they also present …
[PDF] Cinematic representation in Marathi cinema
P POL
… With the rise of Hindutva politics, the discourse around Islam and Muslims has shifted to sharp attacks on the role of Muslims in the past. The perception of Muslims to be supposedly incompatible with the social and political spheres has not changed …
[PDF] Understanding the Women in Rural and Tribal Communities
R Kapur - The Journal of Social Sciences Studies and Research, 2023
… Implementing the traits of diligence, resourcefulness and conscientiousness are regarded as an integral part of lives of individuals. They form the viewpoint that through reinforcing these, they will be able to carry out all tasks in a well-organized …