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Sunday, November 3, 2024
TopicSri Aurobindo

Topic: Sri Aurobindo

Ayurveda to Aurobindo, book launch uses ‘U-turn theory’ to critique Western appropriation

Author Rajiv Malhotra Western challenged Western ‘copy-pasting’ of Indian ideas at the Delhi launch of his latest book ‘The Battle for Consciousness Theory’.

Auroville is having a Crown headache — The laboratory of evolution is divided

At Auroville, friendships have soured, giving way to deep fissures threatening the lofty ideal of ‘human unity’.

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee gave India the means to express itself. Sri Aurobindo echoed him

Sri Aurobindo had said Bankim’s life was a parcel of the 'most splendid epoch in Bengali history.' Anandamath was written to make India more formidable.

Manoj Das—Marxist Odia writer who became Aurobindo’s disciple and hated ‘modernity’

First Odia writer to win the Sahitya Akademi award and honoured by Mulk Raj Anand and Ruskin Bond, Das is a name the literary world can't miss.

Counterview: Urging Centre to take over Auroville a call for serious overreach of State power

There have been internal and external tensions at Auroville. But resolving these can't be done through violent actions and top-down imposition by the State.

Late US president Woodrow Wilson, targeted for racism, had an India connect — his daughter

Margaret Woodrow Wilson, the president's eldest daughter, moved to India after her father's death to join Sri Aurobindo's Puducherry ashram.

Bengal is in focus for BJP but HRD minister has no clue of state’s history

Pre-Truth – snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

Sri Aurobindo, a staunch nationalist who turned into a philosopher

Nobel nominee Sri Aurobindo entered politics to demand complete autonomy from British rule. But taking up yoga during a jail stint turned him towards philosophy.

On Camera

Kashmiri jihadists more resilient than we think. Rebuilding J&K Police is key to counter them

The new jihadists in J&K have harried Indian forces, staged a series of ambushes, and now begun to target Indian civilian infrastructure projects.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.