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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

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.