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Students in discussion of uncurated materials is not teaching. Students hanging out together is not teaching. Good teaching is the thing that AI cannot do, while it can mimic a role in the first two. 9/
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Rudolf Steiner advocated individual freedom with awareness of spiritual consequences as well as equanimity and avoiding defending oneself and one's ideals when possible. #rudolfsteiner rsarchive.org/Media/20260913…
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The thinker Albert Camus posed the question of #suicide as the principal philosophical problem in *The Myth of #Sisyphus*. ethic.es/mito-sisifo-al…
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“Without the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.” On artist Ben Shahn's birthday, his timeless manifesto about nonconformity as the engine of a culture's growth and greatness
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More than half a century ago, the pioneering psychologist Carl Rogers wrote with uncommon insight about the 3 elements of the good life
On Becoming a Person is a revelatory read in its entirety. Complement this fragment with E.E. Cummings, writing from a wholly different yet complementary perspective, on the courage to be yourself and Fernando Pessoa on unselfing into who you really are.
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The metaphor of time as a river that flows inexorably forward is misleading, argues cultural theorist Timotheus Vermeulen. He draws on philosopher Walter Benjamin’s imagery to propose that temporal experience is something we can grip, turn and remould, closer to clay on a potter’s wheel than the linear river visualisation. In the arts, time is something we can play with, using anticipation, gesture, rhythm and repetition to fracture its linear flow. Time is not simply a background condition of our experience, but something we can use to sculpt and remake consciousness itself. Tap here to read his full article. iai.tv/articles/the-f…
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Is India’s Left-Right divide still relevant? At Odisha Literary Festival 2026, @MakrandParanspe and Ratan Sharda question political labels, explore Hindutva, secularism, and the role of education. Watch youtu.be/f6HHtnbWG-Y?si… @PariksithSingh @AmazingVedas
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Discover Sri Aurobindo and Philosophy by @PariksithSingh a fascinating exploration of his vision, philosophy, poetry, and spiritual legacy. Join the Book Talk and watch now! youtube.com/live/rx2PaSEBp… @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas
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Explore the multifaceted genius of Sri Aurobindo with @PariksithSingh & @MakrandParanspe—from political leader & visionary thinker to scholar, writer, spiritual guide, & statesman. Join the conversation on his enduring philosophy & legacy. youtu.be/iqIHIi7DWIk?si… @AmazingVedas
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Join @MakrandParanspe on Auro Adhyayan: Sri Aurobindo’s vision of India’s spiritual rebirth, an inclusive new India embracing the highest aims of human life—ever relevant today. Watch youtu.be/m7ewkXDzjEU?si… @PariksithSingh @AmazingVedas
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What is the “hidden light” of the Vedas? Explore gudham jyoti, the mystery of light and darkness, and the rishis’ journey toward deeper truths about consciousness and existence. Join @MakrandParanspe and Richard Hartz youtu.be/NOqQnb4JEIc?si… @PariksithSingh @AmazingVedas
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[PDF] Prostrate Citizens and Parasite Rebels: The Anatomy of Gen Z Protests in India
Babri masjid to the electoral entrenchment of Hindutva – with no lived memory of a
constitutional secularism, if not in textbooks which then had to become the weapons …
Proverbially, it is believed that ants grow wings when they are about to die, moths fly into the flame until their wings catch fire, and cockroaches usually tip over and die on their wings. Perhaps wings make for morbid proverbs only because we ‘people’ do not have them. And what if a cockroach-people can swarm their way out with their wings? What if winged insects scare the sting out of (powerful) people?
Insects have long featured in the political lives of men, whether as wartime ammunition or as the scourge of disease.1 Recent events in Indian history have brought them back into political discourse – this time, through the online emergence of a protest movement under the name of ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ (CJP; meaning ‘Cockroach People’s Party’).
Notes 1 For a detailed account of how insects have been used as battlefield weapons or as pathogenic carriers of infection to a targeted enemy force, see Lockwood (2008, 2012). Deb Roy (2019), for example, has written about how practices of empire and medicine have intersected along an ‘entomo-political’ (insect-determined) plane. [Debaditya Bhattacharya teaches literature at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.]
Lockwood, Jeffrey A. (2008), Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, Oxford: Oxford University Press. _____ (2012), ‘Insects as Weapons of War, Terror, and Torture,’ Annual Review of Entomology, Vol. 57, pp 205–27.
Deb Roy, Rohan (2019), ‘White Ants, Empire, and Entomo-politics in South Asia,’ The Historical Journal, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp 411–36,
The sphere of strict governmental intervention was extended to include both animate and inanimate non-humans, while these insects were invoked as symbols to characterize colonized landscapes, peoples, and cultures. Nonetheless, encounters with white ants were not entirely within the control of the colonial state.
GANDHI, TRUTH, AND NONVIOLENCE: THE POLITICS OF ENGAGEMENT IN POSTTRUTH TIMES
his political career, especially in his home state of Gujarat, a place that today has
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SPEAKING WITH NATURE: THE ORIGINS OF INDIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM
Hindu religiosity with ecological nationalism. Despite this, his attempts to align
religious identity with environmental discourse illustrate its significance in the early …
[PDF] A Cultural Materialist Critique of 'Punjabiyat': Haryana Perspective
partition. Years later, the secular ethos of Haryana also succumbs to religious
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responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to
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Shutdown, shadowbanned, doxxed: Hindutva governance and digital governmentalities
countermovement doxxing as endured by feminist activists in India. Taken together,
these practices and tools represent a digital Hindutva governance that comprises …
[HTML] Asian Perspectives and Ritual Politics in Recent Popular Film and Television
and contestation. Using modified snowball and purposive sampling, film and some
television is selected for the presence of ritual politics, political theater, and …
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songs, examining how these lyrics and performances reflect and influence
sociocultural norms, gender dynamics, and regional identity. The study uses a …
Five reasons why Biharis are not done with Nitish Kumar yet
that he is his own man. A day after voting concluded, Bihar’s longest serving chief
minister offered prayers at a Hindu temple, a Muslim shrine and a Sikh gurudwara. …
[PDF] Methodological Project, Dissertation Project Proposal
has been experiencing a long-standing periods of electoral setbacks, a process that
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Ideology to Strategy: India–Israel Cooperation and Global Accountability
while tracing its evolution from a transactional defense partnership to an
ideologically infused alliance. This alliance is now further fueled by commonalities of …
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Ashram Press, Pondicherry, 1997. … Sri Aurobindo: A Critical Introduction. New
Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private Ltd., 1988. …
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