Thursday 18 April 2024

Diversity and complexity of Indian situation

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

The Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Agenda for Transformative Change towards a Sustainable World

A Karn, S Kumar - New Paradigms of Sustainability in the Contemporary …, 2024
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2012, aimed to establish a series of global objectives that address the environmental, political, and economic obstacles confronting humanity …

Fire to the Grass

A Azaad - The Massachusetts Review, 2024
… Weaponized collective unforgiveness is also the source of identitarian abuse: as seen in the modern Hindutva project of imagining the persecution of a … Hindutva zealots and liberal Indians alike have appropriated the forced exodus of Kashmiri …

India's Feet of Clay: How Modi's Supremacy Will Hinder His Country's Rise

R Guha - Foreign Aff., 2024
… Electoral victory has enabled the second element of Hindutvathe provision of an explicitly Hindu veneer to the character of the Indian state. Modi himself chose to contest the parliamentary elections from Varanasi, an ancient city with countless …

The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi

TV Paul - 2024
In The Unfinished Quest, TV Paul charts India's checkered path toward higher regional and global status, and sheds important light on its significance as the" swing power" that can mitigate China's aggressive rise in the Indo-Pacific region. In …

Infinite Possibilities, Immense Challenges: Cosmopolitanism in Hind Swaraj.

RJ Valiyamattam - IUP Journal of English Studies, 2024
In contemporary times, the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism have assumed several dimensions--cultural, ethical, political and economic. Ironically, the cultural and ethical dimensions of cosmopolitanism have been dominated by its political and …

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VD Savarkar
… He continued addressing the social and cultural elements of Hindutva. He resumed political activism after the ban on it was lifted; it was … of the Mutiny of 1857, "transformed Hindutva into the very image of Islam that he defined and found so …

[PDF] The progressive pilgrim: Real and mythical Indian geography in contemporary retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa

JP Oliveira - Nations and Nationalism
… to go back to ‘pure’ Hindu times is common in Hindutva circles. Neelakantan therefore conflates peripheral Indian narratives, which he … For this reason, Pattanaik often criticises Hindutva, the BJP and Modi. In return, he has been …

The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

D Schäfer, I Abraham, B Allen, L Camprubi, J DiMoia… - 2024
Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—as modes of knowledge production for imperial planning. Yet these connections are …

India's Agrarian Crisis and Changing Countryside

S Kumar - Current History, 2024
… By such means, Hindutva forces have sought to assimilate Jats and other dominant castes into their Hindu identity. This right-wing … Yet the growing power of a broader Hindu identity and Hindutva ideology have not resolved the inherent …

[HTML] Hindutva Politics and the Making of Extreme Precarity: BJP Policies against Rohingya Refugees in India

M Verma - Innovation in the Social Sciences, 2024
… expanding to explore their intricate relationship with Hindutva and its historical roots, involving … This section also aims to discern the viewpoint of the Rohingyas regarding Hindutva politics … Rohingyas can be viewed as a manifestation of …

Contemporary 'Pasmanda'Leadership and the Hindutva Politics in Uttar Pradesh

M Ali, SS Singh - Studies in Indian Politics, 2024
The article explores the positioning of the political elite of a marginalized minority community in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The co-option of Pasmanda elites within the BJP has seemingly transformed the nature of Pasmanda politics. The article argues …

Corporate Security Surveillance: An Assessment of Host Country Vulnerability to Terrorism

RJ Chasdi
… Indian Right-Wing Hindutva Terrorist Groups …

15 Production of representational spaces as the political construction of “New Turkey”

E Yoltay - Space-Time (Dis) continuities in the Linguistic …, 2024
Following a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the (re) naming of public spaces became the scene of a conflict that had not been previously seen in Turkish political history. This chapter examines the re-contextualization of the linguistic landscape (LL) in …

[HTML] Challenges & Threats from a Collusive Pakistan-China Relationship

G Council
… CD Commachen (3) [xxiii] , where the Supreme Court chose actually not to address the issue of the definition of Hindutva as being not … Judgments [xxiv] , wherein the Court put forward the formulation that Hinduism, Hindutva could be …

[HTML] Foreign policy strategies of Nepal between China and India: bandwagon or hedging

E Johny - International Politics, 2024
… India sponsoring Hindutva as a means of achieving political interest and maintaining the ideology in Nepal since 2014. Hindutva refers to the project of achieving a Hindu Rashtra, or state by RSS or sangh Parivar, inspired from fascism …

[PDF] Understanding the Foodscapes of the Separate Telangana Movement¹

K Yamada - 人文社会科学論集, 2024
… They criticized the Hindutva forces, claiming that imposing their Brahmanical dietary practices on others was nothing but less than “food fascism”.They argued that public spaces were not just for Brahmins and upper castes, but also for the Dalits …

The Changing Trends of Coalition Politics of Kerala from its Origin to 2016 in India

T Saha, G Dakua - RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of …, 2024
The Constitution of India provide for a federal system of government though the term ‘federalism’which is nowhere been used in the constitution. But the article 1 of the constitution describes that India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States. KC where describes …

Exploring Education and Democratization in South Asia: Research, Policy, and Practice

T Saeed
… 9, Vaishali and Narender Thakur highlight how reforms in higher education reflect a neo-liberal and neo-conservative (Hindutva) ideology. Drawing on the case study of Delhi University, the authors illustrate how the implementation of NEP 2020 has …

4 Politics in the linguistic landscape of Dili, Timor-Leste

MA Ross - Space-Time (Dis) continuities in the Linguistic …, 2024
… Because the discourses of identity analyzed in our study assert the core of Hindutva ideology that" India is a nation of and for Hindus" to justify the city renamings on grounds of a primordial religious identity and exclusive belonging that …

[PDF] Resisting an unfolding genocide: reflections from radical struggles in the Global South

MJ Dutta - Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2024
… 33 and then amplified by Hindutva supremacists targeting me and CARE for our interventions addressing the Islamophobic hate spread by … fascist ideology of Hindutva. In response to a white paper on “Cultural Hindutva and Islamophobia,”Footnote …

[PDF] A Critical Discourse Analysis of Islamophobia in Indian Print Media

M Qureshi, SA Akhtar, A Zahoor - Jahan-e-Tahqeeq, 2024
… This study is conducted to analyze the image of Muslims and doctrine of Hindutva presented by Indian media as Islam has been generally perceived to be an invaders‟ religion in India. Because of the Hindutva ideology there is so much hatred and …

6.'NOTHING TERRORISTIC AbOUT HIM': THE FIGURE OF THE TERRORIST IN kARAN MAHAJAN'S THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS

PC Herman
After 11 September 2001, a number of literary critics examined the figure of the terrorist in English literature, and they did not like what they found. Richard Gray fired the opening salvo with his 2008 article,‘Open Doors, Closed Minds: American …

Karnataka as the Bharatiya Janata Party's Southern Political Laboratory

Z Evgenia - Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 2024
… These include building of electorally successful social coalitions, winning over dominant caste groups and local political leaders as well as political mobilization based on Hindutva, inter alia through disputes over sacred sites important for both …

CASTE DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATION

S Nayak - The Routledge International Handbook of Equity and …, 2024
This chapter studies three aspects of school education to understand how the institution of caste affects the educational prospects of Dalit children. It examines educational outcomes, knowledge representations, and experiences of children with …

When Civilizational Nationalism Meets Subnationalism: The Crisis in Manipur

S Baruah - Studies in Indian Politics, 2024
The armed ethnic warfare that has been raging in Manipur since May of last year is unprecedented. It pits the state’s subnational majority Meiteis against Kukis—a subnational minority in the state. The ethnicization of law enforcement and the …

[HTML] Malini Sur. Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border

S Chennur - 2024
1 The book under review is comprised of six chapters, with an introduction and a short afterword that give the reader a tour-de-France experience of the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh by means of vivid descriptions of physical, spatial …

[PDF] On the Front Lines: Women's Mobilization for Democracy in an Era of Backsliding

S Brechenmacher, E Jones, Ö Zihnioğlu
… In addition to taking on leadership roles, women bore the brunt of the conservative Hindutva backlash against the protests. Particularly in the district of North East Delhi, the site of a Shaheen Bagh-inspired protest site, this backlash …

“English like Hindi”: Chetan Bhagat, Popular Fiction, and India's Voice

RT Srinivasan - Comparative Literature, 2024
This essay examines the rise of Chetan Bhagat, an icon of the New India “after English” who ironically writes his best-selling popular fictions in English. When Bhagat’s demotic English travels outside India, it is taken up by readers and critics …

Decolonizing the IR Classroom

A Sharma - The Oxford Handbook of International Studies …, 2024
… Academic enterprise is inhibited by the extremization of Hindutva ideology, making scholars vulnerable to state control. The reliance on classical texts including the Mahabharata, Panchatantra, and Arthashastra are closely associated with the …

[PDF] Women's roles in anti-authoritarian resistance

S Brechenmacher, E Jones, O Zihnioglu - 2024
… In India, Muslim women and women farmers have pushed back against President Modi’s autocratic drift, as well as the ruling party’s Hindutva ideology and neoliberal economic governance. The women-led Shaheen Bagh protests sought to model an …

[PDF] ASSESSING THE ROLE OF LEADERSHIP IN RESOLVING THE KASHMIR CONFLICT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INDIAN AND PAKISTANI ENTERACTING …

NA Siyal, KN Mubasharah, T Asghar - Remittances Review, 2024
… The governing party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is swiftly adopting the Hindutva ideology, which asserts that India is not a modern… The BJP, the governing party in India, is rapidly embracing the Hindutva ideology in preparation …

[HTML] Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy, George Jose. MUMBAI/BOMBAY: Majoritarian Neoliberalassism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing

M Tang - 2024
… Nevertheless, the linguistic standards for constituting the majority subsequently transformed into the populist ideology of Hindutva. The shift exemplified the Shiv-Sena-BJP’s pragmatic political strategy of appealing to Marathi-speaking migrants, who were …

Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures

KJ Long - 2024
" America's secularism debates distract from the deeper problem of a flawed political structure causing gridlock. Public failure evokes personal vice, leading to a cultural war between thinly veiled liberal condescension and right-leaning racism, each …

Nationalist 16 Politics versus Global Inclusivity

I Solomatina - Technology, Sustainability and the Fashion Industry …, 2024
… Populism, ontological insecurity and Hindutva: Modi and the masculinisation of Indian politics. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 32/3… Constructing the Nation's Enemy: Hindutva, popular culture and the Muslim ‘other'in Bollywood …

[PDF] Thaipusam and Murugan-Its Cultural Continuum in Malaysia

K Ponniah, KP Thamburaj, I Sivanathan, L Arumugum - International Journal of …, 2024
This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the Thaipusam festival and the worship of Murugan in Malaysia. It delves into the cultural continuity of this festival in two dimensions: firstly, tracing its origins from India to Malaysia, and secondly …

[PDF] Lost Kingdom

WA Wiseman, B Kesgin
… concepts may impose severe normative restrictions on what is considered to be integral to life, survival and their attendant processes.”That said, … of including Indigenous knowledge—and sovereignty—as integral to mitigating catastrophic …

[HTML] The Reverberation of the Sacred Gurbani's Vibrations at the Darbar Sahib: The Issue of Its Television Broadcasting

P Singh - Religions, 2024
This essay will examine the contemporary issue of the television broadcasting of the sacred Gurbani from the Darbar Sahib to set the stage for understanding the historical context of the musical sessions (chauṅkīs) of devotional singing, followed …

[PDF] A Comparative Study of Indian Knowledge System in English Textbooks of Central Board and West Bengal Board Schools

R Mandal, J Mete
… English has become an integral part of our lives at present. The English textbooks offer students a window to look at the lives of people, histories, diversity of cultures and traditions and to connect with the world of India and abroad. The integration of …

[PDF] COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE IN PSYCHIATRY

D Babić, M Babić, M Ćurlin, D Franjić - Medicina Academica Integrativa, 2024
… This is also favored by the doctrine of treatment of psychiatric patients, which in recent decades has been multidimensional and integral, which implies that several therapeutic procedures are used simultaneously in the treatment and that the …

Friday 8 March 2024

Sri Aurobindo's writings have been like a guiding light

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

4 hours ago — Hindustan Times - your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. Education was integral to the teachings and practices of both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
An uncompromising sincerity is the surest way to spiritual achievement. ... Photo by Sri Aurobindo Society on March 07, 2024. May be an image of.
6 hours ago — Savitri now turns her attention to deal with the thoughts sailing in from the environmental consciousness. Read More ...
Evenings with Sraddhalu - Part 89 - Questions from Viewers - Spiritual Life (10). 1 view · 4 minutes ago ...more. The Mother & Sri Aurobindo : E-library.

New Episode! "The Collective Soul of Human Groupings and the Expression of Collective Karma"

reference:
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life , Ch. 1 Life Through the Eyes of the …

Player links & show notes: podpage.com/sri-aurobindo-… via @PodpageHQ

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1766104897597149674?t=8OkjH69IpEN-Xkze9sZDFQ&s=19

I keep on cruising through commentaries. 

Thanks for one more!

Till now Sri Aurobindo's writings have been like a guiding light to me in times of uncertainty, often it feels like he is talking to me only lol

If possible, I highly recommend going through the "Record of Yoga" by Sri Aurobindo, he has documented his entire journey as a sadhak in it.

https://twitter.com/VajraVigraha/status/1766082765177401601?t=86Tdxwu28RVshDniW5EWOg&s=19

Two books on the Veda in English. One by Sri Aurobindo and one by Jamieson and Brereton. Reading both makes one realize the extraordinary amount of epistemic violence on Indian culture and heritage by the latter.

https://twitter.com/pingaligopal/status/1765924293769331085?t=wL3wd1AsVlZMMKPbJj3zYg&s=19

Sri Aurobindo explains that Ananda, the divine joy of being,  is the aim of life. Who can realise it, even in the midst of all the suffering of the world? He analyses everything about life and death.

 #SriAurobindo

https://twitter.com/roshendalal/status/1765414882575560797?t=bD_iGUHmNopErYFrznVLnw&s=19

No, I think they were comfortable with that passive version of Bharat Mata. Once she was incorporated with Shakti—and Sri Aurobindo was responsible for that —the deity became unacceptable

https://twitter.com/swapan55/status/1765049522277999012?t=aYNRljS481juIjEt1fMaFA&s=19

Without Aurobindo, there would have been no Rash Behari; without Rashbehari, no Sachin Sanyal; without Sanyal, no Bhagat Singh....... each generation lit their revolutionary fire from those who came before them.

https://twitter.com/sanjeevsanyal/status/1764867770905186539?t=mX0VZ-ssucJl5h0abRq2rg&s=19

Bovine Sifters: Cows, Indigeneity, and Environmentalism among an Urban Middle-Class Guru Following

B Verma - Studies in Religion and the Everyday, 2024
… 1 It is a dissonant membership in so far as the devotees may or may not abide by the Hindutva ideology openly or entirely but in … of Hindutva ideology. As we will see in the case of young AYUDHians like Deepak and Kalpana later in this chapter …

Maths, Quotidian Conflicts, and Urban Property: Perspectives from Colonial Legal Archives in Banaras

M Kasturi - Studies in Religion and the Everyday, 2024
In May 2019, maths (monasteries), temples, residences, shops, hotels, and guest houses near the Kashi Vishvanath temple/Gyan Vapi masjid complex in Banaras (also known as Varanasi)(amongst other buildings), were controversially demolished by …

Studies in Religion and the Everyday

F Ibrahim - 2024
… and Poole 2004; Fuller and Benei 2009; Gupta 2012; Hansen and Stepputat 2006; Singh 2015), it was from political science that we first began to get a sense of what was broadly referred to as the'politics' of religion—the ideology and organizational …

Religion, Religious, and Beliefs: The Life of Religion in an Indian Scientific Research Institute

R Thomas - Studies in Religion and the Everyday, 2024
Studying religion and religious practices in institutions outside the sites of religion is not yet a topic of interest to social sciences in India. In order to understand religion and the everyday practices of religion, it is necessary that we study the life of religion …

Queering Time's Arrow: Temporal Drag in Priya Sarukkai Chabria's Clone

C Ma - Science Fiction Studies, 2024
… Thus, the amalgamation of neoliberalism and Hindutva is employed to advance the construction of the Hindu rashtra or Hindu nation (Teltumbde). The BJP's Hindutva politics in India is a mix of nationalism, neoliberalism, and postcolonialism …

Book review: Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar (Eds.), Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism

DS Reddy - 2024
… legal frameworks, which have allowed Hindutva organisations to embrace transgender groups (in … the rhetorical and narrative strategies that prop Hindutva ideologies. While Vachani (‘The … This treatment of Hindutva ideology as …

Hindutva and Violence: VD Savarkar and the Politics of History: Vinayak Chaturvedi. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2023. pp. xiii+ 463. Pb.£ 27.70 …

P Tonks - 2024
Now the world’s most populous state, India has traditionally been referred to as the largest democracy on earth and its next nationwide elections will take place in the spring of 2024. Weeks before the start of voting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi …

[PDF] Political Landscapes and Social Crossroads: A Study of 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' by Arundhati Roy

A Kanwal, F Ullah, HH Butt, M Maqsood - Jahan-e-Tahqeeq, 2024
The current study explores the complicated portrayal of socio-political conditions in post-partition India and the contested region of Kashmir in Arundhati Roy's novel. The analysis extends to the thematic exploration and representation of transgender …

Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments. Edited by Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha. New York: Oxford University Press …

M Tan - Theatre Research International, 2024
… He notes how such endeavours ‘cannot be separated from the exigencies of political culture in India today, and more specifically, the increasingly assertive normalization of codes, laws, and rules of behaviour associated with the political …

[PDF] Future Intelligences: Human and/or Artificial? A transdisciplinary perspective

MT Vadean - Artificial Intelligence and Human Mediation, 2023
… This supra-human has been anticipated and described in many forms by authors from different horizons: Goethe, Nietzsche, Sri Aurobindo, to name but a few. The so-called" natural" human being no longer exists because nature as we know it no longer exists …

Everyday Religiosity among the Hindu Sindhis of India: Sindhi Identity and the Religious Market in the Era of Social Networks

M Boivin, T Lalchandani - Studies in Religion and the Everyday, 2024
… Having spent the years 1956 to 1971 in Pondicherry, he was enamoured of Sri Aurobindo, however he found it difficult to keep up with his affiliation to the Aurobindo Ashram in Delhi once he moved to the capital for work. He encountered …

[PDF] EMPOWERING RATHWA TRIBES IN KAWANT: UPANISHADIC ROOTS TO CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES

JR Shanabhai, R Singh, J Farro - 2024
This research article explores the educational of the Rathwa tribe in Kawant Taluka in the Chhota Udaipur district of Gujarat, India. The study delves into the historical, cultural, and socio-economic factors influencing the educational development of the …

[PDF] Exploring Different Facets of Integral Humanism of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

P Deb - AMBEDKAR COLLEGE
… Deendayal is comparable to Indian spiritual humanists such as Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, Gandhi, Radhakrishnan, and others in the framework mentioned above. He is not the same as MN Roy or JL Nehru. Even though Nehru …

[PDF] PV Laxmiprasad's Sarvepalli Radhakrishna's The Hindu View of Life

DV Lakshmi - Creative Saplings, 2024
… : Hinduism against ‘Hindutva’ once again … Hindutva’ are two different connotations from the perceptions of Swami Vivekananda and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Vivekananda’s Hinduism is across the nations and nationality but with …

Nīr-Kṣīr Viveka: Discerning the Truth of Spirituality in Gandhi's Thought and Actions

VR Howard - International Journal of Hindu Studies, 2024
In his work, Arvind Sharma daringly asserts the fundamental place of spirituality in Mohandas K. (“Mahatma”) Gandhi’s personal life and social and political activism. Sharma avoids any theoretical frameworks to elucidate Gandhi’s spirituality; but …

[PDF] Observations on Chitta Ranjan Das

G Segalerba - 2024
… Sri Aurobindo’s educational ideas, though adumbrated by him as far back as the first decade of the 20th century, seem to have relevance … To say it with Sri Aurobindo, “The idea of hammering the child into the shape desired by the parents …

The Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak: An Intellectual Biography

RE Upton - 2024
This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views on'communal'relations within the Indian polity, on caste and reform in Hindu society, and on political ethics regarding violence and non-cooperation. The …

Identity, Difference and Diversity: A Journey from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka-Upaniṣad to Mukund Lath

D Raveh - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2024
… “Man is a transitional being, he is not final”, Sri Aurobindo—a lifelong influence on Lath’s thinking—famously writes. Footnote 3 According to Aurobindo, man (and woman of course)—can and should strive to rise from his “manhood” to the higher …

Relevance of Ayurvedic prakṛti in literary studies with special reference to major characters of Kālidāsa's dramas

KR Bhavana - Indian Journal of History of Science, 2024
… But the fundamental Purūravas is not a king and hero but a poet and lover (Sri Aurobindo, 1964, p. 44). He is a great emperor, well-loved … swoop on his prey (Sri Aurobindo, 1964, p. 50). Keeping calm in the swiftness and tumultuous excitement is …