Better to follow bad laws honestly

So the cops in Hyderabad have shot all the four accused in #PriyankaReddyMurderCase. 

I see and hear how so many women and men are already cheering the "instant justice."

What a sad day when the rule of law is so brazenly violated and, yet, we can do nothing but watch helplessly.

https://twitter.com/rajeshmahapatra/status/1202789714614374400?s=19

Problem isn’t that the process of law is faulty or takes forever and ever. Problem is the lack of clarity in our minds when it comes to the laws. The same process worked while the colonists were around. Stopped working when they left.

We never really reconciled the laws we were lumped with, with principles we accept. Which was a big mistake. It’s fine if common wasn’t totally acceptable to us. We should have argued and introduced elements from whatever dharma Shastras we wanted. Instead we turned dishonest.

Government is supposed to be working on replacement for IPC and CRPC. Let them work on a new constitution as well.

I feel it would be better to follow bad laws honestly than to follow good laws dishonestly.

https://twitter.com/harsh8848/status/1202901875445485569?s=19

Dogs and cats are the most vicious killers of wildlife. They are worse than even humans. 

Human companions (owners, for those who don't recognise animal rights) who unleash their dogs in wild areas are being criminally irresponsible.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1202897270267633666?s=19

Let us stop this deterioration of Dharma. Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah. 

If our ancestors didn't have respect for wildlife, there would have been no wildlife left in the three biodiversity hotspots of India. Let us protect this sacred heritage.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1202895715783057409?s=19

Term #HumanRights has been misrepresented the acts typically deemed "crimes against humanity," including genocide, torture, slavery, rape, medical experimentation, & deliberate starvation is denying #HumanRights to the victim, not to the perpetrator. 

#JusticeForDisha #Encounter

https://twitter.com/prettypadmaja/status/1202807117675057152?s=19

Abstinence from onion / garlic is not exclusively a brahminical ideal

This abstinence is strong among staunch Vaishnavites - regardless of varNa

Many ISKCON ppl abstain from it (some of whom may not even be Indian)

Even among brahmins, Vaishnavites likelier to abstain afaik

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1202568264414564353?s=19

‘The suicide rate is going thru the roof. If we can save lives by talking about it, that to me is more important than winning medals,” @MichaelPhelps courage in display with @cricketwallah at the #HTLeadershipSummit.

https://twitter.com/namitabhandare/status/1202900657453355009?s=19

Unbelievable venom poured on Nirmala Sitharaman for harmless banter before an elaborate reply while many get away with crass and cocky remarks. This precisely is the troll behaviour which some in the media find great exception to but keep indulging in themselves

https://twitter.com/VikasSaraswat/status/1202576920803790848?s=19

I think Odiya (Marāthi too) has several connections with Telugu and Gond languages (both Dravidian) that may be extremely ancient. In fact, Telugu and Gond languages are living proof that Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language families were at some point together as one.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1201090880293294080?s=19

When Kanamamun is remembered can Mamun be forgotten?

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1202877527657631744?s=19

#AmbedkarsPreamble unfolds the story of the six constitutional concepts. @aakash_ironman

https://twitter.com/PenguinIndia/status/1202840801614548992?s=19

Reviving DVG’s Splendid Vision of Writing Indian History, wholesale falsification of Indian history was one of the key pillars that sustained the national deception called Nehruvian secularism and facilitated India’s economic plunder https://t.co/nNzqX6KyNq via @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/Aatish00959462/status/1202880296133095424?s=19

History, if it should serve its purpose of stirring emotion, must first of all be exciting. Is it impossible to be both truthful and warm-hearted, both factual and moving? Reconciling them is the art of the true historian - DVG

Read the brilliant essay!

https://t.co/zS4YDBRxTp

https://twitter.com/dharmadispatch/status/1202880865220489217?s=19

You cannot alter fundamental biological tuning

Females are programmed to desire/prefer/target a male already with a female partner over males without any female partners. And vice versa for males. While biology stayed same and society evolved & got sophisticated so a female with BFs is seen as easy/available by males.

https://twitter.com/Shakra_Kulish/status/1182955635605999616?s=19

Every other woman is stretching it too far. In my multiple circles I know of only one woman who claimed sexual harassment after she was found indulging in financial corruption and administrative abuses in her position

https://twitter.com/Shakra_Kulish/status/1182918618981552128?s=19

You're technically wrong. Either gender with partners is seen by others as a potential mate biologically. In modern  social terms it becomes gross/crude though, for females worse than males.  https://t.co/l12mkBkMYh

It's a technical point. Society is complex. You cannot alter fundamental biological tuning irrespective of social evolution or devolution.

"Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker, and we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger." - Charles Darwin https://t.co/SIpj3bXmgV

https://twitter.com/EvoConscious/status/1187330646378565632?s=19

Tagore n Modern Music (1)

Why was Tagore unhappy with the rigidity of classical music? Because it was uncreative in its purity n strictness of notes. He begins the modern era in Indian music by fusing words n tune and thereby creating a 3rd Art beyond the words and sur.

Tagore n Modern Music  (2)

Not always the lyric was excellent or the kedar or the malhar unveiling itself fully, but in the marriage of sur and words a third something comes out which is a new thing.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1187604264073383936?s=19

@abhishekmehra__  Don't get boxes into the vegan debate. Indians were never vegans. We are vegetarians = vegetables + milk products. Milk has some type of proteins which veggies don't have. Indians don't kill the golden goose to live. That's our Dharma.

https://twitter.com/ragways/status/1187215249574789120?s=19

Is Jesus better or Mohammad? Choosing one or the other is a "one God" argument. Humans are omnivorous (can eat &digest both meat and vegetarian diet); can survive on either. However our teeth & long intestines suggest evolution with plant food. B and C vitamins come from plants.

https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/1187183509141475328?s=19

A meat alone diet (with zero plant intake)  will not provide all the nutrients necessary for human health. But a plant alone diet can do that. Protein comes from both, but meat is better for Iron intake. But meat is pretty much zero for Vit B and C. Iron is there in plants also.

No use of muscles without bones unless you're an octopus. Bones need calcium and gram for gram, plant sources are much better for calcium than meat, though fish can give you some.

All protein is not made equal.

Animals are able to take incomplete plant protein and turn it into complete, essential, bioavailable protein. 

Do you want to be a leaf or a warrior? https://t.co/5Kav62ja17

https://twitter.com/KetoAurelius/status/1187386259708284928?s=19

Zoroastrian is Indo Aryan not semitic ..... and the Avesta bears similarity with Sanskrit. Can say in between West Asia & South Asian Hindu philosophy. Bahai too & therefore banned in Iran.

https://twitter.com/naritachame/status/1185883382091137029?s=19

What 1000 Periyar cannot do, what 1000 atheist cannot do, is now being done by power hungry Brahmincal leaders of Hindu political parties, they are slowly converting Hinduism into a political comedy  

Any one who criticises these so-Hindu-politicians are branded and witch-hunted

https://twitter.com/VinuSemiotics/status/1169484043013935104?s=19

Remembering is one thing and being actually impactful is another.

Ambedkar, RM Roy are very popular today but both failed in their original goal (destroying caste and suppressing idolatry respectively).

https://twitter.com/T_1000__/status/1156879418343583744?s=19

Religion occupies a small time frame in the history of human evolution. There was no religion for thousands of years. And the miseries and unhappiness remains same, only their nature changed. My religion is to work ethically, honestly and to the best of my ability and knowledge.

https://twitter.com/imacuriosguy/status/1174875692858609665?s=19

There are many ways to narrow your child's mind successfully: criticise and undermine people of other religions, nations, language groups, occupations or (in the case of Hinduism) castes. Or on the basis of any other of a host of other differences, real or imagined

https://twitter.com/sabhlok/status/1186919321361997824?s=19

It is easy to create narrow-minded children who then grow up to become bigots or worse: monsters. The great challenge of education is to create children with a breadth of mind that encompasses the entire universe.

“Fighting oppression operates by way of getting out of a basement by steps. You can be further up or down in this basement, depending on how many vectors of oppression you face”

@JohnKaag on American philosophy, from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller https://t.co/u6LqZg6LVJ

https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1186564103176949760?s=19

"There is nothing in Stoicism that says you cannot pursue wealth, health, education ... as long as you never, ever trade those for virtue" https://t.co/pZKVuTiIGR

https://twitter.com/five_books/status/1185928410159288321?s=19

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

E. Merrill Root

(1895 - 1973)

American poet

https://twitter.com/SOPAuckland/status/1186209488497340416?s=19

That’s because Punjabis dominate bollywood while MRathas (house of Peshwa) was exterminated by Brits post 1857. Others went in cocoon for survival. 

MAratha empire reinvented itself in 1925 as RSS. 

Marathas still control India today. It is they who abrogated 370. 😃🙏🏻

https://twitter.com/Kal_Chiron/status/1169486358668144642?s=19

Has any genuine anti-AIT claimed that India was a "pristine Aryan homeland"? straw-man argument. 

Swami Dayanand was first one to refute this fiction n this is what he said:

https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1169903646051463174?s=19

Yes, they are digging themselves into a very deep hole by trying to claim that Sanskrit is very late entry to India. This is immediately disproved by the monumental astronomical evidence in Sanskrit texts. So they ignore it 😀.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1169890842120577024?s=19

In the age of Modi all are expected to sing his praises for being mediocre at best & a failure at worst.

https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1184394223069601793?s=19

@m_vijayakumar The way Modi Religion has taken root, it has the potential of overthrowing Hinduism which was attempted since Ram Mohan Roy.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/396540155529404416?s=19

check out this #article on #ambedkar and #zizek versus the #PC left, easily offended about #race but indifferent to #caste. 

https://t.co/9GfbetZSZf

https://twitter.com/aakash_ironman/status/1169663013458038784?s=19

What is #progress? Why we don't need anymore for #materialism? Why we should restart from the #International labour 1866? #Mazzini holds the keys, still today. With Madame Blavatsky, Sri Aurobindo, Mohandas Gandhi & other friends.

https://twitter.com/M_Foundation/status/1169355370701250560?s=19

Problem with character-centered writing is takes ages for real action to get happening. Like a slider; push it one way and characters and world richly portrayed, but story slow. The other way, story moves quickly but protagonists one-dimensional cardboard cutouts #amwritingscifi

https://twitter.com/akazlev/status/1187488301495644160?s=19

The Adventure of Consciousness: Addressing the Existential Crisis of Humanity Through the Evolution of Consciousness https://t.co/l8q8JtHsiv

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1185599254309437440?s=19

#TamilFilm96 My review of 2018 Tamil film "96" starring #TrishaKrishnan and #VijaySethupathi Really enjoyed watching it. 

https://t.co/NsZUVcyXbL

https://twitter.com/SunayanaPanda/status/1185616974472200192?s=19

Workshop on Sri Aurobindo at Jadavpur University

Assorted tweets collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF since 2005). #SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Workshop on Life and Philosophical Thought of Sri Aurobindo at Jadavpur University, Kolkata [Sep 19-26]: Registrations Open https://t.co/LlYdbYxTBW https://t.co/f84s1GWKvB

https://twitter.com/noticebard/status/1169194529796362240?s=19

Romila Thapar’s “vision” of India at the end of the 21st Century:

"by the end of the 21st century India would break down into a series of small states federated within a more viable single economic space on the scale of the subcontinent." https://t.co/4ix1dtzbOx @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/rashmi_mae/status/1169010170401308672?s=19

@dharmadispatch pulls out all the stops as he takes on '​the retired—but not tired—Marie Antoinette of Indian history establishment Romila Thapar' in his latest article. A must read. https://t.co/h7zpcMeWZO

https://twitter.com/thecybernag/status/1169084054882271232?s=19

Why Ramachandra Guha is the Perfumed Version of Kavita Krishnan -- Sandeep Balakrishna https://t.co/VIokfVuHMR

https://twitter.com/kalyan97/status/1127414176962338816?s=19

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi said on Tuesday that India needs a leadership that can fearlessly argue with the prime minister based on principles. https://t.co/ojY2oG79hG

https://twitter.com/Congress_Army/status/1169127859178364928?s=19

In Search of the Dangerous #Hindu in a World of Monotheistic Cultural Aggression https://t.co/oFPQOoMo8M via @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/JaidevJamwal/status/1168879213253758977?s=19

For this month's Guiding Light section in Renaissance, we have selected three beautiful poems of Sri Aurobindo. “A stillness of God building his earthly abode” https://t.co/owaRt5zix1

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1169156409658880000?s=19

RomilaThapar is a Marxist historian  In following their agenda Marxists distort history and exclude inconvenient evidences. Output is naturally biased and misleading. Her awards were actually rewards. Sri Aurobindo was a mighty philosopher of history.

https://twitter.com/pkghosh50/status/1169082773409189888?s=19

"As a Hindu I follow a faith that offers a veritable smorgasbord of options to the worshipper of divinities to adore and to pray to, of rituals to observe (or not), of customs and practices to honour (or not), of fasts to keep(or not)"

https://t.co/fQRXIr5xd7

https://twitter.com/pranasutra/status/1169156660268621830?s=19

"There is no Hindu Pope, no Hindu Vatican, no Hindu catechism, not even a Hindu Sunday"

How then can the western concept of a "religious denomination" be imposed on Hindu sampradayas and thereby deny critical rights to sustain and grow our practices?

"The palette of options available is as colourful as the most inventive artist’s"

It is a no-brainer then that a system which has SO MANY options is also challenging to sustain and grow. It means such a system needs support. Why then are Hindus denied edu rights?

Case Filed Against Netflix For ‘Deep Rooted Hinduphobia’ In Shows Like Laila, Ghoul And Sacred Games https://t.co/rQIcrz4wwF

https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag/status/1169178428509061122?s=19

The Mahagathbandhan alliance in Uttar Pradesh failed due to its inability to go beyond caste identity, and was unable to counter the nationalist narrative offered by the Bharatiya Janata Party.  https://t.co/Ef8r5jHBAU

https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1169180803168817152?s=19

The emerging reality”Women are loosers if they choose Motherhood”              

Research by the Young Women's Trust indicated More than 10% of employers would hesitate to hire a woman who they think might get pregnant, showing that "dinosaur bosses" are still found in workplaces

https://twitter.com/ranjanakumari/status/1168796203972055041?s=19

My new essay featured today. Read on to know more!

#compare #parenting

8 Signs That Your Constant Comparison Is Affecting Your Children. https://t.co/jfuqqi2dlW via @womensweb

https://twitter.com/rimli76/status/1169151809476276224?s=19

What has changed since #Section377 was overturned last year -- the ground realities! Share with us on #WomenOnTheMove today from 6-7 PM! Looking forward to an engaging chat! Please join in. https://t.co/wbQJdcjZIC

First woman from the #transgender to get into a #TV channel as a #journalist https://t.co/iUVpaVlXkO

https://twitter.com/PratibaRaman/status/1169198264932941826?s=19

During the Emergency years, the government stepped in to cut off Sri Aurobindo Ashram’s rightful visa-issuing process. SAS fought back against this autocratic action, But justice had died a swift death alongside democracy. Read our book to know more. #democracy #Politics https://t.co/uGjmSQFZVm

https://twitter.com/truthcourage/status/1169203980372606977?s=19

In a country where majority of citizens have no idea as to what 370 or 377 is, what happened in 1947 can be considered as a miracle. 1992 surely was a step in the backward direction which doesn't seem to be being reversed. Role of lovers of Sri Aurobindo in this scenario crucial.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169190818160054272?s=19

Reach of Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF since 2005) is meager but immense in terms of significance. Many have met tangentially with the potential of engendering diversions in thought and attitude. Thirsting for an anchor by grappling with philosophical uncertainty is the need.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1169197952566345729?s=19

All said and done, spirituality is of theoretical utility only for it can't deliver on demand. But philosophically, it offers the best possible explanation of our existence as Sri Aurobindo has shown in The Life Divine. Apart from generating optimism, it fights fundamentalism too.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169202969100730368?s=19

No gainsaying that the world existed before the person but so far as the person is concerned his knowledge of the world existing before him is subsequent and would dissolve on his death or if he is in coma. So this awareness doesn't float outside the consciousness of human beings

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169182788462862337?s=19

There's a misconception that Sri Aurobindo is not a philosopher because once he had remarked so. One of his best philosophical writings is The Problem of Rebirth which was serialised in ARYA 100 years back. He never gave the impression of resolving the mystery of Karma. Must read

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1169193466863030272?s=19

One basic thing is true. Seduce a person into conversation and after a while he will go on and on revealing many aspects of his thinking or hopes. This can be ascribed to power of language reinventing the person also. But healing can't be thrown out like baby with the bathwater.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1169174055611592704?s=19

I'm curious to know whether your concern is just because you were born into this religion or on subsequently discovering superior qualities in it? Roughly, the former is political and the later is economic. Faith on gods and goddesses and mythology would approximate as aesthetic.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1169167879750615040?s=19

Indian civilisation is a misleading phrase. People lived in pockets near rivers. In the evening, they used to light a fire to ward off wild animals. Used oil or ghee and children hummed some songs. This took the form of yajna over a few generations. The Veda got added to rituals.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169082606228426755?s=19

Once the States of India get Sovereignty, co-operation as well as competition will soar. Instead of thinking China or Japan, our own capacities will receive focus. International presence and clout will grow manifold. Overall, each new nation will contribute its best to grow fast.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169086179767013376?s=19

Plain & Simple: Luxury of Dubai, mysticism of Auroville https://t.co/rcwv1K3rZ3

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE,

OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.

#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar, Director, #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF since 2005).

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169076790507126784?s=19

Sri Aurobindo — Arya – Vol 6. No 2 — September 1919:

A Defense of Indian Culture (A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture) 8 – pp.91-105

LVIII. The Elements of Perfection – pp.79-86

Recent English Poetry (3) – pp.106-114

Karma and Freedom – pp.115-128

Above the Gunas – pp.65-78

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1169058640726130688?s=19

What 'wing' does that make me?

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar Director #SavitriEra Learning Forum #SriAurobindo #TheMother

Much can be done to improve the design and outcomes of India’s affirmative action policies, but to dismantle them out of a misplaced sense of upper-caste aggrievement would amount to setting the clock back. https://t.co/KY3EVNDYN6

https://twitter.com/scroll_in/status/1164942877643956224?s=19

Thread on the dominance of Telugu throughout the Madras Presidency at the outset of the Raj:

https://t.co/5WGrokUBcw.

https://twitter.com/longhandnotes/status/1164906502861275136?s=19

So Telugu (and to a lesser extent Sanskrit) became very dominant languages in the corridors of power. Tamil receded.

Telugu was perceived as the language with some class! The language used by respectable people. Tamil - the language of the masses and the subjects.

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1026972264212951040?s=19

I remember @kshetragnya had countered that thread

https://t.co/d2iLPn6i95

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1164912478859485186?s=19

True. But the language of patronage for much of the Chola period was Tamil, not Telugu

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1027560193591324672?s=19

Compliments on the long thread.  The thread has a lot of problems though which I was inclined to not broach. But, now that people are posting this as a primer on Dravidian politics, I think a few things need to be clarified.

https://twitter.com/kshetragnya/status/1027447644140986368?s=19

Telugu was a court language in almost all of south, language of cultural expression and of the devadasis. A language whcih saw contribution from people unrelated to it either by lineage or land. People as diverse as Swati Tirunal, Tanjore Vayyapuri Pillai and Mysore vasudevachar

https://twitter.com/kshetragnya/status/1164903841449381888?s=19

To understand fascism, one must also understand the roots of blood mysticism -- the belief that blood by itself has some inherent magical potency or mana. It's an ancient belief. But the mystique of blood was central to the Nazi blood cult.

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1164918466538856448?s=19

The Knowledge Concerning the Immutable Brahman https://t.co/Gks365p77w

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1164913931032432647?s=19

The Lower and the Higher Knowledge As Described by the Mundaka Upanishad https://t.co/Dd5ylWAp0e

RK Studios has been razed to the ground. Nothing remains, except the iconic gate. From June 2019, my piece for @TheQuint on how the demolition of RK Studios is an example of lack of imagination & intent when it comes to preserving Indian film heritage. https://t.co/q2e6AvLDqr

https://twitter.com/Maanvi2501/status/1164763101448638465?s=19

Save this image. Look at it every time someone says reservations create inequality, to remind yourself that inequality exists, reservation alleviates it a bit. Look at it every time RSS says 'debate reservations' & preaches 'social harmony' between oppressor & oppressed. https://t.co/Ysr07jr7jI@swati_gs has been reporting cases that many in the media avoid because it does not suit their narrative.

https://twitter.com/kavita_krishnan/status/1164777079847526400?s=19

She has had to face attacks online, and attempts have been made to discredit her work. Here, she narrates her experience.

https://t.co/DnZw8JN2um

https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag/status/1164564331729575936?s=19

Almost all of my work as a journalist at @SwarajyaMag has been about highlighting atrocities on dalits, social and state injustice to dalit victims, and plight of poor farmers

What 'wing' does that make me? #genuinequestion

https://twitter.com/swati_gs/status/1160433366363099136?s=19

“From studying under the streetlamps to travelling barefoot for hours - I have done it all. I am a dentist today only because others helped me. Now I try to contribute in my own way.” #Respect #RealLifeHero #Mumbai

https://t.co/Uab5R3pw8s

https://twitter.com/thebetterindia/status/1164778618272137216?s=19

Never seen any other scholar who's as neutral, as detail oriented, as intelligent, as objective, as industrious, as articulate and as humble as @vikramsampath.

A true intellectual in every sense of the word. https://t.co/Cez6vY175r

https://twitter.com/KeertiJoshi/status/1164888925694918657?s=19

Talk by Bibek Debroy | The relevance of Mahabharata for our times.  https://t.co/nnnylZ2Cob such a wonderful presentation..calm, measured..I learnt a lot..thanks to @KanchanGupta da for the recommendation

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1164932912958996480?s=19

Twitter's 2 Worlds:

Zero-Sum: consumption, tweet-dunking, virtue signaling, identity politics, straw-manning, scapegoating, stagnation, reduction

Positive-Sum: creation, ideation, exploration, steel-manning, connection, evolution, compression

Which world do you live in?

https://twitter.com/alanhliang/status/1164688601117945857?s=19

I used to have some respect for Aurobindo and his belief that India was created as a spiritual compass for the world. If you are competing with the US mind you'll still only ever be second rate at that. So back to Kashmir any new thoughts or have we peaked

https://twitter.com/DesCoutinho/status/1164496338811179008?s=19

I don't get the point of these comparative studies like Tagore Vs Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda Vs Shankaracharya etc etc. I mean, my hands automatically moves to close the window the moment I land on such contents.

https://twitter.com/Diff_View/status/1164427613139374082?s=19

Indeed, Sri Aurobindo in his “Origins of Aryan Speech” drew attention to this connection which then later became “politically incorrect”. https://t.co/g74rp35LS2 https://t.co/h4l6WwtT12

https://twitter.com/naandiliveli/status/1164588623439601664?s=19

That's interesting. It's also one of the symbols associated with Aurobindo's Integral Yoga (called "the Mother's Symbol") -- how the one becomes 4 and the 4 become 12. 12 is an archetypal number. https://t.co/PqqOmYqpOG

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1164575207782277128?s=19

SA cautioned of attachment to suffering; all pain-worship & concomitant sin-punishment concept came here with religions alien to the Sanatan Dharma.

"To a superficial and incomplete understanding it may appear that it is pain itself which the soul seeks. It is not so."

The Mother https://t.co/5z5GaBS4TJ

https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1164754249122631681?s=19

Plain & Simple: Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF since 2005) https://t.co/I7YU3TOgSS Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum

#SavitriEra of those who adore,

Om #SriAurobindo & #TheMother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1164475404079390721?s=19

From another perspective: It's said that Nadira and Amjad Khan could never get a better role than their debut in Aan and Sholay respectively. Bollywood certainly provides a secular mythology for our generation apart from the inexhaustible treasure of music for aesthetic pleasure.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1164597917463670784?s=19

"Men need heterosexuality to maintain their societal dominance over women. Women, on the other hand, are increasingly realizing not only that they don’t need heterosexuality, but that it also is often the bedrock of their global oppression"

Wha Dumbest ish I read in a while

I mean I want to be oppressed, the more muscles and duskier, the better, please God :-D https://t.co/YoqgVdvx8K

https://twitter.com/TheSignOfFive/status/1164791819365781505?s=19

If they're so sure of their sexuality and that it is NOT hetero, why the eff would they have relationship with hetero men? This is a new fad that I cant get-  Men who declare their preferences as hetro/Non-Trans are villains, but women who declare their preferences are heroes.

https://twitter.com/lotophagus/status/1164796489635258369?s=19

In other words, Lutyens takes down a chronic rapist who they hid and protected for like decades and takes credit for it and distributes it to loyal member. It can't get any more cynical than this.

As an aside, the whole #metoo is now completely hijacked by wannabes, the two original women who bravely started it were run out in record time.

Metoo, FeminismInIndia etc etc are all hijacked by Lutyens compliant people.

https://twitter.com/barbarindian/status/1164907642554372097?s=19

Aatish Taseer's own honest admission elsewhere: that he is a “louche liberal” who enjoys raves than “discussions about Hindu civilization.”

READ — https://t.co/R6ZTeXPffg

by Sandeep Balakrishna ji @dharmadispatch https://t.co/yFq0FKLnSX

https://twitter.com/CASandeepSehgal/status/1164863975235788800?s=19

First Bollywood films were banned, now Indian channels. Politicians can't find solutions so it's always Art, Culture and common people on both sides who are hit. When these are the very things that unite.

Also pointless in the age of digital / internet

https://t.co/Nq9QXfgNlC

https://twitter.com/IndianPrism/status/1164646476850454528?s=19

#Krishn Geeta has been doctored to create a bridge with Manuism..Krishn whole life fought for equality freedom and humanity..he demounced ritualism laying more emphasis on Karma..science and awakening of consciousness..he accepted even atheism

https://twitter.com/ashokkmrsingh/status/1164790357021749248?s=19

गोंडी भाषा को मान्यता मिलनी चाहिए। आपके और मेरे प्रान्त उत्तर प्रदेश की ही अवधी भाषा को भी मिलनी चाहिए।

पर संस्कृत से द्वेष क्यों? ब्राह्मणवाद का आरोप क्यों?

वैसे अरबी और फ़ारसी के विद्वानों को राष्ट्रपति पुरस्कार एवं महर्षि बादरायण सम्मान मिलता है। उसपर आपका मत क्या है?

https://twitter.com/MisraNityanand/status/1164719027341746176?s=19

Simple explanations for this:

1. We do not share as much cultural space with Nepalis that we do with say Gujaratis or Marathis. And language is intertwined with culture.

https://twitter.com/Shatrubhanja/status/1164947616955686912?s=19

Each language is a nation and it's high time to recognise and respect that by reversing the British legacy. States must get Sovereignty.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1164952232271310849?s=19

Afghan women must be able to speak for themselves

By Fatima Nasser

ssispune

Abstract

Afghanistan has been grappling with war for nearly 40 years. The war has affected aspects of individual life and social institutions, including politics, society, culture and economy of our country, and has the potential to continue to do so. However, although putting an end to this situation and achieving a durable peace is urgent, it is not an easy task. To repair the harm inflicted on us by war and to build peace as a human value through peaceful coexistence, we need theoretical and practical efforts on a variety of fronts. Therefore, peace is not merely a political agreement. Rather, it is that of establishing an environment in which an “individual” and the “community” can lead a peaceful life without war and violence of any kind. Thus, building peace, in a general sense, is not possible only by a state or an institution like the High Peace Council (HPC). As noted earlier, as a broad and multi-faceted process, peace entails the participation and involvement of all individuals and institutions who are its beneficiaries.

It is obvious that in addition to practical efforts for peace, the process also requires efforts in the academic and theoretical fields because peace-building will not be ensured unless our society has a deep and clear understanding of peace and why we need it. The Afghan Peace Process has made some great accomplishments, effective and practical structures and institutions.

How Have Afghan Women Been Included or Excluded from Decision making?

In Afghanistan, women’s inclusion and influence in the peace process is the most limited at the regional and national levels and the most robust at the local and family levels. Inclusion of women at every level of society will be required to build peace in Afghanistan that will be sustainable. Afghan women lack meaningful participation in the peace process for both internal and external reasons. First, social and cultural norms have played a role in the exclusion of women in decision-making processes.

Stereotypes of women as victims and uncritical advocates for peace, combined with a strict division of labor in the public and private spheres, prevent women from entering official peace processes. The lack of legitimate space for dissent has been a persistent driver of violent resistance in Afghanistan. A predominant political culture has evolved of power concentrated centrally in a single ruler who sets policy and distributes resources leaving no room for non- violent opposition.

Leaders have struggled to exert authority nationwide, however, and in practice have had to accommodate regional rivals through de facto provincial autonomy to avoid insurrection. Tackling conflict today requires both strengthening existing governance structures and creating a political system that can incorporate insurgents peacefully. Regional devolution of power could alleviate pressure on the centre, but would still leave the core problem of how to introduce effective opposition politics. An emerging political dynamic with potential to break this enduring deadlock may be found in Afghanistan’s growing young population, who increasingly see political participation as a right rather than a privilege and are making demands for more meaningful representation. Women were largely excluded from the Bonn process. Since then, they have made significant gains in rights and political participation. But despite Afghanistan adopting in 2015 a National Action Plan on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, opportunities for women remain limited. And women’s rights defenders are wary that negotiations with the Taliban will lead to further losses, given the movement’s record and reputation.

But women already make key contributions to local peace initiatives, and the possibility now exists to engage proactively to affect the course of a national peace process. Afghan women encompass a spectrum of interests. Many from rural communities see ending violence as the priority over the sorts of rights that are their urban counterparts’ prime concern. Reaching out to different female and male constituencies is key to building broad support for women’s issues. Constructive progress will require acknowledging signs of change among the Taliban and engaging in dialogue with them to explore potential areas of mutual interest and accommodation. In a study on the roles of women in local peace building in Afghanistan, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sierra Leone, women reported that they were unable to engage in peace building activities because of the double burden of their domestic roles and income-generation activities as well as a lack of control over household income. When women do control income, however, they are more likely to engage in civil society activity and contribute to inclusive governance. The economic empowerment of women also greatly contributes to the effectiveness of post-conflict economic activities, and accelerates economic recovery; this is critical in breaking cycles of war and poverty. 

A report on the human development of the Asia-Pacific region notes that several of the world’s fastest growing economies that have recently emerged from conflict owe their success in part to women’s increased role in production, trade and entrepreneurship. By addressing discrimination, harmful stereotypes, patriarchal structures, and institutional exclusion that render women and girls vulnerable to violence and poverty, these economies took steps to enable them to participate meaningfully and effectively in public and private spheres, and become a driving force in the economy. The repressive Taliban government of Afghanistan emerged in 1994 after years of civil conflict and ruled the country from 1996 to 2001. Overthrown in 2001 by the U.S.-led military campaign, the Taliban has since waged an insurgency against the internationally backed Afghan government, which has resulted in widespread displacement and destruction, including significant physical threats and restrictions for Afghan women. The self-proclaimed Islamic State has also launched devastating attacks on civilians and state institutions with increasing frequency in recent years. The Afghan government has entered numerous rounds of peace talks and reached partial agreements with Taliban elements; many rounds stalled for political reasons or broke down due to miscommunication, stalemates, and spoilers. Afghan women have long feared that negotiators for a peace agreement with the Taliban would trade away women’s rights for the chance to end more than sixteen years of war. Women and girls have made notable progress since the fall of the Taliban, which adheres to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam in which women are considered second-class citizens. Under Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, Afghan women were banned from schools and work, faced public beatings and executions, and endured severe restrictions on their movement. 

Today, women and girls enjoy more opportunity to the education and work However; these gains have not translated into opportunities for women to participate in the peace process. In twenty-three rounds of talks between 2005 and 2014, on only two occasions were women present at the table: the 2010 talks in the Maldives (9 percent), and the 2011–2012 talks in France (10 percent). When officials from over twenty-five countries gathered for the Kabul Process in February 2018, an Afghan-led peace conference, women remained underrepresented. In the absence of formal participation, female civil society leaders have sought to influence the peace process through consultations with the Afghan government and the Taliban. They have also participated in government-appointed bodies—such as the Afghan High Peace Council (women comprise 26 percent of members), and provincial peace councils (women comprise 20 percent of members)—to lead local peace-building efforts, raise public support for the process, and inform negotiating positions and security operations. And school and participate in political and economic life. The Afghan government and international actors have pledged to ensure women’s representation in the peace process. 

President Ashraf Ghani observed that nation-building is impossible without the active role of women, and the government’s 2015 National Action Plan on women’s participation in peace and security efforts commits to develop a roster of and provide training to potential women negotiators. Prominent Afghan mullahs have focused Friday sermons on outlining women’s contributions to peace-building. And international actors—from NATO to the seventy-five countries gathered at the 2016 Brussels Conference on Afghanistan—have committed to support Afghan women’s participation in peace and security efforts. The rhetoric and policy are in place, but progress has been limited due to lack of political will and funding. If implemented, these commitments would strengthen the peace process and security efforts by increasing women’s contributions. To preserve women’s gains and block Islamist groups from imposing their view of women’s rights, Afghans negotiating with the Taliban, as well as the international community, must take seriously the red lines set down by Afghan women. It is important to focus simultaneously on women’s right to participate in the process; have their rights protected in any agreement; and ensure that adequate institutional mechanisms and resources are available to implement and uphold the terms of an agreement. Negotiators must firmly reject any backsliding on rights enumerated in Afghanistan’s constitution and legal code. Enforcement must be guaranteed for laws that bar violence against women and abolish discriminatory and unjust practices and traditions. The agreement to reach a political settlement must honor Afghanistan’s obligation to implement international laws and treaties to which Afghanistan is a party. Institutions such as the AIHRC, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the Women’s Chamber of Commerce must be further supported to provide the necessary services to all Afghans including women. Women’s rights groups and NGOs have played a pivotal role in providing legal, social, economic, educational, health and psychological services to millions of Afghan men and women. A peace agreement must explicitly allow these groups to continue operating without restriction; their staff must be further empowered and protected from persecution and unjust treatment in the name of Sharia or local traditions. Women, who have the most to lose if the Taliban returns to power, currently have the least say in the process by which it may do so.

As negotiations continue, and an Afghan government delegation meets with Taliban members, certain steps are urgently needed.

First, Afghan women must be able to speak for themselves. This means including female negotiators in significant numbers as part of any Afghan government delegation and ensuring formal participation for women’s groups representing civil society. Qatar, as host of the intra-Afghan dialogue, should invite such groups to take part as full delegates. Everyone knows the difference between tokenism and inclusion.

Second, women’s rights and concerns must be on the formal agenda, not relegated to side events or made the lone responsibility of female delegates. Women should have leadership roles during the development and implementation of any agreement and be consulted on all aspects of the future of the country—not just “women’s issues.”

Third, as the U.S. possesses a position of power in the peace process, Afghan women look to us to bring our diplomatic leverage to bear to uphold their rights, alongside their own government. If we don’t, it is almost a foregone conclusion that they will be marginalized. The U.S.—and the other nations that fought beside it in Afghanistan—should be adamant that they will not back any peace deal that erodes rights for women, and will hold all parties to the commitments they make. Afghan women should not be left alone to defend their rights before an organization that has traditionally treated them as inferior beings.

These peace negotiations are based on the hope that the Taliban has changed and will compromise. Its position on women’s rights and their participation in these talks is a fundamental test of its intentions. Accepting as irreversible the progress made by Afghan women is the standard they should be held to. The war in Afghanistan has been the defining foreign policy issue of our generation. After all the sacrifices made, we must seek to end the conflict on the right terms. We need a peace that is built on human rights in order for it to last.

CONCLUSION

There is extensive research on the importance of women’s inclusion in Peace-building efforts and the positive role they play—from improving the chances of a sustainable peace agreement being reached to the broader positive impacts on women’s inclusion in decision-making. While the Afghan government and the international community have expressed their support for the role of Afghan women in negotiating peace with the Taliban, these efforts have not been meaningful or consistent. Nevertheless, women civil society advocates and women leaders at the national level continue to push for a voice in the process in formal and informal ways. Recognizing the impact that women’s economic empowerment can play in building peaceful societies, and supporting these efforts may also contribute to better outcomes for Afghan society as a whole. Afghan women are leaders. They are central to building strong afghan institutions and legal frameworks. Gender equality and women’s economic empowerment are strongly tied to prosperous and peaceful societies. An important way to enable women’s participation in peace building activities is to advance their economic empowerment. At the national level, Afghan women participate in inclusive commissions as members and as leaders. However, their role remains marginalized. A 2014 study by Oxfam found that in 23 rounds of peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban since 2005, one woman from the government was present on two occasions. Moreover, no women were ever included in discussions between international negotiators and the Taliban, and it is unclear if or to what extent women’s interests were represented by others.

Established in 2010, the HPC is the national level entity responsible for leading and supporting the peace process with the Taliban. Currently, women comprise 11 of its 50 members, and after being restructured in early 2016, includes six new deputy heads, one of whom is a former

Minister of Women’s Affairs and the first female provincial governor for Bamyan. Additionally, there are two women on the new HPC Executive Board of Advisors—former government official, and the director of a well-known women’s civil society group.

Despite the inclusion of women both as members and leaders of the Council, it is unclear to what extent their participation is meaningful. The few women in senior positions in the HPC voice frustration over their marginalized role. In addition, the problematic nature of the Council itself—given that it is comprised primarily of government-appointed former mujahideen leaders and warlords—and its limited role in direct talks means women’s voices and influence are limited by default. At the local level, Afghan women play a somewhat larger role in peace building through their participation on the Provincial Peace Councils (PPC). PPCs in all but one province include women, and the nearly 200 women who have worked to resolve conflict at the local and provincial levels are doing meaningful work that has the potential to contribute to broader peace. For example, in March 2015, the women members of the PPCs submitted a proposal to the Afghan government citing their continued contributions to peace at the local level, and calling for increased women’s formal representation in all aspects of the peace process, increased access to information, and a national dialogue on peace and reconciliation. At the family and village levels, Afghan women perhaps have the biggest impact on promoting peace among family members and their community. Much of the literature on Afghan women’s role in peace building states that women are most effective as participants in conflict resolution at the family and village levels. Women’s role in conflict mediation, building trust and dialogue, educating children and counseling family members to not engage in violence are common themes across communities, and this role is recognized by male members of the community.

RECOMMENDATIONS

The Afghan government and the international community can take three concrete steps to ensure women’s inclusion moving forward:

1. Include women leaders in regional and national level peace talks with the Taliban if/when they move forward. Ensure women are included in

Afghan delegations to major international fora Support their voices as leaders and advocates in peace-building rather than as victims.

2. Advance women’s economic opportunity and empowerment as one way to build a more inclusive Afghan society overall. Provide specific support and training on women’s rights and the links between gender equality and peace-building.

3. Recognize that changes in social and cultural norms are important and necessary for women's inclusion in public life and that these changes can occur over time with an intentional effort to improve the status of Afghan women in society.

Including women at the negotiating table and in consultations beyond the formal talks is a necessary step towards a lasting and legitimate peace in Afghanistan.

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http://www.amazon.es/Talking-Terrorists-How-Armed-Conflicts/dp/1847922295

Cultures in danger of being eradicated

Assorted tweets:

An Indian Tears into Americans for calling Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose a "Nazi Collaborator" (writes @shubh19822)

https://t.co/5TxgDVYe4S

https://twitter.com/rightlog_in/status/1150278179942105090?s=19

brilliant comparison by the author. "The result is two almost diametrically opposite approaches to social change, law and order." https://t.co/HMVH6U8D0q

https://twitter.com/IntegralUnity/status/1150292416701882368?s=19

" Unlike the Semitic religions which focus on a transcendent all-powerful God, the underlying focus of the Wisdom Traditions of the East, Dao, #Buddhism, #Jainism and #Hinduism, are the energies within the human body" #dharma

https://twitter.com/IntegralUnity/status/1150289505049616385?s=19

Scanning at muzzafarnagar centre going on..Books will be on archive soon...we found some rare books on agama https://t.co/OksDYVVRsX

https://twitter.com/eGangotri/status/1084149545527762945?s=19

Must watch video. Hinduism and Media and Movies. The complicated truth of Bias and #Hinduphobia. https://t.co/JJZDFrAgR9 @VamseeJuluri #bollywood #hollywood #KanganaRanaut @Rangoli_A @KanganaTeam  @radhabharadwaj @DrShwetaGulati @ShefVaidya @TarekFatah

https://twitter.com/ChakraNews/status/1150200300562780162?s=19

Thank you, .@ChakraNews.  I spoke for our people, but I also want us to speak for all peoples whose cultures have been eradicated/in danger of being eradicated. #CulturalReclamation. https://t.co/iWymjC33hh

https://twitter.com/radhabharadwaj/status/1150210967902441472?s=19

From yesterday have been reading (rather revising) Angus Maddison’s masterpiece again. And trust me @ReallySwara & @iamrana with other Mughal apologists are going to get some good schooling on economic history of India. https://t.co/siLjW9uN1M

https://twitter.com/Aabhas24/status/1150257875844911104?s=19

In Japan,  we have best preserved India's Golden Age - where we indeed honor the Indian devas, siddham,  & traditions - but under the banner of Mahayana Buddhism where there are many devas & Buddha is devatideva or God of gods.  Kannon (Lokeshwara) is all gods merged into one! https://t.co/s0D5RNCQBq

https://twitter.com/NioZenji/status/1135508693808799745?s=19

May I recommend Irfan Habib’s The Agrarian Economy of Mughals to Ashish Joshi and @iamrana ? The name of the author sounds right ? Good, now, read his tome to see what the “rich” Mughal empire meant for common people. Death by starvation, very often. https://t.co/Qpdwrj5BYh

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1150210180061323264?s=19

I have read it. I'm afraid you, though, have not read any of the voluminous research on this. While monarchy can be rapacious (French, Russian AND Mughal), not all monarchy is as rapacious - esp cruel was of course Aurangzeb (his endless wars needed endless extortion of money). https://t.co/zuR4SJxOEX

https://twitter.com/HindolSengupta/status/1150153856648712192?s=19

When people say we reject 'leather' to respect Hinduism, they reveal they don't know that Hindu god Shiva, the great Mahadeva, wears tiger hide and elephant hide, and rishis sit on deer skin. https://t.co/YCXNHvBvi0

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1147044888812249088?s=19

Respecting Muslim personal law extended to non-muslims takes away huge leverage in legal powers that courts have over "redistribution" of wealth, and will reduce the turnover of non-judge professionals involved in keeping the litigation machinery running.

https://twitter.com/dikgaj/status/1150162491298779136?s=19

UCC will be "talked" abt very sincerely I suppose, but just dont expect it to be seriously worked at - its simply too contradictory for the trajectory built up for the Indian state since independence.

Can someone explain why did the Indian Supreme Court pass an order for entry of women to Sabarimala, about a year ago, and decline to even entertain a PIL for entry of women into mosques? When will India EVER become a country where ALL religions are EQUAL before law? When?

https://twitter.com/HindolSengupta/status/1148988731740889088?s=19

Mark my words - this sort of thing will only polarise society in India, as it has all these years, even more. For India's pluralism to survive and thrive, we desparately need systems, processes and laws which are EQUAL for EVERYONE. https://t.co/KvpitDjoxB

https://twitter.com/HindolSengupta/status/1148997683891331072?s=19

"While Modi strides like a peacock and waxes eloquent, he is clearly in fear of how the Indian and world media paints him as “Anti-Muslim” and therefore has started of playing Madrassa Angel with the other two angels..." Madrasa Angels - A superb piece on the clueless govt.. https://t.co/1CIxaLqv7x

https://twitter.com/SundaramChitra/status/1150239568643256320?s=19

The Madrassa Angels -2: When you forget your core belief & all you want is accolades from your extreme haters! BJP & PM already fell into this trap, won't be surprise if they end up building a mosque in Ayodhya. @RavinarIN https://t.co/bRpqIDBVkm

https://twitter.com/post2sarthak/status/1150239390884483072?s=19

“This is the most important political takeaway from the way Modi has run his economy. He has taken from those in the middle to give to those at the bottom, and both are voting for him with equal enthusiasm.” https://t.co/IETSXIeKnJ

@ShekharGupta nails the politics astutely.

https://twitter.com/sonaliranade/status/1147328946167414784?s=19

Impressive analysis based on hard data: https://t.co/tddZ3weFrh @TVMohandasPai @PMOIndia @narendramodi

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1150309345747300352?s=19

Wishing the sarkar the very best in completing the largest development program being undertaken in India's history.

I visited a coral reef in the Caribbean where one gets to touch manta rays. Very gentle playful creatures. Glad that humans are learning to appreciate them: https://t.co/wWaeZsGcgN

https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/1150218954721255424?s=19

If you imagine the jiva is a manifestation of the divine, it raises the experience to a whole new level. Animals & plants can provide an amazing meditative experience.

Finished @UnamPillai s “the courtesan,”  easy read, caters to short attention spans like mine and what’s more lends itself to re reading and can pick up from anywhere and read! The illustrations are fab .. 1/2

https://twitter.com/sujo2906/status/1150267197903654912?s=19

My review of Ian McEwan's new novel 'Machines Like Me', also his least self-consciously literary work in years, which doesn't push the science fiction envelope or ask any new questions but manages to engage and entertain in equal measure. For @scroll_in. https://t.co/iuqZoOJ0XN

https://twitter.com/sayantansunnyg/status/1149579535001632768?s=19

“Taseer’s discovery of India results in a detailed, learned and highly readable tour of Hindu history...” Thrilled to see this wonderfully intelligent review of #thetwicwborn by the scholar Wendy Doniger https://t.co/5777sExLZC

https://twitter.com/AatishTaseer/status/1104534234868469761?s=19

Now read @tca_tca on the distinction between economists and economic thinkers.  Adam Smith wasn’t an economist.  He was more an economic thinker.  

And as TCA says, BJP has none. https://t.co/rkwbXHpPKw

https://twitter.com/sonaliranade/status/1149893888573751296?s=19

An erudite review of my book Awakening Bharat Mata by Ravish Tiwari in Indian Express.  https://t.co/z3Uh8fFaIe

https://twitter.com/swapan55/status/1150273796923961345?s=19

Forest To Temples To Homes: What The Nation Can Adopt From The Dedicated Indic Woman Environmentalist This Rainy Season And Shravan https://t.co/1xwdnVIE6g via @swarajyamag

https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1150056580286570496?s=19

Take a bow... Such a well written piece https://t.co/XUp9iKvC7M

https://twitter.com/ecophilo/status/1150057707287674880?s=19

The moon’s digit adorns Śiva’s head. Comparing Manmatha to a fluttering moth nicely suggests the fickleness of desire.

The Sport of Renunciation: Verses https://t.co/NntzpGnEew

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1149950309478780928?s=19

At once a reflection on inequality and a call to arms, @surajyengde's #CasteMatters argues that until Dalits lay claim to power and Brahmins join hands against Brahminism to effect real transformation, #caste will continue to matter

Book your copy now: https://t.co/fCEh0LjpA2 https://t.co/GRlD0Uy1fY

https://twitter.com/PenguinIndia/status/1148796577869209600?s=19

India and the Indian: Will we never be able to achieve consensus on being legitimately Indian, writes Aakash Singh Rathore https://t.co/MSBIiV2KGK

https://twitter.com/aakash_ironman/status/1144812508332433408?s=19

Both Maharishi Valmiki and Veda Vyasa who wrote Ramayana and Mahabharata were neither the writers of History Books nor Mythological Epics. Both were wise sages and great writers of Metaphysics (divine Knowledge). Ramayana and  Mahabharata are VEDAS Re-told  @pksabhlok

https://twitter.com/pksabhlok/status/1033247607638962176?s=19

Vedas are the only scriptures which provide divine guidance for good governance, liberalism, bottom up Democracy with Sabha and Vidhata in each village/temple, international trade, Fraternity and Freedom to bring City of God (Ramarajya) on our divine Planet.. Revive Vedas truthfully.

https://twitter.com/pksabhlok/status/1101109214540369922?s=19

Everyone's opinion will obviously vary but Bengali victimhood clouds the overall picture. However, only one opinion matters in the matter: that's of Sri Aurobindo. Accepting his insights with humility is the only sane option. Emotions and arguments have no place before it. Thanks

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1149931512046993413?s=19

Many thanks for such a principled stand which will go a long way in cleaning the public sphere.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1150109666325569536?s=19

With Twitter, one can't be alone. Lots of people around, lots of ideas and concerns. No chance of any disenchantment; no scope for any despondency.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1150274016579481600?s=19

Modern civilisation has prevented people to look at women and instead sends them to museums and art galleries to see their portrayal in metal, stone, or paintings. Movies are also kosher for watching them on screen. So, everyone is glued to phone in Metro. https://t.co/UmRHMiorIi

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1149942059928674304?s=19

If one is genuinely interested in understanding the pattern behind rise and fall of religions or civilisations for that matter, then reading The Human Cycle by Sri Aurobindo is absolutely necessary. He predicts demise of all religions by increasing power of ideal of human unity.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1150281933806379008?s=19

Plain & Simple: Vyasa is impartial to all his characters https://t.co/HtCc0yTdIF @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (U.P.). #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1150269087710212096?s=19

We see things as we are, not as they are

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Knowledge is not like a collage or a mosaic nor it's democratic. Rational quest for knowledge will certainly arrive at ontology after meandering briefly through epistemological questions. Once one is gripped by ontological concerns, the journey is bound to reach at Sri Aurobindo.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147560211441307650?s=19

Savitri Era Political Action: Gandhism as the state religion https://t.co/NZnaQDMZaj

@NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad. #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147548250410323969?s=19

"MKG was excessively anti-Hindu" begs the question, Whether being Hindu is the ultimate virtue? and Why the hell everything on earth should be tested against the Hindu touchstone? But regrettably no coolheaded analysis or answer can be expected at present. https://t.co/wUcNbl6TbE

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1147735456848609280?s=19

@Good_Bipin No, sorry; Sri Aurobindo is the greatest person to have walked upon this planet. His written work alone has no parallel in world

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/234599686298796032?s=19

@Good_Bipin Personally, I don't subscribe to mythologies and their multiple, often conflicting, fictional narratives. You are free to choose

@SavitriEraParty true, but not in the way you seem to have understood. The Avatar of that time had to work on the mental plane and so did

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/627751216273977348?s=19

@SavitriEraParty Ram is darling because majority of humanity cannot grok Overmind Krishna's method of dealing with events and people

Phayllus (pronounced Faayoos), the central villain in Sri Aurobindo's tragedy "Rodogune". Charudutta Ram Prabhudesai http://t.co/khgFiHgnUO

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/314991784822460416?s=19

She once told me that had she not been an obedient daughter to our Nani, she would never have married. She would have been happy, she thought, to spend her life in books, reading, writing and looking after the family around her in hometown Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh. This was not what mothers usually told their daughters, but it stayed with me. ‘Aching loneliness is different from solitary calm’: Sharda Ugra on being single by choice https://t.co/My8ROaKEoa via @scroll_in

https://twitter.com/ArchisMohan/status/1147716780762324993?s=19

To understand complexities and depths of the human mind is one of life's great pleasures, whether that mind be another's or one's own.

https://twitter.com/HamzaBinTweetin/status/1147632948180672512?s=19

People out here describing cities but also describing themselves. It's like Oscar Wilde said..."give a man a mask and he will tell you everything".

Another reminder that we see things as we are, not as they are. So be a little inspired today to look on the bright side. Cheers ✌️

https://twitter.com/HamzaBinTweetin/status/1147554841583149056?s=19

Kochi like all port cities is a homeless whore of melancholy, always in her mid-forties who speaks many languages. She fears of menopause and her bones are prone to osteoporosis. In the night when the tide swells she listens to the music of her home. https://t.co/G6lJFU9hMr

https://twitter.com/litemeter/status/1147380517873913856?s=19

For me it embodies a feminine spirit, a neon-lit womb space. An alter ego. Should we drag in political correctness to a subjective experience? It might be different for different people. I was amused by people who see Kochi as a tantrum throwing teen.

Those who don't believe in briefcases won't believe in briefs, a western concept. Go back to langoti y'all

https://twitter.com/litemeter/status/1147080916822646786?s=19

most religions/moral frameworks/cultures/state tacitly allow prostitution as an unavoidable market phenomenon that takes care of uncontrollable fluctuations in imbalance in demand-supply of "sex" through the state/insttn preferred "marriage" mechanism.

https://twitter.com/dikgaj/status/805400991466160129?s=19

from older Christian monks, to some late Hindu texts to ppl like Gandhi - all disapprove/demote sex within marriage for "pleasure". dont interpret my words as disapproval/approval of "moralism": all I say is abt clarifying real motives and not hiding them. ppl can debate and accept or reject on the real underlying motives - there is no value judgment in itself as to why the state view is wrong or correct.

1. Next 13 tweets on much confusion about homosexuality in #Islam #Sufism. Per fiqh, what is permissible in Heaven can be esoteric on Earth.

https://twitter.com/Parikramah/status/624467697577766912?s=19

8. Homosexuality was accepted among public & nobility of the holy Caliphate as esoteric hobby. Adolescent boys graced the Sultan's parades.

Sufism is one of the greatest con jobs in history only comparable to the "compassion" of Christ.
By Sandeep Balakrishna @dharmadispatch
#Sufi #Sufism https://t.co/0uiuwEezxq https://t.co/hJ6jDTAZhD
https://twitter.com/CASandeepSehgal/status/1147076569384357888?s=19

Everything is useful but most religions are just covered with lace and jewelry by people, because people love to decorate everything, and they cover and cover what they are afraid is their ugliness... and eternity's frightening mystery.

https://twitter.com/AnaMyID/status/1026172892889763840?s=19

https://t.co/rdXhd8RcNg "Stripped of its ethical and contextual rootmindfulness-based practices borrowed from Buddhist & Zen lineages risk shoring up the very sources of suffering from which the Buddha set out to liberate himself and others." Same danger for #Ayurveda. @AyurVAID
https://twitter.com/rajivvasudevan/status/1147351206605578240?s=19

The development of multiple concentration skills seems to have a long history in India. According to Sampadananda Mishra, a Sanskrit scholar at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, the emphasis on multiple concentration began in the context of the transmission of Vedic scriptures.

https://twitter.com/ZankhanaBuch/status/1147673016819580929?s=19

A de-addiction facilitation workshop underway to train the trainers. Yet another initiative for good from the good folks at the Sri Aurobindo Society. https://t.co/kqNrediKJG

https://twitter.com/ashoklalla/status/1147750334392987649?s=19

40) Hymns 255 - 261 (Verses 2,633 - 2,671): Description of Rig-Veda, Mandala 03, Sukta 021 to 027 (including hymns to Agni Vaishvanara and Indra); with #SriAurobindo's words on the beginnings of European Indology and Sayana's influence on it https://t.co/EPx4wnJtsE

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1147663834196262912?s=19

@lopamudra_adak your new photograph is the Divine's favourite! But may I suggest a pic of Sri Aurobindo in the background space instead of any other person ? Once you have touched Sri Aurobindo he becomes yr ultimate love!

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1147658706852597760?s=19

Nirmala Seetharaman  brught this unique budget that is the seed for the destruction of India and soon we shall have new Independent Countries with new constitutions. Watch it with dismay!

https://twitter.com/Janamejayan/status/1147459979328262146?s=19

Modi didn’t have so much public love for Gandhi while he was in Gujarat. It all started after he became PM. The only Gandhi-act he did in Gujarat was to ban a book by Joseph Lelyveld which alluded to Gandhi being Gay. In Gujarat, it was “Sardar-Sardar” all the way because Gujaratis themselves don’t revere MKG all that much. The theatre and drama of Modi started after he became PM, especially if you notice his “bowing techniques”.

http://www.mediacrooks.com/2019/07/the-gandhi-overkill.html

Kutti Revathi has been often misunderstood as one who is trying to draw attention to herself by using shock value. When Mulaigal (Breasts) was first published in 2002, needless to say it drew a huge amount of flak from the conservative Tamil society. But Kutti Revathi, which is the pen name of Dr S Revathi, is unapologetic. “As we poke into a word and turn it over,” she writes in her essay, “the history buried in its innards rises up, along with images, memories . . . and poetry too.” 

Breasts are central to a woman’s body. They are her obsession too. Needless to say, most men spend a lot of time thinking about them. 

Every woman is in one way or the other involved with her body. It is her personal domain. What is problematic is that on their own, men have set “rights” over woman’s body by snatching away even a woman’s right to speak, share thoughts about her body or parts of it, with herself or with others. Men, have made both the woman’s body, especially her breasts, objects of desire by making it a taboo subject and grabbing a woman’s claim over her own body. By trying to “hide”, place shame and guilt over a woman’s body, they have tried for centuries to make women disown her own body and hand over the “power” to men. 

Therefore, the more women speak about their bodies, the more she reclaims what is hers. 

http://juliadutta.blogspot.com/2010/03/breast-stories-of-kutti-revathi.html

Earning wrinkles and breaking bangles

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The world of spirituality is very wide and there is no need to set up an artificial division between ‘non-theistic’ and ‘theistic’ practices: @peterheehs https://t.co/IllwALRfLp

https://twitter.com/gchikermane/status/1145558517320835077?s=19

Peter Heehs talks to me about 'Godless Spirituality' : ‘It’s possible to be an atheist and practise a religion; many religions get along quite well without gods’ https://t.co/oMk7XoWKWj

https://twitter.com/Getafix2012/status/1145607067966697473?s=19

Inside India's White Flesh Trade: Chilling First-Hand Accounts: https://t.co/tmAnrvAt12 -  A piece I wrote on the thriving russian sex trade in south asia

https://twitter.com/Getafix2012/status/1144936257283166210?s=19

If you haven’t a bucket list already, write one down. Start ticking off things on it as quick as you can. Learn a new language. Go bungee jumping. Buy something extravagant for yourself. Whatever is important for you. - @KiranManral #TheMarriedFeminist https://t.co/vmj08cVf9i

https://twitter.com/SheThePeopleTV/status/1145615109970022400?s=19

While there is the conflict, the relief at the freedom from being the subject of the male gaze, there is paradoxically also the consternation of the realization that one is no longer considered present even when one is present.

1] Don’t resist the changes that you see in yourself, in your life. Go with the flow. What you resist, persists.

2] Don’t resent aging, you have lived your years and earned those wrinkles. They are what make you who you are. And yes, make sure you slather on that sunscreen and that retinoid. (after consulting a dermat, of course!)

20] Stop being overly bothered about your appearance. You will realise now, if you haven’t already, that there is much more to you that what you look like. And that no one really cares. Kiran Manral is Ideas Editor at SheThePeople.TV

Women represent empiricism and men a healthy scepticism and ambivalence; that's what came out of the debate on myth and history. May be more to do with awareness level than any inherent trait but the evolutionary burden of child rearing appears ill at ease with a rearview mirror.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1145627360621842432?s=19

Hindutva has survived and grown muscles on the anvil of this "respect and relegate" principle which Sri Aurobindo stoutly questioned. If discussed honestly and with adequate knowledge many pet ideas will collapse like a house of cards. Harbouring scoundrels needs to be abandoned. https://t.co/xvxMTQuTW9

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1145627360621842432?s=19

Hindutva adherents have become restless and are increasingly loosing patience with Modi govt. This unpredictable turn can be ascribed to the Evolutionary intention outlined in the #FiveDreams of Sri Aurobindo. Many of his followers however remain staunch admirers of Hindutva, alas!

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1144665581083222016?s=19

Savitri Era Political Action: Give courage to others https://t.co/O1BthGhzKf

Evergreen Essays: Quest for a historical core for puranas is futile https://t.co/rQY7MGVq8z

Savitri Era Open Forum: Elst cult bashes Oak https://t.co/llnqjEFLKh

VIP VAK: Glaring gaps even in works of Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel https://t.co/guLGuX7iNF

Posted by @NathTusar Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad - 201014 (UP). #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Fighting against fascists is no less fascist; ultimately, conflict and war are the primary modes of human behaviour. In fact, they are at the root of the whole biology. Sri Aurobindo, however, shows the Evolutionary dimensions vis-à-vis Vedic aspirations ingrained in certain acts

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1144545875798061056?s=19

Pushing a narrative and telling the right thing are two different things. Obviously, people are driven by material gains and no escape from such compulsions. Sri Aurobindo, however, provides diverse perspectives to sense current priorities and imperatives. https://t.co/yA7GHvJTdf

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1143745208053465088?s=19

In this entire great country.... many issues to attend to and report on... And moronic chooliyas of @Republic @Timesnow @Indiatoday are breaking their bangles over some failed actress? What kind cheap seats people are you? Who cares what Zaira quits... https://t.co/nKboZLKdSg

https://twitter.com/RavinarIN/status/1145567736254218240?s=19

And what the stupid duck does @ZairaWasimmm mean "Bollywood is interfering with my Faith?"... She wanted to do namaz in the middle of shots and directors said NO?... Stupid childish nautanki... Keep your Faith at home... @Timesnow @Republic @Indiatoday https://t.co/2xNvccvWQU

https://twitter.com/RavinarIN/status/1145566985847054336?s=19

Professional Hindu Basher, #LeftLibtard Sagarika now trying to teach Ramayana, meaning of Ram Rajya & Gandhigiri to us. देश मैं अकल का इतना आकाल अभी नहीं पड़ा जो ऐसे ढोंगी देशविरोधियों को गुरु या मार्गदर्शक मान लें। https://t.co/iwLKwEmFcj

https://twitter.com/madhukishwar/status/1145410500164870144?s=19

Hindus look upto him because he has actually gone through the original texts & manuscripts and theorized and written down what he found.  Something laymen like us can only dream of. https://t.co/Oz47ww4p86

https://twitter.com/Dauhshanti/status/1145576934522253312?s=19

Yes I am, and proud of it. https://t.co/t0ABBobLH9

https://mobile.twitter.com/_logicalindian

Illogical stuff from itihAsa-purANas shouldn't be justified either. Maybe folks who claim tokenism for shruti - "respect and relegate" have a point after all.

https://twitter.com/RangaTheDude/status/1145541716943855618?s=19

One you could add to this list, too , is Henri Bortoft, who is perhaps quite relevant to Integral Yoga as well. He wrote on discerning between "authentic and counterfeit wholes" or integrations -- a most critical subject in these times of fakery.

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1108299346179776512?s=19

[Biographers usually focus solely on Aurobindo's life as a politician or sage, but he was also a scholar, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a social and cultural theorist, and the inspiration for an experiment in communal living.] Book by Peter Heehs https://t.co/FbTBpMZ1dm

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1057889844783865856?s=19

Publications:

Spiritual and Religious Sources of Indian Psychology
KK Salagame - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2019
… He attributes much of the inspiration he obtained for his work to his spiritual experiences and also to Maharshi Aurobindo, who blessed him (OM-GURU) … Integral psychology has its roots in the integral philosophy of a modern Indian visionary, Sri Aurobindo (Sen, 1986) …

[PDF] Study of Court processes and Re-engineering Opportunities for Improving Court efficiencies for Justice Delivery in India
RR Babu - 2019
… These court premises which have been declared a heritage structure are historical in nature with the buildings being the place where the trial of Rishi Aurobindo Ghosh took place in the Alipore Bomb case (May 1908-1909) …

Postcolonialism, Anti-colonialism, Nationalism and History
C Doran - International Studies, 2019
… 176– 178) and Aurobindo Ghose in India (Chakrabarti, 2012, pp. 18–20). In all these cases, a new historiography was regarded as an integral part of nationalist resurgence and resistance to the oppressive cultural pressure of colonialist discourse …

[PDF] Arundhati Roy's: The God of Small Things: As a Hybrid Linguistic Text
SZ Birgani
… “This mother” defends her son against colonial pillages, but is also herself devastated
by colonialism and she “needs her son's protection” (182). The Indian nationalist, Sri Aurobindo writes “I know my country as Mother. I offer her my devotions, my worship” …

Belligerence, thy name is Donald Trump

Telegraph India-2 hours ago

I can still recall my visit to the Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture. My senses were filled with the kind of sounds that Mukherjee has described. The stillness ...

Interview: 'Reason Does Not Make Us Ethical...We Must Believe in ...

The Wire-30-Jun-2019

... Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee brings some of India's most original political thinkers – Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo ...

On the bookshelf

Deccan Herald-29-Jun-2019

Belief and Beyond delves into the realm of the mystic – Adi Sankara, Allama Prabhu, Kabir, Nagarjuna, Akka Mahadevi, Sri Aurobindo, Jiddu Krishnamurti, U G ...

What yoga can teach us

The Hindu-20-Jun-2019

I can see clearly the interconnection between Sri Aurobindo's vision of a world union of free nations, the vision of a spiritualised society, and the vision of integral ...