Saturday, April 27, 2024

Women are choosing to stay single

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Women are choosing to stay single and childfree not bec they hate men or western influence, but they are registering the exhaustion of women around them - colleagues, friends, relatives - and choosing not to raise a husband alongside a baby and do disproportionate labour

https://twitter.com/MasalaBai/status/1783332838018052541?t=5ie4Xnv-Ifr-mG0vav1Ycw&s=19

Very much me. I genuinely, have not been able to find a scenario where marriage + kids would make my life BETTER in any significant way. Helps that I don't have major maternal instincts. But I have a great career, unimaginable independence, and low stress. I'd rather keep those.

https://twitter.com/ketakirituraj/status/1783336521715556530?t=9eADKTv3iQ67On0uyTRwbA&s=19

CHAPTER 10 “DISENCHANTMENT OF THE WORLD” OR FRAGMENTATION OF THE SACRED?

P Gorski - Challenging Modernity, 2024
The image of the shattered vases captures something fundamental about the religious, spiritual, and cultural situation of the present moment—something that the dominant imagery of “disenchantment” and “differentiation” and “rationalization” and …

The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies

D Knights, H Liu, O Smolović-Jones, S Wilson - 2024
… To illustrate this, he explores how India's ruling BJP party responded to the Covid-19 pandemic in ways that reflected and advanced its Hindu nationalist, anti-Muslim ideology of Hindutva. Ajnesh examines the ways in which BJP leaders validated …

[PDF] To Create Social Consciousness towards Food Waste through Digital Designing and Fusion Printing Method

G Malarvizhi, LPV Lakshmi
The paramount step towards the change is creating awareness. Awareness precedes change. As awareness around the issue of food waste has grown, various types of interventions to reduce food waste have emerged. In this article, the design …

[HTML] From Urban Revolution to Passive Revolution

A Ghertner
… Might it also help analytically point to the ever-present potential for revolutions otherwise, such as the Hindutva revolution where the book ends? This most recent political shift, and the stark rise in anti-Muslim violence even more recently, is …

[HTML] NGO versus Government's solar energy provision in India: a feminist perspective.

GM Mininni - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2024
India is aiming at achieving a major shift in energy production and provision from a fossil fuel-based economy to one focussing on clean energy. As a financially constrained context, the move to the use of renewable energy is happening also …

6 The Religious Legacy of and within Populism1

D Spini - Still the Age of Populism?: Re-examining Theories and …, 2024
Democracy everywhere is in crisis. Authoritative sources such as the Democracy Report 2022: Autocratization Changing Nature? shows how democracies are declining not only in number, but also in quality, as many former vital democratic …

Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India: by Aditya Balasubramanian, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2023, xxi+ …

R Bashir - 2024
… Furthermore, in the wake of BJP’s adoption of the market as the primary driver of its Hindutva project, this reviewer is skeptical of the suggestion regarding the revival of a party that is dedicated purely to free markets and eschews Hindu Nationalism.Footnote …

[PDF] Electoral Politics and Coalition Government: A Study of Mara Autonomous District Council (MADC), Mizoram

SC Beingiachhiezi, J Doungel
… by BJP ideology or Hindutva teaching. In this regard, it should be plainly stated that BJP manifesto and Hindutva ideology have no … ticket only due to the influence of their political leaders but not by Hindutva ideology and BJP manifesto. The …

DISCOURSE IN TIMES OF UNEXPECTED CRISIS

A Prasad - The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership …, 2024
… by pursuing its longstanding ideology of Hindutva. Using the most generous of terms, … Many of the BJP's efforts to advance Hindutva culminated in 2016, when the Lok Sabha—the … over COVID-19 with the currents of their Hindutva ideology …

[HTML] Category: Animals

CW Autism, DCPS Grimaldi
Before we journey into the heart of yesterday’s celestial spectacle, let’s unfold the mystery of what an eclipse truly is. In its simplest definition, an eclipse occurs when one celestial body moves into the shadow of another. The dance between the Sun …

[PDF] Comparing the Living Conditions of Older Individuals: A Qualitative Exploration of Home-Based and Old Age Home Residences

A Santhosh, A Prabhu, R Arudkar, S Shrotri, A Vaidya
… Thus, the harbingers of a family, who are senior citizens (aged 60 and above for the purpose of this paper), become an integral part of life. The treatment of these individuals can thus have repercussions on different domains of their own lives …

[PDF] Corporate Social Responsibility in Hypermodern Times: How to Identify Socially Responsible Consumers

S Marschlich, G Dhanesh - American Behavioral Scientist, 2024
Organizations have been increasingly paying attention to their myriad economic, ethical, social, and environmental responsibilities, partly driven by consumer pressure. It is imperative for organizations to identify who these socially responsible …

[PDF] Inner Peace: Evaluating a Complementary Program Promoting Intra-Personal Peace at Adelaide Women's Prison, Australia

A Turner, N Thomas, H Menih, A Collins - International Journal of Offender Therapy …, 2024
… with other complementary programs such as yoga or mindfulness, in that the PEP encourages the individual to focus on their inner resources. … The team leader (Bill) was a former GP whose appreciation of the need for independent research was …

[PDF] Globalisation in Cultural Identity

S Subbulakshmi - Humanities, 2024
… It is an inbuilt and integral part to express culture. It communicates the values, beliefs and customs. The traditions and values are … Daily rituals and customary practices (like raising early in the morning, yoga practices like suryanamaskaram …

How mindfulness training changes tourist experience: An exploratory study

SC Kaya, H Sezerel, V Filimonau - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2024
… In a similar vein, Zeynep Aksoy, who opened the first yoga studio in Turkey in 2003, began offering online mindfulness training titled “… The findings reveal that regular mindfulness interventions, such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction …

[PDF] The Impact of Recreational Sports Enthusiasts' Willingness to Engage in the Leisure Consumption

DH SEONG - The Journal of Industrial Distribution & Business, 2024
Purpose: The present research guides to a middle ground where recreational sports and enjoyment justify the basic concept of leisure consumption, exploring an exciting field of study, where participation is the motivational source of recreational …

Debating the colonial ascendant in decolonization of psychology–perspectives from Indian psychology

N Sharma - Current Psychology, 2024
… and psychological benefits of yoga, while the core ideas of yoga and self-realization are largely ignored” (p. 11). This observation supports Jung’s cautionary remarks to Westerners about practicing yoga. As per Jung, while the inner processes derived …

[PDF] A silent look at the teaching and learning of belly dance and the stereotype applied to practitioners: An experience report

VNM da Conceição, JG Gadelha - Seven Editora, 2024
This study investigated the benefits of practicing belly dance and explored the phenomenon of prejudice within the teaching of this modality. Using a qualitative review approach, the historical context of belly dance, its relationship with physical …

[PDF] Personal Values Inform Student Preference for Household Toilet Systems That Use Human 'Waste'as a Natural Resource

HJ Smith, JM Shupack, DR Nelson - 2024
This study contributes to understanding pro-environmental behavior in toilet system adoption by examining the core values that inform decision-making processes. Undergraduates participated in an educational module on conventional and …

[HTML] Action for Welfare and Awakening in Rural Environment-'Report on Tibetan

M Gallagher
… 10 Ghose, Aurobindo and Sayed Iftekar Gillani (1993), 'Life and Times of the Chakmas: Survival', Human Rights and Self-determination, Mainstream, 3rd July 1993 Ghose, Partha, 'Cross Border Population Movements and Regional Security in …

[PDF] Hindutva in the shadow of the Mahatma: MS Golwalkar, MK Gandhi, and the RSS in post-colonial India

N Chaudhary, S Narayan - Modern Asian Studies, 2024
While many commentators have noted the Bharatiya Janata Party’s more recent attempts at appropriating Gandhian imagery and symbolism, few have diverted their attention towards earlier attempts by Hindu Nationalists to do so. MS Golwalkar is …… who attempted to incorporate Gandhi into the pantheon of Hindutva (Hindu-ness). This article … He crafted a mode of Hindutva politics whereby his image as an extraordinarily able-bodied … This article attempts to portray Hindutva in a similar …

[PDF] Understanding the Prevalence and Factors Contributing to Depression Among School-Going Adolescents in Gwalior City, Madhya Pradesh, India

N Kiron
Depression among adolescents remains a significant global mental health challenge, often under-recognized and undertreated. This paper focuses on understanding the prevalence and associated socio-demographic factors contributing to depression …

Savitri Era Religion worships The Mother & Sri Aurobindo as the one Supreme Divine and believes that all past religions based on mythology and rituals are going to collapse. Reading The Secret of the Veda clarifies why spirituality and adventure of consciousness are evolutionary.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1784092288844759467?t=6zf1xOiz2tQtreg6aAeHQw&s=19

India must be reclaimed as belonging to its people and not any one religion or caste. Savitri Era Party follows the philosophy of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo which teaches universality and harmony. Both Marxist and Hindutva narratives need to be thrown out. incarnateword.in/cwsa

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1784084568913694876?t=c8Pwq4KXWY9enl_Slhl7jQ&s=19

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Ontological security is neither absolute nor ever full attainable

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Sri Aurobindo: Cosmology, Psychology and Integral Experience

B Shankar - Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2024
… Sri Aurobindo has an integral vision that sees everything in the movement of one and develops the methods and practices of Integral Yoga. In … I will also discuss the epistemological foundation of his philosophy, cosmology and integral yoga …
5 hours ago — Sri Aurobindo's poem 'Life and Death' opens for us a perspective on life and death not as two opposites but as two different modes of existence.

25 Ethical Practices in Indian Television

FM Nahak - Rethinking Media Studies: Media, Meditation and …, 2024
“Jana Kalyan” or the welfare of mankind has been the practice in India from time immemorial. The very basic principle of Srimad Bhagawat Geeta is also driven by the same thought and ideology. This ideology is applicable to every organization …

[HTML] Subho Basu. Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh

AE Ruud - 2024
1 Outside of Bangladesh and of the circles of South Asian studies, the details of the struggle leading up to the war of independence in 1971 are known only in broad outlines, if that. The academic scholarship on this period is also limited to brief …

The Idea of Democracy

S Pitroda - 2024
Today global democracy is at a crossroads because of the rise in polarized politics, authoritarian regimes and the use of social media to manipulate and amplify lies, hate and misinformation. While electoral democracy continues to be the most …

[HTML] Neeti Nair. Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

S Kachwala - 2024
1 In Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia, Neeti Nair unravels the historically shifting meanings of secularism, religious statehood, citizenship, censorship, majoritarian demands, and minority rights in the Indian subcontinent …

Politics, Identity and Belonging Across The British South Asian Middle Classes: Between Privilege and Prejudice

R Saini
… relevant theoretical frameworks and concepts, such as post-racial neoliberalism, to contextualise the development of some of these phenomena, alongside contemporary national and transnational political events and movements including …

[PDF] Conflict, gender and ontological security-seeking between Eritrea and Tel Aviv

O Gazit, S Inman - Conflict, Security & Development, 2024
The proliferating research in ontological security (OS) studies explores how irregular situations of ‘radical disjuncture’ remove the protective cocoon of routinised trust relations that enables the actors to ‘bracket out’ daily threats and dangers. Following …

[PDF] Protecting the people: populism and masculine security in India and Hungary

S Dutta, T Abbas - Journal of Political Ideologies, 2024
… Modi’s masculinity also drew upon the idea of muscular nationalism, which is the hallmark of Hindutva ideology. Yet Modi’s performance … imaginary of Hindutva, the nation is imagined as a suffering mother, symbolized by Mother India.Footnote 75 …

The Politics and Aesthetics of Male Homosexuality in Malayalam Cinema: Contextualizing the Film Ka Bodyscapes (2016)

SS Sooraj, KRK Krishna - Journal of Homosexuality, 2024
Focusing on the Malayalam film Ka Bodyscapes (2016), this article attempts to historically trace and critically engage with the representations of gay sexuality in Malayalam cinema from the South Indian state of Kerala. It interrogates how Ka …

Indigenous Sexuality Texts, Psychology and Mental Wellbeing Check for updates

N Pant - Psychology of Sexuality & Mental Health Vol. 1 …
This chapter explores available public domain topics of indigenous sexuality texts and thoughts in Buddhism, Tao, Chinese, Ancient Indian, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, further chapter looks at Psychological and Mental health aspects of these …

Menopause in the workplace: Challenges, impact, and next steps

N Safwan, M Saadedine, CL Shufelt, E Kapoor… - Maturitas, 2024
… The mean age of menopause is 52 years, which coincides with a time in women's lives when they play an integral role in their families, workplaces, and society in general [1,2]. In 2020, more than 600 million women were between 45 and 59 years …

[PDF] STAYING WELL: SELF-CARE FOR INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS

AJ Haste, L Baines - NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars
… have some spare time in which to indulge ourselves, but should be an integral part of our lives. In this chapter, we firstly consider what we … for others spirituality may be expressed through other means such as practising yoga or getting in touch …

[HTML] Quest Magazine

IR Kliegman
… Regardless of the actual origins of Tarot and Kabbalah, by 1890 Kabbalistic teaching was integral to Tarot design. It is my contention that … of yoga. I wanted all the physical attributes yoga books claimed for a healthy body, but I was not sure …

[PDF] Support of spirituality and traditional culture to achieve sustainable development goals

NG Hegde - The Journal of Rural Advancement, 2024
… Hence, spiritual orientation should be an integral part of the Sustainable Human Development. … Over 5000 years ago, a supreme Yoga scholar, Sage Patanjali prescribed an eightfold path for reaching the ultimate goal of self-realisation, known …

[PDF] An Analysis of the Relationships between Emotional Experience, Revisit Intention and Conative Loyalty in the Islamic Religious Tourism Context

SL Sari - 2024
… The study employed a data collection method involving 502 Yoga Tourism tourists in Rishikesh, India. The results revealed that Memorable … The prior study involved 502 Yoga Tourism tourists in Rishikesh, India, while this research involves …

[PDF] Nadishodhana pranayama: unveiling the healing power within

S Rawat, A Kaushik, S Chetri - Journal of Geriatric Care and Research, 2024
… This review aims to summarize findings from seminal papers and authentic yoga textbooks on how the practice of nadishodhana pranayama can help in addressing and managing a wide range of illnesses and disorders such as sinusitis, asthma …

[HTML] Part of the series on

B Caves, G Subramanya, K Subramanya, K Shashti…
Kartikeya has been an important deity in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times. It has been postulated that the Tamil deity of Murugan was syncretized with the Vedic deity of Skanda following the Sangam era. He is regarded as the" God of the …

Politics in Contemporary India: BA/B. ED (Semester-II)

BP Kaur, I Singh - 2024
Politics in Contemporary India is a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic landscape of Indian politics in the 21st century. As a nation of unparalleled diversity, complexity, and vibrancy, India's political journey continues to captivate scholars …

The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains

AE Davis
Critical Studies of the Asia Pacific showcases new research and scholarship on what is arguably the most important region in the world in the twenty-first century. The rise of China and the continuing strategic importance of this dynamic economic …

[PDF] Adam's Bridge: Sacrality, Performance, and Heritage of an Oceanic Marvel is a fascinating contribution to study of space and spatial infrastructure as it braids …

L Subramanian
… Several commentators from the liberal intelligentsia tout the film as a publicity stunt for Hindutva ideology, notwithstanding its ostensible vision of bridging science, jurisprudence, and faith. In the process of fictionally re-establishing the Puranic roots …

Hinduism: Challenges| Interaction with Buddhism, Jainism and The Greeks

A Mishra
. Embark on a journey tracing Hinduism's evolution from Vedic rituals to modern practices, revealing a seamless continuity despite apparent change.. Witness ancient mantras echoing in contemporary ceremonies, bridging the gap between …

Cultural Dimensions of India's Look-Act East Policy

S Dash
Coming from the eastern Indian state of Odisha, I grew up with stories of Sadhabas (merchants and seafarers including our ancestors) from across the Bay of Bengal, who traded, from beads and betel nuts to textiles and spices. I remember as a kid, Java, Sumatra …

11.1 Measuring Foreign Policy

S Dash
… The Hindutva narrative based on a “Hindu civilization” lacks salability in Southeast Asia, where Hindus are a mere 1% now. On top of it, … For Modi’s India, the civilisational ties based on Hindutva are the most significant soft power. India …

[PDF] The Right-Wing Attacks on the Academic Left in India

RJ Das - Class, Race and Corporate Power, 2024
While right-wing attacks on the ideas of democracy and socialism in academia are a worldwide trend, in the remainder of the paper, I will focus on India, considered to be the largest democracy in the world. India has become a hotbed of right-wing politics …

[HTML] Introduction to the Special Issue on Non-duality and Cross-Cultural Philosophy

J Madaio, JD Long - Journal of Dharma Studies, 2024
… While the view is often associated with the variety of philosophical contemplations evinced in the Upaniṣads, which were later systematically developed within Vedānta, our collection of articles here helps draw attention to the ways in which non-duality is …

[PDF] INDIA: A GLOBAL SOFT POWER LEADER IN THE 21ST CENTURY

M Luxmi, MS Kashyap
… The popularity of Indian cuisine, music, dance, and yoga has already spread across the world. The government … Ayurveda: Yoga is one of the most popular and long-lasting imports from India. Millions of people … The focus on these domestic …

[HTML] Contemporary perspective of spirituality and religiosity in head and neck cancer

N Maniyar, SC Sarode, S Thakkar, GS Sarode - Oral Oncology Reports, 2024
… In essence, recognizing and addressing patients' spiritual needs constitute integral components of comprehensive care in HNC, nurturing … Spiritual care treatment plans can also integrate patients' preferred resources, such as practicing …

Sleep and sports

K Datta, N Yadav - Sports Science in India
… Tai Chih practice, mindfulness meditation, and Yoga Nidra have been developed as therapeutic models for insomnia. … , hydration, strength and conditioning, mental preparation, and sleep are integral parts of the human performance model at the …

[PDF] BEYOND THE CURRICULUM: PROBING THE DEPTHS OF VALUE-BASED EDUCATION IN BUSINESS SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS

DDT Venkatesh Ganapathy - Vol. 31 Issue I March 2024 ISSN 0974-1119, 2024
… framework drawing from the spiritual insights of Vivekananda, Tagore, and Aurobindo, Ferrer enriches the theoretical discourse by incorporating dimensions beyond the conventional psychological and sociocultural perspectives. Moreover …

Hinduism: Challenges| Interaction with Buddhism, Jainism and The Greeks

A Mishra
. Embark on a journey tracing Hinduism's evolution from Vedic rituals to modern practices, revealing a seamless continuity despite apparent change.. Witness ancient mantras echoing in contemporary ceremonies, bridging the gap between …

Reason, Religion and Modernity

AK Vaddiraju
This chapter discusses the main propelling reasons for the book. The chapter argues that the emergence and return of religion as a major phenomenon in our public and private spheres warrants a discussion of the same. The chapter holds …

[PDF] Journal of Quantum Science of Consciousness

A Goswami - Quantum, 2024
The basics of quantum physics and quantum measurement theory are reviewed to show how a scientific theory of consciousness and experiences derives from them. It is pointed out that materialist theories of consciousness including the much touted …

[HTML] The Spiritual Prodigy, the Reluctant Guru, and the Saint: Mirabai and Collaborative Leadership at Hari Krishna Mandir

NM Martin - Religions, 2024
… A serious spiritual seeker from a young age, he dedicated his life to this pursuit after being introduced to the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna and would ultimately find his true guru in Sri Aurobindo. He certainly had no aspirations to be a spiritual guru …

[PDF] Practice-Research in Odissi Dance: The 3 Bindu Approach to Embodying Sacred Geometry

R Tandon
… My personal understanding of the meaning of concepts such as ‘bringing divinity into matter’ has been mostly influenced by Advaita Vedanta, a practice of tantric meditations and the writings of Sri Aurobindo. In these teachings and practices, our …