Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Pretence of democracy doesn’t ensure true freedom

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Gather all the strings of your consciousness that are spread abroad, roll them up and take a plunge and sink down. A fire is burning there, in the deep quietude ...
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Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on 15 August 1872 . At the age of seven he was sent to England where he attended St. Paul School, London, and then went on a ...
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... Sri Aurobindo to our Education system. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh occupies a very important position among the contemporary Indian philosophers of education due to ...
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In today's episode, we pay homage to the philosopher, poet, and Indian nationalist, Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, who left us on 5th December, 1950. Ghosh was perha...

Shekhar Gupta is laying on Americans perfectly!!

Anyone calling this just a 'student protest' is either a fool or trying to make you a fool on someone's directions.

Now I leave this on you to decide whether they are fools or pure evil.

https://x.com/openletteryt/status/1820796754339537074?t=YMeUbw3ojIf7IEOQIYW0xQ&s=19

A massive eruption of people power in #Bangladesh can't be reduced to an external conspiracy, Chinese, American or Pakistani.

Despite its anarchist hues it is an internal upsurge against a leader whose crackdown on critics & rivals was just not democratic 

#BangladeshProtests

https://x.com/madversity/status/1820752998110203938?t=SVQinFzmext9VsuqhTXoqQ&s=19

When you rule for a long time you get accustomed to staying in power and don’t hesitate to subvert democracy, crush opposition, jail critics, clamp down on free speech and the media. The pretence of democracy doesn’t ensure true freedom and democracy for citizens. #Bangladesh

https://x.com/rohini_sgh/status/1820623593266614505?t=ajexMVGHbm8J51VBpglQ4Q&s=19

[PDF] AN INSIGHT INTO RISHI AUROBINDO'S THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION: ASSIMILATED VIEWS

S Ghosh, S Roy
… The foundation of yoga is a psychological approach that was effectively used in ancient India. Regrettably, it has become less popular in … Sri Aurobindo believed that yoga was the ideal form of instruction. The International Day of Yoga was …

[HTML] Dancing Between Paradigms: A Gebserian Consciousness Theory With Practical Applications for Early Childhood Education and Care

E Cool - 2024
Humanity is presently dancing between paradigms from the current paradigm that exists in the mental structure to the new paradigm that incorporates an integral structure. This dissertation explores what a paradigmatic shift from individual and …

Sourced Black Woman an Embodied Mythology: A Life Affirming Narrative Integrating Yoga Therapy, Depth Psychology, and African Mythology

C Hardwick - 2024
… yoga, Afro flow yoga, and Afrikan yoga. Although this research will not focus on what is known as Kemetic yoga, its essence will be visible in this study through the exploration and integration of yoga … Regarding the limited research on Kemetic …

Soul-to-Soul Healing: A Phenomenological Study on Reclaiming and Reimagining Embodied Spiritualities to Heal Historical and Intergenerational Trauma in Black …

KJ Davis - 2024
… I would like to thank my ancestors for being an integral part of this journey by motivating, encouraging, and pouring into me as we created this work. Specifically, I invoke … Therefore, “when we look far enough back into yoga and Indian spirituality …

[HTML] The Practical Application of Vocalized Mantra Meditation for Integrative Health: A Theoretical Perspective

ALK Dech - 2024
This dissertation proposes a theoretical inquiry into the primary question: How can the practice of vocalized mantra meditation enrich current approaches to integrative health care? Today’s society needs expedient, adaptable, and positive interventions …

[PDF] Testing the Effect of Autonomy-Supportive Instructions During Yoga on Autonomy, Competence, and Affective Response

B Geary - 2024
… intentions to practice yoga (Aim 4) and self-reported yoga practice in the subsequent two … comfortable clothing for yoga, and that yoga mats and blocks are available to borrow. One … may require more than one 30-minute yoga session to …

[PDF] The body in early haṭha yoga

R Westoby - 2024
Copyright © and Moral Rights for this thesis are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded Page 1 R Westoby, Ruth (2024) The body in early haṭha yoga PhD thesis. SOAS University of London DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.

From Instinctive Medicine to Scientific Medicine: Bioethical Principles

ML Nardi - Bioethics of Cognitive Ergonomics and Digital …, 2024
… Yoga and meditation are integral for maintaining mental and emotional balance, supporting the mind-body connection that is central to Ayurvedic philosophy. Panchakarma, a cleansing and rejuvenation program, is employed to detoxify the …

[PDF] Mental Health & Prevention

P Vostanis, S Hassan, SZ Fatima, H Husein, M O'Reilly
… “Although I was participating in all those yoga and other activities, but still I was afraid in my mind inside that I might do something wrong.” Trainer … Addressing such challenges was viewed as essential if awareness were to become integral to …

Speaking the Same Language: How Ethnonationalism and Hindutva Seep into the Adjudication of Citizenship in Assam

P Baruah - 2024
" In the border state of Assam, questions of security, identity and citizenship have long shaped its politics." This essay focuses on the evolving jurisprudence of citizenship in the Indian border state of Assam. The author analyses 1,444 …

Role of Social Media in Indian 'Nationalism'and 'National Identity'in Twenty-First Century: Case Study of India

Ankita, B Kumari - Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives …, 2024
… Although one can say that control of the press or media that started during the Emergency period in India, from 1975 to 1977, when Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister gradually became significant in popularizing the Hindutva agenda with the …

[PDF] Cultures of Learning

A Naithani - 2025
… This book did not limit to an academic exercise, but gave way to a public debate on caste and Hindutva. Ilaiah as an author opened public debate on the practices of Hinduism and the Hindutva as a political ideology. The years 2001–2014 were the …

[PDF] The Popular Consciousness of International Law in South Asia

CM Forster, MA Salar, H Kareem - Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching (BILT) …, 2024
This essay critically examines the intersection of international law and popular consciousness within South Asia, arguing that the prevailing Eurocentric structure of international law has failed to adequately address the diverse needs and aspirations …

[PDF] A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat

D Singh - Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2024
Renewables in India are presented as modern technologies ensuring a pathway towards sustainable development and unlimited growth. But this story entails problematic land politics and the reconfiguration of space for resource frontiers’ …

Abercrombie, Nicholas, and Bryan S. Turner." The Dominant Ideology Thesis." British Journal of Sociology 29 (1978): 149-70. Ahmad, Aijaz." Jameson's Rhetoric of …

S Amin, G as Mahatma, G District, UP Eastern…
… . "Hinduism versus Hindutva: The Inevitability of a Confrontation." … Panchayati Akhara Nirvani, nd Savarkar, VD Hindutva. Poona: SR Date, 1942. Orig. …

To be upper caste/to be a victim

A Kang - Contemporary South Asia, 2024
By treating the upper caste as an ethnographic category, this article shows what an endeavour of flipping the ethnographic gaze away from Dalits and onto the upper caste looks like. In studying upper caste victimhood, this article sees how being a …

[PDF] Islamophobia in the Justice System and Judicial Mitigation in Bihar, India

S Bhupatiraju, DL Chen, S Joshi, P Neis - 2024
… Since the turn of the century, the dynamics within the Muslim community have been significantly influenced by the ascent of Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) politics. The 2014 national election stands as an important turning point. Polarizing …

Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal

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L Renou, V India
Kirtans were popularized by the Bhakti movement of medieval era Hinduism, starting with the South Indian Alvars (Vaishnavism) and Nayanars (Shaivism) around the 6th century, which spread in central, northern, western and eastern India particularly …

The Invisible Information Technology Workers

S Deb Roy - The Rise of the Information Technology Society in India …, 2024
The IT spaces are not only formed by the formal IT sector workers or the techies as they are popularly referred to as. There are numerous services which are outsourced within these spaces, such as sanitation, security, hospitality, catering …

The Exploitative Nature of the IT Spaces

S Deb Roy - The Rise of the Information Technology Society in India …, 2024
IT is usually mentioned to be a sector where traditional methods of exclusion do not function like they do in the broader Indian society. The very premise of the private sector that was created in India post-1991 economic reforms was based on the …

Muslim Religious Minorities in India and the Citizenship Amendment Act

MJH Bhuiyan - Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity, 2024
… Hindutva not only extends beyond a terminology or a particular word, it incorporates the entirety of the history that stretches beyond … The claim that ‘Hindutva embraces all the departments of thought and activity of the whole Being of our Hindu …

Religious Freedom or Multiculturalism?

S Sikka - Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity: State …, 2024
… of Hindutva lie not in religious fundamentalism or any form of religious belief but in cultural nationalism. VD Savarkar, commonly regarded as the founding father of Hindutva, was … component in the construction of Hinduism as culture rather than …

A Critique of India's Secular Cosmopolitanism

AK Patnaik - Gramsci and South Asia, 2025
… In the Shabari Kumbh Mela held in Dang in early 2012, the Hindutva forces mobi lised tribes across India with huge posters of Gandhi and Ambedkar.The symbol of Gandhi was mobilised as a defender of Hinduism and Ambedkar as a defender of …

Ecclesial Identity and Mission: Perspectives From Three North Indian Churches and 1 Peter

MPS Gergan - 2024
… The Hindutva ideology which undergirds Hindu nationalism alleges that Indian Christians and Muslims despite sharing their ethnicities and culture with Hindus are not truly Indian (VD Savarkar uses “Hindu” similar to more common usages of “Indian”) …

In Lieu of a Conclusion: Towards a Dialogue with the Subalterns

AK Patnaik - Gramsci and South Asia, 2025
… Ordinary people supporting Hindutva forces are ridiculed as “foot soldiers” of Hindutva, “Hindutva” Dalits, “manipulated” minds, “lumpen” and so on. Their contradictory social imaginary is never grasped and connected to by elite …

[PDF] The Nexus of Hindu Nationalism, Democratic Governance, and Refugee Rights: A Case Study of Rohingya Refugees in India

M Verma - 2024
The paper scrutinizes the intricate relationship between Hindu nationalism, democratic governance, and refugee rights, with a spotlight on the Rohingya refugees in India. India's democratic framework, grounded in principles of equality …

Antagonistic framing and the social exclusion of Rohingya in Myanmar's parliamentary discourses (2011–2021)

R Egreteau, AK Myat - Asian Ethnicity, 2024
… We found similarities here with recent work on Hindutva – the political ideology defining India’s culture in terms of Hindu-ness.Footnote 67 In recent decades, the negative framing of Muslim and Christian social (out)groups in India has allowed …

Chattampi Swamikal and the Deconstruction of the Malayala Sudra: Contradictions of Hindu Revisionist Theology in 19th-century Kerala

TT Sreekumar - Hindu Nationalism in South India, 2025
Understanding the role of relative caste positions within caste hierarchies is important in assessing the outcomes of social movements and political alliances in South Asia, particularly in the Indian contexts. In this chapter I take up the question of … 

A Gendered History of the Rise of the Neo-Savarna in Twentieth-Century Kerala

J Devika - Hindu Nationalism in South India
This chapter tries to take small steps towards the larger project of understanding the larger gendered history and context in and through which such women have been enabled to connect with the Hindutva project in Kerala in the recent conflict around …

Introduction: Kerala, South India and Hindu Nationalism

N Mannathukkaren - Hindu Nationalism in South India, 2025
… While there is an enormous amount of scholarship on the question of Hindutva in North India, there is comparatively less scholarship on Hindutva in South India, and this volume seeks to fill this void by focusing on Kerala, which has been considered …

'Feeling'Malikappuram: Soft-Hindutva and Filmic Mediation of the Sabarimala Controversy

DS Mini - Hindu Nationalism in South India, 2025
… through narrative and promotional strategies, this chapter examines how Hindutva reorients itself through the cultural sphere as a form of ‘… on Instagram and Facebook to interrogate how the film employs elements of soft-Hindutva to …

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