Scholarship and learning are means of detecting a wrong

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

Many people, like Satyajit Ray n Suchitra Mitra, who didn't know about the Supermind, gnostic being, purnayoga, psychic being etc were admirers of Sri Aurobindo. They could see the "Lord of Language". We welcome such fans to read him:devotees or non-devotees does not matter.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1167976014498029568?s=19

The rhetoric used here by the repetition of "He" is called anaphora. Sri Aurobindo knows how to create the mantric effect with anaphoral repetitions.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1168078292919803905?s=19

Is there a money factor for this unexpected action?

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1168008845039243264?s=19

This is not the America of Emerson and Whitman! Too many unhappy gestures at India's freedom from dynasty!

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1168037071363006464?s=19

Shameless dishonesty in the journalistic trade !

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1167987274807570432?s=19

P.K. De Sarkar's grammar book is a myth in Bengal. You may try that. Still available. Unparalleled for the Bengali speaking students! But yes Wren n Martin is good for Indian students who do not know Bengali.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1167977739430678529?s=19

A new issue of Renaissance, our monthly e-jpurnal is released today. Poetry, reflections, articles, memories, art, sacredness and harmony of spaces, and a Word of the Month. Enjoy! https://t.co/mu0tynTpub

https://twitter.com/AUROSAFIC/status/1167989116371292160?s=19

"You are a being of such power that were you to be faced with that power you might not believe it was you. It is!" -Mark David Gerson #quote

https://twitter.com/pureunfoldment1/status/1167208109510672385?s=19

Kashmir in Fetters. September 2019 issue of The Caravan is out. Reportage and essays from Praveen Donthi, Arundhati Roy and @HartoshSinghBal. Collector’s issue. https://t.co/Ct8J9cabDt

https://twitter.com/vinodjose/status/1168042805001719808?s=19

Of all the things that have happened in India since the 2014 take over of the country by the #RSS/#BJP lot, the most far-reaching has to be the general dumbing down of public discourse, the antipathy to logic, science, scholarship, intellectual thought and diversity of opinion.

https://twitter.com/GorwayGlobal/status/1168115664378388480?s=19

Why do I say that?

Because scholarship and learning are the means of detecting a wrong, and open debate, intellectual thought and diversity of opinion are the means of correcting it. India is now in a tailspin without the means of stopping the fall.

Of all the world’s governments, China’s probably employs the fewest obfuscatory mechanisms. It doesn’t have multiparty elections. It doesn’t pretend its propaganda outlets are ‘free and independent’. It’s open about censorship. It openly has party cells in its businesses.

https://twitter.com/mr_scientism/status/1167936929402216449?s=19

Obviously Maoist China employed obfuscatory mechanisms - the Cultural Revolution was a gigantic ‘grassroots movement’ manipulated from the top - but they’ve become increasingly formalist (although Xi’s corruption campaign was partly obfuscatory).

What happens when someone fearlessly unleashes the rebel within...???

World bows in fear, embraces with love, stares in awe...

https://twitter.com/iAsura_/status/1167842858654527490?s=19

And Abhay Charan De became Prabhupada!

ISKCON is now pulling more people towards Vaishnava Bhaktivad than anything else. https://t.co/6qHTBvWY6h

Created by a rebel, in love of the ultimate rebel !!

Everyday acts of resilience of ordinary women do not necessarily aim to overthrow existing hierarchies and gendered oppressions.

https://t.co/3DdVaQkb0g

https://twitter.com/epw_in/status/1168040791182213120?s=19

A rather macabre reading before Ganesha arrives to remove negativity .... my column on Garuda Purana and Preta khanda/kalpa.... https://t.co/v2VtoltHWF

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1168040286884438016?s=19

I’d rate Manmohan Singh as the third-best prime minister India has ever had. The best was Indira Gandhi and the second-best PM was Jawaharlal Nehru. I put Nehru before Singh because he was the one who infused scientific temperament in Indians and set up organizations, like Isro.

https://twitter.com/goldenarcher/status/1168040172123852800?s=19

Arif Mohammad Khan has been appointed as the new Governor of Kerala. What a wonderful choice! The crusader who worked for the rights of Muslim women in India. And has contributed immensely in the political discourse in India. Hope to see him someday as the President of India.

https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1168039709353881600?s=19

Aurora Mirabilis: Hero is the one who can be betrayed with impunity https://t.co/xcXtSM4sEy

SAVITRI ERA OF THOSE WHO ADORE,

OM SRI AUROBINDO AND THE MOTHER.

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar Director #SavitriEra Learning Forum (SELF2005)

#SriAurobindo #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1167829981264666626?s=19

The desire to be desired is crucial for self-esteem and how it activates hormones in a moment is the most complex mystery of social existence. Sublimation is not exactly what The Mother & Sri Aurobindo aimed at; Transformation into an altogether new configuration and we must wait

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168059839039148033?s=19

Impersonality is integral to rationality but it's easier said than done. Other spheres of consciousness always wait in the wings and self-interest or self-protection is firm. Education, profession, financial position, age, gender, political affiliation; all have bearing on mind.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168067685504012289?s=19

War is the father and king of all, said Heraclitus. Randall Collins highlighted how conflicts spur philosophy. Without Heehs imbroglio, the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo would have remained moribund. New frontiers opened by the debates like IY fundamentalism https://t.co/RiwAtRyzGb

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168092216331399168?s=19

If you call yourself a Hindu, you can't ignore the Veda. Once you convince yourself to understand the Veda, you can't ignore Sri Aurobindo. A further step would be to know who is this The Mother. Next test will be what's best from the West. Tolstoy you know, but what about Royce?

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168078519009595392?s=19

I have read a few posts by Bruno Marchal who speculates about numbers dreaming or machines going irrational at an advanced stage. So, what are the challenges to face such a prospect? Seems to be too dystopian; any insights on that? Thanks.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1168095830798061573?s=19

Sri Aurobindo spoke of the logic of the infinite; so, trying to find logic in spirituality doesn't hold water.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1168100711344685057?s=19

It may not be a spiritual path at all; just changing costume to avoid public attention. It's his freedom; needn't conform to any prior version.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1168111041684754432?s=19

What existed in 1370 or happened in 1947 has to be corrected and reversed. Tinkering is not healing; deferring is not the right course for solving a problem. Too many nations have been bound together for too many years; they must be set free. States of India must get Sovereignty.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168048795344461825?s=19

Seems that moment

[Kya samajhkar aaye the ... ki sardar bahut khush hoga, shabashi dega? क्‍या समझकर आये थे ? कि सरदार बहुत खुश होगा शाबाशी देगा ?] #BernieSanders #Kashmir #FiveDreams #BharataFederation

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1168115743398850562?s=19

Article 370, UCC, Mandir, Cow Slaughter -- so much of Hindutva politics is driven by resentment.

What else is there to it?

My latest column for @BloombergQuint: https://t.co/bsYBgwv44n

https://twitter.com/amitvarma/status/1167854985582768129?s=19

Savarkar went into Cellular Jail a believer in communal unity, & came out hating Muslims. Both the new biographies on him describe the circumstances that fueled his resentment. 

Of course, there was no end to resentment within the larger movement: https://t.co/bsYBgwv44n https://t.co/5BT1AZwdvQ

When I think of Hindutva's new dominance in Indian politics, I think of a dog that has chased a car diligently. 

And then it catches the car. Now what?

https://t.co/bsYBgwv44n

Romila Thapar was awarded the prestigious Kluge Prize of the US Library of Congress, which honours lifetime achievement in studies not covered by the Nobel Prize. She has been a teacher and researcher for nearly six decades.

https://t.co/psk8PvC7kp

https://twitter.com/ttindia/status/1167982267169267714?s=19

Read my detailed note on

IS SANSKRIT RELEVANT TODAY... https://t.co/4plylmolmN

And listen to the TEDx talk https://t.co/NlKvDLEyv8

https://twitter.com/Sampadananda/status/1168059047943139329?s=19

Hinduism = Science as religion

Always refreshing itself in the context of new knowledge.

Here is an illustration of Pramana quadrangulation and progress of knowledge (via cosmology) https://t.co/dFA3qMeLtz

https://twitter.com/NileshOak/status/1167778524863913984?s=19

The above quote is from #SriAurobindo's address on the 23rd August, 1907, before the students and teachers of the Bengal National College.. 

You can find such nationalistic speeches in this volume :)

https://t.co/EmRZ9DFDWR

https://twitter.com/Auro_Mere/status/1167842184965443585?s=19

Fascinating. Mehnatkash, a new website and a YouTube channel, run by workers and for workers: https://t.co/W89iUDUf8x https://t.co/KIPlyBsc5w

https://twitter.com/gautambhatia88/status/1167842723727962117?s=19

for sharing beautiful message of #SriAurobindo which I was looking for decades! Now SA Himself says that we should spread our literature ! And our literature is so powerful that it can help  in changing the consciousness of the mankind! @Auro_Mere @RaghuveerBelur @kalisbrood

https://twitter.com/Sanjays81301051/status/1168061658607935488?s=19

Welcome to the world of unparalleled product marketing: Modi the Mendicant https://t.co/E6wfMzov8T the marketing of Modi will be taught as a case study in business school

https://twitter.com/bainjal/status/1168066815928365059?s=19

The Indian system is habituated of jugaad & crony capitalism with proportionate mix texture of bribery & commission for last several yrs. All of a sudden a major operation to rectify these misdeeds has shaken the unethical parallel economy system. #EconomyCrisis @INCIndia

https://twitter.com/AmarSinghTweets/status/1168017627798622208?s=19

For the 80th anniversary of Britain's joining the Second World War my #kindle piece "The causes of the Second World War and Appeasement" is free from now till Thursday.

It deals with the whole conflict, not just Britain and Germany 

#ww2 #history #otd #historyteacher

https://twitter.com/Historylecturer/status/1168085872555810816?s=19

Sept 1 - Sept 5: My piece on the causes of the Second World War will be free for the first five days of September. (I shall be away, so can't post the link then, but here's the link now) https://t.co/pZwYqDor6S

#WW2 #Appeasement #historyteacher

Yes Rwanda being bound together by United Nations led to millions of Tutsis being killed by Hutus

https://twitter.com/freemarkets5/status/1168051628764565504?s=19

UN should go. IMF and world bank rescue bankrupt tyrranies, without insisting on Free gun laws continuing tyrannies

As a computer scientist, I look at this as an interesting scheduling problem that can be optimized by learning user behavior from data. 

We can use machine learning to improve people’s lives. But rarely anybody does that, as it involves large-scale change in society. 😀 https://t.co/r6buO2BUhG

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1168085927211732992?s=19

Govt and offices should really give a thought to whether you really need all those people in the same room from 9 to 5. In this day and age of technology.

https://twitter.com/authorAneesh/status/1168062425813307392?s=19

Koraput tour coming soon. Keep yourself free for 2nd half of November & be ready to immerse yourself in the lap of nature. Stay  tuned for details or mail us at infoaitiha@gmail.com or WhatsApp us 9861288166 ☺️ #aitiha #ExploreAitiha #HeavenlyKoraput https://t.co/GcajNfvJmc

https://twitter.com/aitiha1/status/1167970528402886656?s=19

In the West, the Left & Islamists are desperately trying to link up Hindutva with Hitler, Mussolini, Nazis, fascists and what not, just so that they can get millions of young people in colleges, in activist groups, in media worked up against Hindus. Important to distance 4m this

https://twitter.com/DharmicFundoo/status/1167671922433363968?s=19

A statement similar to what Einstein said below can be made about Brahmins. If a Brahmin does something good, seculars call him an Indian first, Hindus a Hindu first. But if he does something shameful, he's always called a Brahmin. https://t.co/4vcXOmSiyN

https://twitter.com/194109009s/status/1168051087158345730?s=19

This is a movie about a colossal triumph

Aurora Mirabilis: Shobha Mitra had learnt music from Dilip Kumar Roy... https://t.co/h8ZmGh8dpD

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1163013055178870785?s=19

Part 2 of my article with some illustrations from the pages of Sri Aurobindo's action https://t.co/Zu5cBTLFQh

https://twitter.com/SushrutBadhe/status/1163141699926970368?s=19

#Satprem https://t.co/1T0kAIQ4I1 A beautiful poem by @kalisbrood to Satprem - the one who continued #SriAurobindo & Mother's Work, dug into the body of the Earth, hewed the path and showed the way for those who want to throw themselves integrally into that Fire - the Vedic Agni.

https://twitter.com/RaghuveerBelur/status/1163112849050202112?s=19

My heartfelt gratitude to you Raghu bhai..very few who feel anything for Satprem..without his Notebooks...the next step would be an impossibility to figure...because he did that work, many know the steps involved...each of us need to carry this forward and record for future.

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1163114972655714304?s=19

What a stupendous understanding Satprem had 😍 and imagine people block him!!!

Yes, Sri Aurobindo is the Crown Jewel of India whose brilliance eclipses all else. Even Modi's own party emerges from Sri Aurobindo like Ganga from Shiva's locks. SPM was directly & openly a follower of Sri Aurobindo. He is far beyond the comprehension of self-promoting salesmen.

https://twitter.com/auroviryavaan/status/1163064085413539841?s=19

Let's hope. Most high class scholars of Sri Aurobindo live outside Pondicherry. Only a few like Deshpandeji  @Sampadananda , @drsbasu2115 n a few others are doing excellent work frm inside. Frog in the well vision! People laugh at their fake devotion!

The bigger world is interested with Sri Aurobindo the  writer. They laugh at a piece which floats in d Ganges of devotion! Too much of devotion n too little care for balanced writing! Sadhana is a different issue, not related to balanced scholarship which the bigger world wants.

It is either Peter Mud-slinging at Sri Aurobindo or the fake devotion in bad English n their mighty egos in blocking talented writers on Sri Aurobindo . Awful scene now in the Pilgrim soil !

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1163122134878584833?s=19

That's a great statement.  In West Bengal they don't recognise him officially.

Leftists hiding behind TMC. They abuse Sri Aurobindo.

https://twitter.com/GoutamGhosal2/status/1163132479286284290?s=19

Self-conquest is the very law of the Aryan culture. Attainment of Self-perfection, indeed, is the aim of that Self-conquest. The Self-perfected Arya is Arhat. What a profound meaning of the word Arya explained by Sri Aurobindo!

https://twitter.com/Sampadananda/status/1163031234039046144?s=19

Freedom has negative connotations; freedom from some original bondage, tyranny, or subservience. So achieving freedom is supposed to be a struggle and constant striving. One possible meaning of All life is yoga is this. Sri Aurobindo chose the word Arya to convey this imperative.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1162958660751904770?s=19

Traditional stress on tapasya however has less relevance in Integral Yoga. Sri Aurobindo would go with the Vedic notion of Freedom being the original, pre-existing state where one must aspire to arrive. Whether aspiration can be seen as striving or imposing restrictions is iffy.

What No One Says About Dealing With Depression 

Excerpts from 'Real Stories of Dealing with Depression' by @Amrita and Arpita Anand https://t.co/e47BNxABtj

https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1162989988176257025?s=19

Celebrating Kannada Cinema As Sandalwood Bags 13 National Awards: In Conversation With Director Rishab Shetty

https://t.co/DeIYZv1AGA https://t.co/wDi1rc0bfQ

https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1163086699267686400?s=19

Bollywood has really upped it's game in term of content. Uri and now Batla House. Another excellent movie in terms of pushing the envelope on themes

https://twitter.com/prasannavishy/status/1163078076298752000?s=19

But #MissionMangal failed in following the template of #Parmanu.

Too must of unwanted family drama, overtly humorous role of Akshay Kumar and missed hitting the nail on head by not emphasising on MOM.

Had they followed the #Parmanu template it would have been better.

https://twitter.com/Animesh_India/status/1163078971551936513?s=19

Please go to the film. It doesn't make you a traitor to Hinduism. These people aren't giving you those aspects of the film that counter balance what they tout. And I think it's not fair to say it 

This movie is s triumph of human will and intelligence and woman power.

https://twitter.com/AloPal/status/1162947054047354882?s=19

1.allegations are exaggerated and disproportionate

2. Therefore one can claim that all points of view prevail 

3. All comments of strident nature based on opinions of others is daft 

4. All comments based on comments of others who have not seen trying on those who have Is Idiocy

https://twitter.com/AloPal/status/1162991760827506688?s=19

You see I would never do anything fundamentally insulting or contradictory to my value system. 

We have to nuance. This is a movie about a colossal triumph 

So one should nuance.

Agree with you absolutely. You've to be blind and with blinkers to fish only "Hindu bashing" from the story and bypass everything else.

https://twitter.com/AloPal/status/1163096920790724610?s=19

In fact it's a great motivational movie, and there's only so much you can show in 2 hours or so.I honestly don't see anything in it other than positivity, a capacity of us Indians to achieve the impossible and a pride in ISRO's achievements.Difficult to be negative about this one

https://twitter.com/MeenaxiLakshman/status/1163095941999554560?s=19

Want To Explore Unknown Places, Hit This Heritage Trail In Odisha https://t.co/cdQ1NYpYwB 

Kudos @aitiha1 @TaraniTrotter @ashishsarangi

https://twitter.com/OdiaCulture/status/1163149421246201857?s=19

Rakshabandhan may well be for the protection of brother. Do read this interesting piece by @neha_aks where she takes a relook at the puranic stories and rituals related to this festival.  https://t.co/vg4Yeb3GRO

https://twitter.com/DivyaSoti/status/1162920517130584070?s=19

Critical edition of Mahabharata says Krishna did NOT rescue Draupadi and Critical edition of the Ramayana says that Laxman did NOT draw the Lakshman Rekha. Are these facts ? Male ‘Brahmin’ Sanskrit ‘scholars’ please explain

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1162989423119618048?s=19

The Brahmin gangs controls RSS and it has been always against reservations for Dalits, indigenous community & backward classes. NRIs lobbying RSS to remove reservations as well & it might go like they took away Article 370! https://t.co/4BeuSPj0gx

https://twitter.com/ashoswai/status/1163151264613654532?s=19

Sri Krishnadevaraya Reduced to a Footnote: It’s Time to Bury Such Politics of History #VijayanagarEmpire #Krishnadevaraya https://t.co/lCneRtunka via @dharmadispatch

https://twitter.com/BJPsudhanRSS/status/1163073450522472449?s=19

Why the "Black Sun" symbol of neo-reactionaries is the same as Blake's "dark Satanic Mill" of "Single Vision", and why it's important to understand Blake's meaning: 

https://t.co/Hlf6NPnBRv

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1163118897601683456?s=19

There's been some discussion of the prevalence of the "Black Sun" or Sonnenrad symbol among neo-reactionary groups or gangs. I've written up something briefly about that and Shadow psychology https://t.co/Hlf6NPnBRv

Huxley's Legacy

J Poller - Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality, 2019

… 20. In an online essay, Murphy recalls the meeting: “Part of [Heard's] vision that appealed to me was seeing the mystical life in an evolutionary context, which put him squarely on par with Aurobindo”, and this gave him the …

Mysticism and Pacifism

J Poller - Aldous Huxley and Alternative Spirituality, 2019

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THE EMPIRICAL EYE OF THE MODERNIST: STUDYING SOME MODERN INDIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH

A KUMAR - Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama …, 2019

… After the postYIndependence era, poets started composing poems which dealt mostly with their personal life … The'syllables of the unmanifestГ (Aurobindo, Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, 190) are identified in soulYvision …

[PDF] 29th Annual Convention of National Academy of Psychology (NAOP), India

C PATRON - 2019

… Page 3. About Pondicherry Pondicherry is the abode of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. This union territory is synonym to peace and harmony. The typical tranquility and spiritual embrace of Puducherry beckons the sojourners to the cosmopolitan city …

Swimming Upstream: Laxmanshastri Joshi and the Evolution of Modern India

AC Khandkar, AC Khandkar - 2019

[PDF] Paramashivan-A Treasure Trove of a Forgotten Theater Tradition Life, Music and Search for an Identity

D Paramashivan - 2019

… Pro00071027, titled “20th Century Classical Theater Music of Mysore”. The video and the audio referred to in this thesis can be accessed from the Education and Research Archive, University of Alberta by following …

[PDF] Stories of Saradindu Bandyopadhyay: A Postcolonial Critique

SK BARUI

Page 85. verses came up as confrontational and challenging, but Kabir was always least bothered about the public opinion. Isaac Ezekiel opines: Kabir's songs seek nobody's approbation. They seek no sanction, ask for no approval …

THE EMPIRICAL EYE OF THE MODERNIST: STUDYING SOME MODERN INDIAN POETRY IN ENGLISH

A KUMAR - Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama …, 2019

… Poets like Sri Aurobindo gave a spiritual flavour to the literary world. They were transcendental … The light of Knowledge burns inside the poet's soul. It is in this very context that Sri Aurobindo talks of 'godlight' that enlightens the human sight …

SAJALKUMAR BHATTACHARYA, HIMADRI LAHIRI

NEW DIRECTIONS, CAK SINHA - Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama …, 2019

… Byron. These British poets provided suitable models for poets liNe Henry Derozio, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, and Sri Aurobindo, to imitate and create poems bearing the marN of British imagination …

THE INYBETWEEN WORLDS IN THE NARRATIVE CALLED NATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE DEPICTION OF NATION IN INDIAN ENGLISH POETRY

S ANTHONY - Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama …, 2019

… The first comprises poets who started writing in the 1830s and continued till after IndiaГs Independence. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, Kasiprasad Bose, Micheal Madhusudhan Dutt, Toru Dutt, Aurobindo Ghosh 

Non-verbal Feedback and Communication

AS Nayak, PK Rath - 2019

… members of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya. Koraput, Sri Aurobindo Purnaga Sikhya Kendra. Koraput and Sri Aurobindo Integral Education Center Jeypore for providing ground for my fieldwork and data collection. I fondly offer my …

Art historian B.N. Goswamy's public lecture

Assorted tweets:

Leading art historian Prof. B.N.Goswamy would be delivering a public lecture at @nmnewdelhi.

He would be talking on the theme “ “Gods & Demons: A raging Battle.

Thoughts and images from Indian paintings”.Join us for the lecture on the 6th of August, at 5:30 pm. https://t.co/ltA4vBE0Z5

https://twitter.com/NMnewdelhi/status/1152995468772704257?s=19

One of the times I WISH I were in Delhi. I am currently reading Prof. BN Goswamy's book and haven't stopped raving about it to anyone who will listen. If you're lucky enough to be in Delhi on that day, do attend. It should be good. https://t.co/mgQzBZC2iT

https://twitter.com/TheSignOfFive/status/1153602513343373312?s=19

It is said that great seers such as Mataṅga and Bharata, are the founders and propagators of the science of music and dance.

Respectability of the Art of Dance https://t.co/S2NSSNI4L7

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1153693181201883136?s=19

Training in arts strengthens the mind through refinement and the intellect acquires a refined strengthening through the knowledge of śāstras (roughly translated as ‘sciences’).  

Respectability of the Art of Dance https://t.co/S2NSSNZG9H

After my time, let brothers and cousins, fathers and sons, uncles and nephews stop fighting amongst themselves!

Mahābhārata – Episode 75 – The Fall of Bhīṣma https://t.co/LUdOWDgdxj

https://twitter.com/prekshaajournal/status/1153664725324091394?s=19

Our second tour published in Odisha post daily dt 23.7.19 (Tue). Thanks to Odisha Post !!

https://t.co/WNeApzCq34 https://t.co/HinQNKylR2

https://twitter.com/aitiha1/status/1153637847972212737?s=19

Didarganj Yakshi - the epitome of beauty ever seen. Carved out of a single stone, the polish & glow on her face is yet unblemished. 2nd to 3rd Cent, BC. Maurya empire. Awe jaw dropping rich heritage & our accumulated cultural pride at new #Bihar musuem. Must visit when in #Patna. https://t.co/TJn8FazMSy

https://twitter.com/abhjoshi/status/1149384408920543233?s=19

And am just today back to back on #JatinLalit songs - The gems of the most touching 💞, soulful - heart 💓 💓 beating but subtle compositions, one wished, always could croon. The duo gave to the youngs of early 90's - the expressions to convey 😍 their lifes feelings. #musicsoul

https://twitter.com/abhjoshi/status/1153359600361467904?s=19

Such an honor to share our Illness to Wholeness work for Stress and Burnout prevention at the Sri Aurobindo Society in Singapore. https://t.co/noY632agru

https://twitter.com/NilimaTweets/status/1153200952813527040?s=19

Will be doing a FREE workshop next week at Sri Aurobindo Centre For Arts And Communication!

Anyone keen, please do register ASAP! *limited Seats*

#mgmhindia #mgmhxmusicbiz #ritnikateaches #theindianmusicscene https://t.co/4TlCNsZGds

https://twitter.com/ritnika/status/1153197639862800385?s=19

'Will these self-proclaimed custodians of ‘Odia culture’ declare that Santha Kabi Bhima Bhoi is not a part of their version of Odisha’s culture?' See how lies are spread to outsiders? Trying to create a rift between Western and coastal Odisha https://t.co/1tQwey5OaA

https://twitter.com/OdiaCulture/status/1153534868321517568?s=19

Humans are not designed to be happy, or even content. Instead, we are designed primarily to survive and reproduce, like every other creature in the natural world.  https://t.co/pNOiqiSwWV

https://twitter.com/qz/status/1153717692198731777?s=19

My latest column @ Weaponising “Jai Shri Rama”: It militates against Rama’s benevolent image which inspires millions of Hindus. https://t.co/lpKhND52YD

https://twitter.com/PavanK_Varma/status/1153500692067131392?s=19

If the current BJP government in Delhi, flush with money in a rapidly growing economy, doesn’t fund Indian language textbooks at the university level (for the subjects that students want to study - which fetch good jobs), we can hold it responsible for killing Indian languages.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153716175731343360?s=19

There are no Marxists left in Andhra. However the conversion industry is thriving. In fact, wherever one sees a foreigner in Andhra, people assume that the person is a missionary. People have mistaken my wife for this several times, and even myself for a priest in the church!

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153674724205088768?s=19

The horror of independent India is that it has been far more vicious than the colonial state itself, in how native languages and religions are harassed, and ultimately finished off. 

Sardar Patel may have had good intentions in unifying India. But the results are not all good.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153641270486736896?s=19

The federal government systematically destroyed all Indian language universities. The Sanskrit colleges, which served as the core of local universities and supplied scientific vocabulary for all Indian languages, were funded by the princely states. They had their funds dried up.

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1153709612841000961?s=19

To continue on @virsanghvi's point on Indian food & multiculturalism, I think as a nation we resemble the bhelpuri. The ingredients are still distinct & separable, but they rub off each other, to create something else, altogether a better whole https://t.co/d33EqgGx1V

https://twitter.com/sanjayuvacha/status/1153211285980344325?s=19

How ⁦@PiyushGoyal⁩ or anyone else chooses to pray is entirely their business. Fine if he chooses to recite the kalma as part of his personal practice, and equally fine if does not. If anything, it’s deeply Hindu not to be rigid about such matters. https://t.co/Ktzak7sYNK

https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1153332302388314114?s=19

Anyone who truly wants to understand Islam and the Islamic world needs to read The Tragedy of Islam. Tawhidi does not hate Islam or Muslims but he catalogs an endless cycle of wrongdoing back to the first Caliphs and shows the radical Islamist injustice that we see today

https://twitter.com/AyatGhilmeini/status/1153278521604792320?s=19

Natural selection is a small sliver of the bigger picture. Observe it in Goethean mode.

Sri Aurobindo: "Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature."

& Steiner (in the manner of Goethe): https://t.co/NDr23Pjm3Q

https://twitter.com/AshokZaman/status/1153529075081703424?s=19

"Man is not a passive onlooker in relation to evolution, merely repeating in mental pictures cosmic events taking place without his participation; he is the active co-creator of the world-process, and cognition is the most perfect link in the organism of the universe." R. Steiner

https://twitter.com/AshokZaman/status/1152772294269231107?s=19

Have read all of @nntaleb's books. Even better than Black Swan is Antifragile. https://t.co/CEzGhXhNhJ

https://twitter.com/BooksPanda/status/1153175585629200384?s=19

Sir, I recommend 'World on Fire' by Amy Chua, and 'How Asia Works' by Joe Studwell.

This partial review of the latter is also entertaining https://t.co/zQGQ4Jgcgt

https://twitter.com/i_contemplate_/status/1153176376796753921?s=19

This entrepreneur understands the importance of leading an active life, and the impact it has on work, writes @shrenikavlani

https://t.co/kTyzUhAjvf

https://twitter.com/livemint/status/1153555955214254081?s=19

I'm looking for a paper titled 'Svayamatrnna: Janua Coeli' by Ananda K Coomaraswamy. If anyone can grab it for me, I'll be really grateful. Thank you

https://twitter.com/Dauhshanti/status/1153699547538870272?s=19

This book has that paper. The book is a bit pricey though.. https://t.co/fVM6oo4HVD

https://twitter.com/aurvabhrg/status/1153700809504251906?s=19

In gratitude to this pioneering patriot, our history books must stop calling Lokmanya Tilak, Sri Aurobindo, Lala Lajpat Rai etc the leaders of the “Extremists” (a term the Brit imperialists coined). In 1905-07, they were called Nationalists, while Brit-loyalists were “Moderates”. https://t.co/X9DNJRSS1o

https://twitter.com/PrasenjitKBasu/status/1153532182654144512?s=19

A brilliant article on secularism by Amal Kiran, published with Sri Aurobindo's approval. https://t.co/ybK2AmlGBL

https://twitter.com/Nimai_Swain/status/1153344909199327234?s=19

Secularism is always positive. Politicians as a tribe are evil n power mongering. Secularism and nationalism are mere tools for them to divide and rule.

Twitter will not teach you Vedas. You can get and introduction by picking up a (freely downloadable) copy of Sri Aurobindo's "Secret of the Vedas"

https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/1153286654762733569?s=19

Veda is a book of inner knowledge, not faith. Shruti is not a scripture but a mantric presentation of the higher knowledge. Shastra is a guide to gaining direct knowledge not a prescription of beliefs. Vedas deal with Universal Consciousness, not any mere theology.

https://twitter.com/davidfrawleyved/status/1152806356425957376?s=19

The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have provided the occasion and opportunity to forget about all past icons and affinities. Their contribution in black and white surpass all colourful imaginations of human civilisation by light years. But recognising them constitutes a challenging task.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1153256685877616640?s=19

Despite the risk of being accused as egoistic and ambitious, those aware of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo must ensure to reiterate their intellectual supremacy. Exhibiting false humility before other domain experts would be a colossal loss as far as Evolutionary agenda is concerned.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1153265344569470977?s=19

Aurora Mirabilis: Agni running away from doing duty https://t.co/3X9LHJEKia @NathTusar, Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF), SRA-102-C, Shipra Riviera, Indirapuram, Ghaziabad-201014, UP #FiveDreams #WorldUnion

Savitri Era of those who adore,

Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1153259589594300417?s=19

Art ought to be an enabler

“You can’t disclose what art is by means of appearances if there are artworks that are indiscernible from real things.”

https://t.co/LHuRssdirM

“If you situate Impressionism as an art of relaxation or bourgeois comfortable life, you’re making a fairly profound mistake.”

@AndrewGrahamDix on his favourite art books: https://t.co/jKa5KEWunu

“At the end, each of its heroes find a relief in assuming the void."

Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and cultural critic, discusses his favourite works of drama and explains why he refuses to see them performed. https://t.co/60jnpP5zZO

The continuing uglification of our world. Modernism, with its place-destroying structures, has transformed architecture. It’s time for a return to aesthetics https://t.co/0AxDYzdSeg

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1099339356643516416?s=19

Artists may pooh-pooh the idea of being cool, but a few of them had it down pat. Consider Warhol’s catatonic effortlessness or Bukowski’s timeless advice: “Don’t try.” https://t.co/QAH4Zazsii

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1098456032219750400?s=19

How do we judge abstract art? Do narratives make us more empathetic? These aesthetic riddles are suddenly the domain of experimental psychology https://t.co/FuOyb7XCq2

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1086605444200697856?s=19

At 39, listless and depressed, Winston Churchill took to the canvas. Although some of his works evoke paint-by-numbers, he was generally a “successful amateur” https://t.co/soLKVRLsk9

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1085880667336957953?s=19

Artistic citizenship can mean simply sharing a local identity. It can also convey a social responsibility. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on why she is not an “African writer” https://t.co/8aRGChfh6v

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1085772454838951936?s=19

His works are not Gothic; they are not parody or satire; they are funny but not jokey. It's weird how Edward Gorey's art is ubiquitous but hard to characterize https://t.co/YKUua3MtMR

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1084993634792062982?s=19

The invention of the telescope sparked a revolution in art. For Milton, who visited Galileo, seeing the cosmos was a visit from the Muse https://t.co/VJwHfgrIwG

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1071276938931658752?s=19

Should studying literature be fun? Not if you want to be a serious scholar https://t.co/PktJdsOyg8

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1071159917703254022?s=19

Art is a way of contending with life, even in its shadiest corners. But does that cover artists like Egon Schiele, who displayed interest in prepubescent girls? https://t.co/eVmlY4wKay

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1070797537580322818?s=19

Want to be an artist? Jerry Saltz has some advice: Know what you hate, scavenge, be delusional, and, of course, accept that you will probably be poor https://t.co/leYuwuRlN6

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1070189779105574912?s=19

What is an artist? https://t.co/o8LTVDojU6

https://twitter.com/aldaily/status/1063250306241310720?s=19

Making art inclusive  | @IamKunalRay : #Art ought to be an enabler but that is perhaps utopian. Exhibitions have now proliferated and there is a plethora of art events, but whom or what are these events for?

https://t.co/h6Gwfqgwpk

https://twitter.com/indiaonthe_move/status/1099759894025068544?s=19

Memorials India was building in 15th CE and memorial India is building in 21st CE. Sigh...
As Naipaul said that after independence India is building as if it has no history, no architecture, no aesthetics...A wounded civilisation indeed.  #WarMemorial https://t.co/6GvsmuaGUz
https://twitter.com/Abhina_Prakash/status/1100070201616449541?s=19

It's minimalistic, and perhaps bland but we should not go overboard in our criticism of its design. India also has had tradition of building such obelisks like hero stones from megalithic times onwards.or as can be construed from the mysterious anthropmorphs and the later stupa-s
https://twitter.com/ZindagiKhwabHai/status/1100076433978859521?s=19

TBH this modern minimalist architecture isn't an India specific problem alone. While the new War memorial is certainly underwhelming, other modern structures around the world too are. It is just reflective of the degeneracy that has crept into modern society.
https://twitter.com/_ugra_/status/1100094077679198211?s=19

#GreenBook #TheOscars I am thrilled to bits to know that Green Book has won the Best Film award. It's a film I could watch another 4 or 5 times.

https://twitter.com/SunayanaPanda/status/1099948360797106178?s=19

Indian literature and Indian Philosophy both will flourished by embracing the ideas of "Yeats".  - Prof. Margaret Mills Harper @MakrandParanspe https://t.co/TqA5GGVQmc

https://twitter.com/ShimlaIias/status/1099931679488118785?s=19

The Satyajit Ray-Mrinal Sen rivalry that made headlines | @TOI_Pdasgupta:If there is one other debate that has kept Kolkatans engaged as much as the one involving Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, it is abt the rift between Mrinal Sen & Satyajit Ray | #Films https://t.co/KMM9gj5TIv

https://twitter.com/indiaonthe_move/status/1099846991616532480?s=19

Pre performance with Rangamma Didi, teachers, musicians and students at Music and Dance Festival Sri Aurobindo Ashram Delhi India, Children's Music School https://t.co/U3qvxdeXje

https://twitter.com/storydancer/status/1099881050862346240?s=19

Misc. References:

In conversation with Monika Halan on her book, the financial ecosystem and how to empower Indian’s to make better financial decisions. So many pearls of wisdom in one interview.

#SelfRecommending #letstalkmoney

https://t.co/FFIy28ogoF https://t.co/URd76OAkjv

https://twitter.com/KuveraBlog/status/1099964977643950080?s=19

Weaknesses and Limitations of Socialism as the Model for Human Society https://t.co/aA2hnAi1FM

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1099876099855650816?s=19

I NEVER placed Vivekananda and Kancha Illaiah on the same pedestal. I only said SOME of his quotes sound as though they were coming from the mouth of Kancha Illaiah.

I explained that was because "Vivekananda was a product of his times" but "he still deserves our highest respect" https://t.co/82iTIIGr1Z

https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1099935712886034433?s=19

The Greatness of the Rishi tradition in India: Sri Aurobindo says that a Rishi "sees or discovers an inner truth and puts it into self-effective language - the Mantra." A Rishi is the seer. He has seen the Mantras (mantradraṣṭā) https://t.co/kb8w8tZ03s via @Sampadananda

https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1099951914215710720?s=19

Which is understandable, everything has a lifetime and new orgs need creation with more rooted ideas from time to time. To try sticking to outdated ideas makes organizations liability for the society.

https://twitter.com/SkandaVeera/status/1099881588412870657?s=19