Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion (2006), and President, Savitri Era Party (2007)
Darwin's Day Special: Some Non-Human Monkeys Evolving Into Stone Age for quite sometime now and their stone age is still younger compared to the timescale when hominins entered stone tool usage to become us. #DarwinDay swarajyamag.com/science/darwin via
This Darwin's Day read this excerpt from the book 'Hindutva: Origin Evolution and Future' about the interaction and dialogue between science and Hindutva!
As long as we desire nothing more than Anna to sustain from society, Dharma will survive and so will Brahmin
My column
Rarely has my own life and its ebbs and flows been a part of my writing. I make an exception here. We are told that we are not like others and that our caste-related knowledge gives us an understanding of the world that the rest of society cannot comprehend. It is sophisticated, spiritual, abstract and elevated. It also constitutes learning, for w... Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/let-me-make-an-admission-i-m-privileged-therefore-i-am-1190354.html
Salman Rushdie’s latest uses the Vijayanagara Empire as a metaphor for the pitfalls of “reclaiming” history to suit one’s political preferences.
A story about making the obvious a bit more obvious reveals the purpose of philosophy.
VS: Even under colonial rule, when someone like (James) Mill wrote the history of India, he rubbished Indian history & culture. Even at the heights of colonial rule, we had historians who wrote anonymously. That in a way gave rise to nationalist school of historiography in India.
A leader must have few qualities to be accepted and enjoy good will..
a. Competence
b. Courage (to seek out and stand alone of needed)
c. Conviction (blind belief)
d. Art of conversation & communication
BJP is lucky to have some good, young men/women in these
And then there's the artist-mystic William Blake, who derided Laocoön and His Sons in the most singular way of all - see below.
Blake thought, like Ruskin, that the Laocoön was too naturalistic; he believed realism in art restricted the human imagination and spirit.
And three centuries after El Greco came Picasso. It may seem like a leap, but in terms of style and outlook Les Demoiselles d'Avignon isn't so far away from Laocoön as we might believe.
Picasso may well be the logical conclusion to an artistic chain reaction started by Laocoön.
Rome was centre of western civilization, full of splendid statues and majestic temples, none of that survived before Christianity. Building temples, while admirable, will not revive Sanatan, and will not save Hindus from existential challenges.
Tales of men choosing not to marry in order to become monks, or men walking away from marriage to become monks, recur in Jain folklore. Here’s a look at how the women respond-
Contemporary films are eliminating supernatural characteristics and motivations for their villains and bringing them closer to real life.
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Evergreen Essays: Saying nothing in art evergreenessays.blogspot.com/2023/02/saying
Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra (b. 1956), Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum (2005), Founder, Savitri Era Religion, and President, Savitri Era Party.
Savitri Era of those who adore,
Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.
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