Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Human propensity to aestheticize and normalize power and violence

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

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Luna Sabastian:'Babies, Mothers, and India's Lesser-Known Father'

L Sabastian - Global Intellectual History, 2024
… But most of all, Vivekananda gets blamed as a trailblazer for Hindu nationalism, or Hindutva.Footnote 5 True, many scholars exonerate him and speak of his ‘appropriation’ by the Hindu Right,Footnote 6 but crucially, all who write on Vivekananda are …

The Epic World

P Lothspeich - 2024
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence …

Tasks, sacrifices and digitized rituals: interpellating the Indian subject through rites of nationalism

S Kumar - Media, Culture & Society, 2024
… “Democracy is in our veins, it is in our culture—it has been an integral part of our work for centuries. By nature, we are a Democratic Society.… life through yoga. I request all of you to participate in this competition, and through this novel way, be a …

Flourishing from head to toe: An interdisciplinary approach

D Vella-Brodrick, A Gill - Routledge International Handbook of Positive Health …, 2023
The disciplinary fields of Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine have made significant contributions to preventing ill-health and promoting physical and psychological health and wellbeing. While each field has focused largely on their …

Physical Education And Yoga

R Murugesan - 2023
… Yoga has become an integral component of the lifestyles of tens of thousands of Westerners in search of genuine health, balance, and well-being. … It can be executed in isolation, as a warm-up, or as an integral component of a more …

Karma Yoga and Social Activism: The Bhagavad Gita's Teachings on Selfless Action as a Catalyst for Change in Society

AK Poddar - The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in …, 2023
… presents the concept of Karma Yoga, emphasizing selfless action without attachment to outcomes. Social activism, aimed at creating positive change, often faces challenges such as burnout and ego-driven motives. This article explores the …

[PDF] Good Health and Well-being: Essential in Promoting Enhancement of one's Living Conditions

R Kapur
… Yoga is regarded as the union of body, mind and soul. Yoga signifies integration of personality at the highest level. It includes various … The utilization of these resources is regarded as an integral part of the personal and professional lives of …

[PDF] When My Brown Got Colored

S Sathi - meridians feminism, race, transnationalism, 2023
This essay is a testimonial of the author’s experiences, memories, and reflections about becoming a person/woman of color, discovering, and unearthing the meanings of racialization, white privilege, and white supremacy in the contemporary …

[PDF] Critical perspectives on the denial of caste in the educational debate

JM Paraskeva - 2023
… He has been at the forefront of some of the most shrewd and innovative non-derivative poststructuralist phenomenological and deconstructionist approaches related to the Hindutva-caste system. Sampath’s remarkable international scholarship focuses on …

[HTML] Singh, Gurharpal and Shani, Giorgio, Sikh Nationalism: From a Dominant Minority to an Ethno-Religious Diaspora. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021

A Milne - Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique. French …, 2023
… The volume culminates with Sikh nationalism facing questions of a global nature, and Hindutva (or Hindu-ness and Hindu nationalism) from the later 1990s until the present day (chapter 7), analysing the diaspora, today. The authors argue that there …

Cross-Border Journalism in South Asia

M Ittefaq, W Ejaz, MW Jan - The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism, 2024
This chapter examines the current state of cross-border journalism (CBJ) in South Asia with a specific focus on India and Pakistan. The discussion pertains to political, economical, ethical, and legal determinants of cross-border journalism in the region …

Dwelling in the city: Socio-spatial dynamics of gendered and religious embodiment of young Muslim women in Delhi, India

SJ Zahan - City, Culture and Society, 2024
This paper examines the intimate relationship among gender, religion, and the urban with a special focus on Muslim women in Delhi, India. Drawing on interviews conducted with young, middle-class, unmarried Muslim women, this paper …

[PDF] Modi's Identity Doctrine: A Historical Overview Urge for Hindu State

I Sarwar, Z Zafar - PERENNIAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY, 2023
… The Hindutva doctrine followed and advocated by BJP … of Hindutva which is actually against Hindu Teachings. This study will highlight Modi Government policies that indicate his urge for Hindu state and will trace the connection between …

[PDF] The Quest for Decolonization: Reimagining Politics, Nation State and Identity in India

MK Fiaz, R Nawaz - PERENNIAL JOURNAL OF HISTORY, 2023
… The elements of populism and Hindutva were at play and that meant, Muslims as 'the other ', and as 'national minority' of the nation state of India, while revitalising The Hindu nationalism based on the principles of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) …

[PDF] Political Thinking of BR Ambedkar: A Critical Evaluation

I Aditya
… of consolidation of dalit- bahujan power particularly against the Hindutva forces representing Brahman-Bania nexus with the global capital. These forces which form the core of the Hindutva have now realized that their ‘soft Hindutva’ is no more …

8 India's Crisis of Development

PB Nayak - Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy: Mapping …, 2024
… afford to promote the ideology of Hindutva, based on the notion of the preeminence of Hindus vis-à-vis other religious groups. The ideology of Hindutva is essentially political and is to be distinguished from the religion of Hinduism …

A Look at the State of Research on [Counter-] Terrorism and Violent Extremism

AP Schmid, T Renard, JJF Forest, I Singh - Perspectives on Terrorism, 2023
In continuation of a previous survey published in 2021 in Perspectives on Terrorism, a new survey exploring the state of [counter-] terrorism research, resulted in 50 responses from researchers and directors of think tanks, centres, institutes and …

[PDF] JHSR Journal of Historical Studies and Research ISSN: 2583-0198 Volume 3, Number 3 (September-December, 2023), PP. 79-99.

S Barman
… The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a political party in India that is aligned with right-wing politics and adheres to the ideology of Hindutva, … The BJP's approach to politics is strongly influenced by Hindutva, which promotes the values of the Hindu …

[PDF] Undoing the Masculine Hero

SS Sooraj, KRK Krishna, AK Mishra
… [13] The strengthening of Hindutva politics also contributed to the desirability of upper caste Hindu male characters in the 1990s.[14] During this era, the theatrical releases of Mohanlal and Mammootty films were accompanied by the installation of …

[PDF] Evolution of LGBTQIA Related Literature: The Neglected Part in Indian Knowledge System

A Chakrabarti
… Right-wing political parties in India have displayed rigid heterosexual norms by saying that LGBTQIA identity is incompatible with the Hindutva state's very foundation. The LGBTQIA identity in Indian literature has been outspoken and …