Dimagi Naxal and Sapta Dhara

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Sri Aurobindo's Sacred Relics Shrine, Birmitrapur, Sundargarh

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Sri Aurobindo's Sacred Relics Shrine, Birmitrapur, Sundargarh. @rasrajartsandcalligraphy1 like1 view8 minutes ago more.

ମହାପୁରୁଷ ଶ୍ରୀଅରବିନ୍ଦଙ୍କ ୧୫୪ତମ ଜୟନ୍ତୀ ପାଳିତ: ମାନବ ଜୀବନର ଲକ୍ଷ୍ୟ କେବଳ...

11 hours ago — ଏହି ଅବସରରେ ଆୟୋଜିତ ସଭାରେ ଅବସରପ୍ରାପ୍ତ କଲେଜ ଅଧ୍ୟକ୍ଷ କୃତିବାସ ବିଶ୍ୱାଳ ମୁଖ୍ୟ ଅତିଥି ଭାବେ ...

Adhikari visits Sri Aurobindo Bhavan on Independence Day

11 hours ago — During his visit, Adhikari said he was proud to be at the historic institution and highlighted Sri Aurobindo's contribution to nationalism and revolutionary

Responsible govt must develop institutions linked to great thinkers: Suvendu

15 hours ago — “I feel that it is the duty of a responsible government to maintain and develop all such institutions built around the works of great men like Sri Aurobindo and

Responsible govt must develop institutions linked to great thinkers: Suvendu

15 hours ago — "I feel that it is the duty of a responsible government to maintain and develop all such institutions built around the works of great men like Sri Aurobindo and

Sri Aurobindo's Savitri ｜Book 1 Canto IV ｜ The Secret Knowledge ｜ Part 3｜ THE HIDDEN PLAN OF DESTINY

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Sri Aurobindo's Savitri ｜Book 1 Canto IV ｜ The Secret Knowledge ｜ Part 3｜ THE HIDDEN PLAN OF DESTINY. @Sri-Aurobindo-Elibrary1 like23 views11 hours ago

Lecture series on Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga (by Ranganath), pp - 496-499

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Lecture series on Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga (by Ranganath), pp - 496-499. @Sri-Aurobindo-ElibraryNo likes2 views6 hours ago

Relationships of Dominance as Seen in a Great Novel on the Freedom Movement of India—Revisiting A Hindi Classic

by Bharat Dogra countercurrents.org/2026/08/relati…

Bhagvati Charan Varma’s "Terhe Merhe Raaste", set during India’s freedom movement, examines how relationships of dominance shape political choices, family life and revolutionary commitments. Bharat Dogra revisits this lesser-known Hindi classic to explore its portrayal of a feudal loyalist to colonial rule whose three sons choose different paths in the struggle for liberation. The novel also examines tensions among Congress, revolutionary and communist activists, including the limits imposed by secrecy and ideological certainty. Its enduring relevance lies in its exploration of domination, self-correction and democratic dialogue, while also pointing to the need for greater attention to women’s experiences of oppression.

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The only novel I have written . It has been called a psychological thriller, but it also explores an idea. Why does a guru, on a spiritual path, loose track and start exploiting others? The book is set in Uttarakhand, Delhi and the USA.

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When you coin a phrase like 'dimagi Naxal', the idea is not to malign Naxalism. It is the exact opposite. It is to malign those who use their mind, those who have an independent opinion, those who question, those who insist on reason and logic, those who value education, and so on. It is also an admission that the government finds 'dimag' alien, threatening, discomforting and, all in all, quite unnecessary to govern a country of 1.4 billion people. Explains much, including why we are where we are today.

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America has long been cast as a philosophical latecomer, playing catch-up with Europe. Philosopher Steve Fuller argues this fundamentally misreads what the American Pragmatists were doing. James, Dewey, and Rorty were not joining the Western tradition, but hijacking it, recasting truth, meaning, and reason in ways that placed America at the very centre of history. Tap to read the full article. iai.tv/articles/how-a…

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Sri Aurobindo’s The Secret of the Veda offers profound insights into Vedic wisdom. Richard Hartz and @MakrandParanspe explore Western engagement with the Veda and why Vedic wisdom still matters today. youtu.be/9THHE0gq3I4?si… @AmazingVedas @PariksithSingh

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Vedic Dhyana: Sapta Dhara

I am not sure if PM Modi is aware that the Sapta Dhara or seven point initiative he announced from the Red Fort is a Vedic concept. 

It appears in Rig Veda 3.1.4

अव॑र्धयन्त्सु॒भगं॑ स॒प्त य॒ह्वीः श्वे॒तं ज॑ज्ञा॒नम॑रु॒षं म॑हि॒त्वा ।

(“The seven Mighty Ones (Rivers) increased him who utterly enjoys felicity, white in his birth, ruddy when he has grown.” Translated by Sri Aurobindo)

These seven rivers are “the sevenfold waters of the Truth, the divine waters brought down from the heights of our being by Indra,” as Sri Aurobindo explains in The Secret of the Veda. 

For water in Vedic symbolism is consciousness and being. It is certainly a highly inspired theme to give a direction to the nation for the next twenty years for if these rivers descend upon our minds and hearts we will truly become viksit by 2047. Rather, we will become viksit only if we are inspired by the highest Truth 

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On India’s Independence Day, author, poet & philosopher @PariksithSingh reflects on why Sri Aurobindo’s Vedic vision holds the key to India’s future -& offers an alternative to the mechanisation of humanity in the age of AI. firstpost.com/opinion/india-… @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas

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Vedic Nirukta व् v-

Let us now meditate on the Varna Va-

Va is a labial ओष्ठव्य 

It is a semivowel and closely related to the svara उ u-

Notice that the va- sound is coming out of your lips and being spread to the world

It is the sound of manifestation and its expansion as Sri Aurobindo has elegantly described

That is why we have words like Vayu which means that which is spread out in its flow

We have discussed the power of the sibilant sh- श् in a previous post which gives us intensity, force, speed, holding, compression

Now feel the intensity of sh- spreading out or held externally in the universe of manifestation and you have words like visha, vishaya, Vishva, etc

Vishva then is not just the external world but also the field of your consciousness. It can be narrow or it can be wide and as it grows wider the difference between the personal and the universal begins to disappear for the Rishi. The word Vishva then is a shlesha, a pun or paronomasia, just like so many Vedic terms that play in several universes at the same time and keep us on tenterhooks

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All this is beautifully described by Sri Aurobindo sir. Also, Matrika vidya sees each varna as a Shakti in itself. All this knowledge is inherent in the Vedic Upanishadic mantras and the Rishis were hyperaware of the value and guna of each note. Why don’t we let our children experience this? Why don’t we experience this directly? We should

If we can rediscover the power of Beeja Dhvanis and Beeja mantras we could bring back in action the knowledge and power of the Indic civilization. Through mantra, japa, yoga and tantra knowledge that is part of our dna

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[PDF] Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

MA Quayum - World Englishes, 2026

This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures
in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing
primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the …

[PDF] Orientalising Indian Philosophy: Hegel and Sri Aurobindo

P Bilimoria

… well, especially in the work of Sri Aurobindo. The paper compares the Hegelian
framework to Sri Aurobindo’s theory of spiritual evolution, which centres on the
progressive manifestation of consciousness. It seems that Sri Aurobindo’s …

SRI AUROBINDO AND DAVID BOHM A Dialogue on Reality and Human Transformation

S DASH - 2026

… , which can also be compared with Sri Aurobindo’s evolutionary perspective of
Consciousness and its … research work will attempt to compare Sri Aurobindo's and
David Bohm’s perspectives on … … Today, Sri Aurobindo Ashram continues to flourish unhindered, and Sri Aurobindo’s quintessential Integral Yoga … Integral Yoga will eventually play a cardinal role in such transformation of consciousness in human beings. The fundamental tenets of …

Reimagining Gender Roles: The Politics of Femininity in the Global South

I Jaiswal - The Political Economy of Gender: Power, Patriarchy …, 2026

This study analyses how right-wing populist governments in the Global South have
politicized femininity to promote patriarchal nationalism, manifesting it as an
instrument of ideological repression and enforcing gendered standards to …

Contesting hate: Digital counter-narratives against Islamophobia

E Poole, EH Giraud, E de Quincey, J Richardson - 2026

Contesting hate draws on a unique five-year dataset, which includes social media
data, interviews with digital activists and mainstream media analysis, generated by
the project ‘# ContestingIslamophobia: Representation and Appropriation in …

Purity as politics: crafting discipline in the puritan public sphere of Assam and its institutional sedimentation

NP Kashyap - Asian Ethnicity, 2026

This essay theorizes the concept of ‘puritan public sphere’ and uses it as a
framework to explain the purifying nature of Assamese subnationalism in practice. It
argues that linguo-cultural purity serves as a prerequisite for civic legitimacy in the …

[HTML] Espionage activity

SD Mukherji

Savitri was a proponent of a synthesis of Hinduism and Nazism, proclaiming Adolf
Hitler to have been an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.[5] She depicted Hitler as a
sacrifice for humanity that would lead to the end of the worst World Age, the Kali …

[PDF] SAC Newsletter 2026

M Baxter - 2026

Despite a year marked by political uncertainty and institutional challenges, it has
been an intellectually vibrant one for the South Asia Center. I want to begin by
thanking our extraordinary community. Our graduate students generously …

[PDF] Integral Urbanism in Desert Cities: Recapturing Links in Metro Phoenix

N Ellin

… I have described this body of proactive urban design and planning as “integral
urbanism.”Integral urbanism seeks to readdress dispersal and fragmentation by
recovering earlier city-building wisdom while also accommodating contemporary …

From pilot to paradigm: a call for entrepreneurial strategies to scale up the implementation of nature-based solutions

T Op de Beeck, T Coppens - European Planning Studies, 2026

… In contrast, citizen involvement has been very strong and an integral part of both
the Stiemer Plan development and the implementation projects. Hölscher et al. (2024)
provide an overview of various co-production processes linked to the Stiemer Valley …

Cosmopsychism and God

H Cawdron - Cosmopsychism and the Christian Doctrine of God: A …, 2026

In this chapter, I will outline our cosmopsychist account of broadly classical theism in
more detail. I will outline rival forms of cosmopsychist theism, such as cosmopsychist
pantheism (in which the cosmic mind is God) and cosmopsychist panentheism (in …

Sri Aurobindo corrected the imbalance of a male-centric approach in life

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Our democratic dividend, I submit, is not an abstract ideal. It is the lived reality of a nation that has sustained the world’s largest democracy for nearly eight decades, navigated extraordinary linguistic, religious, and regional diversity, and drawn upon a civilisational memory stretching back millennia. Unlike authoritarian monocultures, India’s democracy allows for contestation, correction, and innovation from below. It aligns with the classical Indian empha­sis on sabha and samiti from times immemorial. These deliberative assemblies offered a natural counter to the centralised command models that have repeatedly faltered in history.

Yet today, we seem strangely reluctant to harness these democratic traditions. Despite claiming to be the ‘Mother of Democracy’. Our ambition to become a global power, I would argue, is obstructed by our in­ability or unwillingness to enhance and encash our democratic dividend. Moreover, without systemic transformation, there is a serious risk that our aspirations will not be nourished by our realities. Instead of leveraging our demographic dividend, the strengths of open debate, federal pluralism, and accountable governance rooted in our dharmic continuum, what do we do? - Makarand R Paranjape 

https://openthemagazine.com/india/merit-is-destiny-india-can-reap-its-democratic-dividend-only-by-harnessing-its-talent

Though the dark ages of mankind saw them being relegated to a secondary and subordinate position, either as someone who had to obey the man, fulfil his wishes and demands, or worse, as commodities of pleasure and marketing, the cycle of Time is turning and we are approaching a New Age when the eternal feminine is rising and dawning upon the horizons like the goddess Usha, who the rishis first aspired for.

Though her glory has been sung in the Vedas and the Tantras, our more modern interpretations of Vedanta as otherworldly scriptures that regard life as an illusion gave too much prominence to the masculine principle of creation, the Iswara, the Deva, the Purusha. But the Deva without Devi is powerless, the Purusha without Prakriti is helpless, the Iswara without His Shakti is a silent witness who can neither intervene nor help our evolutionary journey.

This rejection of the Shakti, the Eternal Feminine, was the main reason for India’s downfall, a subtle truth pointed out by Sri Aurobindo, to whom it was given to revive this forgotten Shakti. He did this in a threefold manner:

First, he invoked the Shakti of Mother India through his Bande Mataram, an English-language newspaper and Durga Stotra (Hymn to Durga), thereby awakening the very soul of India, one day to lead us to independence and the heights of future glory.

Second, as an Avatara of the New Age, he placed the Divine Mother at the forefront of yoga, stepping behind to watch over the larger lines while the Mother would see to the finer details of the New Creation. What is meant by this expression is that the old creation based itself upon the mind and hence has division as its governing principle whereas the New Creation bases itself on an all-comprehensive Divine Truth beyond the mind and hence, has unity in diversity as its governing principle.

Finally, while he withdrew from the range and limits of earthly sight, he placed his epic mantric poem Savitri, a legend and a symbol from the Vedic times, in the hands of humanity. By doing so, he not only indicated that it is the feminine power that will hold the key to the New Age, he also corrected the imbalance of an exclusively male-centric approach in life as well as in philosophy. Most importantly, he linked the ancient dawn of the Vedic age to the aspirations of today, opening doors into the future... 

Politics has a lot to do with intrigues, scheming and planning, not all of which is visible on the surface. Even the closest of friends may not disclose their secret intent to another, in the course of politics where close kin become sworn enemies unless there is some way to identify with the inner beings of persons involved and know by a secret identity the inner events and the forces moving us that shaped circumstances.

It is this fundamental inability that makes all history, whether by an interested or even disinterested party, to some extent questionable. It is not about who wrote it or for whom, it is simply the fact that human consciousness is essentially limited in knowing what goes on in creating any event. It records only the surface details and keeps multiplying it as primary and secondary source materials but through all this painstaking collection of information it keeps circling around the Light of Truth that it can neither see nor touch. The Eternal Feminine - Dr Alok Pandey

https://auromaa.org/the-eternal-feminine/

The universe and the individual are constant and inseparable companions on the journey, complementary associates in the endeavour. "Always indeed they exist for each other and profit by each other. Universe is a diffusion of the divine All in infinite Space and Time, the individual its concentration within limits of Space and Time. Universe seeks in infinite extension the divine totality it feels itself to be but cannot entirely realise; for in extension existence drives at a pluralistic sum of itself which can neither be the primal nor the final unit, but only a recurring decimal without end or beginning. Therefore it creates in itself a self-conscious concentration of the All through which it can aspire. In the conscious individual Prakriti turns back to perceive Purusha, World seeks after Self; God having entirely become Nature, Nature seeks to become progressively God."[2] If the individual is the self-conscious concentration of the Universal and spearheads the unfoldment, the universal is the foundation and the very stuff and the field of the divine unfoldment. The individual is required to universalise and impersonalise himself if he has to fully and perfectly manifest the divine All which truly is his reality. Nonetheless, he should not lose sight of his unique personality which is a luminous representative of the Transcendent and which holds the key to the secret of his truth.

The individual, indeed, has a special role to play in the universe. He is not here simply to repeat the animal on a new and higher scale of mentality but to seek control and eventually gain mastery over the chaos of cosmic energies, and to realise and establish a greater harmony among them. "The animal is satisfied with a modicum of necessity; the gods are content with their splendours. But man cannot rest permanently until he reaches some highest good. He is the greatest of living beings because he is the most discontented, because he feels most the pressure of limitations. He alone, perhaps, is capable of being seized by the divine frenzy for a remote ideal.... It is the Son of Man who is supremely capable of incarnating God. This Man is the Manu, the thinker, the Manomaya Purusha, mental person or soul in mind of the ancient sages. No mere superior mammal is he, but a conceptive soul basing itself on the animal body in Matter. He is conscious Name or Numen accepting and utilising form as a medium through which Person can deal with substance."[3] Animal life is only an inferior term of man's existence; the mental life by which he seizes upon the physical universe and organises and controls it is the middle term. Yet there is a secret nexus in his mind that points to and seeks something essentially superior to his present self. And this will be the basis of a divine life on earth.

https://incarnateword.in/other-authors/v-madhusudan-reddy/integral-yoga-psychology/1-man-and-the-universe-inseparable-companions-on-the-journey

[PDF] Competing Narratives in Indian Politics: A Study of the Congress Party's Strategies in the 2024 General Elections

HS Adarsh, A Unny - South India Journal of Social Sciences, 2026

… : Evolving Forms, Spaces, and Expressions of Hindu Nationalism”, opine that
Hindutva has paved the way for Neo- Hindutva after 2014. In contrast to earlier
iterations of Hindutva, Neo-Hindutva aims to mainstream its ideology and …

Reclaiming Histories: Debunking Aryanism's Myth in the Middle East and South Asia

A Mohammadpour - Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2026

This article charts the enduring life of the ‘Aryan’ concept from its 19th‐century
philological origins to its contemporary political, cultural and national manifestations.
Born out of William Jones's linguistic comparisons and entangled with biblical stories …

Nationalism for sale: advertising, consumption, and the discursive construction of legitimacy in contemporary India

S Kaushal, D Mishra - Social Semiotics, 2026

This article examines how contemporary Indian advertising contributes to the
discursive construction of political and cultural legitimacy by framing everyday
consumption as a moral and patriotic practice. Drawing on an analysis of 48 …

[PDF] Agrarian Change in Uttar Pradesh: A Review of Village Studies

K Munjal, M Swaminathan - Review of Agrarian Studies, 2025

This paper has two broad objectives. First, it provides a comprehensive list of all
village studies undertaken in eastern and western Uttar Pradesh to date, and draws
on those undertaken between 2000 and 2023 to describe features of production …

[HTML] The Double Stage on Campus: Caste, Crisis and the UGC Equity Regulations (2026) Controversy

S Priya

… posts like President and Vice-President, through linking Hindutva issues to caste
optics. … The Congress has recently decided to counter the BJP’s Hindutva cultural
nationalism by … An ABVP insider noted that even some pro-Hindutva influencers—like …

[PDF] Landscapes of Caste Exclusion: Rethinking Forests and Fields in South Asian Environmental History

N NATH - Environment and History, 2026

… Hota’s study of land politics in Orissa finds that Hindutva groups worked
alongside the Kandha Adivasis to construct affinities between Kandha and Hindu
cosmologies in ways that naturalise Kandha Adivasi proprietary claims to land at the …

[PDF] COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH AMBEDKAR'S PHILOSOPHY

S Jahnavi, V Geetanjali - … the Marginalized: Ambedkar's Contribution to Social …

Dr. BR Ambedkar’s philosophy offers a powerful framework for sustainable and
inclusive community development. Rooted in the principles of liberty, equality, and
fraternity, Ambedkar’s vision aimed to eliminate caste-based discrimination, ensure …

[PDF] FROM MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM: DR. B R. AMBEDKAR'S PEDAGOGY IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE AND EMPOWERMENT: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY

DB Suryawanshi, P Yadav - … the Marginalized: Ambedkar's Contribution to Social …

A towering figure in Indian history, Dr. BR Ambedkar, known as the founder of the
Constitution, played a significant transformative role in bringing marginalized
communities into the mainstream of society through his unique contributions to …

[PDF] PLATFORM MECHANICS OF HATE AND MARGINALITY: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH

G Eapen, S Khan, W Njathi, T Njathi, R Wambui… - AoIR Selected Papers of …, 2025

… Hindutva’s dominance in digital spaces. By examining the role of platforms in
fostering political polarization, the paper demonstrates how … This paper will
explore how social media platforms’ affordances provide a space for Hindutva …

[PDF] THE INTERACTION OF KERALA HINDU WOMEN, RELIGIOUS CONVERSION, WITH GLOBAL TERRORISM AND SECURITY

S Rathore - Studenckie Zeszyty Naukowe

Religious conversion of Hindu women to Islam in Kerala, situated in the southern
most part of India, has emerged as a significant social problem, often associated
with political, gendered, and security concerns. This article explores the conversion …

The Life Divine raises profound problems for philosophy and science

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

I love how some otherwise intelligent people use objectivity and  engagement as a trope to periodically endorse Mohan Bhagwat though, the RSS has repeatedly displayed double speak and the org and its innumerable affiliates spew casteism, islamophobia and abuse christians in word and action. This is either naivety or smart hedging. To engage seriously with Hinduism you do not need the RSS or any of its cohorts.

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Every generation politically matures at a given moment, it has happened in the past as well

1975-77,  1989-92, 2011-13, 2026?

We must be cautious in over-interpreting this political moment, but it carries immense possibilities & future depends on how stakeholders interpret it

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I continue to be an admirer of the overall American system, its decent people by and large, key historical figures such as Lincoln. But Indo-US tensions are inevitable for a decade or two. Will get worse. US is so used to being #1 and so in awe of current #2 that it will resort to bullying the clear but distant #3. Eventually a new equilibrium will be reached, and even a genuinely syncretic modern neopagan one, but not without Indian elites showing some backbone first. Indian unity is non-negotiable and India’s ascent to the top is equally inevitable. Any other aim or target is permanently consigning Indians to a subhuman category.

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The overall American system is weak in its foundations, founded as it was on the near extermination of native Americans and the continuance of slavery. It required a civil war to end slavery, and it required political and ideological movements for emancipation of women. And now those same movements continue unrelentingly for racism, gender etc. compounding their societal problems, not reducing it. The American system is also archaic and creaky. Their leaders have become corrupt and plutocratic. If we thought there was a vast gulf between the Indian government and the Indian people, it is nothing compared to the near total disconnect between the American people and their government. A nation that only has the creation of wealth and capital as its core culture (without any other balancing factors) would only have weak systems that will eventually break.

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At its unbridled peak, capitalism eats itself and belches socialism. The multibillionaire snake oil salesmen keep telling the public that there’s a pot of gold - abundance of everything humans desire - at the end of the AI rainbow. They tell tales of a New Rome, except one that is ethnically and religiously homogeneous, while they weave myths of America as the progenitor of “Western Civilization.” 

It’s an elaborate psyop to placate a public that is falling behind in an acutely K-shaped economy. America is more divided and indebted than ever, and Americans face a precipitous loss of confidence in the American Dream. It opens the doors for a motley crew of radical leftists to gain sympathy. The political pendulum will swing further to the right and the left every few elections - if they are conducted fairly - a rather strong assumption given the US’ patchy record of voting integrity. Regardless, there will come a breaking point, even for this. 

Meanwhile, the Indian-American middle management class and their counterparts in India will refuse to see the writing on the wall. They live in gilded cages, far away from the semi-literate, indebted, gun-toting masses who form 70% of the country. Indian think tanks and politicians believe in the American Dream more than Americans themselves. Tells a lot about how elite propaganda works. If anything should feed an 82 IQ stereotype, it is this. A few threads with stats for reference: x.com/suryakane/stat… x.com/suryakane/stat… Additional context: x.com/suryakane/stat…

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Should India copy China’s model—or build a better one? This track challenges the debate, asking what India can borrow from China’s rise while protecting its democratic spirit, diversity, and freedom. youtu.be/WpLAcVseru4?si… @MakrandParanspe @PariksithSingh @AmazingVedas

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Discovered the works of M M Sankhdher while going through the papers of Hayek and started reading his work ‘Reflections on Indians Politics’. In first 20 pages itself, he has quoted Russel Kirk, Michael Oakeshott, Hayek et. al approvingly and called Marx a poor economist.

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We need a new intellectual biography of Bankim. There’s a ton of material—especially a bunch of his private letters (which I only recently learnt have survived the ravages of time)—that has regrettably escaped the attention of scholars, including Amitrasudan B. and others. And, of course, the many afterlives of Bankim and his oeuvre in postcolonial Bengal.

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"Political Romanticism extends Schmitt’s attack on the individual and quarantines political subjectivity under the name Romanticism."

From our new issue, Alexander Freer's "Carl Schmitt, Romanticism, and Political Form": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

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John Gray, hailed as "Britain's best philosopher," is a leading critic of liberalism and the Enlightenment. iai.tv/video/the-idea…

He has long challenged the belief in inevitable progress, predicting both the 2008 financial crisis and the rise of populism. In this exclusive studio interview with Jonny Thomson, he explains why science and technology accumulate but gains in ethics and politics are fragile, unwinding every few generations.

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We don't know the past or the future, but we think we know the present. Yet, philosophers and neuroscientists have argued the present is unattainable and unknowable. Poststructuralists like Derrida claim there is no 'now' that provides direct and immediate access to meaning. 

Our descriptions are part of a shifting web of meaning that we can never get to the bottom of and which is limited by culture and history. Moreover, leading neuroscientists claim the reality we perceive in the present is a form of hallucination, or interface, evolved for survival. Rupert Sheldrake, Joanna Kavenna, and Timothy Morton debate whether we can ever truly grasp the present. Tap here to watch now. iai.tv/video/the-phan…

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How Hindu Gods are Secularised to Destroy Hindu Dharma: Is Murugan (Skanda) a Hindu God or just some ancient tribal king from Tamil Nadu? Enemies of Dharma are demoting him to an "ancestor" to strip his divinity. This is a 2,000-year-old tactic to ease conversion by digesting Tamil Hindu culture. Don’t let them secularise your Gods!

Watch and share widely: youtu.be/8QlmfWxcpsA

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The Life Divine Reconsidered: A Skeptical Review of Sri Aurobindo's Magnum Opus, Frank Visser / ChatGPT

7 hours ago — Few works of modern spiritual philosophy rival Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine in ambition. Published in revised form in 1939-40 after first appearing ... For many readers, The Life Divine represents one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century metaphysical thought. Yet admiration for its literary grandeur should not exempt it from critical scrutiny. From the standpoint of philosophy and science, the book raises profound problems that remain largely unresolved. 

One striking feature of The Life Divine is its continual appeal to scientific developments. Aurobindo points to evolution, quantum physics (in embryo during his lifetime), psychology, and biology as moving toward his vision. Modern Integral thinkers have continued this strategy, updating his examples with complexity theory, emergence, neuroscience, and systems thinking. Yet this often amounts to retrospective confirmation rather than prediction. Scientific concepts are interpreted metaphorically until they appear compatible with the spiritual framework. Rarely does the metaphysical system generate novel scientific predictions that could distinguish it from competing theories. In philosophy of science, explanatory power depends not merely upon accommodating known facts but upon risking falsification. Here Aurobindo's system proves remarkably resistant.

The Problem of Unfalsifiability

Every conceivable outcome appears compatible with divine evolution.

If humanity progresses, Spirit is ascending.

If civilization collapses, evolution merely proceeds through crisis.

If suffering increases, it serves divine transformation.

If enlightenment remains rare, humanity simply is not ready.

No imaginable observation could demonstrate that the theory is mistaken.

This places the system closer to theological interpretation than empirical explanation.

Karl Popper famously regarded such unfalsifiable frameworks as metaphysical rather than scientific. That does not make them meaningless—but it does limit their explanatory status.

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