Powada, a Story-telling Performance Art (Video)
Vinata Joshi speaks to us about Powada, a popular performance art from Maharashtra, involving story-telling, poetry, music and theatre arts.
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Understanding Sri Aurobindo and the Nature of Life through Literature
This article illustrates how to understand Sri Aurobindo through insightful literature and appreciate literature as a reflection of the truths of life as expounded by Sri Aurobindo.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Interpretation of Indian Culture: The Ramayana – 2
In this part, Prema Nandkumar elaborates upon Sri Aurobindo’s brilliant translations of selected shlokas from a few sargas of Valmiki Ramayana.
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Peace through Culture and Education
The author writes that peace can be built securely only by means of culture, and culture for peace implies a new orientation of human consciousness; it implies eventually transformation of human consciousness.
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Sri Aurobindo’s Interpretation of Indian Culture: The Ramayana – 1
“At some fortuitous moment of time the glory of Indian civilisation met the grandeur of the Sanskrit language. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata were born.”
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The Mother on Gender Equality
The Mother traces the differentiation between masculine and feminine genders to the way the primordial cause of creation of the universe has been explained in many ancient traditions. She adds that both men and women are in several ways enslaved to each other. And to deal with the problem of superiority and inferiority, one must must free oneself from all the inner enslavement and treat both the genders with perfect equality.
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Krīḍā- Making Indian Games Cool! A conversation with authors of ‘The Games India Plays’ (Video)
We speak with the authors of book, ‘The Games India Plays’ about the necessity of reviving and popularising the traditional outdoor games of India.
Bringing Indian Culture in Schools: An Educationist’s Experience and Insights (Video)
Dr. Chhalamayi Reddy, an award-winning principal with more than 30 years of experience, shares her experience of bringing Indian-ness at her school.
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Goodness in Bhartrihari’s Nitishataka
Sri Aurobindo’s free renderings into English of Bhartrihari’s Nitishataka is a delightful reading. We feature a few verses related to the theme of Goodness.
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Pursuit of Goodness – A Resource for Teachers
This writeup featuring some aphorisms of Bhartrihari from his Nitishatakam, is included in a book titled “The Aim of Life.”
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