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Stocktaking Faith
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Stocktaking Faith

Dhruv Ramnath- August 16, 2024

Image Courtesy: ChatGPT How do scholars of “guru movements” negate their self-identification as devotees or non-devotees and research their objects of investigation academically? This is ... Read More

Spirituality as India’s Soft Power
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Spirituality as India’s Soft Power

Maria Wirth- January 23, 2019

For India’s soft power to have a chance to influence the world, one issue needs to be urgently addressed. This issue is the claim that ... Read More

Sri Aurobindo and India’s Rebirth- A book by Michel Danino
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Sri Aurobindo and India’s Rebirth- A book by Michel Danino

Dr Pingali Gopal- January 4, 2019

It would do well for the future of this lost country to return to the ideas of Sri Aurobindo, especially by the political and bureaucratic ... Read More

Pragmatic Poets: John Dewey & Rabindranath Tagore
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Pragmatic Poets: John Dewey & Rabindranath Tagore

Yvette Rosser- February 19, 2018

Tagore's philosophy of education drew its original inspiration from the "forest schools" of the Vedic period in which a small number of students studied all ... Read More

Deconstructing Arun Shourie’s “Two Saints”
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Deconstructing Arun Shourie’s “Two Saints”

Rajarshi Nandy- June 7, 2017

Arun Shourie's new book, “Two Saints” explores an interesting, but not unknown, area of spirituality wherein mystical experiences, their mechanism and effects are investigated in ... Read More