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28 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
#BookOverview 'The Meaning of India'
by Raja Rao

A combination of fables, journeys, discussions and meditations, The Meaning of India advances the view that India is not just a geographical entity, or even a civilization-state

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India is, above all, a metaphysic, a way of being and regarding the self and the world

Drawing on a wide range of sources-including the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Gita, the Buddha, Sankara, Bhartrihari, Kalidasa, Dostoevsky, Valéry, Rilke, Mann...
...and Mallarmé-as also meetings with Gandhi, Nehru, Forster and Malraux, Rao teases out the implications of Advaita or non-dualism, which he regards as India's unique contribution to the world
First published in 1996 when he was eighty-eight years old, this selection of nearly six decades of Raja Rao's non-fiction is an audacious contemplation on the deeper significance of India
Click here for Reviews & Purchase Links: indicbookclub.com/book/6022053b5…

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29 Nov
Yoga Suffers When Taken Out of Its Indian Context says Nrithya Jagannathan

Nrithya Jagannathan hails from the tradition of the world renowned Yogacharya Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

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Krishnamacharya had mastered 3,000 asanas. He was so adept in Yoga that he could stop his pulse/heartbeat for about 2 minutes

The Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) is a 44 year old institute, well known in India and abroad as a centre for Yoga Therapy as well as Yoga Studies
KYM, since its inception in 1976, has been committed to carrying forth the teachings of Sri Krishnamacharya as taught by his son & long time student, Sri TKV Desikachar, a tradition which is the fountainhead of modern yoga & from which distinguished yoga schools have sprung from
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27 Nov
#BookOverview Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre by Deep Halder

'When the house of history is on fire, journalists are often the first-responders, pulling victims away from the flames. Deep Halder is one of them' - Amitava Kumar

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In 1978, around 1.5 lakh Hindu refugees, mostly belonging to the lower castes, settled in Marichjhapi an island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal

By May 1979, the island was cleared of all refugees by Jyoti Basu's Left Front government
Most of the refugees were sent back to the central India camps they came from, but there were many deaths: of diseases, malnutrition resulting from an economic blockade, as well as from violence unleashed by the police on the orders of the government
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14 Oct
Continuing, Colonialism has been one of the most significant events in the last three hundred years or so for Indian culture. What exactly is immoral about this?
‘Colonial consciousness’, an important thesis of Balu’s research program, is a framework that denies access to our experience and makes us reproduce some sets of colonial ideas as though they describe our experience.
This process continues to the present times much after the colonizers have left. British colonialism introduced the framework about the superiority of the western culture as ‘objective’ or ‘scientific’ that was both presupposed and proved. The colonized accepted this.
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13 Oct
New Book Release ‘What Does it Mean to be an Indian?’ By S.N.Balagangadhara & Sarika Rao - bit.ly/3BFykqK

Purchase Link: amzn.to/3oUCckh

Why ask this question today?

#Thread Snippets of the review by Dr Pingali Gopal @gpingali , published by @Pragyata_ Image
Secular historians, standing against the ‘religiosity’ of the masses, taught us that our stories were merely disguised historiographies, poetic exaggerations, or lies by our ancestors. In the western intellectual trad, the dominant idea is that myths are false and facts are true
However, growing up as Indians, we learn that we should treat our stories and epics (Itihasas) as different from the claims of our history, geography, and science lessons. As Dr Balu asks, ‘What do we want, a history or a past?’
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12 Oct
The paradox is that the embodiment of the Self does not, in truth, exist which comes not through a physical process but through a cognitive condition whereby the Self morphs as the body and erroneously believes the body to be the self.
Self’s embodiment through a cognitive condition forms a core tenet in all the six systems of Indian philosophy with slight variations.
Embodiment persists so long as the erroneous cognitive condition persists; hence, right-knowledge confers liberation. Thus, when the erroneous cognition dispels, one is set free from the shackles of bondage (to the body) and to the cycles of birth and death.
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