Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Bataille, Derrida, and Foucault were fleeing

Chandrahas Choudhury @Hashestweets  5h  A 1200-word essay by me in @Mint_lounge on Orhan Pamuk's new novel: livemint.com/Leisure/jOVhUqpic.twitter.com/QiB8PRKMsg 
RotmanDesignWorks @RotmanDsgnWrks  Nov 16  Empathy – the key to political persuasion, says Rotman study uoft.me/PoliticalPersu… via @rotmanschool 
Aurobindo Centre conducts yoga camp - The Hindu thehindu.com/news/cities/pu… 
The Path of Later On | Auroville auroville.org/contents/3864#… 
Harish Nambiar @HarishNambiar1  10h  Infosys Prize winner Jonardan Ganeri's paper I had put out in Aug 2014. fb.me/5ncap82Qr 
Keerthik Sasidharan @KS1729  Nov 16  an excerpt from Prof Ganeri's entry on Companion of World Religions. [on Hinduism's focus on rules to make rules] pic.twitter.com/iLTVndf1AI  Congratulations to Jonardon Ganeri for the Infosys Prize. Great scholar & somebody we should all read more of. 
SK Jain @skjain_05  22h  A true expressive actor. RIP #SaeedJaffrey twitter.com/scroll_in/stat… 
Annemarie @auromarie  Nov 15  Welcome to Auroville Today | #Auroville auroville.org/avtoday#.VklKO… 
Santosh Desai @desaisantosh  Nov 15  Why terrorism is a unique structure that cannot be understood or dealt with in conventional terms. : blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Citycitybangba… 
@AllDUNews  Nov 15  #DelhiUniversity Odia Pua to celebrate 13th Boita Bandan Utshav in New Delhi on 25th November binged.it/1HLWlPs #DU 
@SavitriEraParty  Nov 15  [Michel Foucault as an activist intellectual] opendemocracy.net/engin-isin/mic… via @openDemocracy 
"Sri Aurobindo and the Mother" - The two are one - on The City of Shamballa: cityofshamballa.net/forum/topics/s… 
[Where in the midst of all this are real Vivekananda and Aurobindo?] marketime.blogspot.com/2015/09/proces… seof.blogspot.in/2015/11/parado… evergreenessays.blogspot.in/2015/11/where-… 
@Dosabandit [we need to get people enthusiastic about looking for explanations. That is the role of disruption] Kahn selforum.blogspot.in/2015/11/shake-… 
 [That is the role of disruption: to shake people out of their ordinary assumptions about themselves and their world] selforum.blogspot.in/2015/11/shake-… 
[MAKE in INDIA // Questions that make us worried] - wp.me/pP7F-2tB 
[One of the results of the contacts between fascism & Hindu nationalism was the attempt to militarise Hindu society] sabrang.com/cc/comold/mar0… 
[About East-West Psychology]  CIIS ciis.edu/academics/grad… 
[Ministry of Culture @IndiaCultureGoI  Nov 12  National Library, NBT & Sri Aurobindo Institute of Culture, (SAIoC) is celebrating the National Book Week 2015 pic.twitter.com/TY3K3yzrVC 
@Parikramah No luck [we have to regard him only as the prophet, the instrument, the Vibhuti] incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/specif… theseventhwaves.blogspot.in/2008/12/sri-au… 
[Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud recognized religion as being: not opium of the people but poetry of the people.] evergreenessays.blogspot.in/2007/09/freud-… 
[there is nothing in Sri Aurobindo’s writings that justifies an ideological hatred of Islam, Muslims or the Prophet] seof.blogspot.in/2007/10/there-… 
Nietzsche's Perspectivism (International Nietzsche Studies) by Steven D Hales amazon.com/dp/0252068661/… via @amazon seof.blogspot.in/2007/01/weak-p… 
[Hegelian tendency toward totalitizing that the post-moderns like Bataille, Derrida and Foucault were fleeing from] feelphilosophy.blogspot.in/2008/09/da-was… 
[basic structural skeletons of Steiner's cosmology are based on Blavatsky's schema to whom he acknowledged his debt] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_St… 
[Supermental, the most central and pivotal concept by Aurobindo, may be a unique contribution to a complete spiritual-cosmological picture.] 
[What is most apparent is the lack of a cognate to Aurobindo’s Supermind in Steiner’s cosmology.] elements.spiritalchemy.com/articles/Stein… 
[These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are;] rwe.org/complete-works… 
[Nitish should be expected to take reasonable stance.. might like to burnish his credentials as constructive leader] freepressjournal.in/shed-bitternes… 
[Jatra theatre, political party too needs to have malleability & have ways of adapting to changing social dynamics] millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.as… 
[The BJP will also have to revisit its strategy of not empowering local leaders, and not naming chief ministerial candidates.] @pbmehta 
[Amit Shah forgot the simplest lesson: That the BJP’s success depends on floating voters and opposition division.] @pbmehta 
[That is the role of disruption: to shake people out of their ordinary assumptions about themselves and their world] selforum.blogspot.in/2015/11/shake-… 
[we need to get people enthusiastic about looking for explanations. That is the role of disruption] ~Paul W. Kahn criticalmargins.com/2014/01/29/int… 
[St. Stephens show: The idea of tribe to people called tribals is a myth - Dr Aditya Pratap Deo] ibnlive.com/videos/india/s… via @IBNlive 
[35 Visually Stunning Czech/Slovak Films That Are Worth Your Time] tasteofcinema.com/2015/35-visual… 
श्रीअरविन्द के पत्र (7) sanatana.info/articles/श्रीअरविन्द-के-पत्र-7/ via @http://www.twitter.com 
श्रीअरविन्द का बंगला साहित्य (2) sanatana.info/articles/श्रीअरविन्द-का-बंगला-साह/ via @http://www.twitter.com 
|| वेद रहस्य (उत्तरार्द्ध) || The Secret of the Veda || ( 5 ) sanatana.info/articles/वेद-रहस्य-उत्तरार्द्ध-the-secret-of-the-5/ 
[Out of all "political" writers; Sartre, Malraux, Orwell, only one produced a truly great novel, and that was Camus] theguardian.com/books/2010/apr… 
[Information streams are censored and crippled as a result of so-called “intellectual property” laws] Steven Shaviro thedisorderofthings.com/2015/11/03/acc… 
|| वेद रहस्य (उत्तरार्द्ध) || The Secret of the Veda || ( 3 ) sanatana.info/articles/वेद-रहस्य-उत्तरार्द्ध-the-secret-of-the-3/ 
|| वेद रहस्य (उत्तरार्द्ध) || The Secret of the Veda || ( 1 ) sanatana.info/articles/वेद-रहस्य-उत्तरार्द्ध-the-secret-of-the/ 
[The Secret of the Veda by Sri Aurobindo in Hindi and English, Tr. by Jagannath Vedalankar and Dharmveer Vedalankar] sanatana.info/articles/%E0%A… 
[reshuffling and recombination of already existing components. I should actively seek influences and not avoid them] bobolinkbooks.com/BALLAST/AK.html 
[James's books are a breezy pleasure to read... Reading a book by William James can feel like escaping from jail.] litkicks.com/WilliamAndHenry 
[James modelled Rosy on his own invalid and hyper-sensitive sister Alice, in the process he inverted the world-view] muse.jhu.edu/journals/henry… 
Essays on Sri Aurobindo selforum.blogspot.in/2015/10/the-be… Highest hits at SELF selforum.blogspot.in/2013/03/people… selforum.blogspot.com/2011/10/sri-au… selforum.blogspot.in/2013/02/profes… 
History of liberalism in India: From Keshub Chandra Sen to Kamasutra marketime.blogspot.in/2015/10/histor… Binaca, Tinopal, Nirma marketime.blogspot.in/2015/10/binaca… 
[Eco and Pamuk: In both novels the battle is essentially one of ideas] [Coetzee stands on the other side of Kundera] selforum.blogspot.in/2015/10/the-au… 
[can be read, and enjoyed, individually, they form two parts of a diptych; one compliments and buttresses the other] bill-purkayastha.blogspot.in/2011/10/name-o… 
Savitri Era Learning Forum SELF-Development marketime.blogspot.com/2015/10/pondic… selforum.blogspot.in/2015/10/feuerb… sepact.blogspot.com/2015/10/roger-… selfskylight.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/hee… 
For SELF-Development feelphilosophy.blogspot.com/2015/10/dog-fa… orchidrose.blogspot.com/2015/10/gerald… rainbowther.blogspot.com/2015/10/robert… plasim.blogspot.com/2015/10/sartre… selforum.blogspot.com/2015/10/rousse… 
[Chomsky supports Alexander Koyre's remark that the world is constituted of processes we cannot intuitively grasp.] feelphilosophy.blogspot.in/2015/10/lampre… 
[Jean Monnet is considered as "the founding father of Europe", but in reality Monnet has been much more than that.] selforum.blogspot.com/2015/10/rousse… 
SELF-Development: selforum.blogspot.com/2015/10/prema-… becausethouart.blogspot.com/2015/10/art-is… sepact.blogspot.com/2015/10/put-fo… orchidrose.blogspot.com/2015/10/giorda… rainbowther.blogspot.com/2015/10/king-l… 
[Dr. Brahmanand Mohanty, alumnus of SAICE, making the ashram energy efficient with the help of a sustainable model.] thebetterindia.com/35123/sri-auro… 
Do yourSELF a favour feelphilosophy.blogspot.com/2015/10/rocks-… rainbowther.blogspot.com/2015/10/king-l… marketime.blogspot.com/2015/09/proces… orchidrose.blogspot.com/2015/10/giorda… evergreenessays.blogspot.com/2015/09/idea-o… 
[Scripturalizing the Human: books.google.co.in/books?isbn=131… Vincent L. Wimbush - temptation to draw similarities between modern and nonmodern] 
[ln women, there are a lot of security issues involved and a lot are planning their weddings from the age of twelve] auromere.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/how… 
[Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj: Dialogical Meditations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi Ed by Shail Mayaram] freepressjournal.in/book-review-ph… 
[Gokak's discussion in Sri Aurobindo: Seer and Poet ... Northrop Frye's observation about Blake's Jerusalem] selforum.blogspot.in/2015/10/kd-set… 
[Foucault's takes a reading of Don Quixote as its point of departure, McLuhan takes off from a reading of King Lear] rainbowther.blogspot.in/2015/10/king-l… 
[Gabriel García Márquez can write 50 books, but he will be remembered always for Cien Años de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude].] ~Eco 
[Every time I publish a new novel, sales of The Name of the Rose go up. 'Ah, a new book. But I have never read Rose.' theguardian.com/books/2011/nov… 
[Vivekananda and Aurobindo omitted much of what was taken to be yoga before the late nineteenth century.] Peter Heehs marketime.blogspot.com/2015/09/proces… 
[Both Emerson and Aurobindo agreed that the process of evolution had a purpose it was advancing ... Life Divine here] infinityfoundation.com/mandala/i_es/i… 
 [The teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo examined in the light of Indian tradition, colonial modernity] evergreenessays.blogspot.in/2015/09/idea-o… 
[regrettable that proponents of Hindu Rashtra selectively appropriate Sri Aurobindo’s works, when he explicitly stated that he was opposed] 

[Sri Aurobindo’s vision stretched beyond national & international politics into cultural and spiritual development.] lifepositive.com/idea-of-india/ 

 Savitri Era of those who adore, Om Sri Aurobindo & The Mother.

Sunday, November 01, 2015

Woh 7 Films

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johny_Mera_Naam
Johny Mera Naam (Hindi: जानी मेरा नाम, English: Johny, My Name) is a blockbuster 1970 crime thriller film. Directed by Vijay Anand, it stars the director's  ...

www.imdb.com/title/tt0154685/
 Rating: 7.2/10 - ‎398 votes
Directed by Vijay Anand. With Dev Anand, Hema Malini, Pran, Jeevan. Monu ( Mohan) and Sonu (Sohan) are the two sons of a police inspector. The kids excel in ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mera_Naam_Joker
Mera Naam Joker (translation: My Name is Joker) is a 1970 Hindi film directed by Raj Kapoor. The screenplay was written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. This film ...

www.imdb.com/title/tt0066070/
 Rating: 8/10 - ‎2,705 votes
Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. As his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to the circus to the streets, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaadon_Ki_Baaraat
Yaadon Ki Baaraat (Hindi: यादों की बारात; Urdu: یادوں کی بارات ; Procession of Memories) is a 1973 Bollywood action drama film directed by Nasir  ...

www.imdb.com/title/tt0070935/
 Rating: 7.3/10 - ‎1,320 votes
Three brothers are separated after their parents' murder. Years later, their only hope of avenging their parents and reuniting as a family lies in the song they ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_(1973_film)
Bobby is a 1973 Bollywood teen romance film directed by Raj Kapoor. The film was widely popular, and widely imitated. It also represented the film début for ...

www.imdb.com/title/tt0069810/
 Rating: 7.2/10 - ‎1,073 votes
Directed by Raj Kapoor. With Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Pran, Prem Nath. Mr. Nath lives a very wealthy lifestyle in India along with his wife, Sushma, and a  ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roti_Kapda_Aur_Makaan
Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (English: Food, clothing, and shelter) is a 1974 Indian Bollywood Hindi-language film. It was written, produced, directed by and stars Manoj Kumar, alongside Shashi KapoorZeenat Aman and Moushumi Chatterjee in the main lead roles and had Amitabh BachchanPrem Nath and Madan Puri in supporting roles. 
www.imdb.com/title/tt0072100/
 Rating: 7/10 - ‎468 votes
After the retirement of his dad, the onus is on Bharat to look after the Delhi-based family. He has two younger college-going brothers, Deepak and Vijay, and a ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deewaar_(1975_film)
Deewaar (The Wall) is a 1975 Indian crime-drama film directed by Yash Chopra, written by Salim-Javed, and starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0072860/
 Rating: 8.2/10 - ‎4,826 votes
As a youth, Vijay struggles as a dockworker. Eventually, he becomes a leading figure of the underworld, while younger brother, Ravi, is an educated, upright ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholay
The idea for Sholay began as a four-line snippet which screenwriter pair Salim- Javed told G. P. Sippy and Ramesh Sippy; two other producer/director teams had  ...

www.imdb.com/title/tt0073707/
 Rating: 8.6/10 - ‎23,490 votes
Directed by Ramesh Sippy. With Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan. After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, ...