Essays, Commentaries, Jottings, Photography, Videos – In the Light of Sri Aurobindo
Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (12), December 2019, pp. 8-10 CONTINUED FROM Part 10 When Young India Awakes CHAPTER X – continued “A day may come, must surely come, we will say, when humanity will be ready spiritually, morally, socially for the... Continue Reading →
Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (11), November 2019, pp. 8-10 CONTINUED FROM Part 9 When Young India Awakes CHAPTER IX - continued Yuvaan and Rishi had been chatting about this and that for more than an hour when Rishi’s host, one middle-aged... Continue Reading →
An offering for August 15, 2020 The Divine is what you adore in Sri Aurobindo.(The Mother, CWM 13: 27) Of the significance of his date of birth, Sri Aurobindo himself spoke thus: "August 15th, 1947 is the birthday of free India. It marks for her the end of an old era, the beginning of a... Continue Reading →
Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (10), October 2019, pp. 8-10 CONTINUED FROM Part 8b When Young India Awakes CHAPTER VIII – continued Yuvaan spent the morning hours arranging for the taxi which would take his mother and her friend back to Delhi,... Continue Reading →
Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (8-9), August-September 2019, pp. 16-19 CONTINUED FROM Part 8a (The August-September issue of Sri Aurobindo's Action journal is a double issue. For the ease of online reading, the full Chapter VII published in the print-version is reproduced... Continue Reading →
Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (8-9), August-September 2019, pp. 16-19 CONTINUED FROM Part 7 (The August-September issue of Sri Aurobindo's Action journal is a double issue. For the ease of online reading, the full Chapter VII published in the print-version is reproduced... Continue Reading →
Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (7), July 2019, pp. 8-10 CONTINUED FROM Part 6 When Young India Awakes CHAPTER VI The train was running at its normal speed. Yuvaan, Rishi, Pranav and Aman all were lazily stretched out on their berths,... Continue Reading →
Author: Beloo Mehra (2019). Published under the title ‘When Young India Awakes’ in Sri Aurobindo’s Action, Vol. 50 (6), pp. 8-11 CONTINUED FROM Part 5 When Young India Awakes CHAPTER V The train was on time, 1:55am. And luckily, Aman was able to convince a fellow passenger to switch seats so that Yuvaan could stay... Continue Reading →
“The greatness of the ideals of the past is a promise of greater ideals for the future.” (Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, Vol. 20, p. 85) Indian cultural vision of human life and existence is the deepest, highest and greatest ever conceived by the human mind. Its attempt to mould the collective life of the community according... Continue Reading →
A civilisation as ancient as Indian has well-developed perspectives on key questions of human existence, human development, aims of human life, culture, identity, womanhood, relation between individual and society, etc. which not only shape and contextualise women’s awareness of themselves and their experiences, but also facilitate a keener and deeper perception of the world around.... Continue Reading →
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