The Illuminations Workshop
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The Illuminations workshop organized by SIDH was held between 2nd and 6th November 2022, at the Songtsen Library in Dehradun. This was the first time we were trying a workshop of this kind and we were not sure about how…
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Livelihoods Vs Vyakti-Nirmaan
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Read more: Livelihoods Vs Vyakti-NirmaanIf we look at our modern educational journey all the way from nursery to a PhD, it looks like what is not outright wasteful is all focused on preparing us to earn a livelihood. I was talking to a Sanskrit…
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The impact of schooling
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Read more: The impact of schoolingAs part of the videos that I have been creating for the Asli Shiksha YouTube channel, I did an interview with two of my three children and something that I consider important emerged from that exercise. When people find out…
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Modern Traditional Schools?
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Read more: Modern Traditional Schools?I recently read, and started thinking about, A.K. Saran’s proposition that, today, we cannot be practising Hindus because Hinduism is inextricably linked to a Hindu samaaj* and today there is no functioning Hindu samaaj left. I got to thinking about…
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Takamori Lecture: The Crisis of Mankind
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Read more: Takamori Lecture: The Crisis of MankindThis is a book by Professor A.K. Saran based on a lecture he gave in 1981 at Takamori, a small village in Japan, to assembled religious and spiritual leaders from all over the world. Professor Saran’s lecture was very well…
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The Illuminations Workshop
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Read more: The Illuminations Workshop‘Illuminations’ is the name of a book by Professor A.K. Saran, a critic of modernity and one of the great scholars of modern India. The byline of the book ‘A School for the Regeneration of Man’s Experience, Imagination and Intellectual…
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The Original Mind and the Ordinary Rational Mind
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Read more: The Original Mind and the Ordinary Rational MindDuring 1st to 4th September, 2022, a workshop was held at the Songtsen library, Dehradun on the Original Mind and the Ordinary Rational Mind. The workshop attended by some 40 participants and organized by SIDH was chaired by the Venerable…
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Hinduism in Contemporary India
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Read more: Hinduism in Contemporary IndiaThis week’s post has some excerpts from a very interesting book ‘Hinduism in contemporary India’ by A.K. Saran. Excerpt 1: “One, a sacred or traditional society, say, the Hindu society, cannot be understood in a non-traditional frame of reference; and,…
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On wisdom
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Read more: On wisdomThe following excerpts from two ancient foreign texts talk about wisdom. Excerpt 1: “The man of character lives at home without exercising his mind and performs actions without worry. The notions of right and wrong and the praise and blame…
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A zero waste life – Part 2
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Read more: A zero waste life – Part 2(This is the transcript of a talk given by my wife Kanti in 2018. Part 1 of this post is available here.) Four and a half years ago we shifted to a village in Kerala. This was my in-laws hometown.…
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A zero waste life – Part 1
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Read more: A zero waste life – Part 1(This is the transcript of a talk given by my wife Kanti in 2018. Hope you all like the story she is telling here.) All our friends and relatives have heard our story, usually in parts and in the middle…
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The value of higher education
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Read more: The value of higher educationI am just back from a trip to IIT Kharagpur, the institute where I got my engineering degree 34 years ago. With its 2100 acre tree-filled campus, 40+ departments, 15000 students and 800 faculty members, IIT Kharagpur is the largest…
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