With a large population of youth, India is a young nation. One of the focus areas of the PBD this year is a Youth. PBD on 7th January 2014 to open new horizons of a strong network of young overseas Indian Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) 2014 in New Delhi will for the first time include a focus on engaging Indian with Diaspora youth with the annual event’s theme being to connect across generations, announced India’s Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) Vayalar Ravi. Ravi made the announcement at the first press conference in New Delhi to host the PBD ...
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‘It all boils down to this question – how do we respond to evil? Do we cocoon ourselves and do nothing? Or do we act to combat the evil and throw a lifeline to these tragic children?’ asks Lady Mohini Kent Noon A host of international leading lights are joining the fight against human trafficking, exploitation and abuse. They’ve been out in force to support LILY Foundation, the brainchild of Lady Mohini Kent Noon. The initiative aims to organise events, raise awareness and fundraise to support the work of anti-trafficking charities. Mohini Kent is a well-known figure on the London ...
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Kanchan Banerjee in the sixth part of the series demystifies the varnashram system and what is its greatness and utility in this day and age There are several interpretations of the idea and the meaning of the word varna as well. Some scholars associated varna with colour. However, if we look at it etymologically, the colour theory does not hold good. Varna is a Sanskrit term derived from the root vṛ, meaning “to cover, to envelop”. Derived meanings include “kind, sort, character, quality”. One can find the usage of these meanings of the word in the oldest text in the ...
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Kanchan Banerjee in the sixth part of this series demystifies the varnashram system and what is its greatness and utility in this day and age There are several interpretations of the idea and the meaning of the word varna. Some scholars associated varna with colour. However, if we look at it etymologically, the colour theory does not hold good. Varna is a Sanskrit term derived from the root vṛ, meaning “to cover, to envelop”. Derived meanings include “kind, sort, character, quality”. One can find the usage of these meanings of the word in the oldest text in the world ...
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In this series, author Kanchan Banerjee attempts to find the origin of casteism in India along with India’s original idea of varna classification. He also explores how the original varna system had an evolutionary plan embedded in it as expressed by various Indian thinkers In past articles, we have discussed the origin of the term caste, growth and impact of the so-called ‘caste system’ in the Indian subcontinent. Few important points to recap: Varnashram system is not the same as the ‘caste system’. Jati, Varna, Gotra etc. are related terms but have been merged in the idea of caste which ...
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New Zealand cities witnessed a unique health event from 13th to 27th of August 2011. People from all walks of life and different age groups participated in a two-week “Health for Humanity” Yogathon. The youngest participant was 3 year old in Wellington and the oldest was 82 years old from Auckland. The event was free and open to all to participate. ...
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Kanchan Banerjee reports on a multi-disciplinary symposium in Dartmouth, US, where researchers expounded the idea of advancing physics through an intimate understanding of Vedanta The Center for Indic Studies at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, hosted a unique international symposium on Science, Vedanta and Foundations of Physics on July 6-7. The multidisciplinary programme is devoted to examining the foundations of physics, especially quantum mechanics from the perspective of Vedantic philosophy and metaphysics. Scholars from several centres and universities like UMass Dartmouth; Harvard; Jawaharlal Nehru University (India); Universities of Florida, Montana and a few others attended it. Psychologist Dr Jerry Solfvin of ...
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Balkrishna Naipaul’s heralds a new genre of the Vedantic literary approach, feels the Sanskrit Scholar The Mansion Dr Churaumanie Bissundyal. Balkrishna Naipaul’s The Mansion resonates and flashes with melodies and colours of Raja Rao’s The Serpent and the Rope. Both novels are semi-auto-biographical, dealing with a Brahmanic search for universal truth. Raja Rao’s central character, Ram, marries a French college teacher, Madelaine, who becomes his disciple and later leaves him to pursue his own internal search. Balkrishna Naipaul ‘ s Krishnaji, a young pundit, similarly torn between his love for a village girl, Chano, and a quest for metaphysical and ...
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