Super El Niño Effect Hits Home: Bengal’s Villages Face Early Climate Breakdown
The first signs of the developing global Super El Niño are no longer confined to satellite maps over the Pacific Ocean.
The first signs of the developing global Super El Niño are no longer confined to satellite maps over the Pacific Ocean.
From Kashmir to Kanyakumari, from Imphal to Indore, the scale of the gathering at The Art of Living International Centre reflected the extraordinary breadth of his influence across public life.
These days I often don’t find the time to immediately respond to text or Whatsapp messages, far less answer emails at once.
Falling asleep in an express train while returning to Kolkata after a trip outside of West Bengal, listening to that “jhak jhak'' sound of the wheels on track was like my mother swaying me to sleep in her arms after playing all day.
I have a highly sophisticated, cutting-edge biological computer sitting inside my skull, but its storage capacity is almost full.
There are capitals that impress at first glance, and there are capitals that reveal themselves slowly through scent, sound and atmosphere. Palermo, capital of Sicily, belongs to the second kind.
Trees form bonds that connect countries and civilisations, cultures and histories. Their seeds are carried by birds and bees, bats and flies, monkeys and man across continents and seas,they are the visible expressions of a living and vibrant ecosystem, nature in its crowning glory.
During interviews, the one question I always ask politicians who are contesting elections is what his or her position on the topic of ‘Nature’ is. I have noticed that this catches them a little off guard, possibly because unlike education or employment, environment is yet to be considered an issue of top priority as far as would be policy makers are concerned.
In this shared reflection, Sneha Das, Aishmita Manna and Vedanta Dasgupta return to the restless body as the first language of faith, where, as William Blake reminds us, without contraries there is no progression, and movement holds ecstasy and dissent, surrender and subversion, crossing the boundaries between self and other, devotion and defiance, masculine and feminine, suggesting that long before we learned to divide the world, we had already begun to move through it.
In an age of fleeting attention spans and vanishing intellectual anchors, Sri Aurobindo returns to the foreground through a significant new publication that seeks to reclaim his place in contemporary thought.
