Antiquity of Valmiki Ramayana.

Where Prof Subramony Ramaswami reminds us that Sri Aurobindo considered India's spiritual knowledge to be her True Strength that fought invasion and imperialism our Scriptures have the wisdom to make us understand our inherent onenness youtube.com/shorts/6BcJ_WP…

30th May 1909 Sri Aurobindo delivered his Uttarpara speech. #PLF brings you glimpses of his revelation. "The nation is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the mind. It is a mighty Shakti, a great spiritual entity" Pondy Lit Fest instagram.com/p/DKUNtHay_ER/…

Listen to Prof Kausik Gangopadhyay (Kausik Gangopadhyay) the international press largely portrays Hindus of India & Buddhists of Sri Lanka as villains. Chill about narratives. Heads of state and business know. Even that Trump with his Pakistan deal Pondy Lit Fest instagram.com/reel/DBNh0SGSm…

#PLF2024 Sri Aurobindo says India has endured centuries of conquest due to its deep spiritual core. In The Foundations of Indian Culture, he asserts that true national unity can emerge only by reconnecting with the wisdom of our scriptures —the timeless source of our oneness.

#PLF On 30th May 1909, Sri Aurobindo delivered the Uttarpara speech—his first public address after his release from jail. In it, he spoke about politics and a profound spiritual experience that shaped his vision for India. Take a closer look! instagram.com/p/DKUNtHay_ER/…

#PLF2024 Aravindan explains how Western societies outsourced their own social hierarchies through colonialism. By redistributing human misery globally, they made their caste systems obsolete & began preaching egalitarianism. #colonialism #castesystem #egalitarianism #slavery

#PLF2024 Prof. Shamika Ravi explains how data reveals a clear media bias—most negative news on India and most positive news on China come from unknown sources, highlighting the need for a counter-strategy. #indiavschina #informationwarfare #fakenews #datainsights #democracy

#PLF2024 Why did Bengal’s refugees turn to the Communists? With no support from the state, they survived on leftover rice water and built colonies on occupied land—rebuilding lives the only way they could. #refugeeresilience #indianhistory #partitionstories Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳

#PLF2024 Shiv Aroor busts the one-sided narrative— Indian soldiers do cross over and give China sleepless nights. The border is a two-way game, not a one-sided story. #Indiavschina #ladakhborder #indiandefence #borderreality #IndianArmy

Where Shiv (Shiv Aroor) tells you that just because the Chinese don't acknowledge it ever does not mean the Indian Armed forces forces are "damsels in the forest". Our forces too go into Chinese territory and hit measure for measure #plf2024 Pondy Lit Fest instagram.com/reel/DK1wzGzyz…

For every one soldier India loses in high altitude warfare the Chinese lose 15! Something a Chinese soldier and product of their one child policy finds insufferable. Shiv (Shiv Aroor) at Pondy Lit Fest #Galwan5Years youtube.com/shorts/SeQ1hOV…

#PLF2024 Shiv Aroor shares a stunning insight: for every Indian soldier lost to high-altitude conditions, 15 Chinese soldiers perish. China’s one-child soldiers, unfit for the terrain, are facing a silent, punishing front in #Ladakh. #indianarmy #highaltitudewar #indiachina

Where I state how I changed my views on the act of Jauhar once I learnt of the criminally suppressed cult ordained truth of Islamic sex slavery. Pondy Lit Fest #PLF2024 instagram.com/reel/DLKPwQAyW…

#PLF2024 Ami Ganatra (અમી ગણાત્રા) explains that while multiple Ramayanas have coexisted, they were written with shraddha & bhakti. But reducing it to an #Aryan vs #Dravidian conflict distorts its essence. Call it fiction if you must — but don’t claim it as history. #Ramayana #Indianepic #Hindu

#PLF2024 Alo Pal shares how her understanding of #jauhar changed. What she once saw as a defeatist act, she now sees as a tragic but powerful form of resistance against the horrors of #enslavement — especially for women. #feminism #indianwomen #culturalunderstanding #women

Watch a riveting interview with Gp Capt. Angad Pratap, designated astronaut for the #GaganyaanMission (ISRO), & Aloke Kumar from IISc, as they explore India’s space journey — from the 2008 discovery of water on the Moon to bold visions of off-Earth living youtu.be/3ORr91hZGeo?si…

Grp Capt Shukla's space journey is imp to India in many ways. A human space mission is unlike any other space mission and it sets new constraints on engineering. In the age of AI, human space missions still remain extremely relevant n challenging. We talk about this n more 👇

#PLF2024 Dr. Vikram Sampath, FRHistS likens #biography writing to falling in love—driven by passion, curiosity, and connection. Yet, when it's time to write, the biographer must step back and stay objective. Without that distance, it risks becoming a hagiography, not #History.

#PLF2024 Anand Ranganathan explains how India’s #pensionreforms were reversed for political gain. What began as an economic necessity under Manmohan Singh was undone in Himachal — costing the state over 77% of its tax revenue just to fund pensions #economicpolicy #HimachalPradesh