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www.news.theresearchers.asia @NTheresearchers facebook.com/newsthe.researchers RNI : JHAMUL/2016/75465 Volume - 03, Issue - 04 SPORTS 05 PAGE 03 PAGE 04 Air Surcharges if applicable Pakistan rejects US report on Its a victory over BJP’s negative politics: Sonia After Choksi, number of Indians Delivery Charges religious freedom seeking information of foreign citizenship RANCHI I SUNDAY I December 30, 2018 I PAGE 08 I FREE I FORTNIGHTLY [email protected] TheThe Researchers’ Researchers’ Bogibeel Bridge PM Modi inaugurates India’s longest Bridge Prime Minister Narendra HD Deve Gouda on January 22, Modi inaugurated double- Built over the river Brahmaputra in Assam, Bogibeel 1997, and commencement of decker rail and road bridge on work on the project was done by Brahmaputra river in Bogibeel bridge is being opened 16 years after its construc- Atal Bihari Vajpayee on April 21, near Dibrugarh in Assam tion work started in 2002. The inauguration comes 2002. In fact, the inauguration on Tuesday (25 December). as a mark of respect to late former PM AB Vajpayee. of the bridge coincides with the 94th birth anniversary of The creation of this bridge Vajpayee, who passed away in between Assam and Arunachal August this year,” media reported. Pradesh will be safer and more secure. It is India’s longest and According to The Indian second long rail-road bridge in Express, the project has missed Asia. It has been prepared in 16 several deadlines and has been a years. The 4.94 km long bridge victim of political unwillingness is built on the Brahmaputra and red tapes despite being river in Dibrugarh of Assam. granted a national project status Due to being close to the in 2007. Changes to bridge design, Arunachal Pradesh-Chinese revisions in the scope of the work border, it is very important and construction technology from the strategic point of view. has resulted in the project’s cost escalating from the initial estimate The double-decker bridge, the of Rs 1,767 crore to Rs 5,800 fourth across the Brahmaputra, crore — more than threefold. has two railway lines on the lower deck and a three-lane road on the The challenge of building upper, strong enough to withstand the bridge over a turbulent movement of heavy military Brahmaputra river also added tanks. The most significant to the delay since most of the beneficiary will be the Army, in their journey from Assam to According to Defense sources, heavy movement in mind. It can jet can be loaded on it as well. was sanctioned in 1997-98. The crucial work of the bridge whose convoys will now save an their posts ner the 4000-km long the biggest feature is that it also bear the weight of a heavy “The Bogibeel bridge project was a foundation stone of the project could only happen during the estimated three to four hours border Arunachal-China border. has been made with the army’s tank, and if needed, fighter part of the 1985 Assam Accord and was laid by then prime minister November to March period. Its a victory over BJP’s negative politics: Sonia The Researchers’ wishes You a very Happy and ProsperousGandhi 2019 Reacting to the results that were in favour of her party, Gandhi called this a ‘Congress victory over BJP’s negative politics’ and said she was ‘happy’ with the results. Facebook fined for $ 81 million for selling customer data The Competition Authority of Italy has imposed a fine of 10 million euros on Facebook, about $ 11.3 million. This penalty on Facebook is due to the users selling the data. Dalai Lama to reach Bodhgaya on Dec 16 Security intencifies Jharkhand The Researchers’ RANCHI I 30 December 2018 2 Life As Philosophy: An Essay on Sreenarayana Guru’s Integrity by Dileep. R, This article tries to place Sree- existential/ ontological awak- to convert Swami into a san- relationship with knowledge. inspires him/her? When the gin with self-transformation. of the inter-community dy- for rigorous philosophical ar- narayana Guru in the context ening of Guru flows effortless- yasi. “Should I wear it?” he Actually, he had taken arivu attention of a person who Once you are transformed, namics of Kerala society. This guments. Because of his strict of Kerala modernity. Guru’s ly into political interventions. asked that characteristic ques- or knowledge as the central is marked by nirbaadhyata, advaita is of no use to you. By peculiar location in the mid- adherence to a strong Advaita relation with the histori- Actually, the difficult task of tion in his characteristic way, notion in his writings. There is who has given up both ‘I’ and the same token one cannot dle simultaneously triggered philosophy and the fierce op- cal context is complex as the self articulation is the point as he donned the robes. (Bal- one exclusive poem written by ‘mine’ turns towards others, teach the other advaita. As an efforts for gaining upward position to conservative ritu- sources of his original think- of origin of modernity itself. akrishnan, 2006,135) him titled “Arivu”. In his mas- we must take care to present emancipatory idea advaita can mobility through acquiring alistic practices, he was for- ing were non-modern. He Modernity does not involve Narayana Guru who wrote terpiece Atmopadesa Satakam that moment clearly, that is, only be self-instructed. The equality in terms of savarna gotten in history despite the criticised caste system out of accepting the self as it is in philosophical prose in the or One Hundred Verses in in an unblemished way. We traditional role of the teacher lifestyles and symbols and strength of his philosophical his ontological realisation that fleeting moments. On the one beginning, was frustrated be- Self Instruction, which in- must specify that which made here is to ensure that the stu- combating graded caste struc- positions. He met Sree Naray- hierarchies in social world hand, it is predicated on the cause there was no academic augurates a unique genre in this moment uniquely distinct dent makes his own effort and ture by eschewing privileges. ana while touring Travancore are groundless. His practice difficult transformation the atmosphere in Kerala (See his the philosophical writings of from others. This moment realizes the truth. This might Narayana Guru’s life-text had and had a brief dialogue on on himself, sanyasa is seen as self has to subject itself to [in dialogue with Vagbhatananda the world, he never uses the may be considered to be one put in a nutshell what the guru been read as a chapter in San- Advaita and idol worship. an aesthetic crafting of self, order to be...]. For Sree Naray- quoted at the final part of word Brahmam which will be that happens only from an thought to be the purpose and skritisation process by many Vagbhada: I wanted to visit following Michel Foucault’s ana, asceticism was trans- this essay). Dr. Nizar Ahmed surprising for those who take ontologically upraised plane. significance of the teaching of critics. While looking at the you, as you are an Advaitin … model. Relationship between forming his existence, behav- proposes a surmise regarding him for a hardcore advaitin. To denote it we have a word advaita. Preaching it as a doc- afterlife of many of his reforms You are founding temples and his actions and thoughts is iours, emotions and body into the way Guru stayed back in What we find instead is arivu that has been sadly robbed of trine is therefore against its one could not reject such criti- supporting idol worship. How analysed by foregrounding a work of art. Sanyasam was Kerala pursuing his cogni- (knowledge). Dr. T Bhaskaran meaning from overuse: karu- spirit (Ahmed, 2017). cisms easily. But his life-text do such practices and Advaita the ethico-political relation- not self realization or knowing tive explorations in a unique argues that this is not an ac- na. Karuna(compassion), in Guru himself was aware of it. had travelled in the opposite go together? ship with knowledge which the self but self expression and mode: “Sree Narayana did cidental absence. Guru did this way, is an extremely rare That is why he asks this in the direction of Sanskritisation (Silence) was integral to him. It is ar- engendering the self to him. It not discover Advaita through use words like mahesan in ontological state. Karuna is context of C.V Kunhuraman’s too. P.K Balakrishnan had Sri Narayana: People won’t gued that his allegiance to ad- could be construed as an aes- metaphysics or epistemol- it and this, according to Dr. that state in which the sense of interview: perceptively seen that: “The spare me otherwise. They vaita was accidental, though thetic process. ogy like Sankara. He reached Bhaskaran evidences the posi- ‘I’ has been entirely discarded, Religions are only pointers essence of Guru’s social think- want temples. I too thought the context for that accident It is strange that the Guru who there through bhakti or prac- tive influence of Saiva Sid- and one is prepared for a sur- towards deep enquiry of the ing was moving down. It is not that it would ensure some sort was provided by colonialism. did not know English became tice on self. His writings are hantha in Guru (Bhaskaran, render of oneself in which quintessential truth. Even that Ezhavas must struggle to of cleanliness among them, at The in-between nature of Ti- the inaugurator of modernity not theoretical treatises but 2017,40). Dr. Nizar Ahmed one’s attention is fully ori- those who know that essence become Nairs; They should the least.