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    Mental Stress Coping in Pandemic Situation: Perspectives of Samkhya-Yoga Philosophy of Education
    (Authors press, 2021) Dutta, Rupnar; Rauth, Amit; K. Arunlal
    This paper deals with the crucial question that how to cope up with our increasing mental stress in this pandemic situation due to the outbreak of COVID-19 across the globe. The main objective of this paper is to discuss, how we can trounce our mental stress in the Samkhya-Yoga perspective. Samkhya-Yoga is a very noteworthy school of Indian Philosophy. The core goal of the Indian Philosophy is to achieve ‘Mokṣa’, i.e., liberation from pain, sorrow, sufferings, etc. All of these belong to diverse mental states. The indispensable aim of the said school of philosophy is to liberate ourselves from every painful states of mind. Mind is here equivalent to ‘Citta’. According to their vision, this liberation is achievable only through Yoga. Yoga is nothing but the ‘Cittavṛtti- nirodhaḥ’. This paper have discussed the nature of Citta, Cittavṛtti or Mind fluctuations, different states of Citta and the educational process by which we withdraw the transformed Citta from external world. If we are able to withdraw Citta from everything, our mind or Citta can feel the ‘Ēkātmatā’ or Oneness with the self and then only there will be Sat-Chit-Ānanda or Existence-Consciousness-Bliss which ultimately show the avenue to surmount our mental stress.
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    Political Trust, Democracy and the Pandemic: The Indian Scenario
    (Authorspress, 2021) Chakraborty, Ranjita; Rauth, Amit; K. Arunlal
    Since the last fifteen years there has been a vigorous debate on the nature of democracy in the entire world. Academic debates have focused on questions ranging from the trends seen, emergence of authoritarianism coupled with decline in popular sovereignty and thereby leading to the question of "political trust". In fact, the very idea of democracy has come under the scanner. Amidst this, the pandemic has not only renewed our interest in democracy but we have also witnessed a decline in respect to the values of democracy by the governments in the name of managing the crisis along with strong dictatorial tendencies and usurpation of freedom. It is against this backdrop that the paper seeks to reflect upon the nature of democracy worldwide and in India 10 particular. It would also focus on the trends related to political trust in India.