Sanskṛta vs. FATE Languages
The battle between Saṃskṛta and FATE languages (Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, English) for the cognitive and expressive inheritance of India - why language is not culture-agnostic, but the primary site of civilizational contestation.
Aesthetics
Art and Meaning Making
Hindu aesthetics begins where Western aesthetics ends - the Indian tradition was interested in the effect of art on the soul, beyond the representation of reality, and this difference reveals two fundamentally incompatible metaphysical starting points.
Aesthetics