Indology & Civilizational Critique
Purva-paksha and shatrubodha — the critique of Western Indology, the missionary and Islamist challenge, intellectual sovereignty, and the analytical tradition of Voice of India.
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Book Review | Svayambodha and Shatrubodha
A review of Pankaj Saxena's *Svayambodha and Shatrubodha* - the book that gives Hindu civilizational discourse its most precise vocabulary for self-knowledge and knowledge of adversarial forces.
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Fractal Maṇḍala 1- the Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy
Part 1 - the Fractal Maṇḍala as a model of Indian civilizational consciousness - multi-level, coherent, self-similar at every scale - and why recovering this model is the prerequisite for any meaningful cultural or institutional regeneration.
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Fractal Maṇḍala 2- the Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy
Part 2 - completing the Fractal Maṇḍala framework and its implications for how Hindu civilization organizes knowledge, culture, institution, and cosmos into a single coherent ontological structure.
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Freedom of Expression
Why clarity about the nature of prophetic monotheism's claim on speech is a prerequisite for any meaningful Hindu engagement with the politics of free expression - the conceptual tools for a discourse that currently lacks them.
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Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 1
Part 1 - why Hinduism sits in the blind spot of open-minded, progressive Western intellectual discourse, from a structural failure of the secular liberal framework to perceive non-Abrahamic religion on its own terms.
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Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 2
Part 2 - continuing the diagnosis of why even well-meaning Western and westernized Indian intellectuals systematically fail to engage with Hinduism - and what a genuine encounter with it would actually require.
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Preliminary Schema for Synaptic Reconnection to Civilizational Consciousness - Part 1
Part 1 - a preliminary schema for reconnecting with civilizational consciousness - what it means to fill the empty space that decolonization creates with a genuinely Dhārmika ontology, epistemology, and teleology.
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Preliminary Schema for Synaptic Reconnection to Civilizational Consciousness - Part 2
Part 2 - completing the synaptic reconnection framework - the specific conceptual structures through which a Dhārmika consciousness can be rebuilt in a mind shaped by colonial education.
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Svayambodha and Śatrubodha - Two Wheels of Civilization
Hindu civilizational discourse has entered its sophisticated phase - an argument that Svayambodha (self-knowledge) and Shatrubodha (knowledge of the adversary) now constitute a canonical framework.
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The Battle Against Hindus in Manipur
The Manipur conflict is not a tribal dispute but a civilizational one - how the Christian missionary conversion of Kuki tribes created a political wedge that the Indian state misreads as ethnic tension while Meitei Hindu identity is the actual target.