The Banality of Indology

Cry Hindutva How Rhetoric Trumps Intellect

Critical intervention on contemporary Hindutva rhetoric and the costs of replacing scholarship with slogans.

German Indology Aryanism and Anti Semitism

Study of German Indology and its entanglement with racial theory, Aryanism, and anti-Semitism.

Greeks in India

Historical study of Greek presence in India and the cultural exchanges that followed.

Heidegger and the Inquiry into Technology

Essay using Heidegger to interrogate technology, modernity, and civilizational critique.

Hindu Studies in a Secular Academy

Reflection on the institutional framing of Hindu studies and the limits of secular academic categories.

Hindu Temples Vol 1

Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.

Hindu Temples Vol 2

Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.

How I Became a Hindu

Personal and polemical reflection on religious identity, conviction, and civilizational self-understanding.

Jews and Hindus in Indology

Comparative study of how Jewish and Hindu traditions have been handled within modern Indology.

Methods and Context Rethinking Religion

Methodological critique of dominant religious-studies frameworks and their application to India.

Paradigm Lost the Application of the Historical Critical Method to the Bhagavadgita

Critique of applying historical-critical methods reductively to the Bhagavad Gita.

Philosophy and Criticism

Essay on the relation between philosophical interpretation and critical academic method.

Poetic Immortality to Salvation

Study tracing shifts from heroic-poetic ideals toward soteriological concerns in Sanskrit traditions.

Pride and Prejudice Orientalism and Germany

Study of German orientalism and the ideological lenses shaping Indological interpretation.

The Banality of Indology

Sharp critique of routinized assumptions and methodological shallowness in Indological scholarship.

The Nay Science

Provocative reflection on scholarship, critique, and the ideological posture of academic knowledge.

The Origins of Racism in the Humanities

Argument about how racial categories entered humanistic scholarship through philology and related disciplines.

The Passion of Paul Hacker

Critical study of Paul Hacker and the theological-political assumptions behind his work on Hindu traditions.

The Real Threat to Humanities Today

Essay arguing that methodological decay, not external pressure alone, endangers the humanities.

Theses on Indology

Programmatic theses outlining a critique of Indology and an alternative scholarly orientation.