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Decolonizing Language
# language, sanskrit
How colonialism froze the evolution of North Indian vernaculars by installing FATE languages (Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, English) as prestige languages - and what it would take to let them grow again.
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Sanskṛta vs. FATE Languages
# language, sanskrit
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.
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Sanskrit Roots and the Ontic Bloom
# sanskrit
Work area for emerging notes and thoughts on Sanskrit roots and their consequence on thinking.
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MS Hiriyanna
# language
The definitive modern scholar of Indian philosophy - his systematic expositions of the darshanas remain the clearest English-language entry point into Hindu metaphysics and epistemology - rigorous without being reductive.