Bhūmi — The Earth

A Dharmika Frame for Sustainability and Technology

ecology, environment, environmentalism, sustainability

The Samudra Manthana as an ancient framework for thinking about technology, resource extraction, and sustainable cooperation - a Dhārmika alternative to both extractivist capitalism and romantic environmentalism.

Ahoi Aṣtamī – How Hindu Dharma Teaches Deep Ecology through Festivals

ecology

A festival most Hindus have forgotten exists - Ahoi Aṣṭamī as a window into how Hindu civilization transmits ecological and relational wisdom through the devotional practice of mothers, one week before Diwali.

Chaṭh - a Living Tradition and Cultural Homecoming

land

Chaṭh as lived civilizational memory - a personal account of returning to Bihar for the festival, and what the survival of this demanding, water-centered rite reveals about the deep roots of Hindu devotional practice in the body and the land.

Indic Environmentalism - A Balance between Tradition and Innovation

ecology, environment, environmentalism

Sanātana Dharma's environmental ethic is central to it - an argument that the dhārmika relationship with nature provides a more coherent ecological framework than either Western environmentalism or techno-optimism.

Kṣetra, Śāstra, Utsava

land, geography

On the axis connecting festival (utsava), sacred geography (kṣetra), and scripture (śāstra) - how Hindu festivals are to time what temples are to space - gradients of divine access that structure both the year and the land.

Recollection: The Glory of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī

geography

A pilgrimage to Mathurā, the city of Kṛṣṇa's birth - how a journey through the geography of the Kṛṣṇa legend becomes a direct encounter with the living presence of the divine in place, available to anyone who knows how to look.

Śrī Rāma Comes Back to Ayodhyā

geography

The Ram Janmabhūmi movement as civilizational memory rather than political campaign - how the 500-year struggle for Ayodhyā maps onto the deeper Hindu understanding of sacred geography and the permanence of divine presence in place.

A Prehistoric Thoroughfare Between The Ganges and the Himalaya

ganga

Linguistic and archaeological mapping of ancient trade and migration routes connecting the Ganga basin to Himalayan foothills.

A Timeline Of Ayodhya

settlement

Historical and archaeological timeline of Ayodhya, tracing settlement layers, textual references, and cultural continuity from ancient to medieval periods.

Animal Subsistence In Ganga Valley

ganga

Zooarchaeological study of animal husbandry and hunting practices in the Ganga Valley, tracing subsistence strategies from prehistoric to early historic periods.

Archaeobotany Of Ganga Plain 2500 BC

archaeobotany, environment, ganga, agriculture

Paleobotanical analysis of crop remains in the Ganga Plain around 2500 BC, reconstructing early agricultural practices and environmental adaptations.

Aryans And The Indus Civilization

settlement

Examines archaeological and textual evidence for cultural continuity between Indus Valley settlements and early Vedic societies.

Brahma Purana

geography, sacred-geography

Edition or translation of the Brahma Purana, creation narratives, sacred geography, pilgrimage, ritual life, and dynastic lore.

Chronology And Culture History In The Indus Valley

settlement

Comprehensive chronological framework for Indus Valley cultural phases, integrating stratigraphy, artifact typology, and regional settlement patterns.

Chronology Of Kings Puranic Kings and Rigvedic Rshis

sarasvati

Cross-references Puranic king lists and Rigvedic rishi genealogies with archaeological phases of the Sindhu-Sarasvati civilization.

Coexistence of Culture and Civilization ISC and OCP

ganga

Analyzes the coexistence and interaction between Indus Valley Civilization and Ganga Plain Chalcolithic cultures, highlighting trade and cultural exchange.

Discovering The Sarasvati River

geography, river, sarasvati

Historical overview of Sarasvati River research from 19th-century explorations to modern hydrological and archaeological discoveries.

Excavating Vedic Harappans

settlement

Synthesizes archaeological findings demonstrating cultural continuity between Indus Valley settlements and early Vedic material culture.

From Sarasvati To Ganga

geography, river, sarasvati, ganga

Traces the cultural and geographical shift from Sarasvati-centered Vedic civilization to Ganga-dominated historical India, analyzing hydrological changes.

Geography of the Puranas

geography, sacred-geography

Edition or translation of the Geography of the Puranas, a Purana text combining mythology, cosmology, ritual observance, and sacred geography.

In Search Of The Oldest Common Indo European Urheimat

land

Linguistic reconstruction proposing Dravidian loanwords and structural evidence for locating the earliest Indo-European homeland in South Asia.

Linga Purana

geography, sacred-geography

Edition or translation of the Linga Purana, Shaiva theology of the linga alongside cosmology, vows, and sacred geography.

Logic of Rig Vedic Geography

geography, river, settlement

Explore the geographical framework of the Rig Veda through Shrikant Talageri's analysis. Discover how Vedic texts map ancient Indian rivers, mountains, and settlements.

Origin Of Early Harappan Cultures In The Sarasvati Valley

sarasvati

Archaeological synthesis tracing the emergence of Early Harappan cultures in the Ghaggar-Hakra basin, supported by radiometric dating.

Origin Of Rice

agriculture

Genomic analysis tracing the domestication and spread of rice in Asia, highlighting multiple independent origins and ancient agricultural networks.

Prehistoric Human Colonisation Of India

environment, settlement

Archaeological synthesis on early human settlement in India, tracing Paleolithic to Neolithic cultural transitions and environmental adaptations.

Rama's Realm

geography

Investigates the geographical and historical context of Rama's kingdom in the Ramayana, analyzing textual layers and regional cultural influences.

Sarasvatī in the Mahābhārata - A Study

geography, river, sarasvati

Analyzes references to the Sarasvati River in the Mahabharata, mapping its geographical and mythological significance across epic literature.

Sarasvati Palaeochannel Groundwater Remote Sensing

sarasvati

Scientific study using remote sensing to map ancient Sarasvati palaeochannels and groundwater distribution in the Thar Desert region.

Sibri and the South Cemetery of Mehrgarh

settlement

Archaeological report on the Sibri burial ground near Mehrgarh, analyzing funerary practices and cultural links to early South Asian settlements.

Skanda Purana

geography, sacred-geography

Edition or translation of the Skanda Purana, a vast pilgrimage-oriented Purana organized around sacred geography and regional mahatmyas.

The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia

land

Landmark ancient DNA study mapping population formations in South and Central Asia, highlighting Steppe pastoralist migrations and local admixture events.

The Indo European Cloudland

land

Explores mythological and linguistic parallels in Indo-European storm and cloud deities, reconstructing shared prehistoric cosmological concepts.

The Sarasvati River Issues And Debates

river, sarasvati, geology

A comprehensive overview of academic debates surrounding the Sarasvati River, blending geology, archaeology, and Vedic textual evidence.

Vanishing Rivers Yesterdays Sarasvati Todays Ganga

geography, river, sarasvati, ganga

Traces the hydrological and historical evolution of the Sarasvati River, exploring its shift in Vedic texts and its modern identification with ancient river systems.

Worked Bone Industry

ganga

Archaeological study of bone tool industries in the Ganga Valley, tracing technological continuity from Mesolithic to early historic periods.

Dharmic Circuits - The Temple, The Grove and The Lake - Part 3

ecology, river

Sringeri as the model of a complete sacred ecology — where the temple, the forest, the river, and the Vedic institution are not separate entities but one inseparable living system.

Equality vs Nature - How Hierarchy Can Help Us Save the Planet

ecology, environment

The ecological crisis requires hierarchy, not equality — why the modern fetish of flat-horizontal social organization mirrors and accelerates the environmental destruction it claims to oppose, and what the dharmic alternative looks like.

Making of Early Kashmir - The Making of a New Literary Star

land, geography, landscape

Review of Shonaleeka Kaul's The Making of Early Kashmir — how the Rajatarangini constructs Kashmiri identity through sacred landscape, and why this emic reading of history challenges the colonial separation of geography from meaning.

The Truth and the Humbug in Greta Thunberg's Climate Change Speech

ecology, environment

Separating the genuine environmental alarm in Greta Thunberg's speech from its ideological packaging — what the climate movement gets right, what it gets wrong, and why the solution requires hierarchy and dharma rather than equality and activism.

Bernd Heinrich

ecology

A naturalist-scientist who lives in a self-cultivated forest and finds philosophical principle in ravens and bees - Heinrich bridges the split between scientific observation and the kind of meaning-making that Hindu tradition never had to artificially construct.

EO Wilson

ecology

The founding sociobiologist whose work on eusociality, biodiversity, and genetic altruism carries the closest Western scientific approximation to the Hindu understanding that human beings are embedded in a larger order - not above it.

James Lovelock

ecology, earth

The scientist who revived the idea that Earth is a self-regulating living system and named it Gaia - which is less a metaphor than a description of something Hindu cosmology had always held without needing a laboratory to prove it.

Loren Eiseley

ecology

An anthropologist who wrote like a poet and thought like a mystic - Eiseley's meditations on time, evolution, and consciousness are the closest Western science has come to the Hindu sense of cosmic scale and existential wonder without borrowing the vocabulary.

Robert Ardrey

ecology

A playwright turned evolutionary anthropologist who argued that human territorial, hierarchical, and aggressive behavior has deep biological roots - demolishing the blank-slate assumptions that underpin liberal social engineering, decades before it became acceptable to say so.

Wade Davis

ecology

An ethnobotanist who spent decades living with indigenous peoples across the world and documented what is actually lost when a language or culture dies - not diversity as abstraction, but irreplaceable knowledge systems encoded over millennia.