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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.