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Ahoi Aṣtamī – How Hindu Dharma Teaches Deep Ecology through Festivals
# dharma
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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Art and Meaning Making
# tradition
Hindu aesthetics begins where Western aesthetics ends - the Indian tradition was interested in the effect of art on the soul, beyond the representation of reality, and this difference reveals two fundamentally incompatible metaphysical starting points.
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Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 1, from Before to Now
# veda, tradition
AI arrives as a non-neutral civilizational event - a comparison of simulation theory, Vedānta, and modern physics asks whether the intelligence emerging from our machines is something the Dhārmika tradition already has a vocabulary for.
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Bhāratīya Wanderlust - A Defence of the Out-of-India Model (OIT), Part 2
# veda
Part 2 - examining the textual evidence for the Out-of-India model - what the Ṛgveda and comparative philology actually show when read without the Invasion Theory's assumptions baked in from the start.
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Bodha, the Pyramid of Priorities and the Nature of Hindu Organizations
# dharma, sanatana
Why Hindu organizational fragmentation is a feature, not a failure - Bodha's argument that Sanatana Dharma requires a diversity of independent organizations rather than monolithic unity, and what this means for civilizational strategy.
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Caturasūtra - Four Aphorisms
# tradition
Four foundational aphorisms for understanding Indian civilizational consciousness, drawn from across the tradition - compact enough to internalize, substantial enough to orient an entire intellectual project.
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Chaṭh - a Living Tradition and Cultural Homecoming
# tradition
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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Culture and Warfare - Finding Balance Through Dharma
# dharma
Drawing on H. G. Wells, the Mahābhārata, and dhārmika philosophy to argue that the collapse of the distinction between culture and barbarism is a civilizational crisis - and that dharma is the only framework adequate to it.
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Dāśarājña Recontextualized - Part 2
# veda
Part 2 - a close reading of the textual data in Ṛgveda Maṇḍala 7, parsing the battle's participants, geography, and historical context against established chronologies of Indian lineages.
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History is Ontic but Itihāsa is Ontologic – a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay
# tradition
The distinction between history (ontic, event-centered) and itihāsa (ontologic, truth-centered) is not a quaint traditional category but a methodological difference with profound consequences for how India should understand and narrate its own past.
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Indic Environmentalism - A Balance between Tradition and Innovation
# dharma, tradition, sanatana
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
# shastra, sacred, temple, tradition
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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My Journey with Anveshi
# temple, tradition
The origin story of Anveshi, Bodha's structured temple-visit practice - how collective temple-going became a form of civilizational reconnection - and what it reveals about how living tradition actually perpetuates itself.
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Śailaputrī | Navadurgā - Part 1
# tradition
Opening the Navadurgā series - an introduction to the Navarātrī tradition followed by the theology and iconography of Śailaputrī Devī - daughter of the mountain, first of the nine forms, embodiment of primal śakti.
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Śrī Rāma Comes Back to Ayodhyā
# sacred
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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Svayambodha and Śatrubodha - Two Wheels of Civilization
# dharma
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 Dhārmika Gene
# dharma
A fundamental re-articulation of Dharma as a civilizational inheritance - the genetic-level encoding that tells Bhāratīya culture how to understand itself, its cosmos, and its obligations across generations.
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The Difference Between Us - on One-life vs. Multiple-life Metaphysics
# ritual
What actually separates the Hindu and Abrahamic worldviews at the deepest level is not ritual, theistic dimensions, or scripture but the one-life versus multiple-life metaphysical foundation - and the implications of that single difference ramify through everything.
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The Problem of Culture Transmission
# tradition
Tradition is a living chain of transmission - an examination of the specific mechanisms by which Hindu civilization has carried its deepest knowledge forward, and where those mechanisms are breaking today.
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Towards Dharma-centric Polity - Lokmanya Tilak and the Universalization of Gaṇeśa Utsava
# dharma, tradition
As dharma recedes from both personal life and public governance, what would a genuinely dharma-centric political order look like - and is it achievable within or only beyond the current Indian constitutional framework?
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64 Arts in Ancient India
# tradition
Survey of the classical list of sixty-four arts and what it reveals about education and cultured accomplishment.
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A Primer of Indian Logic
# tradition
Introductory exposition of Indian logical method, categories, inference, and debate using the Tarkasangraha tradition.
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Advanced Textbook of Hindu Religion and Ethics
# religious-instruction
More advanced textbook on Hindu ethics, doctrine, discipline, and moral reasoning.
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Aitareya Upanishad
# upanishad
English edition or translation of the Aitareya Upanishad, highlighting creation, consciousness, and the identity of the self with ultimate reality.
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Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition
# tradition
Study of resistance, legitimacy, and non-cooperation within Indian political and ethical traditions.
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Elementary Textbook of Hindu Religion and Ethics
# religious-instruction
Introductory textbook on Hindu beliefs, duties, virtues, and everyday ethical formation.
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Future of Mankind
# ritual
Civilizational reflection arguing for a spiritually grounded future rooted in perennial wisdom.
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Hindu Dharma
# dharma
General account of Hindu dharma, its philosophical foundations, social vision, and practical disciplines.
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Hindu Dharma Radhakrishnan
# dharma, tradition
Essay by S. Radhakrishnan presenting Hindu dharma as a living, adaptive, and philosophically grounded religious tradition.
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Hindu Temples Vol 1
# temple
Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.
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Hindu Temples Vol 2
# temple
Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.
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Hinduism Ancient and Modern
# tradition
Comparative overview of continuities and changes in Hindu tradition across historical periods.
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Hindustani Music
# tradition
Overview of Hindustani music theory, form, pedagogy, and performance practice.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 1
# dharma, ritual, shastra, tradition, dharmashastra
Reference study of dharmashastra literature, sources of dharma, and the historical formation of legal-ritual norms.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 2 Part 1
# dharma, ritual, shastra, dharmashastra
Reference study of dharmashastra literature with focus on ritual, samskara, and normative practice.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 2 Part 2
# dharma, ritual, shastra, dharmashastra
Reference study of dharmashastra literature continuing discussion of rites, duties, and normative institutions.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 3
# dharma, shastra, dharmashastra
Reference study of dharmashastra themes including social duties, legal procedure, and normative ordering.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 4
# dharma, shastra, dharmashastra
Reference study of dharmashastra themes with detailed treatment of law, custom, and social institutions.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 5 Part 1
# dharma, shastra, dharmashastra
Reference study of later dharmashastra topics, jurisprudence, and social-religious regulation.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 5 Part 2
# dharma, ritual, shastra, dharmashastra
Reference study completing the dharmashastra series with later legal and ritual materials.
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Jews and Hindus in Indology
# tradition
Comparative study of how Jewish and Hindu traditions have been handled within modern Indology.
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Maitrayaniya Upanishad
# upanishad
English edition or translation of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, highlighting self-knowledge, mind, time, cosmology, and yogic discipline.
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On the Nature of Mathematics and Scientific Knowledge in Indian Tradition
# tradition
Study of how Indian traditions theorized mathematics, knowledge, and scientific reasoning.
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Religious Sects of Hindus
# tradition
Survey of major Hindu sects, their doctrines, institutions, and devotional lineages.
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Taittiriya Upanishad
# brahman, vedic, upanishad
English edition or translation of the Taittiriya Upanishad, highlighting the sheaths of the self, brahman as bliss, and the transmission of Vedic learning.
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The Advaita Vedanta of Brahmasiddhi
# veda, tradition
Study of the Brahmasiddhi tradition and major issues in Advaita metaphysics and epistemology.
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The Passion of Paul Hacker
# tradition
Critical study of Paul Hacker and the theological-political assumptions behind his work on Hindu traditions.
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The Redemption of the Brahman
# brahman
Interpretive essay on the figure of the Brahman and debates about textual and cultural transformation.
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Dharma as Design
# dharma
Some views on creativity and design.
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Modernity in TV Drama
# tradition
Reflections on tradition vs. modernity from the TV show Yellowstone.
project
A Year in Hajong Village
# ritual
How does a small Hindu tribal community in a Christian-majority region preserve its religious and cultural identity under conversion pressure? An ethnographic documentation of Hajong festivals, rituals, and livelihoods in Meghalaya's Garo Hills - a community invisible to most academic and policy discourse.
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Hindu Frameworks of Education
# tradition
What living models of traditional Hindu education still survive in India - and what do they demonstrate about the alternative to Western schooling? Field studies of surviving gurukulas, pathshalas, and vidyalayas documenting how Indian Knowledge Systems are transmitted in practice today.
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Hindu Models of Temple Management
# temple, tradition
How did the traditional Hindu temple function as a self-governing civilizational institution - and what would it take to recover that from state-imposed bureaucratic management? Research building the case for culture-sensitive temple governance by documenting indigenous models of administration.
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Hindu Response to Enlightenment
# veda
Where does Enlightenment rationalism reveal its own metaphysical blind spots - and what does Hindu philosophy offer in response? A civilizational dialogue contrasting Western secular universalism with Vedantic metaphysical plurality, proposing a Hindu diagnostic rather than a defensive rejection.
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Temples of Madhya Pradesh
# sacred, temple
What do three hundred surviving ancient temple sites of Madhya Pradesh reveal about the full range of Hindu sacred architecture - and what was lost to medieval destruction? A deep architectural and sculptural study of ten major temple clusters, making the grammar of Hindu temple-building legible.
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The Battle for Dharma in North-East
# dharma
What has large-scale conversion and demographic change done to the Dhārmika civilizational fabric of Northeast India? A deep policy study of how missionary activity and political isolation have severed the region from the rest of Bhārata - and what reversal requires.
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Is Modernity Compatible With Hindu Values
# dharma
Is modernity - with its secularism, rights-framework, and assault on varṇāśrama dharma - compatible with Hindu values, or structurally hostile to Hindu civilization?
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What Hindu Institution Will Generate All Others
# temple
Which single Hindu institution - the Hindu state, the gurukula, or the temple - could regenerate all others if everything else were lost? A question of civilizational triage and generative capacity.
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What Idea Must Die, for Hindu Renaissance
# dharma
What idea must die for Hindu renaissance to happen - caste, secularism, modernity, sarva-dharma-samabhāva, or the very category of religion applied to dharma?
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What is the Core of Sanatana Dharma
# dharma, sanatana
What is the unchanging core of Sanatana Dharma - an idea, an institution, a worldview, or a value system? Bodha's most foundational research question.
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What Will Save Sanatana Dharma
# dharma, sanatana
Inspired by the Śaunaka praśna of the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad - what is the one idea, institution, or action whose presence would ensure the survival of Sanatana Dharma?
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School of Conscilience
# tradition
This school holds that the West's divorce between sciences and humanities is a civilizational pathology - and that the Indian knowledge tradition, which never separated the two, offers a working model of their reintegration.
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School of Cultural Traditionalists
# upanishad, tradition
The oldest living school in India - scholars who see themselves as contemporary interpreters of the same tradition that produced the Upanishads and the Nāṭyaśāstra - treating metaphysics, aesthetics, and philosophy as one continuous project rather than separate departments.
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School of Political Traditionalists
# tradition
A school of Hindu conservatism drawing on Burke, Scruton, and Indian classical statecraft to argue for civilizational continuity over ideological reinvention - increasingly influential in post-Nehruvian policy but insufficiently read outside political circles.
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Sri Aurobindo’s School
# ritual
Sri Aurobindo's synthesis - the spiritual evolution of consciousness as the framework within which India's civilizational mission - and humanity's future - can be understood, making it the most philosophically ambitious Hindu response to modernity.
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Swami Vivekananda's School
# veda
The school that launched Hindu renaissance - Vivekananda's reading of Vedanta as both universal philosophy and basis for Hindu action produced the template every subsequent Hindu revivalist movement has worked with, consciously or not.
thinker
AK Saran
# tradition
A rare Indian sociologist who refused to think inside British intellectual frameworks - his is one of the few attempts to develop a genuinely Hindu social science, reading the tradition from within rather than against Western categories.
thinker
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
# tradition
The philosopher of fragility who argues that modern civilization traded a robust, decentralized wisdom tradition for brittle expert systems - and that this trade is actively destroying us while we congratulate ourselves on progress.
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Ram Swarup
# vedic
The thinker who explained what the Vedic gods actually are, how polytheism works as a philosophical system, and why the prophetic monotheist critique of Hinduism fundamentally misunderstands what it is attacking - essential reading before any encounter with missionary argument.
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SK Ramachandra Rao
# temple
A Karnataka polymath whose encyclopedic work on Hindu iconography and temple architecture reveals the metaphysical logic embedded in every sculptural form and spatial arrangement - the temple not as monument but as cosmological diagram made stone.
thinker
Theodore Dalrymple
# tradition
A prison doctor who documented from the inside the cultural wreckage produced by Western progressivism - his clinical observations are the evidence base for what political traditionalists argue at the level of theory.