Dhī — Intellect and Cognition

Art and Meaning Making

consciousness, aesthetics, aesthetic

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.

Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 1, from Before to Now

consciousness, vedanta

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.

Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 2, from Now to Henceforth

consciousness

Part 2 - a proactive Dhārmika framework for navigating artificial intelligence - neither uncritical adoption nor reflexive rejection, but a principled engagement grounded in the Indian understanding of consciousness and purpose.

Bhāratīya Wanderlust - A Defence of the Out-of-India Model (OIT), Part 1

logic

Part 1 of a three-part dismantling of the Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory - the textual, genetic, and archaeological evidence increasingly supports an Out-of-India model for Indo-European dispersal - and the implications are civilizationally significant.

Bhāratīya Wanderlust - A Defence of the Out-of-India Model (OIT), Part 3

logic

Part 3 - archaeological and genetic evidence for Out-of-India, concluding with a positive reconstruction of what the actual Āryan dispersal looked like and what it means for India's understanding of its civilizational origins.

Book Review | Svayambodha and Shatrubodha

knowledge

A review of Pankaj Saxena's *Svayambodha and Shatrubodha* - the book that gives Hindu civilizational discourse its most precise vocabulary for self-knowledge and knowledge of adversarial forces.

Caturasūtra - Four Aphorisms

consciousness, intellect

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.

Civilizations as Kārmika Streams

consciousness, logic

Civilizations are not collections of events but kārmika streams - living ontological entities shaped by accumulated collective action across deep time. An essay that reframes civilizational history as metaphysics.

Culture and Warfare - Finding Balance Through Dharma

consciousness, philosophy

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.

Dāśarājña Recontextualized - Part 1

consciousness, logic

Part 1 of a three-part reconstruction of the Dāśarājña (Battle of Ten Kings) as an early datable event in Indian history, reexamining Ṛgveda Maṇḍala 7 using Out-of-India chronological frameworks.

Dāśarājña Recontextualized - Part 3

consciousness

Part 3 - the concluding reconstruction of the Dāśarājña - placing the battle in specific historical and geographic context and drawing out its implications for India's deep civilizational memory.

Decolonization - A Personal Footprint and Some Ramp Ways

mind

Decolonization as daily practice - a personal account of what it actually looks like to replace a colonial operating system of the mind - starting with the words you use, the foods you eat, the festivals you observe.

Fractal Maṇḍala 1- the Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy

consciousness

Part 1 - the Fractal Maṇḍala as a model of Indian civilizational consciousness - multi-level, coherent, self-similar at every scale - and why recovering this model is the prerequisite for any meaningful cultural or institutional regeneration.

Fractal Maṇḍala 2- the Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy

consciousness, knowledge, logic

Part 2 - completing the Fractal Maṇḍala framework and its implications for how Hindu civilization organizes knowledge, culture, institution, and cosmos into a single coherent ontological structure.

Grand History, Part 1

consciousness

A speculative but evidence-grounded attempt at macro-history - tracing the deep trajectory of human consciousness and civilization from pre-linguistic origins through the emergence of the great civilizational streams.

Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 1

consciousness, mind, intellect

Part 1 - why Hinduism sits in the blind spot of open-minded, progressive Western intellectual discourse, from a structural failure of the secular liberal framework to perceive non-Abrahamic religion on its own terms.

Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 2

consciousness, intellect

Part 2 - continuing the diagnosis of why even well-meaning Western and westernized Indian intellectuals systematically fail to engage with Hinduism - and what a genuine encounter with it would actually require.

History is Ontic but Itihāsa is Ontologic – a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

consciousness, logic

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.

Indian Civilizational Consciousness

consciousness

Written on India's 75th Independence Day - a precise exposition of what 'Indian Civilizational Consciousness' actually means - and why it is the necessary foundation for anything India does next.

Preliminary Schema for Synaptic Reconnection to Civilizational Consciousness - Part 1

consciousness, epistemology

Part 1 - a preliminary schema for reconnecting with civilizational consciousness - what it means to fill the empty space that decolonization creates with a genuinely Dhārmika ontology, epistemology, and teleology.

Preliminary Schema for Synaptic Reconnection to Civilizational Consciousness - Part 2

consciousness, mind

Part 2 - completing the synaptic reconnection framework - the specific conceptual structures through which a Dhārmika consciousness can be rebuilt in a mind shaped by colonial education.

Quest for Harmony

consciousness

Bodha's founding essay - why India's cultural redemption requires recovering its civilizational orientation toward harmony - and why this is not a sentimental project but a rigorous civilizational imperative with practical stakes.

Rāma’s Journey – the Avatāra in You, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

consciousness, logic

Rāma's exile and return as inner journey - reading the Rāmāyaṇa as a map of the soul's trajectory - and why Dīpāvalī marks a cosmological reorientation of consciousness.

Ratha as a Bīja of Civilizational DNA, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

consciousness

The ratha (chariot) as a bīja - a seed form that contains the entire Dhārmika worldview in compressed symbolic code - an essay in reading Hindu iconography as philosophical argument embedded in form.

Sanskṛta vs. FATE Languages

aesthetics, aesthetic

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.

Svayambodha and Śatrubodha - Two Wheels of Civilization

consciousness, knowledge

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.

The Dhārmika Gene

consciousness, knowledge

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.

The Difference Between Us - on One-life vs. Multiple-life Metaphysics

consciousness

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.

Turners of Time - How Hindu Festivals Rotate the Year

logic

Holi and Hindu festivals as turners of time - how the festival calendar structures experience, transmits ecological wisdom, and keeps alive the felt relationship between human life and cosmic rhythm across generations.

What the Bodha Logo Means - The Square, the Circle and the Eye of Wisdom

consciousness, philosophy

The Bodha logo decoded - how a simple geometric mark encodes the entire civilizational philosophy - the fractal structure of Hindu consciousness expressed in the relationship between square, circle, and the space they share.

राम आयेंगे!

consciousness

A first-person account of the devotional groundswell preceding the 2024 Ayodhyā pratiṣṭhā - what a spontaneous civilizational awakening looks and feels like from the inside - and what it reveals about the living roots of Hindu consciousness.

A Dravido Harappan Connection The Issue

logic

Methodological critique of proposed Dravidian-Indus links, evaluating linguistic, archaeological, and epigraphic evidence for cultural continuity.

A Prehistoric Thoroughfare Between The Ganges and the Himalaya

logic

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

A Primer of Indian Logic

epistemology, logic

Introductory exposition of Indian logical method, categories, inference, and debate using the Tarkasangraha tradition.

A Scheme for Knowledge Representation in Samskritam

knowledge

Paper exploring Sanskrit-based formal knowledge representation and semantic structuring.

A Study of Tarakasamgraha as Compromise Between Nyaya and Vaisheshika

logic, nyaya

Detailed study of the Tarkasamgraha as a bridge text combining Nyaya logic with Vaisheshika ontology.

A Timeline Of Ayodhya

logic

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

Abhinavagupta a Historical and Philosophical Study

aesthetic, intellect, philosophy

Study of Abhinavagupta’s life, thought, Kashmir Shaivism, and aesthetic philosophy.

Absence Of Sword From Rig Veda

logic

Philological and archaeological analysis of the missing sword terminology in the Rig Veda, discussing implications for Indo-Aryan chronology.

Advanced Textbook of Hindu Religion and Ethics

philosophy

More advanced textbook on Hindu ethics, doctrine, discipline, and moral reasoning.

Agni Purana

knowledge

Edition or translation of the Agni Purana, an encyclopedic Purana covering cosmology, ritual, iconography, kingship, and sacred practice.

AIT And Linguistics

logic

Critical evaluation of linguistic arguments used to support the Aryan Invasion Theory, highlighting methodological assumptions and alternative models.

Aitareya Upanishad

consciousness

English edition or translation of the Aitareya Upanishad, highlighting creation, consciousness, and the identity of the self with ultimate reality.

Animal Subsistence In Ganga Valley

logic

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

Antecedents Of Rig Vedic Religion

logic

Traces Central Asian and Hindukush cultural influences on early Vedic religious practices, mapping ritual and mythological developments.

Archaeological and Anthropological Studies on the Harappan Cemetery of Rakhigarhi

logic

Comprehensive bioarchaeological report on Rakhigarhi burials, revealing Harappan health, diet, and population structure through skeletal analysis.

Art Experience

aesthetic

Reflection on art, meaning, symbolism, and the experience of beauty in Indian thought.

Aryan Story vs True Aryan History

logic

Contrasts mainstream Aryan migration narratives with textual and archaeological evidence supporting indigenous Vedic cultural development in India.

Aryans And The Indus Civilization

logic

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

Asura And Its Derivatives In Rigveda

logic

Philological study of 'Asura' and related terms in the Rig Veda, tracing semantic shifts from divine epithets to later mythological antagonists.

Chandogya Upanishad

meditation

English edition or translation of the Chandogya Upanishad, highlighting meditation, sacred speech, ritual symbolism, and the teaching of tat tvam asi.

Chera Chola Pandya Using Archaeological Evidence to Identify the Tamil Kingdoms of Early Historic South India

logic

Archaeological synthesis identifying material culture, trade networks, and political structures of early Chera, Chola, and Pandya kingdoms.

Chronology And Culture History In The Indus Valley

logic

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

Chronology Of Kings Puranic Kings and Rigvedic Rshis

logic

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

Converging Views On Asian Prehistory

logic

Synthesizes linguistic, genetic, and archaeological perspectives on Asian prehistory, highlighting convergent evidence for population movements.

Cry Hindutva How Rhetoric Trumps Intellect

intellect

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

Discovering The Sarasvati River

logic

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

Epicenter of the Indo-European Linguistic Spread

logic

Identifies potential linguistic epicenters for Indo-European expansion, evaluating geographic, demographic, and typological factors in language dispersal.

Essays on Tradition, Recovery and Freedom

intellect

Essays on cultural continuity, intellectual decolonization, and the recovery of civilizational freedom.

Essential Coomaraswamy

intellect

General overview of Hindu tradition, covering its beliefs, practices, social vision, and intellectual foundations.

Excavating Vedic Harappans

logic

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

Fabricating Evidence In Support Of The AIT

logic

Critical examination of archaeological and linguistic claims used to support the Aryan Invasion Theory, addressing methodological biases.

Females In Rig Veda

logic

Philological study of female figures, goddesses, and social roles in the Rig Veda, analyzing gender representation in early Vedic society.

Five Waves Of Indo European Expansion

logic

Proposes a five-wave migration model for Indo-European linguistic and cultural dispersal, integrating archaeological and genetic timelines.

From Sarasvati To Ganga

logic

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

Gandhis Theory of Society and Our Times

philosophy

Interpretive study of Gandhi’s social philosophy, moral politics, and continuing relevance.

Gangesa's Theory of Truth

epistemology, cognition, nyaya

Study of Navya-Nyaya truth theory and the epistemic conditions of valid cognition.

Gaudapada Karika

consciousness, vedanta, advaita, non-dualism

Classical Advaita work on non-duality, consciousness, and the Mandukya Upanishad.

Gautama's Nyayasutras

epistemology, knowledge, nyaya

Edition or translation of the foundational Nyaya sutras on knowledge, inference, debate, and liberation.

Genetics And AIT, Look Again

logic

Re-examines genetic claims supporting the Aryan Invasion Theory, highlighting methodological flaws and alternative interpretations of population data.

Gheranda Samhita

meditation, yoga

Hatha yoga manual on bodily discipline, purification, mudra, meditation, and yogic accomplishment.

Gulmavrikshayurveda

knowledge

Traditional treatise on plants, horticulture, and knowledge systems related to trees and cultivation.

Harappan Discontinuity 4500 Ybp

logic

Paleobotanical and archaeological evidence of cultural discontinuities around 4500 YBP, linking climate shifts to Harappan urban decline.

Harivansha Purana

logic

Edition or translation of the Harivansha Purana, Krishna lineage narratives and cosmological material closely tied to the Mahabharata tradition.

Hindu Dharma Radhakrishnan

philosophy

Essay by S. Radhakrishnan presenting Hindu dharma as a living, adaptive, and philosophically grounded religious tradition.

Ideas of History in Sanskrit Literature

consciousness

Study of how historical consciousness appears in Sanskrit narrative, genealogy, and literary memory.

Indian Concept of Performance

aesthetics, aesthetic

Study of performance as a conceptual and embodied category in Indian aesthetic theory.

Introduction to IKS

knowledge

Survey introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems and their major domains, methods, and categories.

Isha Upanishad

knowledge

English edition or translation of the Isha Upanishad, highlighting renunciation, action, inner self, and the relation between knowledge and world-engagement.

Jews and Hindus in Indology

logic

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

Katha Upanishad

knowledge

English edition or translation of the Katha Upanishad, highlighting death, the self, disciplined choice, and liberation through insight.

Kena Upanishad

mind, cognition

English edition or translation of the Kena Upanishad, highlighting the limits of ordinary cognition and the grounding of mind and speech in brahman.

Kurma Purana

logic

Edition or translation of the Kurma Purana, cosmology, pilgrimage, dharma, and sectarian theology in dialogic form.

Language and Reality, World View of the Nyaya-Vaisesika System of Indian Philosophy

philosophy, nyaya

Study of how Nyaya-Vaisheshika links language, ontology, and realism.

Logic, Language and Reality

epistemology, philosophy, logic

Philosophical study connecting logic, linguistic analysis, and theories of reality in Indian thought.

Lokopakara

knowledge

Traditional practical compendium on useful arts, household knowledge, and applied sciences.

Maitrayaniya Upanishad

knowledge, mind

English edition or translation of the Maitrayaniya Upanishad, highlighting self-knowledge, mind, time, cosmology, and yogic discipline.

Mandukya Upanishad

consciousness, non-dualism

English edition or translation of the Mandukya Upanishad, highlighting Om, waking-dream-sleep states, and the non-dual fourth state.

Markandeya Purana

logic

Edition or translation of the Markandeya Purana, mythic and ethical narrative best known for the Devi Mahatmya and broader cosmological material.

Matsya Purana

logic

Edition or translation of the Matsya Purana, the flood myth together with temple, iconographic, genealogical, and pilgrimage material.

Methodological Issues In The Indo European Debate

logic

Critical assessment of methodologies used in Indo-European studies, advocating for interdisciplinary rigor and bias reduction in historical linguistics.

Methods and Context Rethinking Religion

logic

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

Mundaka Upanishad

knowledge

English edition or translation of the Mundaka Upanishad, highlighting higher and lower knowledge, brahman, renunciation, and liberation.

On Natyashastra

rasa

Introductory or interpretive study of the Natyashastra and its framework for drama, performance, and rasa.

On the Battle of Ten Kings

logic

A detailed philological and historical analysis of the Dasharajna battle in the Rig Veda, examining tribal alliances and geopolitical implications.

On the Meaning of Hymns to Maruts in the Rigveda

logic

Philological examination of Marut hymns in the Rig Veda, exploring storm mythology, ritual significance, and Indo-Iranian parallels.

On the Nature of Mathematics and Scientific Knowledge in Indian Tradition

knowledge, philosophy

Study of how Indian traditions theorized mathematics, knowledge, and scientific reasoning.

On The Preliminary Periodization Of The Harappan Civilization

logic

Proposes a revised chronological framework for the Harappan civilization, aligning archaeological phases with early Vedic cultural developments.

Origin Of Early Harappan Cultures In The Sarasvati Valley

logic

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

Out of India Case in Full

logic

Comprehensive synthesis of linguistic, archaeological, and textual arguments supporting the Out of India theory for Indo-European origins.

Outline of Hindu Philosophy

philosophy, darshana

Broad survey of major schools and recurrent philosophical themes in Hindu thought.

Paratrishika Vivarana by Abhinavagupta

consciousness

Abhinavagupta’s esoteric Shaiva commentary on language, mantra, consciousness, and manifestation.

Patanjali's Yogasutras

mind, meditation, yoga

Edition or translation of the Yoga Sutras with emphasis on mind, practice, samadhi, and liberation.

Philosophy and Criticism

philosophy

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

Poetic Immortality to Salvation

logic

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

Prehistoric Human Colonisation Of India

logic

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

Prehistoric Skeletal Record of Man in South Asia

logic

Comprehensive bioarchaeological review of prehistoric skeletal remains in South Asia, assessing morphological continuity and population changes.

Pride and Prejudice Orientalism and Germany

intellect, logic

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

Prolegomena to any Future Mahabharata Studies

logic

Methodological essay rethinking how the Mahabharata should be studied, edited, and interpreted.

Pūrva-pakṣa of Sheldon Pollock's use of Chronology

logic

A critical examination of Sheldon Pollock's chronological methodologies, offering counterarguments rooted in traditional Indian historiography and textual analysis.

Quintessence of Brahmasutra

vedanta

Introductory digest of Vedanta centered on the Brahmasutra tradition and its key metaphysical claims.

Rediscovering India

knowledge, intellect

Essays aimed at recovering Indian civilizational categories, intellectual memory, and cultural self-knowledge.

Sankhya Philosophy by Banerji

philosophy, sankhya, tattva

Interpretive exposition of the Sankhya school and its key doctrines.

Sibri and the South Cemetery of Mehrgarh

logic

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

Siddhantabindu

vedanta, advaita, non-dualism

Vedantic sub-commentarial text presenting core Advaita positions in a compact form.

Six Ways of Knowing

epistemology, knowledge, pramana

Scholarly work on Indian thought and civilization with relevance to the themes signaled by its title.

The A of ABC of Indian chronology: Dimensions of the Aryan problem revisited in 2017

logic

Revisits foundational chronology debates in Indian history, integrating textual, archaeological, and astronomical data to reassess Aryan timelines.

The Advaita Vedanta of Brahmasiddhi

epistemology, vedanta, advaita

Study of the Brahmasiddhi tradition and major issues in Advaita metaphysics and epistemology.

The Banality of Indology

logic

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

The Coming of Aryans to Iran and India

logic

A scholarly analysis of Indo-Iranian migrations into Iran and India, exploring linguistic, religious, and archaeological markers of early Aryan presence.

The Eastern Himalayan Corridor In Prehistory

logic

Linguistic and archaeological analysis of the Eastern Himalayas as a prehistoric corridor, tracing Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan dispersals.

The Epistemological Event Horizon In Archaeology

epistemology, logic

Philosophical critique of archaeological interpretation, addressing methodological limits in reconstructing prehistoric language and population movements.

The Harappan Heritage And The Aryan Problem

logic

Examines cultural and archaeological continuity between the Indus Valley Civilization and early Vedic culture, addressing the Aryan migration narrative.

The Horse And The Aryan Debate

logic

Examines archaeological evidence of horses in ancient India, critically analyzing claims used in the Aryan migration versus indigenous origin debate.

The Indo Aryans Of Ancient South Asia

logic

A linguistic and archaeological synthesis on Indo-Aryan migrations, examining language shift, material culture, and ethnic interactions in ancient South Asia.

The Indo European Cloudland

logic

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

The Indo European Language Family

logic

Authoritative overview of Indo-European linguistic families, tracing phonological evolution, grammatical structures, and historical dispersal patterns.

The Kalās

aesthetic, knowledge

Work on Indian Knowledge Systems, bringing traditional categories into conversation with practice, theory, or pedagogy.

The Knowledge Structure in the Amarakosha

knowledge

Study of how the Amarakosha encodes categories, semantic relations, and systems of knowledge.

The Nay Science

knowledge, logic

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

The Nyaya Theory of Knowledge

epistemology, knowledge, cognition, nyaya, pramana

Study of Nyaya epistemology with emphasis on pramanas, error, and valid cognition.

The Passion of Paul Hacker

logic

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

The Real Threat to Humanities Today

logic

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

The Redemption of the Brahman

intellect

Interpretive essay on the figure of the Brahman and debates about textual and cultural transformation.

The Sanauli Chariot And Its Archaeological and Historical Context

logic

Analyzes the Sanauli chariot burials, evaluating their technological features and implications for Bronze Age warfare and Vedic chronology.

The Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila

sankhya, tattva

Presentation of the Sankhya aphorism tradition on purusha, prakriti, tattvas, and liberation.

The Sankhya Karika of Iswara Krishna

sankhya

Classical Sankhya summary text on ontology, causation, bondage, and release.

The Sankhya Philosophy

philosophy, sankhya

Translation or study of Sankhya metaphysics, dualism, and liberation theory.

The Sankhya System by Keith

philosophy, sankhya

Scholarly account of Sankhya doctrine in historical and comparative perspective.

The Secret of the Veda

logic

Sri Aurobindo’s symbolic interpretation of the Vedic hymns as spiritual and psychological texts rather than merely ritual documents.

The Yogasutras of Patanjali

yoga

Translation and explanation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras focused on discipline, concentration, and liberation.

Theories of Language

cognition, philosophy

Study of Indian theories of language, meaning, signification, and verbal cognition.

Theses on Indology

intellect, logic

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

True Meaning Of Ashva

logic

Etymological and contextual analysis of 'Ashva' in the Rig Veda, exploring symbolic, ritual, and literal interpretations of the term.

Vākyapadīya

cognition, philosophy

Foundational work of Bhartrhari on language, meaning, cognition, and the philosophy of linguistic unity.

Vanishing Rivers Yesterdays Sarasvati Todays Ganga

logic

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

Vedic Genetics Cow Omni Form Decipherment

logic

Explores symbolic and genetic interpretations of Vedic cow imagery, linking ancient iconography to modern decipherment attempts of Indus Valley seals.

Vishnu In Rigveda

logic

Philological study of Vishnu's early presence in the Rig Veda, tracing the evolution of solar and cosmic attributes in Vedic hymns.

Worked Bone Industry

logic

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

Yogasutra with Commentary of Madhavacharya

yoga

Yoga Sutra text accompanied by traditional commentary for philosophical and practical interpretation.

Azaan and Freedom of Expression - Are They Compatible?

consciousness

The Sonu Nigam controversy as a test case for a structural question: whether the Islamic claim to unrestricted public religious expression can coexist with the Hindu majority's right to uninterrupted private space.

Did Brahmins Monopolize Knowledge in Ancient India?

knowledge, logic

Dismantling the colonial claim that Brahmins monopolized knowledge in ancient India — the textual and archaeological evidence for broad-based literacy, cross-varna scholarship, and the structural openness of the gurukula tradition.

Dukh, Depression and Journeys of Life - Depression is the Absence of Dukkha - Part I

consciousness, knowledge

The provocative argument that depression is the absence of duḥkha, not its presence — how the Sanskrit framework for suffering provides an experiential map that modern psychology, focused on symptom-removal, cannot offer.

Grasping for the Beyond - On a Critical Schism in the Modern Psyche

consciousness, mind

Weber's disenchantment and Jung's diagnosis of the Western mind as a madhouse of abstractions — arguing that the modern psyche's loss of the sacred is precisely the illness that India's living metaphysical tradition can address.

Hindu Liberals - The Slave Soldiers of Islamism

consciousness

How Hindu liberals function as structural enablers of radical Islam — the Ottoman Devshirme system as a historical analogy for how dominant civilizations conscript their opponents' members to serve as their most effective weapons.

Hindu View of the Simulation Hypothesis

consciousness, knowledge, logic

Nick Bostrom's simulation hypothesis examined alongside the concept of māyā — where the two frameworks converge, where they fundamentally diverge, and why the Hindu model is teleologically richer than the computational one.

How Lenin Tried to Foment Communist Revolution in India

logic

The Second Great Game — how Lenin and the early Comintern built networks inside India to foment revolution, continuing the Russian imperial pressure on Britain's Indian possession through ideological rather than military means.

How Old is the Hindu Temple?

knowledge, logic

The antiquity of the Hindu temple examined through textual, sculptural, and archaeological evidence — dismantling the Western academic claim that temple architecture was a Buddhist invention absorbed by Hinduism.

How Scroll.in is Part of Omidyar's Breaking India Network

consciousness

Scroll.in's financial architecture traced to Omidyar Network — how American philanthropic capital funds the Hinduphobic left media ecosystem in India as part of the broader Breaking India project.

How to Become a Superpower - Inside the Great Game

logic

Central Asia's strategic logic through the lens of Gilgit-Baltistan and the Wakhan Corridor — why the Pamir corridor has always determined superpower reach and why India's loss of these buffer territories still shapes its strategic ceiling.

In Memoriam - Life and Works of Shri N.S. Rajaram

intellect

Obituary and intellectual portrait of N.S. Rajaram — his place in the Voice of India tradition, his contributions to Vedic chronology and the Out of India theory, and what his death means for the Hindu Renaissance.

Intellectual Terrorism of the Left - The Case for Dr. Makarand Paranjape

intellect

The cancellation of Makarand Paranjape at Carleton University — how left academic networks suppress Hindu intellectual voices not through argument but through institutional intimidation, and what it reveals about who controls Western universities.

Kaiser, Sultan and the Holy Jihad in India

knowledge

The Second Great Game — how Germany and Ottoman Turkey built a plan around mobilizing Islamic Jihad inside India during WWI, making the Kaiser and Sultan strange allies in a scheme that came closer to success than most histories acknowledge.

Pundits - How Hindu Hillmen Secretly Mapped Central Asia

consciousness

How trained Hindu hill-men — the Pundits — secretly mapped the unmappable territories of Central Asia for British India's Great Game intelligence operations, disguised as pilgrims and traders, measuring distances by prayer bead.

Puranas as the Source for a Chronology of Indian History

knowledge, logic

A Purāṇic chronological framework for ancient Indian history — building on Pargiter's genealogical reconstruction and Subhash Kak's Mahābhārata dating to propose a coherent timeline for the previous six manvantaras.

Teaching and Research - The Rot That Has Set In

knowledge

The HRD Ministry's proposal to de-emphasize research in college promotions — why the policy response is inadequate to the depth of the rot, and what the real diagnosis of India's academic collapse requires.

The Man Who Turned Down the Skull Cap - How India Sees Narendra Modi

consciousness

What Modi's refusal of the skull cap tells us about who he is — reading his symbolic politics not as Hindu chauvinism but as the first coherent expression of a civilizational self-respect that India's post-colonial elite had systematically suppressed.

The Many Meanings of the Hindu Temple

knowledge, logic

The Hindu temple as simultaneously sacred mountain, cosmic axis, human body, and gateway between worlds — a layered symbolic reading of the temple form as encoded theological knowledge made visible in stone.

Thou Shalt Not Comment - The Dictatorship of Scroll.in

logic

How Scroll.in built ideological censorship into its comment moderation — the left-liberal digital media's control of who gets to respond, and why shutting down the comments section was the tell that revealed the site's function as propaganda rather than journalism.

Unfinished Agendas of Radical Islam - The Global Gameplan

consciousness, logic

Opening the Unfinished Agendas series: the ideological architecture of radical Islam's global strategy — how the anti-CAA riots are not a spontaneous reaction but a calculated move in a long-running civilizational campaign.

We the Hindus - What the CAB Means for Hindu Civilization

consciousness

The Citizenship Amendment Act read as a civilizational turning point — not refugee policy but India's first post-colonial assertion of its Hindu identity, and what the civilizational stakes of this assertion actually are.

Why Liberals Hate Baahubali

consciousness, aesthetic

Why India's left-liberal cultural establishment hated Baahubali — the film as a mass rejection of the self-hating colonial aesthetic and a reassertion of Hindu heroism, beauty, and civilizational confidence that the establishment had worked decades to suppress.

Witzel's Realm - On Reputationist Concerns Over India's Reclamation of Its History

logic

A direct response to Michael Witzel's attack on Indian historical revisionism — defending the legitimacy of indigenous Purāṇic chronology against Western academic gatekeeping dressed up as methodological rigor.

On the Pagan Worldview

logic

Some thoughts on how most cultural/mythological studies have a distinct anti-pagan foundation.

Dharmic Design

aesthetics, aesthetic

What would architecture and design look like if grounded in Dhārmika principles of the sacred and Hindu aesthetics rather than Western modernism? A purva paksha of the Western design tradition, constructing an alternative framework from within the Hindu aesthetic worldview.

Hindu Frameworks of Education

knowledge

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.

Hindu Response to Enlightenment

consciousness, knowledge, philosophy

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.

Interchanging Dynamics of the Hindu Family

logic

How has the Hindu family - long considered the basic unit of Hindu society rather than the individual - actually changed from its classical model? A field study introducing statistical and sociological rigor to questions that have been answered, until now, only by anecdote.

The Artist in Art

aesthetics, aesthetic

What happens when Western art criticism is turned inside out and evaluated through Hindu aesthetics? This project reverses the colonial critical gaze - applying Hindu aesthetic frameworks as the dominant lens to examine Western art's evolution, theory, and unspoken assumptions.

Is Hindu Unity Compatible With Indian Diversity

consciousness

Can Hindus unite without flattening the diversity that defines India? A civilizational question about whether unity and diversity are complementary or in fundamental tension.

What Do Hindus Practice, but Cannot Prove

knowledge

What do Hindus practice with deep śraddhā but cannot prove - karma phala siddhānta, reincarnation, mantra efficacy - and what is the right epistemic posture toward such axioms?

What does Being Indian Mean

consciousness

What does Indian identity mean in light of Partition, the Muslim question, and conflicting nationalist visions from Gandhi to Savarkar to Nehru?

What Hindu Institution Will Generate All Others

consciousness

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.

What Idea Must Die, for Hindu Renaissance

consciousness

What idea must die for Hindu renaissance to happen - caste, secularism, modernity, sarva-dharma-samabhāva, or the very category of religion applied to dharma?

What is the Core of Sanatana Dharma

knowledge

What is the unchanging core of Sanatana Dharma - an idea, an institution, a worldview, or a value system? Bodha's most foundational research question.

What Will Destroy Hindu Society

consciousness, logic

Sita Ram Goel's 1981 warning revisited - a rigorous examination of the forces - demographic, cultural, and ideological - most likely to destroy Hindu society.

What Will Save Sanatana Dharma

consciousness

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?

Dharampal School of Svayambodha

knowledge

Built on Dharampal's archival discoveries about pre-colonial India, this school argues that Svayambodha - self-knowledge grounded in India's actual historical capacities - is the precondition for any viable Indian future, not a romantic luxury.

School of Conscilience

knowledge

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.

School of Cultural Traditionalists

aesthetics, aesthetic, knowledge, philosophy

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.

School of Narrative Non-fiction

aesthetics, aesthetic, knowledge

India is a civilization that transmits knowledge through story - this school recovers that epistemic mode and applies it to contemporary civilizational questions through long-form narrative that neither academia nor journalism can produce.

School of Political Traditionalists

consciousness, logic

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.

Sri Aurobindo’s School

consciousness

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.

Swami Vivekananda's School

consciousness, philosophy, vedanta

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.

AK Saran

knowledge, intellect, thinker default

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.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

logic, thinker default

The man who survived the Soviet gulag and wrote its testimony - Solzhenitsyn's warning that Western atheist materialism produces the same totalitarian logic as communism remains unrefuted by anyone who has read him carefully.

Arthur Koestler

consciousness, intellect, logic, thinker default

A Communist turned anti-Communist who witnessed both fascism and Stalinism firsthand - Koestler's intellectual trajectory maps the 20th century's ideological catastrophes and anticipates the civilizational questions that follow when every utopia collapses.

Dharampal

knowledge, thinker default

The historian who went back to British colonial archives and proved that India had thriving educational and industrial systems before colonization destroyed them - his work is the empirical foundation for any serious claim about what India actually lost.

Kapila Vatsyayana

aesthetics, aesthetic, knowledge, philosophy, thinker default

Six decades of scholarship on the philosophy underlying every Indian art form - dance, architecture, painting, sculpture - Vatsyayana built the most comprehensive modern account of how Hindu arts form a unified system of knowledge, not a collection of disciplines.

KM Munshi

consciousness, thinker default

Freedom fighter, novelist, and founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Munshi spent his life reconstructing the cultural and historical memory that colonial education had systematically razed - the Somnath restoration was as much an act of historiography as politics.

Loren Eiseley

consciousness, meditation, thinker default

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.

MS Hiriyanna

consciousness, epistemology, aesthetics, aesthetic, knowledge, philosophy

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

thinker default

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.

Ram Swarup

thinker default

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.

SK Ramachandra Rao

consciousness, logic, thinker default

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.

Terence McKenna

consciousness, thinker default

A psychedelic philosopher whose stoned-ape hypothesis, archaic revival, and novelty theory sit at the fringe of respectable discourse but ask the right questions - why did human consciousness change so dramatically, and what exactly is it moving toward?

Theodore Dalrymple

thinker default

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.

VS Naipaul

consciousness, thinker default

The Nobel laureate who traveled the colonized world and wrote what he actually saw - cultures wrecked by Islam, deformed by colonialism, and unable to recover because they've internalized their conquerors' self-image - a diagnosis as unwelcome now as when he made it.