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Bhāratīya Wanderlust - A Defence of the Out-of-India Model (OIT), Part 2
# defence
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
# strategy
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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Candraghaṇṭā | Navadurgā - Part 3
# war
Third in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Candraghaṇṭā Devī - the warrior form whose crescent-bell emblem signals the transition from inner austerity to active, world-facing śakti.
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Culture and Warfare - Finding Balance Through Dharma
# war, warfare
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 1
# battle, king
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.
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Freedom of Expression
# politics
Why clarity about the nature of prophetic monotheism's claim on speech is a prerequisite for any meaningful Hindu engagement with the politics of free expression - the conceptual tools for a discourse that currently lacks them.
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Kātyāyanī | Navadurgā - Part 6
# war
Sixth in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Kātyāyanī Devī - the fierce warrior form born to destroy the demon Mahiṣāsura, and the deity invoked for strength in the face of civilizational threat.
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Quest for Harmony
# war
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.
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The Battle Against Hindus in Manipur
# battle, state, political, conflict
The Manipur conflict is not a tribal dispute but a civilizational one - how the Christian missionary conversion of Kuki tribes created a political wedge that the Indian state misreads as ethnic tension while Meitei Hindu identity is the actual target.
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The Problem of Culture Transmission
# war, king
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
# war, polity, political, governance, constitution
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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Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma
# state, king
India walks a tightrope between two dystopias - Orwell's totalitarian surveillance state and Huxley's pleasure-addicted passivity. A Dhārmika reading of both futures and the framework that could thread between them.
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Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition
# political
Study of resistance, legitimacy, and non-cooperation within Indian political and ethical traditions.
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Gandhis Theory of Society and Our Times
# politics
Interpretive study of Gandhi’s social philosophy, moral politics, and continuing relevance.
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Hindu Temples Vol 1
# conflict
Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.
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Hindu Temples Vol 2
# conflict
Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.
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Methods and Context Rethinking Religion
# king
Methodological critique of dominant religious-studies frameworks and their application to India.
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Prolegomena to any Future Mahabharata Studies
# king
Methodological essay rethinking how the Mahabharata should be studied, edited, and interpreted.
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The Nay Science
# politics
Provocative reflection on scholarship, critique, and the ideological posture of academic knowledge.
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The Passion of Paul Hacker
# political
Critical study of Paul Hacker and the theological-political assumptions behind his work on Hindu traditions.
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Sanskrit Roots and the Ontic Bloom
# king
Work area for emerging notes and thoughts on Sanskrit roots and their consequence on thinking.
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Hindu Models of Temple Management
# state, governance
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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The Battle for Dharma in North-East
# battle, political
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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Does India Need Another Republic
# republic, constitution
Does India's constitution - built on rights rather than duties, and arguably biased against Hindus - need to be replaced with a second republic rooted in Dhārmika values?
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What Do Hindus Practice, but Cannot Prove
# war
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?
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What does Being Indian Mean
# conflict
What does Indian identity mean in light of Partition, the Muslim question, and conflicting nationalist visions from Gandhi to Savarkar to Nehru?
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What Will Destroy Hindu Society
# war
Sita Ram Goel's 1981 warning revisited - a rigorous examination of the forces - demographic, cultural, and ideological - most likely to destroy Hindu society.
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School of Conscilience
# king
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 Political Traditionalists
# state, political
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
# king
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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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
# war
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.
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KM Munshi
# politics
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.
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Ram Swarup
# war, king
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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Terence McKenna
# war
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?
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Theodore Dalrymple
# political
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.