blog
Freedom of Expression
# meaning
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.
blog
Hinduism in the Blind Spot - Part 2
# meaning
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.
book
A Primer of Indian Logic
# categories
Introductory exposition of Indian logical method, categories, inference, and debate using the Tarkasangraha tradition.
book
Hindu Realism An Introduction to Vaisheshika
# categories
Introductory study of Vaisheshika realism, categories of being, and metaphysical analysis.
book
Hindu Studies in a Secular Academy
# categories
Reflection on the institutional framing of Hindu studies and the limits of secular academic categories.
book
Paradigm Lost the Application of the Historical Critical Method to the Bhagavadgita
# interpretation
Critique of applying historical-critical methods reductively to the Bhagavad Gita.
book
Pride and Prejudice Orientalism and Germany
# interpretation
Study of German orientalism and the ideological lenses shaping Indological interpretation.
book
Religious Sects of Hindus
# classification
Survey of major Hindu sects, their doctrines, institutions, and devotional lineages.
question
What Idea Must Die, for Hindu Renaissance
# category
What idea must die for Hindu renaissance to happen - caste, secularism, modernity, sarva-dharma-samabhāva, or the very category of religion applied to dharma?
thinker
AK Saran
# categories
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.