Nāṭya — Performance

Art and Meaning Making

art, aesthetic, aesthetics

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

art

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

art

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

art, story

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 2

art, story

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.

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

art, story

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.

Brahmacāriṇī | Navadurgā - Part 2

art

Second in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Brahmacāriṇī Devī - the form of Durgā who represents austerity, renunciation, and the discipline through which the soul approaches the absolute.

Candraghaṇṭā | Navadurgā - Part 3

art

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.

Dāśarājña Recontextualized - Part 2

art, story

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.

Dāśarājña Recontextualized - Part 3

art, story

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

art, story

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

art, story

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

art, story

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

art, story

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

art

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

art

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.

Kālarātri | Navadurgā - Part 7

art

Seventh in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Kālarātri Devī - the most fearsome form, destroyer of darkness and ignorance, whose terrifying appearance conceals absolute protection for the devotee.

Kātyāyanī | Navadurgā - Part 6

art

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.

Kūṣmāṇḍā | Navadurgā - Part 4

art

Fourth in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Kūṣmāṇḍā Devī - the form who created the universe with her smile, and who is propitiated for health, vitality, and the removal of darkness.

Mahāgaurī | Navadurgā - Part 8

art

Eighth in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Mahāgaurī Devī - the luminous, peaceful form that follows Kālarātri, representing the purity and grace that emerge after the destruction of all that is false.

My Journey with Anveshi

story

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.

Preliminary Schema for Synaptic Reconnection to Civilizational Consciousness - Part 1

art, story

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

art, story

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.

Sanskṛta vs. FATE Languages

aesthetic, aesthetics

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.

Siddhidātrī | Navadurgā - Part 9

art

Ninth and final in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Siddhidātrī Devī - the granter of all siddhis, the form who completes the Navarātrī cycle and whose worship is the culmination of the entire nine-day journey.

Skandamātā | Navadurgā - Part 5

art

Fifth in the Navadurgā series - the theology and iconography of Skandamātā Devī - mother of Skanda (Kārttikeya), the form that holds together the energies of motherhood, courage, and cosmic order.

The Dhārmika Gene

art

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.

Abhinavagupta a Historical and Philosophical Study

aesthetic

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

Art Experience

art, aesthetic

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

Aryan Story vs True Aryan History

narrative, story

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

Bhagavata Purana

narrative

Edition or translation of the Bhagavata Purana, a major Vaishnava Purana centered on Krishna, bhakti, cosmology, and liberation.

Bhartṛhari’s Linguistic Ontology and the Semantics of Ātmanepada

art

Specialized study of Bhartrhari’s metaphysics of language and grammatical semantics.

Chronology And Culture History In The Indus Valley

art, story

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

Converging Views On Asian Prehistory

story

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

Cry Hindutva How Rhetoric Trumps Intellect

story

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

Dravidian and Pan-Indian Nature of Hinduism

story

Explores the Dravidian roots and pan-Indian cultural synthesis that shaped early Hindu traditions, rituals, and philosophical frameworks.

Dravidian Connections to Rig Veda and Harappa

narrative

Examines linguistic and cultural links between Dravidian languages, the Rig Veda, and the Indus Valley Civilization, challenging conventional migration narratives.

Five Waves Of Indo European Expansion

story

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

Glimpses Of The Ethnolinguistic Prehistory of Northeastern India

story

Explores the ethnolinguistic layers of Northeast India, analyzing Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic, and Indo-Aryan interactions in prehistory.

Greeks in India

story

Historical study of Greek presence in India and the cultural exchanges that followed.

Haplogroup R1A

story

Comprehensive overview of Haplogroup R1a distribution, tracing its origins, Bronze Age expansions, and relevance to Indo-European migrations.

Hermeneutics and Narrative Architecture

literature, narrative

Study of how interpretive method and narrative design work together in Sanskrit epic literature.

Hindustani Music

performance, music

Overview of Hindustani music theory, form, pedagogy, and performance practice.

History of Dharmashastras Vol 1

literature, story

Reference study of dharmashastra literature, sources of dharma, and the historical formation of legal-ritual norms.

History of Dharmashastras Vol 2 Part 1

art, literature, story

Reference study of dharmashastra literature with focus on ritual, samskara, and normative practice.

History of Dharmashastras Vol 2 Part 2

art, literature, story

Reference study of dharmashastra literature continuing discussion of rites, duties, and normative institutions.

History of Dharmashastras Vol 3

story

Reference study of dharmashastra themes including social duties, legal procedure, and normative ordering.

History of Dharmashastras Vol 5 Part 1

art, story

Reference study of later dharmashastra topics, jurisprudence, and social-religious regulation.

History of Dharmashastras Vol 5 Part 2

art, story

Reference study completing the dharmashastra series with later legal and ritual materials.

Ideas of History in Sanskrit Literature

literature, narrative, story

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

Ikshvakus in the Rig Veda

story

An in-depth study of the Ikshvaku dynasty's presence and references within the Rig Vedic hymns, tracing early Vedic royal lineages and cultural continuity.

Images Of Solar Bulls

art

Iconographic study of solar bull motifs across Early Harappan, Vedic, and Avestan traditions, tracing shared Indo-Iranian religious symbolism.

Indian Concept of Performance

performance, aesthetic, aesthetics

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

Indian Science and Technology in the 18th Century

story

Documentary study of scientific and technical practices in early modern India.

Indus Valley Electron Microscopy And Crystallography

art

Scientific analysis of Indus Valley artifacts using electron microscopy, revealing advanced metallurgical and craftsmanship techniques.

Katha Sarit Sagar

literature, narrative, story

Large compendium of narrative literature preserving story cycles, moral reflection, and courtly imagination.

Lokopakara

art

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

New Perspectives On Our Cultural Pasts

narrative, story

Advocates for interdisciplinary approaches to Indian history, integrating archaeology, genetics, and textual studies to revise cultural narratives.

On Natyashastra

natya, performance, drama, rasa

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

On Peopling of India Ancient Genetics Perspectives

story

Reviews ancient and modern genetic data to reconstruct India's demographic history, evaluating migration waves and indigenous continuity.

On the Meaning of Hymns to Maruts in the Rigveda

poetry

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

Pride and Prejudice Orientalism and Germany

story

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

Rajatarangini

story

Chronicle of Kashmir that blends political history, dynastic memory, and literary historiography.

Reconstructing The Population History Of the Gond

story

Genomic study reconstructing the demographic history of the Gond tribe, revealing ancient Indian population structure and migration patterns.

Rediscovering India

story

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

Rig Vedic History

story

Reconstructs early Indian history through Rigvedic linguistic parameters, mapping tribal movements, geographical shifts, and cultural developments.

Rigvedic And Written Mature Harappan 1

art, narrative

Initial analysis proposing linguistic continuity between Rigvedic vocabulary and Indus Valley inscriptions, challenging invasion narratives.

Rigvedic And Written Mature Harappan 2

art

Continues the exploration of linguistic parallels between Rigvedic Sanskrit and the undeciphered Indus script, proposing structural correlations.

Sarasvati Palaeochannel Groundwater Remote Sensing

art

Scientific study using remote sensing to map ancient Sarasvati palaeochannels and groundwater distribution in the Thar Desert region.

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

story

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

The Beautiful Tree

story

Historical argument about indigenous education in India before colonial disruption.

The Eastern Himalayan Corridor In Prehistory

story

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

The Harappan Heritage And The Aryan Problem

narrative

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

The Kalās

art, aesthetic

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

The Origins of Racism in the Humanities

story

Argument about how racial categories entered humanistic scholarship through philology and related disciplines.

The Paramarthasara of Adisesa

art

Philosophical text associated with non-dual Shaiva traditions and the path to liberation.

The Perils of Textual Transmission

story

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

The Redemption of the Brahman

story

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

The Sankhya System by Keith

story

Scholarly account of Sankhya doctrine in historical and comparative perspective.

Vākyapadīya

art

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

Vamana Purana

narrative

Edition or translation of the Vamana Purana, mythic narrative, pilgrimage, and Vaishnava themes around the Vamana tradition.

Vedic Roots Of Early Tamil Culture

literature, story

Explores linguistic and cultural connections between early Vedic traditions and ancient Tamil Sangam literature, challenging rigid linguistic divides.

100 Years of Russian Revolution - I - Is Communism Compatible with Democracy?

art, story

Opening the Russian Revolution centenary series: the structural case that communism and democracy are incompatible — not by accident but by design, since the Leninist seizure of power required abolishing democratic legitimacy.

100 Years of Russian Revolution - II - How Communism Killed Freedom of Expression

art, story

How the Soviet suppression of free expression is not a historical curiosity but a living template — the Award Wapsi movement in India as a direct inheritance of communist tactics for manufacturing dissent.

100 Years of Russian Revolution - III - Communism and Treason

art, story

The JNU sedition scandal as a window into communism's structural relationship with treason — why the ideology, from Lenin onward, has always required betraying the nation in service of the global revolution.

100 Years of Russian Revolution - IV - Was Indira Gandhi a Soviet Agent?

art, story

The Mitrokhin Archive and what it reveals about KGB penetration of Indian politics — the evidence that Indira Gandhi's relationship with the Soviet Union went far beyond diplomatic alignment.

100 Years of Russian Revolution - V - How Marxism Still Influences Indian Politics

art, story

Closing the Russian Revolution series: why BJP dominance has not displaced Marxism from India's institutions — the left's grip on academia, judiciary, and media persists beneath the electoral surface.

Azaan and Freedom of Expression - Are They Compatible?

art

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.

Case Against AOL - A Case of Malicious Prosecution

art

How Hindu spiritual organizations become targets of malicious prosecution — the Art of Living controversy as a case study in the left-missionary alliance that weaponizes courts and media against Hindu public figures.

Closing the Pamir Gap - The Great Game Series

art, story

How the Great Game played out simultaneously across multiple theaters — the closing of the Pamir Gap, Russian annexations from Manchu China, and Britain's maneuvering in East Asia all as connected moves in a single geopolitical contest.

Continuous, Comprehensive and Cumulative - The Knowledge Tradition of India

art, story

India's knowledge tradition characterized by three properties that colonial historiography denied it — its continuity across millennia, its comprehensiveness across all domains, and its cumulative rather than rupture-based development.

Did Brahmins Monopolize Knowledge in Ancient India?

art, story

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

art

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.

Fighting for India - Britain vs Russia in the Great Game

art, story

The Galwan Valley clash traced back to its root cause: the Great Game's dismantling of India's traditional buffer states — why India now borders China at all is a legacy of 19th-century British-Russian competition.

Hindu Deities in Central Asia - A Forgotten Chapter of History

art, story

The forgotten Indic presence deep inside Central Asia — how Hindu kingdoms and their deities extended into the Tarim Basin and toward Dunhuang before the Islamic conquests erased what had been a sustained cultural presence.

Hindu Liberals - The Slave Soldiers of Islamism

art

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 Samizdat - How Hindus Respond to Censorship and Bias

art

The emergence of independent Hindu digital media as a samizdat response to mainstream censorship — how the Soviet underground press becomes the analogy for what Hindu journalists built outside the left-controlled media ecosystem.

Hindu View of the Simulation Hypothesis

art

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

art, story

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 to Become a Superpower - Inside the Great Game

art, story

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.

How Turkey and Germany Planned Holy Jihad Against India

art, story

The WWI German-Ottoman plan to use Islamic Jihad to destabilize British India via Persia and Afghanistan — how Enver Pasha and Berlin tried to turn India's Muslim population into a weapon of war.

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

art, story

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.

In the Name of Defending Islam - I - Understanding the Muslim Psyche

art

The 2020 Delhi Riots as a diagnostic event — what they reveal about the structural dynamics of the radical Muslim psyche, the myth of Hindu provocation, and the pattern that has repeated across fourteen centuries of Islamic expansion.

In the Name of Defending Islam - II - How Radical Muslims Play Victim

art

How radical Islam systematically inverts the aggressor-victim relationship — the global media architecture that transforms Hindu self-defense into Hindu aggression, and why this inversion is structurally necessary to the ideology.

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

art

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

art, story

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.

Letter to a Moderate Muslim

art

Closing the Unfinished Agendas series: the open letter that argues the moderate Muslim does not exist — that moderation and radical Islamic ideology are structurally incompatible, and the secular Hindu's belief in this figure is a lethal self-deception.

Making of Early Kashmir - The Making of a New Literary Star

art, story

Review of Shonaleeka Kaul's The Making of Early Kashmir — how the Rajatarangini constructs Kashmiri identity through sacred landscape, and why this emic reading of history challenges the colonial separation of geography from meaning.

On What is a Hindu Temple

art, story

Dr. R. Nagaswamy on the essential nature of the Hindu temple — what it actually is, why its origins predate Buddhism, and how the Western academic genealogy that credits Buddhism with inventing the temple form gets the history exactly backward.

Pundits - How Hindu Hillmen Secretly Mapped Central Asia

art, story

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

art, story

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.

Race for Lhasa - The Great Game Series

art, story

The race to Tibet at the turn of the 20th century — how Britain and Russia competed for influence over Lhasa after the Pamir Gap was closed, and what the Younghusband Expedition's forced entry into Tibet meant for the final phase of the Great Game.

Re-imposing the Jizyah - Decoding Sharjeel Imam's Speech

art, story

Sharjeel Imam's Shaheen Bagh speech decoded through classical Islamic jurisprudence — the argument that modern India's treatment of Hindus already constitutes an informal Jizyah, and that what Imam demanded was simply its open declaration.

Shri Ram Swarup on the Communist Challenge

art

Ram Swarup's early writings on communism as a spiritual and civilizational threat — recovering a neglected dimension of the Voice of India thinker whose work on Islam and Christianity overshadowed his equally penetrating critique of Marxism.

Story of a Priest

art, story

Portrait of the head priest of the Hoysala-era Veera Narayana Temple at Belavadi — how a 12th-century heritage temple survives and what the priest's life reveals about the community of practice that keeps the living tradition alive.

Tapan Ghosh - A True Hindu Warrior

art

Obituary for Tapan Ghosh — the Hindu Samhati founder who gave decades of his life to documenting and resisting the persecution of Hindus in Bengal, and whose death represents an irreplaceable loss to the Bengali Hindu community.

Teaching and Research - The Rot That Has Set In

art

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

art

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.

Thou Shalt Not Comment - The Dictatorship of Scroll.in

art

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 - Case 1 - Lebanon

art, story

Lebanon as the case study of how a Muslim minority achieves demographic dominance — tracing the mechanisms by which a Christian-majority country was transformed, and what this trajectory means for every country with a growing Muslim population.

Unfinished Agendas of Radical Islam - Case 2 - Armenia and Turkey

art, story

The Armenian Genocide as the first genocide of the 20th century — how Turkey's secular Muslim state proved no less lethal to its Christian minorities than an explicitly Islamic one, and why the denial continues to this day.

Unfinished Agendas of Radical Islam - Case 3 - Greece and Spain

art, story

Greece and Spain as the cases of temporarily reversed Islamic conquest — why the population transfers that ended Ottoman rule in Greece are cited by Hindu nationalists as the model India failed to follow, and what Spain's Reconquista reveals about civilizational recovery.

We the Hindus - What the CAB Means for Hindu Civilization

art

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

art, 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.

Why Saba Naqvi is Afraid of Mullahs on TV - And Why We Must Encourage That

art

The internal contradiction in secular Muslim commentators opposing mullah visibility on TV — what Saba Naqvi's discomfort reveals about who actually speaks for Indian Muslims, and why Hindu society should want the authentic voice to be heard.

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

art, story

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.

Modernity in TV Drama

drama

Reflections on tradition vs. modernity from the TV show Yellowstone.

On Meso-American History

story

Some thoughts on representations of Mesoamerica and its history.

Dharmic Design

aesthetic, aesthetics

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.

Structure of Hindu Charity

narrative

How much charitable activity do Hindus actually conduct - and what does documenting it reveal about the false narrative that missionaries filled a philanthropic vacuum in India? Field studies measuring Hindu philanthropy in cash, kind, and services across Indian towns and villages.

The Artist in Art

art, artist, aesthetic, aesthetics

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.

What does Being Indian Mean

art

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

School of Cultural Traditionalists

natya, art, aesthetic, aesthetics

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

aesthetic, aesthetics, narrative, story

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.

Arthur Koestler

art

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.

Bernd Heinrich

art, meaning-making

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.

Dharampal

story

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

dance, art, aesthetic, aesthetics

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.

MS Hiriyanna

aesthetic, aesthetics

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.