Pura — The City

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

fort

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.

Bodha, the Pyramid of Priorities and the Nature of Hindu Organizations

institution, institutions

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.

My Journey with Anveshi

temple

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.

The Problem of Culture Transmission

institution, institutions

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.

A Timeline Of Ayodhya

urban, settlement

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

Amarakośaḥ Devanāgarī

nagari

Devanagari text of the Amarakosha for direct study of the classical Sanskrit lexicon.

Garuda Purana

pura

Edition or translation of the Garuda Purana, afterlife teachings, funerary rites, ethics, cosmology, and Vaishnava doctrine.

Harappan Discontinuity 4500 Ybp

urban

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

Hindu Studies in a Secular Academy

institution

Reflection on the institutional framing of Hindu studies and the limits of secular academic categories.

Hindu Temples Vol 1

temple

Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.

Hindu Temples Vol 2

temple

Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.

History of Dharmashastras Vol 2 Part 2

institution, institutions

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

History of Dharmashastras Vol 4

institution, institutions

Reference study of dharmashastra themes with detailed treatment of law, custom, and social institutions.

Lokopakara

house

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

Matsya Purana

temple, pura

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

Panchayat Raj and India's Polity

institution, institutions

Study of village governance and decentralized political structures in Indian constitutional and civilizational context.

Religious Sects of Hindus

institution, institutions

Survey of major Hindu sects, their doctrines, institutions, and devotional lineages.

Sibri and the South Cemetery of Mehrgarh

settlement

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

The Real Threat to Humanities Today

institution

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

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

institution, institutions

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.

Ancient Temples and Modern Dacoits Part III - The Architectural Workshop of the Gurjara-Pratiharas

architecture, temple

The Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty as the defining force in north Indian temple architecture — the temple clusters of Morena and Naresar as laboratories where the distinctive regional style was forged.

Case Against AOL - A Case of Malicious Prosecution

institution, institutions

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.

Dharmic Circuits - Sacred Pathways - Part 1

temple

The Hindu geography of Bharatvarsha as a structured sacred space — how teertha yatra creates a living network of centers and pathways that defines the cultural boundaries of the civilization.

Dharmic Circuits - The Temple, The Grove and The Lake - Part 3

temple, institution

Sringeri as the model of a complete sacred ecology — where the temple, the forest, the river, and the Vedic institution are not separate entities but one inseparable living system.

Hindu Samizdat - How Hindus Respond to Censorship and Bias

built

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.

How Old is the Hindu Temple?

architecture, temple

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.

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

architecture

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

institution

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.

On What is a Hindu Temple

temple

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.

Story of a Priest

temple, institution, institutions

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.

The Many Meanings of the Hindu Temple

temple

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

built

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.

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

fort

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.

Hindu Frameworks of Education

institution, institutions

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 Models of Temple Management

temple, institution, institutions, management, temple-management

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.

Interchanging Dynamics of the Hindu Family

institution, institutions

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.

Structure of Hindu Charity

institution, institutions

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.

Temples of Madhya Pradesh

architecture, 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.

Does India Need Another Republic

built, institution, institutions

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?

Is Hindu Unity Compatible With Indian Diversity

institution, institutions

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 Hindu Institution Will Generate All Others

city, temple, institution, institutions

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 is the Core of Sanatana Dharma

institution

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 Save Sanatana Dharma

institution

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

built, institution, institutions

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.

Ivan Illich

institution, institutions

The sharpest institutional critic the West produced - his dissections of schooling, medicine, and economic growth argue that modern institutions systematically destroy the autonomous competence they claim to produce - a critique that hits differently once you've read Dharampal.

Kapila Vatsyayana

architecture, built

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.

SK Ramachandra Rao

architecture, 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.