blog
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.
blog
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.
blog
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.
blog
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.
book
Hindu Studies in a Secular Academy
# institution
Reflection on the institutional framing of Hindu studies and the limits of secular academic categories.
book
Hindu Temples Vol 1
# temple
Documentation and interpretation of the destruction, transformation, and historical memory of Hindu temples.
book
Hindu Temples Vol 2
# temple
Continuation of the documentary record on Hindu temples, iconoclasm, and historical memory.
book
History of Dharmashastras Vol 2 Part 2
# institution, institutions
Reference study of dharmashastra literature continuing discussion of rites, duties, and normative institutions.
book
History of Dharmashastras Vol 4
# institution, institutions
Reference study of dharmashastra themes with detailed treatment of law, custom, and social institutions.
book
Religious Sects of Hindus
# institution, institutions
Survey of major Hindu sects, their doctrines, institutions, and devotional lineages.
book
The Real Threat to Humanities Today
# institution
Essay arguing that methodological decay, not external pressure alone, endangers the humanities.
project
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.
project
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.
project
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.
project
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.
project
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.
question
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?
question
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.
question
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.
question
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.
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?
school
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.
thinker
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.
thinker
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.
thinker
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.