blog
Decolonizing Language
# language, sanskrit
How colonialism froze the evolution of North Indian vernaculars by installing FATE languages (Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, English) as prestige languages - and what it would take to let them grow again.
blog
Freedom of Expression
# speech
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
Sanskṛta vs. FATE Languages
# language, sanskrit
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.
book
Aitareya Upanishad
# translation
English edition or translation of the Aitareya Upanishad, highlighting creation, consciousness, and the identity of the self with ultimate reality.
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Taittiriya Upanishad
# translation
English edition or translation of the Taittiriya Upanishad, highlighting the sheaths of the self, brahman as bliss, and the transmission of Vedic learning.
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The Origins of Racism in the Humanities
# philology
Argument about how racial categories entered humanistic scholarship through philology and related disciplines.
lab
Sanskrit Roots and the Ontic Bloom
# sanskrit
Work area for emerging notes and thoughts on Sanskrit roots and their consequence on thinking.
thinker
MS Hiriyanna
# language
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.