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64 Arts in Ancient India
# skill
Survey of the classical list of sixty-four arts and what it reveals about education and cultured accomplishment.
book
Argument and Design the Unity of the Mahabharata
# design
Study arguing for the literary and philosophical unity of the Mahabharata against fragmenting critical models.
book
Heidegger and the Inquiry into Technology
# technology
Essay using Heidegger to interrogate technology, modernity, and civilizational critique.
book
Indian Science and Technology in the 18th Century
# technology
Documentary study of scientific and technical practices in early modern India.
lab
Dharma as Design
# design
Some views on creativity and design.
project
Structure of Hindu Charity
# service
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, building, making
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.
thinker
Kapila Vatsyayana
# architecture
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.