Śūdra — Craft and Service

64 Arts in Ancient India

skill

Survey of the classical list of sixty-four arts and what it reveals about education and cultured accomplishment.

Argument and Design the Unity of the Mahabharata

design

Study arguing for the literary and philosophical unity of the Mahabharata against fragmenting critical models.

Arthashastra

craft

Classical treatise on statecraft, administration, diplomacy, economy, espionage, and royal governance.

Heidegger and the Inquiry into Technology

technology

Essay using Heidegger to interrogate technology, modernity, and civilizational critique.

Hermeneutics and Narrative Architecture

architecture, design

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

Indian Science and Technology in the 18th Century

technology

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

Indus Valley Electron Microscopy And Crystallography

craft, metal

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

Worked Bone Industry

technology

Archaeological study of bone tool industries in the Ganga Valley, tracing technological continuity from Mesolithic to early historic periods.

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

design

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 - III - Communism and Treason

service

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.

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

labor, workshop, architecture

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.

How Scroll.in is Part of Omidyar's Breaking India Network

architecture

Scroll.in's financial architecture traced to Omidyar Network — how American philanthropic capital funds the Hinduphobic left media ecosystem in India as part of the broader Breaking India project.

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.

Puranas as the Source for a Chronology of Indian History

building

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.

Unfinished Agendas of Radical Islam - The Global Gameplan

architecture

Opening the Unfinished Agendas series: the ideological architecture of radical Islam's global strategy — how the anti-CAA riots are not a spontaneous reaction but a calculated move in a long-running civilizational campaign.

Dharma as Design

design

Some views on creativity and design.

Dharmic Design

architecture, design

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

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.

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.

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.