Siṃhādi — Animals

A Dharmika Frame for Sustainability and Technology

ecology

The Samudra Manthana as an ancient framework for thinking about technology, resource extraction, and sustainable cooperation - a Dhārmika alternative to both extractivist capitalism and romantic environmentalism.

Ahoi Aṣtamī – How Hindu Dharma Teaches Deep Ecology through Festivals

ecology

A festival most Hindus have forgotten exists - Ahoi Aṣṭamī as a window into how Hindu civilization transmits ecological and relational wisdom through the devotional practice of mothers, one week before Diwali.

Ancient Cattle Genomics

animal, cattle, domestication, genomics

Genomic analysis of ancient cattle domestication in South Asia, revealing independent taurine and indicine lineages and their historical dispersal.

Animal Subsistence In Ganga Valley

animal, zooarchaeology

Zooarchaeological study of animal husbandry and hunting practices in the Ganga Valley, tracing subsistence strategies from prehistoric to early historic periods.

Complex Genetic Origin of Indian Populations and Its Implications

genomics

Genomic study revealing complex admixture patterns in Indian populations, highlighting ancient migrations, endogamy, and regional genetic diversity.

Demilitarizing The Rigveda

horse

Re-evaluates Vedic texts to contextualize references to horses, chariots, and warfare, challenging militarized interpretations of early Aryan culture.

Scratching my head! — Criticism of Narsimhan VM et al 2019

simha

Independent critique of Narasimhan et al. 2019 ancient DNA study, addressing sampling limitations and alternative interpretations of Steppe ancestry.

The Horse And The Aryan Debate

horse

Examines archaeological evidence of horses in ancient India, critically analyzing claims used in the Aryan migration versus indigenous origin debate.

The Prehistoric Peopling Of Southeast Asia

genomics

Genomic analysis tracing ancient human migrations into Southeast Asia, offering insights into population continuity and dispersal patterns.

Equality vs Nature - How Hierarchy Can Help Us Save the Planet

ecology

The ecological crisis requires hierarchy, not equality — why the modern fetish of flat-horizontal social organization mirrors and accelerates the environmental destruction it claims to oppose, and what the dharmic alternative looks like.

The Truth and the Humbug in Greta Thunberg's Climate Change Speech

ecology

Separating the genuine environmental alarm in Greta Thunberg's speech from its ideological packaging — what the climate movement gets right, what it gets wrong, and why the solution requires hierarchy and dharma rather than equality and activism.

Bernd Heinrich

ecology

A naturalist-scientist who lives in a self-cultivated forest and finds philosophical principle in ravens and bees - Heinrich bridges the split between scientific observation and the kind of meaning-making that Hindu tradition never had to artificially construct.

EO Wilson

ecology

The founding sociobiologist whose work on eusociality, biodiversity, and genetic altruism carries the closest Western scientific approximation to the Hindu understanding that human beings are embedded in a larger order - not above it.

James Lovelock

ecology

The scientist who revived the idea that Earth is a self-regulating living system and named it Gaia - which is less a metaphor than a description of something Hindu cosmology had always held without needing a laboratory to prove it.

Loren Eiseley

ecology

An anthropologist who wrote like a poet and thought like a mystic - Eiseley's meditations on time, evolution, and consciousness are the closest Western science has come to the Hindu sense of cosmic scale and existential wonder without borrowing the vocabulary.

Robert Ardrey

ecology

A playwright turned evolutionary anthropologist who argued that human territorial, hierarchical, and aggressive behavior has deep biological roots - demolishing the blank-slate assumptions that underpin liberal social engineering, decades before it became acceptable to say so.

Wade Davis

ecology

An ethnobotanist who spent decades living with indigenous peoples across the world and documented what is actually lost when a language or culture dies - not diversity as abstraction, but irreplaceable knowledge systems encoded over millennia.