Vanauṣadhi — Forest and Medicine

A Dharmika Frame for Sustainability and Technology

ecology, environment

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.

Indic Environmentalism - A Balance between Tradition and Innovation

ecology, environment

Sanātana Dharma's environmental ethic is central to it - an argument that the dhārmika relationship with nature provides a more coherent ecological framework than either Western environmentalism or techno-optimism.

Archaeobotany Of Ganga Plain 2500 BC

botany, archaeobotany, environment

Paleobotanical analysis of crop remains in the Ganga Plain around 2500 BC, reconstructing early agricultural practices and environmental adaptations.

Gulmavrikshayurveda

plant, plants, ayurveda, tree

Traditional treatise on plants, horticulture, and knowledge systems related to trees and cultivation.

Origin Of Rice

plant

Genomic analysis tracing the domestication and spread of rice in Asia, highlighting multiple independent origins and ancient agricultural networks.

The Beautiful Tree

tree

Historical argument about indigenous education in India before colonial disruption.

Dharmic Circuits - The Temple, The Grove and The Lake - Part 3

forest, ecology

Sringeri as the model of a complete sacred ecology — where the temple, the forest, the river, and the Vedic institution are not separate entities but one inseparable living system.

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

ecology, environment

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, environment

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

forest, 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.

Ivan Illich

medicine

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.

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.