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100 Years of Russian Revolution - II - How Communism Killed Freedom of Expression

How the Soviet suppression of free expression is not a historical curiosity but a living template — the Award Wapsi movement in India as a direct inheritance of communist tactics for manufacturing dissent.

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100 Years of Russian Revolution - V - How Marxism Still Influences Indian Politics

Closing the Russian Revolution series: why BJP dominance has not displaced Marxism from India's institutions — the left's grip on academia, judiciary, and media persists beneath the electoral surface.

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Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 1, from Before to Now

AI arrives not as neutral technology but as a civilizational event: a comparison of simulation theory, Vedānta, and modern physics asks whether the intelligence emerging from our machines is something the Dhārmika tradition already has a vocabulary for.

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Artificial Intelligence is Here - Part 2, from Now to Henceforth

Part 2: a proactive Dhārmika framework for navigating artificial intelligence — neither uncritical adoption nor reflexive rejection, but a principled engagement grounded in the Indian understanding of consciousness and purpose.

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A Dharmika Frame for Sustainability and Technology

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.

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

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.

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Grasping for the Beyond - On a Critical Schism in the Modern Psyche

Weber's disenchantment and Jung's diagnosis of the Western mind as a madhouse of abstractions — arguing that the modern psyche's loss of the sacred is precisely the illness that India's living metaphysical tradition can address.

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Hindu View of the Simulation Hypothesis

Nick Bostrom's simulation hypothesis examined alongside the concept of māyā — where the two frameworks converge, where they fundamentally diverge, and why the Hindu model is teleologically richer than the computational one.

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Loren Eiseley

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.

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Is Modernity Compatible With Hindu Values?

Is modernity — with its secularism, rights-framework, and assault on varṇāśrama dharma — compatible with Hindu values, or structurally hostile to Hindu civilization?

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The philosopher of fragility who argues that modern civilization traded a robust, decentralized wisdom tradition for brittle expert systems — and that this trade is actively destroying us while we congratulate ourselves on progress.

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Teaching and Research - The Rot That Has Set In

The HRD Ministry's proposal to de-emphasize research in college promotions — why the policy response is inadequate to the depth of the rot, and what the real diagnosis of India's academic collapse requires.

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Theodore Dalrymple

A prison doctor who documented from the inside the cultural wreckage produced by Western progressivism — his clinical observations are the evidence base for what political traditionalists argue at the level of theory.

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Thou Shalt Not Comment - The Dictatorship of Scroll.in

How Scroll.in built ideological censorship into its comment moderation — the left-liberal digital media's control of who gets to respond, and why shutting down the comments section was the tell that revealed the site's function as propaganda rather than journalism.

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Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma

India walks a tightrope between two dystopias — Orwell's totalitarian surveillance state and Huxley's pleasure-addicted passivity. A Dhārmika reading of both futures and the framework that could thread between them.

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

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.

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Heidegger and the Inquiry into Technology

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

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The Crisis of Hinduism

Reflection on modern challenges facing Hindu civilizational confidence, continuity, and self-understanding.

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Gandhis Theory of Society and Our Times

Interpretive study of Gandhi’s social philosophy, moral politics, and continuing relevance.

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Essays on Tradition, Recovery and Freedom

Essays on cultural continuity, intellectual decolonization, and the recovery of civilizational freedom.

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The Real Threat to Humanities Today

Essay arguing that methodological decay, not external pressure alone, endangers the humanities.

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