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Desire, Hierarchy, and Dehumanization: A Critique of Anti-Caste Imagination
May 27, 2026May 27, 2026PERSPECTIVEBy Aryan Anand1 0

Desire, Hierarchy, and Dehumanization: A Critique of Anti-Caste Imagination

This essay examines the deeper assumptions behind a provocative anti-caste claim that caste will end only when oppressed communities can marry Brahmin women. Drawing on Frantz Fanon’s analysis of colonial psychology, it argues that such rhetoric often preserves the very hierarchy it seeks to destroy. The article also critiques the reduction of caste to endogamy, exposing conceptual contradictions in modern anti-caste discourse. Finally, it warns against the dehumanization hidden within symbolic “conquest” narratives, where individuals are reduced to tokens in ideological struggles. Ultimately, the essay calls for a more rigorous understanding of caste, equality, and human dignity beyond the language of resentment and inversion.

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It’s the Community, Stupid! Remembering the Lost Art of Celebrating Together
April 27, 2026April 27, 2026TRADITIONBy Charu Uppal5 0

It’s the Community, Stupid! Remembering the Lost Art of Celebrating Together

Once, Navratri Kanjak was more than a ritual—it was a living expression of trust, where every home in the neighborhood welcomed children like family. Today, rising walls and shrinking connections have turned a shared celebration into a hollow formality. This article reflects on how rituals once built community and belonging, and how their spirit fades when relationships disappear. It is both a memory of what was and a call to rebuild neighborhood bonds with intention.

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Category Errors in the Study of Bharatīya Jñāna Paramparā
April 16, 2026April 16, 2026PERSPECTIVE, PHILOSOPHYBy Pavan Kumar Garikapati4 0

Category Errors in the Study of Bharatīya Jñāna Paramparā

Modern scholarship often misreads Bharatīya Jñāna Paramparā by forcing it into text-centric, innovation-driven frameworks that do not match its transmission-based nature. This article argues that the confusion arises from deep category errors about what knowledge is and where it resides. Rather than a collection of texts, the tradition functions as an integrated epistemic architecture sustained through guru–śiṣya paramparā. Recognising this distinction reframes continuity not as stagnation, but as disciplined preservation of valid knowing.

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Accident : A Philosophical Essay
April 04, 2026April 4, 2026PHILOSOPHYBy Anshul Kalia5 0

Accident : A Philosophical Essay

A reflective essay that begins with everyday “accidents” to probe a deeper philosophical question: what is an accident? Moving from legal definitions to Aristotle and Hume, it argues accidents arise from human ignorance of causes. Drawing on Hindu acharyas like Shankaracharya and Ramanujacharya and scriptures like the Isha Upanishad, Bhagavad Gita, and Srimad Bhagavatam, it advances a final insight: what appears accidental is ultimately governed by divine grace.

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The Story of the Musunuri Nayakas – The Rise and Fall of a Telugu Resistance
March 31, 2026March 31, 2026HISTORYBy Ratnakar Sadasyula3 0

The Story of the Musunuri Nayakas – The Rise and Fall of a Telugu Resistance

After the fall of the Kakatiyas, Telugu land was plunged into devastation under the Delhi Sultanate, with temples desecrated and society disrupted. From this chaos emerged the Musunuri Nayakas, who united scattered warriors and waged a fierce resistance to reclaim their homeland. Led by Prolayanayaka and later Kapayanayaka, they drove out invaders and restored cultural life, inspiring wider southern revolts and the rise of Vijayanagara. Yet internal rivalries and betrayal weakened this hard-won unity, leading to a tragic fall. Their legacy endures as a powerful chapter of resilience, resistance, and civilizational revival.

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Dharma, Ecology and Development

The ecological threat to shrines like Kedarnath due to ever-increasing tourist rush is real. While sustainable development is a great buzzword, it is unclear to most people what it actually means in terms of policy and economics.

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Dharmic Knowledge: Essence and significance in the modern age

The lack of understanding of Dharmic knowledge and its gradual dilution has left a void in our society which has been filled by self-proclaimed experts who act as scholars.

In ESSAY

Gunas – The primary colours of personality

Even though sattva is the most desirable guna, it still is not free of ego, desires, and attachments.

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Morality in Language and Dharma

Notions of morality communicated through stories is a much more effective way of embedding values in a society as opposed to codifying them as commandments or laws.

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Menstruation and temple entry (Hindi)

आधुनिकता की आड़ में हिन्दू परम्पराओं पर आक्रमण

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Arya and Swastika

Maligned and associated with the Nazis, the Swastika symbol and the Aryan people have long been the sufferers of anti-Hindu rhetoric.

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Philosophical Systems Of India – A Primer – Part 3

In the third part of the 5-part series on Indian philosophical systems, Dr. Pingali Gopal discusses the most important differing point of Indian philosophies from Western philosophy: Perception as a valid means of obtaining knowledge regarding the objects of the senses. In Western philosophy, perception is unreliable, and in the Indian tradition, perception is the eldest of the proofs needed to understand reality.
Unlike the western notions of an unknowable noumenon where the perceived world loses its intrinsic character, in Indian philosophy a conceived object cannot be unknowable; and if unknowable, it becomes inconceivable as well.

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Breaking Colonial Mind-cuffs – How language has controlled the Hindu psyche

The multi-tier colonial legacy which India has inherited through language has been increasingly tough to dismantle.

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For the Love of Nature

Nature as the Divine Looking back as far as we can see, in the Rig Veda we find Earth and...

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Dissecting Hinduphobia

The West's categories have been force-fitted on India making our civilisation seem crude and archaic.

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Vedakosha Vibhaaga – Origin, organization and propagation of Vedic knowledge

The Vedas and the knowledge contained in them was deciphered by rishis and passed on in the guru-shishya tradition.

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The story of the Param Vir Chakra

The Param Vir Chakra was the amalgamation of the essence of a rishi and the love for Sanatana Dharma infused in a European woman.

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Hindu-Buddhist Conflict in the Chachnama: Fact or Fiction?

Contrary to popular belief that Buddhists suffered at the hands of Hindus, the reality is quite different.

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Solving the Soma Mystery – Part 1

Soma's philosophical meaning can be deconstructed to showcase its entheogenic properties as the elixir of immortality.

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Nachiketa and the Secret of Death

The young Nachiketa approaches Yama as directed by his father and is granted three wishes for his bravery.

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Age of Empires version 2.0

British and Islamic conquests of India were achieved through fundamentally different strategies and both continue to influence contemporary politics in India in different ways.

In PERSPECTIVE

Max Weber’s afterglow

Romila Thapar's recent lecture on Max Weber, in which she rightly pointed out the many misrepresentations of Hindu society in his body of work, demonstrates why ideological adversaries in scholarship should not be branded as evil. Rather, engaging them with reason and objectivity is a much more useful and productive course of action for both sides of the debate.

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Vespers

A poem on civilizational memory, survival and continuity.

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5th August 2020 – A Day of Independence From Fear

The Ayodhya Temple marks a day of independence from the shackles that have bound Hindus for far too long.

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Ahalya Uddhara – A Nuanced Perspective

Is Shri Ramacharitamanasa only a chronicle of Shri Rama's life and times on Earth, or does it hold deeper hidden meanings revealed to the devout upon contemplation?

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Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri

A poem which went through several revisions over 50 years, each time renewed with the growth in Sri Aurobindo's consciousness.

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Freedom, Krishna and Sri Aurobindo: The Civilisational Vision of India

Krishna’s eternal message in the Bhagavadgita is the civilizational vision of India that inspired its freedom struggle and found a new expression in the writings of Sri Aurobindo.

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Garuda – A Unique Amalgamation of Power, Royalty, Divinity & Faith

This article, discusses Garuda, the vehicle of the mighty Vishnu; his presence and influence in iconography and symbology in Bharat and beyond.

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A comparative study of religions

Without having a thorough understanding of what a particular religion entails, we tend to believe statements in everyday life as the truth.

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