Published in the ISPAD Partition Center Journal (Oct 2025), this paper challenges claims that vernacular languages in India emerged only under Islamic rule due to a supposed Sanskritic monopoly. It shows that regional literary traditions flourished under Hindu patronage well before this period. The paper also disputes the idea that modern Bengali was artificially Sanskritized by colonial institutions, demonstrating that both Hindu and Muslim writers historically used a shared Sanskrit-based linguistic framework. It further highlights that later attempts to Islamize Bengali had limited success.
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The Mahabharata as an Indic Civilizational Framework: Dharma, Power, and Human Consciousness
The Mahabharata is not merely an epic or religious text but a civilizational framework through which Indian society has long understood power, morality, and human conflict. Rather than offering rigid moral binaries, it presents dharma as contextual and relational, shaped by responsibility and awareness. Through complex characters and difficult choices, the epic explores the burdens of power, the psychology of action, and the consequences of ethical failure. In doing so, it functions as a living guide to navigating moral ambiguity within society.

Nuwari of a Story!
A single mustard-and-maroon saree becomes the thread weaving together generations of memory. As a mother recounts its journey - from saree to half-saree, curtain, cushion cover, and album cover—her daughter discovers how fabric can carry family history. Each transformation holds laughter, sisterly love, and the ingenuity of making do with what one has. In the end, the saree becomes more than clothing - it becomes a living archive of relationships, creativity, and continuity.

Inventing the Oppressor: Social Theory and the Logic of the UGC Regulations
Aryan Anand argues that the debate around the recent UGC guidelines has remained confined to immediate political reactions, ignoring the deeper intellectual frameworks shaping such policies. Drawing on strands of critical social theory, he contends that contemporary policy increasingly operates through rigid oppressor–oppressed binaries. Applied mechanically to the Indian context, this framework risks misreading the complex realities of caste and society. Anand suggests that policies built on such assumptions may ultimately deepen social divisions rather than address them.

Gaffe or Gambit – Did A R Rahman Cross a Line While Keeping Within Others?
Was A.R. Rahman’s reference to a “communal thing” in Bollywood a careless gaffe—or a calibrated signal within a larger minority-progressive discourse? Situating his remarks within a broader pattern of celebrity secularism, this essay argues that selective invocations of intolerance often coexist with studied evasions on questions of history, identity, and civilizational memory. Rahman’s diplomatic silences—on Aurangzeb, on cultural politics, on ideological alignments—appear less accidental than strategic. The result is a familiar cycle: grievance, outrage, clarification, and international amplification. At stake is not merely celebrity speech, but the narrative framing of Hindu-majority India itself.
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Book Review: The Āśrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution
Sukrit Banerjee's review concisely outlines Patrick Olivelle's findings on the evolution of the Āśrama System.
André Malraux on India and Bangladesh – Part 2
In the second installment of André Malraux's views on India and Bangladesh, Dileep Karanth translates an open letter written by André Malraux to the president of the USA, Richard Nixon. In the letter André Malraux questions the stand taken by the newly emerged superpower that the USA was, towards India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
Subhas Bose vindicated
The contribution of Bose in reigniting the desire for independence far surpasses Gandhi's decade old efforts.
Education in India: challenges and way forward
There is absolutely no rationale in denying ourselves the knowledge of our ancient civilization, and infusing our educational curriculum with Indic knowledge is the only way to channelizing the energy of the teeming masses for the purpose of nation building.
Are we the last generation to correct the injustices against Our People?
The time might have finally come when historical wrongs against the Hindus will be recognised and steps will be taken to address them.
Search for Savarkarite Conservatism
Was Vinayak Damodar Savarkar a conservative? Exploring this question, this article by Chandravir Pandey delves into Savarkar's concept of Hindutva, and its alignment with conservative principles. The essay also examines the paradoxes in labeling Savarkar a conservative, given his revolutionary zeal and progressive ideas.
Challenging the dominant discourse on dating of epics
A detailed presentation of his theory of dating Mahabharat to 6th millennium BC and Ramayan to 14th millennium BC by Nilesh Oak.
History Of Freedom Movement: The View Of R.C. Mazumdar – Part 1
Dr Pingali Gopal uses R. C. Mazumdar's book "History of the Freedom Movement in India" as reference to evoke interest in the truth behind the popularised version of the history of India's independence.
Assumptions in Empirical Inferences and the Case of GDP
Brainstorming needs to happen regarding the ideation of prosperity and wellbeing so that a holistic framework to view life can be developed in getting the right perspective to growth.
The Confused Hindu: Victim of Macaulayism
An adherent of Macaulayism can well afford to take the neutral, even hostile stance, away from and above Hindu society, its problems and its struggles, because, in the last analysis, he no more regards Hindu society as his own or as his indispensable benefactor.
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The Greatness of the Rishi tradition in India
A Rishi is one who flows or is in tune with the rhythmic movement of the universe.
Glory and gluttony: Conscious Presentism
The distortion of Hinduism at the altar of European historians for their own benefit has greatly dented the understanding of Indians themselves.
Bhima Karna Yuddha – 5
Bhima cut each of Karna’s arrows into three pieces even as they were flying in air. The battle was so intense that the soldiers around them could hear the sound emanating from their gloves
Conundrum: Subhas Bose’s Life After Death
The man, the myth whose life story has never been fully revealed or understood.
Aryan Origins — An Avoidable Trap
The genetic origins of Aryans is a distraction to keep the Indic side off balance and has little relevance outside of anthropological academic study.
Philosophical Systems Of India – A Primer – Part 4
In the fourth part of the 5-part series on Indian philosophical systems, Dr. Pingali Gopal discusses the prominent Advaitic view on the notions of the Self and the non-Self. We shall also see the notion of cause and effect in the material world and how the Self interacts with the material world. It is a promise of Indian Darshanas that proper knowledge confers liberation to the striving individual.
Krishnavatara
Lord Krishna represents the ideal being whose virtuous qualities have long been ingrained in India's consciousness.
The tricky issue of religious conversion and proselytization in India(Part I)
The universal declaration of a right to religious freedom is part of the problem in India rather than a solution.
Why Swadeshi Indology?
Indians must take ownership of their own culture and heritage if they are to prevent it from getting digested and distorted by scholars who have no inkling of the real ethos of our tradition and who use alien theoretical approaches to interpret Indian texts.
SGPC Ban on portrayal of Sikh Gurus
Sikhism, since its advent, has looked down upon murti pooja. Guru Nanak himself has called Hindus ignorant for worshipping murtis made of stone, instead of the all-encompassing Almighty God.
The same belief is now being applied to pictorial, cinematographic, and animated depictions of Sikh Gurus, their kin, and other eminent Sikh personalities; by the SGPC.
On the existence of the Self: Part 3
The Indian traditional view of the Self and the issues related to the non-Self is in divergence with western thought.
