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Scenes from a Village That Never Was

From the binaries of post-Independence cinema to the nihilism of contemporary crime dramas, and from the everyday realism of Phulera to its recent slippage into self-conscious performance, the article considers how and why the village continues to be reimagined in TV shows/movies.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 11 min read

Culture And Policy

Before the River, After the Flood - Rethinking India’s Water Imaginaries

A reflective piece that traces how our developmental gaze in India has long imagined the river as a fixed line to be mapped, managed, and monumentalized while ignoring the more intimate, seasonal logic of wetness that has traditionally shaped our relationship with water.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 16 min read

Culture And Policy

The Parenting Pause

In Sikkim, a French friend’s confusion about Indian parenting set off a larger meditation on parenting, childhood, and the quiet wisdom we’ve forgotten.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 8 min read

Dharma Today

Beyond the Wall - Reimagining Art, Knowledge, and the Epistemic Order

An article reflecting on James Stephanoff’s An Assemblage of Works of Art. The piece explores how museum displays and aesthetic arrangements are deeply implicated in the politics of representation, meaning-making, and epistemic control.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 7 min read

Dharma Today

Reclaiming the Forest - Against the Modernist Myth of Environmentalism in India

The piece offers a civilizational critique of Ramachandra Guha’s recent work Speaking with Nature. It attempts to foreground indigenous, Vaidika, and dhārmika perspectives on environmental ethics as lived ontology deeply embedded in our texts, practices, and lifeworlds rather than modern ideology.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 12 min read

Culture And Policy

Can Machines Teach What They Cannot Feel? Rethinking AI and the Human in Indian Education

Part 2 in a series on AI and education, taking a deeper look at what is often overlooked when AI systems are introduced into learning spaces, particularly in India. A reflection on five aspects of education that AI cannot meaningfully replicate - consciousness and emotion, social interaction, adaptation and learning, physical presence, and decision-making.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 14 min read

Culture And Policy

Girl in the White Frock | Nostalgia, Decline, and the Reinvention of Nirma

A reflection that weaves together business history and cultural storytelling, viewing Nirma not just as a brand that once dominated the detergent market but as a metaphor for India’s shifting aspirations and evolving self-image. What happens when a brand becomes iconic but forgets to grow with its audience?

Dr. Anurag Shukla 6 min read

Culture And Policy

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | The Language Warrior Who Undid Empire with Words

An obituary-cum-tribute on the life and work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the legendary Kenyan writer, thinker, and decolonial scholar who passed away recently. The piece seeks to go beyond a conventional obituary and instead make a deeper argument about why his work matters, especially to those of us engaged in civilizational thinking, language politics, and cultural resistance.

Dr. Anurag Shukla 7 min read

Culture And Policy

Whispers of the Earth | Reclaiming the Sacred Grammar of Architecture - Part 1

A celebration of architecture as living memory and ethical ritual, this essay rejects the sterility of modernist design in favor of earth-rooted, place-based wisdoms. It invites us to reimagine buildings not as structures but as stories - woven through ecology, ritual, and community.

Dr. Anurag Shukla, Srushti Joshi 12 min read

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Dr. Anurag Shukla

Scenes from a Village That Never Was

Before the River, After the Flood - Rethinking India’s Water Imaginaries

The Parenting Pause

Beyond the Wall - Reimagining Art, Knowledge, and the Epistemic Order

Reclaiming the Forest - Against the Modernist Myth of Environmentalism in India

Can Machines Teach What They Cannot Feel? Rethinking AI and the Human in Indian Education

Girl in the White Frock | Nostalgia, Decline, and the Reinvention of Nirma

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o | The Language Warrior Who Undid Empire with Words

Whispers of the Earth | Reclaiming the Sacred Grammar of Architecture - Part 1