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Kula, Jāti, Varṇa, Āśrama - Perspective from Principles of Games Design

Our individual and social conundrums are as old as time, but civilizational essence is timeless. What can we learn from new arenas of creative activity, to rediscover the eternal essence? This essay is an exploration of the meta and meaning-making significance of culture and Dharma, via game design.

Raghava Krishna 14 min read

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Ratha as a Bīja of Civilizational DNA, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

Dharma is sanātana, but civilizational emergence follows a worldly trajectory where the technologies we develop shape and form us in turn. Here we look at an ancient technology, the ratha or chariot, and unpack its significance in the Indian civilizational trajectory.

Amritanshu Pandey 12 min read

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Conversion to Hindu Dharma 2 - An Example from Eugene, USA

We read here a personal account from Smt. Kate Herse, and find that being born in the United States did not prevent her from learning the Upaniṣads, leading a dhārmika life, and living as a Hindu. Caste played no part at all in her journey. What is required though is adherence to duties and norms of the sampradāya that she has chosen.

Kate Herse, Kavita Krishna Meegama 14 min read

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A Glimpse into Śākta Worldview and Practice

When Devi or supreme Goddess is worshipped as the primary power, how is the primacy of Devi established in Śākta traditions?

Ramachandra Roddam 24 min read

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Art and Meaning Making

There is a reason that as a culture we were more interested in ‘what happens’ than ‘what happened’. ‘What happened’ becomes dated. ‘What happened’ is limited. While ‘what happens’ is timeless and limitless. The great seers of this great land observed the world from a śuddha citta and created analogies capable of reflecting the timeless and divine principles and messages which are still relevant to us. And they did this through poetry, literature and art.

Pankaj Saxena 11 min read

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History is Ontic but Itihāsa is Ontologic – a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

In this essay we engage in emic freethinking, and look at some names from Indian itihāsa in a new light. How many such stories might we find in the Purāṇas, Epics and other texts? And if we did, would we not understand our past better?

Amritanshu Pandey 20 min read

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Towards Understanding the Aghorī Paramparā – Part 1

The first article in this three part series takes a comprehensive and detailed look at the Aghorī-s, drawing from personal experience and insider’s knowledge of this rare and much misunderstood tradition.

Kavita Krishna Meegama, Prabhav Paturi 17 min read

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Colonial Alienation and the Making of Docile Bodies

Why do Indians display cultural and historical amnesia regarding their own past? What historical processes have led to the situation where we must constantly feel stunted by a deeply implanted sense of degradation and inferiority?

Anurag Shukla 8 min read

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The Problem of Culture Transmission

Tradition is the bedrock on which civilization stands and culture flourishes. And tradition is that which continues. But how exactly does it continue? How is it transferred to the next generation?

Pankaj Saxena 7 min read

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Kula, Jāti, Varṇa, Āśrama - Perspective from Principles of Games Design

Ratha as a Bīja of Civilizational DNA, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

Conversion to Hindu Dharma 2 - An Example from Eugene, USA

A Glimpse into Śākta Worldview and Practice

Art and Meaning Making

History is Ontic but Itihāsa is Ontologic – a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

Towards Understanding the Aghorī Paramparā – Part 1

Colonial Alienation and the Making of Docile Bodies

The Problem of Culture Transmission