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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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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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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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Decolonization - A Personal Footprint and Some Ramp Ways
In the noise that words with wide circulation receive, their representation is often distorted. 'Decolonization' is one such word. Here we share a personal footprint as the writer looks back at his earliest memories, and outlines some essential ramp ways we all can use.
Amritanshu Pandey
38 min read
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Fractal Maṇḍala 2- the Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy
A continuation and conclusion of part 1, where we established the notion of civilizational trajectory, marked two fundamental problems in it, and appraised the Indian experience on the same to make the case for our civilizational primacy.
Amritanshu Pandey
31 min read
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Conversion to Hindu Dharma - Past Precedents, Present Challenges and Future Possibilities
Can one (particularly a non-Indian foreigner) convert to Hindu Dharma? How does caste feature in this (if at all)? What are the basic duties of a Hindu convert, who may not have any particular sampradāya affiliation?
Ghora Angirasa, Kavita Krishna Meegama
23 min read
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