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Ghosts in the Mangroves

Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye comes as a meditation on ecology, memory, ritual, and the limits of modern rationality, where rivers, mangroves, and local deity traditions emerge as living archives of civilizational knowledge.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

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Book Review | Renewing Eternity: Traditional Perspectives for the Modern Hindu by Maragatham

A review of Renewing Eternity, reflecting on modernity, memory, and the search for a Dhārmic understanding of our civilization's past and present.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu

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Book Review | The Long Siege by Chaitanya Giri

A rethinking of colonization as a technopolitical and scientific lag, rather than a mere historical episode.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu

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Book Review | Bishnois and the Blackbuck: Can Dharma Save the Environment?

Anu Lall's book is a reminder that the environmental crisis is, at its core, a crisis of how we see ourselves in relation to nature.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu

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Ghar evam Vastu: A Return to India’s Living Architectural Wisdom

The third volume of the Bharat Gatha series curated by the Late Guruji Ravindra Sharma ji’s devoted śiṣya, Sh. Ashish Kumar Gupta, brings forth Guruji’s timeless wisdom on Ghar evaṃ Vāstu: Home and its sacred alignment.

Tanya Fransz

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Filming through the adhyātmika lens: A review of the film ‘Abhang Tukaram’

A review of a film exploring Sant Tukaram’s bhakti through the adhyātmika lens.

Pornima Rajkarne

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Bharatiya Jati/Gyati Vyavastha: Reclaiming the Living Wisdom of Jati and Varṇa - Bharat Gatha series

The seventh book of the Bharat Gatha series dedicated to Guruji Sh. Ravindra Sharma ji's lived wisdom reclaims Jāti as a living, knowledge-based ecosystem that is rooted in jñāna and interdependence, that helped each village once thrive through 360+ skills.

Tanya Fransz

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India’s Village System: Bhāratīya grāma-vyavasthā - Bharat Gatha series

The 'Bharat Gatha' series of publications are reflections on Guruji Ravindra Sharma ji’s work, and the civilizational grammar of Bhārata, by Sh. Ashish Kumar Gupta. Through this sixth offering, one gets to delve deep into the Bhāratīya grāma vyavasthā.

Tanya Fransz

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Book Review | Awakening the Nation

A Review of Awakening the Nation: Rediscover the Spirit of India with Swami Vivekananda

Sai Priya Chodavarapu

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Ghosts in the Mangroves

Book Review | Renewing Eternity: Traditional Perspectives for the Modern Hindu by Maragatham

Book Review | The Long Siege by Chaitanya Giri

Book Review | Bishnois and the Blackbuck: Can Dharma Save the Environment?

Ghar evam Vastu: A Return to India’s Living Architectural Wisdom

Filming through the adhyātmika lens: A review of the film ‘Abhang Tukaram’

Bharatiya Jati/Gyati Vyavastha: Reclaiming the Living Wisdom of Jati and Varṇa - Bharat Gatha series

India’s Village System: Bhāratīya grāma-vyavasthā - Bharat Gatha series

Book Review | Awakening the Nation