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The Battle Against Hindus in Manipur

Ostensibly, the civil war in Manipur is a clash between Kuki and Meitei tribes over poppy plantation disputes and Scheduled Tribe categorization. Behind these tribal rivalries, however, lies a broader civilizational struggle, with Christianity playing a significant role. Only by understanding these arcs can we create long-term strategies for survival and peace.

Pankaj Saxena 11 min read

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Turners of Time - How Hindu Festivals Rotate the Year

Exploring the significance of Holi and Hindu festivals as profound cultural markers that rotate the year, intertwining cosmic cycles with human culture.

Pankaj Saxena 7 min read

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Swami Vivekananda - a Psychologist for Our Times

Explore the ideas of Swami Vivekananda on the importance of direct experience in religious inquiry and the dangers of materialism. Discover Vivekananda's inner conflict on the subject of Vedānta and its potential as the future religion.

Jash Dholani 10 min read

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When Quantum Physicists Read the Upaniṣads

Western science, built on reason, made a shocking discovery in the 20th century that rocked it to its core. The discovery: Reality rests on a substrate of weird. The western mind needed a 'blood transfusion from eastern thought' - but those can be tricky.

Jash Dholani 6 min read

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Towards Dharma-centric Polity - Lokmanya Tilak and the Universalization of Gaṇeśa Utsava

As dharma disappears from daily personal life, and from specific regions, universalized Hindu festivals are capable of bringing dharma back again at the center. As temples become the primary vehicle of Hindu regeneration all over Bhāratavarṣa, festivals can become the Hindu regenerators in the north.

Pankaj Saxena 11 min read

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T. S. Eliot’s Conception of Culture

Cultures across the world produce seekers and seers who bring home the truth. In India, this process is a living tradition. In other places, we have a rare T.S. Eliot who breaks the hold.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu 12 min read

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Cosmic Memory

Fleetingly we sense it, that deeper connection. Like a microcosm that reflects the macrocosm. A cosmic mystery out there, of which we have intuition. Springing from seed, back to seed. Nivedita's poem here invokes this mystery.

Nivedita Tiwari 1 min read

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Kṣetra, Śāstra, Utsava

On this Aṣṭamī, we look at how festivals are to time what temples are to space - they are gradients of divinity.

Pankaj Saxena 13 min read

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What Carl Jung Learnt from India

Jung once wrote on India - It is quite possible that India is the real world, and that the white man lives in a madhouse of abstractions.

Jash Dholani 6 min read

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The Battle Against Hindus in Manipur

Turners of Time - How Hindu Festivals Rotate the Year

Swami Vivekananda - a Psychologist for Our Times

When Quantum Physicists Read the Upaniṣads

Towards Dharma-centric Polity - Lokmanya Tilak and the Universalization of Gaṇeśa Utsava

T. S. Eliot’s Conception of Culture

Cosmic Memory

Kṣetra, Śāstra, Utsava

What Carl Jung Learnt from India