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What Kind of Mind Does Schooling Make?

Schooling too often fills memory and rewards performance, but Sri Aurobindo asks us to judge education by the kind of mind it forms: attentive, perceptive, ethical, imaginative, rooted, and inwardly free.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

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M. V. Dhurandhar and the Afterlife of Colonial Realism

M. V. Dhurandhar was one of colonial India’s great artists, who used European realism not to imitate the British but to paint Indian rituals, women, gods, communities, and everyday life with dignity.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

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The Monster, the Self, and Dharma: Reading Frankenstein Through Indian Philosophy

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reconfigures the narrative from one of transgressive creation to one of ethical abandonment within fractured relational orders. It foregrounds a deeper failure: not the act of making life, but the collapse of sustaining relations that render life intelligible, recognizable, and morally accountable.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

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84 kos of Braj and the Excavations at Bahaj - Part Six: Groundbreaking discoveries (contd.)

In the final part of this series, we continue to learn more about the interesting discoveries made at Bahaj, like that of a Yajñakuṇḍa, and analyse their significance in the history of India.

Dr. Vinay Kumar Gupta

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The Slow Intelligence of Water

India’s older cities lived with rain through tanks, wells, and shared water cultures. Today’s floods and scarcity reflect not just poor infrastructure, but the loss of that civilizational memory.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

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84 kos of Braj and the Excavations at Bahaj - Part Five: Groundbreaking discoveries

New discoveries from Bahaj reveal a continuous cultural landscape stretching from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to early yet developed civilizations in the Braj region.

Dr. Vinay Kumar Gupta

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Merchants Without a Crown

Sindh’s Hindu merchants, capital without sovereignty, and the quiet prehistory of British conquest.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

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84 kos of Braj and the Excavations at Bahaj - Part Four: Unearthing Antiquity in Braj: Objectives and Methods

The fourth part of this series examines the specific location selected for excavation at Bahaj, the rationale behind its selection, and the procedures followed during the excavation.

Dr. Vinay Kumar Gupta

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Part Three: Tracing Civilizational Continuity - 84 kos of Braj and the Excavations at Bahaj

This article explores the archaeological excavations at Katra Keshavdev, Mathura, and Sonkh, highlighting how these earlier digs paved the way for Dr. Vinay’s landmark excavations at Bahaj. It examines the cultural sequences, pottery traditions, and findings that reveal the continuity and evolution of ancient Braj civilization.

Dr. Vinay Kumar Gupta

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What Kind of Mind Does Schooling Make?

M. V. Dhurandhar and the Afterlife of Colonial Realism

The Monster, the Self, and Dharma: Reading Frankenstein Through Indian Philosophy

84 kos of Braj and the Excavations at Bahaj - Part Six: Groundbreaking discoveries (contd.)

The Slow Intelligence of Water

84 kos of Braj and the Excavations at Bahaj - Part Five: Groundbreaking discoveries

Merchants Without a Crown

84 kos of Braj and the Excavations at Bahaj - Part Four: Unearthing Antiquity in Braj: Objectives and Methods

Part Three: Tracing Civilizational Continuity - 84 kos of Braj and the Excavations at Bahaj