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Dāśarājña Recontextualized: Part 2

In this part, we examine and parse the data mentioned in the texts where thorough backing is uncovered for the out-of-India Theory, with Bhārata being the proto-Indo-European homeland.

Amritanshu Pandey 24 min read

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Dāśarājña Recontextualized: Part 1

In this essay series, using substantiated frameworks for out-of-India migrations, and Paurāṇika genealogy, Sudās of the Ṛgveda is introduced as the man who ushered in proto-Bhāratavarṣa.

Amritanshu Pandey 19 min read

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Culture Compatible Public Policy

This essay discusses how public policy could benefit from an infusion of cultural values and mores, and alter the way we think of institutional design.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu 12 min read

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The Dhārmika Gene

A novel re-articulation of the understanding of Dharma, and Bhāratīya culture, as a quest for harmony. Here we contrast the 'Standard Model of Reality' and the biological concept of a 'selfish gene' with the Indian Model of Reality, and the consequent imperative it yields.

Amritanshu Pandey 21 min read

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Svayambodha and Śatrubodha - Two Wheels of Civilization

The Hindu civilizational discourse has arguably entered the sophisticated phase. This is marked by a shift in the content of the discourse, a transition from the political to the cultural, civilizational and metaphysical. What then are the challenges and how can we develop the thinking resources to overcome those?

Pankaj Saxena 16 min read

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Rāma’s Journey – the Avatāra in You, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

We celebrate the return of Rāma with a Festival of Lights, for if his journey- Rāma’s Ayaṇa- is recreated within us, it generates within us the Supreme Light. His journey within us is the journey from untruth to truth. From Darkness to Light. It is the rising of Agni from earth to sky, the ultimate union, or Yoga.

Amritanshu Pandey 12 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?

Dr. Anurag Shukla 8 min read

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Indian Civilizational Consciousness

A short essay on this Independence Day, that re-examines the meaning of 'Indian civilizational consciousness' from the dhātus.

Amritanshu Pandey 10 min read

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Civilization

Dāśarājña Recontextualized: Part 2

Dāśarājña Recontextualized: Part 1

Culture Compatible Public Policy

The Dhārmika Gene

Svayambodha and Śatrubodha - Two Wheels of Civilization

Rāma’s Journey – the Avatāra in You, a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

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

Colonial Alienation and the Making of Docile Bodies

Indian Civilizational Consciousness