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Circles of Continuity: India’s Dance Traditions

Indian dance takes root from ritual, labour, celebration, devotion, and theatre—where artforms overlap, evolve, and coexist, carrying centuries of memory and revealing, not a hierarchy of folk and classical, but a single living tradition sustained through constant exchange and renewal.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu

Art Essays

Economy of Ancient Maharashtra

From pastoral settlements to imperial trade: tracing Maharashtra’s ancient economic foundations.

Amogh Vaidya

History

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

Cinema And Books

Sākṣī and the epistemic grounding of knowledge

Fallibilism depends on revision, but only the sākṣī makes error and correction intelligible.

Ajey Pai

Indian Knowledge Systems

RITUAL SELF: Need for fortifying Hindu Ritual Architecture for Containing Meta-Crisis

It is the ritual life that sustained our Civilization through the ravages of time and circumstance.

Ramachandra Roddam

Dharma Today

The Most Misunderstood Karma Conundrum

Karma is often misunderstood as a shackle placed around fallible humans by an exacting God, but it is, instead, a tool offered to Man by a compassionate Bhagavān to script his own destiny.

Bharathi V

Cultural Commentary