Video Series

Bodha

A video series featuring essential conversations on culture and civilization, filtered through the lenses of svayaṃbodha and śatrubodha.

All Episodes

Bodha | Intro | Sri Aurobindo School of Bhavani Bharati | Shri Ramachandra Roddam | Raghava Krishna

Firekeepers of Civilization. Our foundational work to provide self-authoring pathways for Svayambodha, Śatrubodha and Saudaryabodh is built on a creative core - Our 'Schools of Thought' The...

Bodha | EP 01 | History of Hindu Renaissance | Pankaj Saxena | Raghava Krishna

Hindus Interrupted. At a deeper level, the debate on Bhārata vs. India represents a loss of our meaning-making structures. We need to reclaim our story, especially the modern story, to achieve...

Bodha | EP 02 | Shri Ram Swarup | Yogic Chittabhumi | Pankaj Saxena | Raghava Krishna

We trace evolution of Hindu intellectual movements and the contributions of 'Firekeepers of Civilization' in our series Bodha. The baton passes from Sri Aurobindo’s School of Bhavānī Bhāratī to...

Israel-Palestine Conflict | Bodha | Pankaj Saxena

What are the religious and civilizational motivations to what is happening in Middle East today? Why are Sunni and Shia factions coming together? Pankaj Saxena explains the long game behind the...

Bodha | EP 03 | Dynamics of Hindu Movement Today | Pankaj Saxena | Raghava Krishna

The spectrum of Hindu thought. The current divides, fault lines, and range of perspectives that exists. What are the main ideological contestations in Hindu movement today? Political...

Bodha | EP 04 | Nihilists of Hindutva | Pankaj Saxena | Raghava Krishna

Modernity and Tradition Is it a debate between old and new? What is to be preserved, conserved and taken forward? And what needs to be changed, what is contingent upon time and place? Tradition...

Bodha | EP 05 | Dharma Drishti | Raghava Krishna | Pankaj Saxena | Amritanshu Pandey

Dharma-Dṛṣṭi. What does it mean to us? How is Guru Paramparā an integral part of this? Is there any other way we can develop this dṛṣṭi? Watch Raghava Krishna, Pankaj Saxena, and Amritanshu...

Bodha | EP 06 | Hindu Expansionism | Pankaj Saxena | Amritanshu Pandey

Expansion in tune with Ṛta is Bṛhat. As our bodies expand in size, our minds in bandwidth and our consciousness in purity, so does a society feel the inevitable urge for expansion. But is this...

Bodha | EP 07 | Ecological Footprint of a Hindu: Ṛta, Ṛṇa and Brahmānḍa

Nature works through yajñas; it is a cosmic cycle which oblates itself into itself. The dhārmika cultural matrix too, thus, follows the template of yajñas, maintaining harmony with the elements,...

Bodha | EP 08 | The Hindu Approach to Technology

A civilization's utilization of natural resources is a mark of its technology, but wanton exploitation does not translate to high culture. In our last episode on Bodha, we understood the...

Bodha | EP 09 | Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children | Hindupedia

In our latest Bodha episode, we discuss the book 'Colonial Discourse and the Suffering of Indian American Children' by Dr. Kundan Singh and Śrī Krishna Maheshwari of Hindupedia. This episode...

Bodha | EP 10 | Savarkar: Ideas and Ideals Part 1 | Sushant Gangoli | Anshuman Panda

Savarkar. This name evokes reverence and emotion, but most importantly, it signifies clarity. Clarity such as on the definition of who is, and who isn't a Hindu. As we draw our inspiration from...

Bodha | EP 11 | Understanding the Dharma of Game Design | Sowmitri and Dheeraj | Brahman Studios

"Black Myth Wukong", the Chinese video game from the stable of Game Science, has taken the internet by storm through its unapologetic depiction of Chinese culture. Although still nascent, game...

Bodha | EP 13 | Being Hindu in Bangladesh Today | Deep Haldar | Anshuman Panda

Vijayadaśamī is incomplete if we allow our brethren across the border to be subjugated for their Hindu identity. What is happening in Bangladesh currently is a slow choking of the expression of...

Bodha | EP 21 | Eminent Distorians | Utpal Kumar | Cherish Rajpurohit

History shapes our understanding of identity, but what happens when key events and figures are selectively narrated—or even distorted? In this insightful conversation, Utpal Kumar, author of...

Bodha | EP 23 | Hindutva - Creative Synthesis for Sanatana Futures | Pankaj Saxena | Raghava Krishna

Navigating the complexities of democracy and preserving the spiritual architecture of Hindu society, Hindutva faces its own challenges. From the crisis of the liberal order to the spectacle of the...

Bodha | EP 26 | Caste-icide | Mahalingam Balaji | Kavita Krishna Meegama

Our podcast on Mahalingam Balaji's book 'Caste-icide', focused on debunking the current false and misleading propaganda about ‘Caste System’. The eBook is available on Kindle Unlimited for free,...

Bodha | EP 27 | Indian Archaeology and Population Genomics | Prakash Pichumani | Amritanshu Pandey

Śrī Prakash Pichumani is a researcher into genomics, linguistics, and archaeology, and runs the brilliant handle @Ugra___ on X. This Bodha episode is a discussion through various aspects of Indian...

Bodha | EP 28 | From Nyaya to Neural Nets | Nikhilesh Ghushe | Srinivas Jammalamadaka

Anchored in ancient wisdom, IKS offers design grammar for modern tech. Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika and Vyākaraṇa are more relevant than ever, offering a roadmap for meaning-making in machines. A conversation...

Bodha | EP 29 | Grammar of Greed | Aseem Shrivastava | Sai Priya Chodavarapu | Raghava Krishna

‘The excess of light discloses facts and also conceals them.’ — Alfred North Whitehead, Adventure of Ideas Like gravity, greed is everywhere. But it is rarely called by its true names. Usually some...

Bodha | EP 30 | Culture and Context in Indian Policy | Dr. Nisha Pandey | Raghava Krishna

Why do policies that look perfect on paper often fail on the ground? In this thought-provoking conversation, Dr. Nisha Pandey, Director at Gujarat Institute of Development Research, joins Shri...

Bodha | EP 31 | The Hindi Medium Types | Book Discussion | Amitabh Satyam | Tanya

Why is it that one looks down upon their own? Upon those Indians who speak Indic languages and exhibit Indic culture, snidely labelling them as the ‘Hindi Medium Types’ seeing the culturally...

Bodha | EP 32 | Hindu Lands: The Vedic period to Modern times | Dr. Kapil Kapoor | Raghava Krishna

In this insightful conversation, Dr. Kapil Kapoor traces the genealogy of certain tribes mentioned in the Rgveda and in the Mahabharata, which can be identified till the present day. Among other...

Bodha | EP 33 | Indian Philosophies Rediscovered | Dr. Rajeev Kurapati | Cherish Rajpurohit

Indian Philosophies Rediscovered – A journey into timeless wisdom for the modern world. Author Dr. Rajeev Kurapati joins Cherish Rajpurohit in conversation, exploring the depth and relevance of...

Bodha | EP 34 | Saanjh AI: Your Well-Being Story | Nikita Jain | Lipika Jain | Nivedita Tiwari

In this intimate conversation with Nikita Jain and Lipika Jain, we get to know more about https://www.saanjh.ai, a platform that has been designed as a guide for self-diagnosis, self-cure, and...