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Sailing A Stitched Ship - The Indian Kon Tiki

Sailing A Stitched Ship - The Indian Kon Tiki

This article highlights our great shipbuilding heritage and naval history, especially that of the unique stitched ship.

Kavita Krishna Meegama 19 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
Magic in Mohiniyattam - IKS Pedagogy in Practice

Magic in Mohiniyattam - IKS Pedagogy in Practice

What commitments are expected from any student learning an Indian Knowledge Systems? What do these IKS traditions offer us in return? Answers from the pedagogy of IKS in practice.

Kavita Krishna Meegama 13 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
The Global Soil Health Crisis - Implications and Solutions

The Global Soil Health Crisis - Implications and Solutions

This article draws attention to the global soil health crisis, elucidating its adverse environmental effects as well as its impact on human health and nutrition; and calls for the adoption of solutions to mitigate this dire predicament.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu 6 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
Big Agro and the Seed Monopoly

Big Agro and the Seed Monopoly

This article explores big agro, specifically the harmful effects of seed industry oligarchies on agricultural, ecological and economic systems.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu 8 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
Indian Knowledge Systems Part 3

Indian Knowledge Systems Part 3

The purpose of this series of three essays is to make the reader aware of the richness of Indian knowledge systems. It also focuses on the ontological and epistemological foundations of Indian knowledge systems. The series tries to give an overview of how Indian metaphysics differs from the scientific and modern perspectives of knowledge production and understanding of reality.

Dr. Pingali Gopal 30 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
Indian Knowledge Systems Part 2

Indian Knowledge Systems Part 2

The purpose of this series of three essays is to make the reader aware of the richness of Indian knowledge systems. It also focuses on the ontological and epistemological foundations of Indian knowledge systems. The series tries to give an overview of how Indian metaphysics differs from the scientific and modern perspectives of knowledge production and understanding of reality.

Dr. Pingali Gopal 23 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
Indian Knowledge Systems Part 1 - an Overview

Indian Knowledge Systems Part 1 - an Overview

The purpose of this series of three essays is to make the reader aware of the richness of Indian knowledge systems. It also focuses on the ontological and epistemological foundations of Indian knowledge systems. The series tries to give an overview of how Indian metaphysics differs from the scientific and modern perspectives of knowledge production and understanding of reality.

Dr. Pingali Gopal 19 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
SOUL: Agriculture and the Vedas, A Textual Account

SOUL: Agriculture and the Vedas, A Textual Account

A brief account of agricultural references in Vedic literature, be it to methods, processes, the doers, or the products. Vedic society was profoundly agrarian, which sacralised various aspects of agriculture in its corpus of texts.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu 10 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
SOUL: Introduction to Āyurvedic Texts on Agriculture

SOUL: Introduction to Āyurvedic Texts on Agriculture

A brief overview of our major agricultural texts and their contents, plus a background to the methods adopted by SOUL in their model of TCBT farming.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu 10 min read
Indian Knowledge Systems
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