What work could I undertake during these years, that would fulfill my life, that would enable me to pay back the debt owed to my motherland, and to serve my fellow men ever so little...
Editorial
I had not expected that grief would be so disorienting. The experts speak of 'stages'—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance—as if loss was a metro line with clearly marked stops. They do not mention that you will Google 'how to feel normal again' at 3
Theology
The bhakta creates the god. When someone has a profound spiritual experience, they generate divine presence through the intensity of their devotion. The god doesn't exist first, waiting to be discovered. The god emerges from the devotional attention itself. Watch a devotee in deep bhakti toward Ishvara. That
Dear Hindu Atheists, What the hell are you actually doing? Seriously. I need to understand the mental gymnastics required to be born into the only religious tradition in human history that literally has a place for atheists and still feel the need to reject it entirely. It's like
Thought
Nowadays, some "well-meaning" persons are repeating the rhetoric that Sri Krishna's teachings are "universal" and so his connection to India is just cultural packaging we should look past. They take Sri Krishna's wisdom, file off all the "cultural stuff," and
Editorial
Tell me if you nod along with any of this: Pakistan is a struggling democracy, victim of colonial legacy, fighting terrorism while managing complex regional dynamics. Western foreign policy experts make sense when they talk about "strategic partnerships." Indian liberals have a point about "people-to-people connections"
Thought
August 15th is not a day for celebration. It's a day for paying attention. We turn 1947 into a morality play—bad people did bad things, good people tried their best, everyone learned important lessons about tolerance. Case closed, problem solved. Except we are ignoring the instruction manual
Editorial
Dear defender of the faith. You think you're seeking truth, don't you? You've got your worldview all mapped out—your beliefs about God, politics, human nature, whatever gets you through the day. You've built yourself a nice little ideological fortress, and you
If you actually look at how wealth moved through Hindu societies, you find something that doesn't fit the usual categories i.e capitalism, socialism, feudalism etc. No slavery. No serfdom. No systematic extraction of tribute from conquered peoples. Every other major civilization we know of today was built
Editorial
Dear atheists. I get it. I really do. You figured out Santa Claus was not real around age eight, and you've been applying that same ruthless logic to everything since. God? Mythology. Soul? Brain chemistry. Meaning? Human construct. Purpose? Evolutionary accident. You've stripped away the comforting
Decolonize
The pattern is everywhere once you start looking. Indian "progressives" erupt over century old colonial atrocities in Canada. Land acknowledgments get retweeted. Cultural genocide gets named and shamed. The civilizing mission gets exposed for what it was—systematic destruction dressed up as salvation. Then silence. Complete radio silence
Dharma
When it comes to Hindu philosophy there's no such thing as separation. At least, not in the way we typically think about it. You, me, that tree outside your window, the argument you had with your neighbor last Tuesday—all of it threads through the same cosmic fabric.
Editorial
People without roots don't fight back. That's why they cut yours. You think losing your culture happened naturally? You think forgetting your family's stories, abandoning your traditions, and feeling ashamed of your ancestors' ways is just "progress"? Wake up. This was