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...
Dharma
You've been trained your entire life to look for the single right answer. One God. One book. One prophet. One path to salvation. The structure is clear, the hierarchy is fixed, the questions are settled. Abraham's children—Jews, Christians, Muslims—all share this fundamental assumption: there&
Who gets to tell the story of Hindu society ? Anyone but Hindus. Hindus have two big problems. The first problem: They're portrayed incorrectly. The second problem: When they try to correct it, no one listens. It's not an accident. It's how colonial powers maintain
Editorial
Dear Western mind, let me guess what happened when you first tried to understand India. You pulled out your map of the world. Clean borders, color-coded countries, everything in its proper place. Developed nations in blue, developing ones in yellow. Religious societies over here, secular ones over there. Traditional cultures
Orientalism didn't just appear out of thin air. It was born in the halls of European academia, a child of colonial ambition and intellectual curiosity. European scholars, driven by a mix of genuine interest and imperial motives, turned their gaze eastward. They studied languages, pored over ancient texts
Sanatana Dharma isn't just a collection of texts or philosophical ideas. It's a living tradition that breathes through the millions who practice it daily. The rituals, festivals, temples and community structures of Hindu society aren't separate from the dharma—they're its physical
Dharma
Have you ever stood at the edge of the ocean and watched a single wave approach the shore? This one particular wave with its own shape, its own rhythm, its own moment of rising and crashing. It seems completely distinct from every other wave around it. Yet that wave is
Editorial
The inside story of how Washington turned Europe into its concubine without firing a shot. The first rule of the Great Energy Heist is: you do not talk about the Great Energy Heist. The second rule is: Europe doesn't get to have cheap energy anymore. There is one
Dharma
Consciousness is not merely awareness; it's the luminous backdrop against which the mind performs. The mind operates atop neural processes—like a conductor before an orchestra, but consciousness is the concert hall itself. The space that makes the performance possible. Our mental clutter obscures this fundamental relationship. We
Decolonize
Western scholars approach Sanskrit with impressive academic rigor—parsing verb forms, tracing etymologies, and constructing elaborate linguistic frameworks. What's missing in their work isn't intellectual capacity but receptivity to a different kind of knowledge. Sanskrit isn't just an ancient language to be cataloged alongside
Decolonize
What happens when your enemy disappears but your enmity remains? The Soviet Union's collapse created an identity crisis for communist movements worldwide. It wasn't just that they lost their ideological headquarters—they lost their guiding star, their proof that the revolution could succeed. For India'
Thought
Secularism stands for religious neutrality, but in India, it's morphed into a rigged game where some faiths become punching bags while others enjoy protective bubbles. All while the gatekeepers pretend they're being fair. There's dictionary secularism: religion and state kept separate. Clean lines. No
Editorial
Dear self proclaimed leftist. There are things you disapprove of and things you despise and beyond all these things, on top of the disapproval ladder is the Hindu nationalist or what the JNU alumni call, the Hindutvawadi. Like an INS warship cruising the vast Indian Ocean that has a radar