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...
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
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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
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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
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Ahinsa wasn't what you're taught it was. When the British left India, they didn't leave because they lost. They left because they found the perfect exit door. When you're a colonizer, you have two ways to go home. You can be kicked
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Most successful countries have a bureaucracy that enables. India has one that prevents. When a nation's default response to innovation, growth and change is 'no, unless we specifically allow it', —it's a system designed for control, not progress. India's bureaucratic labyrinth wasn&
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The popular narrative goes like this. One day, in 2014, Narendra Modi ascended to the chair of the Prime Minister of India, waved a wand and it immediately turned hundreds of millions of Indians into despicable, self-respecting hindutva-wadis, who then without question, proceeded to accept him as their supreme leader.
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When you're labeled an Eminent Historian, you get a free pass. Your claims don't need the same burden of proof that others require. Say something with enough confidence, and your reputation does the heavy lifting. "Trust me, I'm an Eminent Historian" becomes