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Erasing Hinduism from Yoga: A Powerful Decolonial Call for Dharmic Integrity
This article examines how the Bhagavad Gītā and Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra are sometimes detached from Hinduism through selective academic terminology. It explains why the modern history of the word “Hinduism” does not erase the older continuity of Hindu traditions, sampradāyas, and textual reception. The discussion places yoga within a shared Indic civilizational field shaped by…
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Girmitiya Resilience and the Urgent Test Facing Prosperous Hindu Americans
The Girmitiya experience offers a profound lesson in cultural preservation under extreme hardship. Indian indentured laborers in Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad, and other plantation societies carried Sanatan Dharma across the kala pani with few resources but extraordinary resilience. Their mandirs, festivals, songs, and household rituals became instruments of memory and survival. Today, Hindu Americans face a…
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Bharat Before 1947: Powerful Historical Evidence Against a Colonial Myth
The modern Republic of India began with independence in 1947 and constitutional consolidation in 1950, but Bharat as a civilizational idea is far older. This article separates modern statehood from cultural geography, sacred memory, political history, and dharmic continuity. It examines Bharatavarsha, the Constitution’s phrase ‘India, that is Bharat,’ the mahajanapadas, Ashokan inscriptions, pilgrimage networks,…
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Powerful Truth: Why Erasing the Gītā and Yoga Sūtra Wounds Dharmic Unity
This article examines how denying the Hindu belonging of the Bhagavad Gītā and Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra reflects a deeper problem in modern religious studies. It explains why the colonial history of the word “Hinduism” does not erase the older civilizational continuity of Hindu texts, practices, and lineages. The discussion places the issue within debates on…
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Why Imported Secularism Still Fails India’s Dharmic Civilizational Reality
This essay examines why Western secularism does not map neatly onto India’s dharmic civilizational experience. It traces the term “secular” to European Christian conflicts between Church and State and contrasts that history with India’s decentralized traditions of Dharma, Rajadharma, sampradaya, and sacred plurality. The discussion explains how the 42nd Amendment inserted “secular” into the Preamble…
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Why Dharma Studies Matter: Reclaiming India’s Civilizational Wisdom for the Future
This essay explains why Dharma must remain central to any serious study of Indian civilization and the broader Dharmic traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. It shows how India’s spiritual and intellectual heritage placed human transformation, ethical order, and transcendental realization at the heart of education and culture. The article examines how colonial frameworks…
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Hard Realities of the Bengali Bhadralok: From British Raj Brokers to Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal
This long-form analysis offers a rigorous, non-polemical history of the Bengali Bhadralok from the late colonial period to the Trinamool era. It defines the Bhadralok as an intermediary elite shaped by British institutions yet rooted in a rich civilizational matrix, and explains why Marxist ideas resonated in Bengal’s post-famine and post-Partition moral economy. Readers gain…
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Reclaiming India’s Dharmic Sense of History: Evidence, Empathy, and Method
This essay offers a rigorous, empathetic roadmap to reclaim India’s Dharmic sense of history. It dismantles the colonial trope that Hindus lacked historical consciousness by surveying Itihasa, Puranas, caritras, inscriptions, and temple records across Ancient India and Medieval India. It explains why certain indigenous archives thinned during the medieval era and shows how to read…
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Unmasking Mental Colonialism: English Publishing vs Sanskrit and Bharatiya Bhasha Heritage
This essay examines how social media has disrupted legacy gatekeeping and why that disruption matters for English-language publishing in India. It argues that a prestige hierarchyEnglish over non-Englishhas long shaped acquisitions, prizes, and curricula, producing a deracinated sensibility often mislabeled as cosmopolitan. Drawing on Hartosh Singh Bal’s analysis of the “Literary Raj,” it highlights the…
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Easter Island Reconsidered: Contact, Disease and Colonizationnot ‘Ecocide’Ended Rapa Nui
Easter Island’s decline was long framed as self-inflicted “ecocide.” Recent evidence overturns that narrative, showing a resilient Rapa Nui society undone by European contact, disease, slavery, and cultural suppression. Early visitors found communities nourished and organized despite earlier deforestation, while later expeditions observed disruption after pathogen exposure. Archaeology now challenges popular claims of civil war…
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Reordering Britain’s Myth: A Powerful Satire of Colonial Classification and the Potterverse
Set in a satirical future where Bharat administers Britain, this piece examines how external classificationframed through a Potterverse House systemcan reshape social realities. It traces how myths become templates for hierarchy, how census categories can reward strategic identity claims, and how well-intended policy may still rigidify fluid communities. Readers gain a clear, decolonial lens on…
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Viscount Valentia’s Candid Defense of Slavery and Empire: A Stark Mirror to Colonial Mindsets
This analysis examines Viscount Valentia’s unapologetic support for colonial slavery and empire, using his own words to illuminate the inner logic of British Colonialism. Readers gain a clear view of how strategic paranoia, economic extraction, and religious rationalization underpinned imperial policy from St. Helena to Bengal. The discussion situates Valentia’s defense of slave-laws within the…
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Spiritually Rich, Politically Vulnerable: Why India Fell to British Ruleand Rose United
This analysis examines why a spiritually rich India became vulnerable to British Colonial Rule while preserving civilizational continuity. Drawing on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s cyclical metaphor of the seasons, it situates conquest within broader structural forcesEast India Company strategy, technological-military advantage, and administrative codification. It highlights how dharmic traditionsHinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhismsustained social cohesion…
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How Operation Polo Aborted a Pakistan in South India
The article explores the historical intricacies behind the liberation of Hyderabad, shedding light on the oppressive regime of the Nizams and the atrocities committed by the Razakars against the Hindu populace. It discusses the missed opportunity of the Marathas to dismantle the Nizam’s rule, attributing it to historical factors that allowed the Nizams’ sustained dominance.…
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Why the Uniform Civil Code is a Hindu Civilisational Imperative
This blog post delves into the imperative need for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) within the context of Hindu civilization and the historical impact of Muslim rule in India. It traverses significant historical events, emphasizing the limitations of enforcing Shariat law during various regimes and highlighting the nuanced interplay between Hindu and Islamic legal systems.…
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Do We Want Bharatavarsha to Become a Christian Outpost of the West?
This blog post offers a critical exploration of India’s cultural heritage, emphasizing its non-Abrahamic roots rooted in the Vedas and Dharmashastras. It delves into the absence of pessimism within Indian philosophical thought, contrasting it with the fundamental principles of Christianity and Islam. The narrative scrutinizes historical interventions by colonial powers, particularly British rule’s impact, the…
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Hello New York Times: Time to Eat Your Elitism. This is India’s Century.
The blog post titled addresses the New York Times’ biased and racist coverage of India over the years. The post discusses how Western media, including the New York Times, has portrayed India as a backward and unscientific country, but recent achievements like the successful Chandrayaan 3 mission challenge that narrative. It delves into historical examples…
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When Chapatis Forged the First War of Indian Independence: A Hidden Event
In this intriguing blog post, we delve into the historical significance of the chapati, a simple Indian bread, in the context of the 1857 Indian War of Independence against the East India Company. We explore the widespread distribution of chapatis across North India and its enigmatic role in mobilizing the masses, sparking conspiracy theories and…
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Portraits of the Deracinated Indian Education System
In this thought-provoking blog post, the urgent need for the decolonization of India’s education system is explored. The article delves into the persisting impact of mental colonization, particularly evident in the modern Indian population’s inclination to embrace Western culture, values, and ideals, often prioritizing them over their own heritage. Through historical context and powerful quotes…
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Unveiling the Ancient Ayurvedic Treasure: The Navanītakaṁ Manuscript
Step into the world of ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with ‘Unveiling the Ancient Ayurvedic Treasure: The Navanītakaṁ Manuscript.’ This fascinating journey takes us back in time to explore the rich heritage of Ayurveda, one of the world’s oldest systems of natural healing. The spotlight shines on the remarkable Navanītakaṁ manuscript, a hidden gem that remained obscured…