2023-06-17 09:22
Would you find it easier if we never met here, and instead met for the first time in death’s repose? It would be easier. When will I see you again in the doubtless, fearless state? We… Read More
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Website for unconventional writings on South Asian history, culture, art, and philosophy.
2023-06-16 01:01
The Maldives are not a country we typically associate with Buddhism. Currently, it is primarily known to the West as a culturally denuded vacation dystopia/utopia catering to the cosmopolita… Read More
2023-06-15 10:32
Though an ominous, violent phrase, I think this I think represents two ends of a similar means of attaining wisdom within the broader Dharmic tradition. Two which are at opposite ends of a p… Read More
2016-11-26 21:40
I won’t be doing this kind of post often. This isn’t even related to South Asia at all except that I’m starting the list with South Asian leaders, but I’m posting it… Read More
2016-11-26 11:38
Portrait of Deshbondhu. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons
Recently I was reading over the “Presidential Address of Desabhandhu C. R. Das at the thirty-seventh session of the Indian… Read More
2016-11-17 17:06
(Click to go back to Part I: Doctrines)
(Click to go back to Part II: Proto-Materialism in Vedic and Tantric Traditions)
(Click to go back to Part III: Orthodox Darshanas)
(Click to go… Read More
2016-11-16 10:39
From “The True Shape of Human Bones — On the Dawn of Anatomical Dissections in Early Modern Japan” By Michel Wolfgang. p 42
Warning! Very graphic imagery ahead if you… Read More
2016-11-14 11:53
Image Source: Quartz India
This recent spate of “right wing” victories which includes Brexit, Trump, and the European nationalists is part of the same global phenomenon whic… Read More
2016-11-12 12:15
Did India have an Ancient Constitution worth respecting, or not? Did the British uphold it, or destroy it? For a Libertarian or Burkean Conservative Hindu, these are important questions t… Read More
2016-11-08 13:24
(Click to go back to Part I: Doctrines)
(Click to go back to Part II: Proto-Materialism in Vedic and Tantric Traditions)
(Click to go back to Part III: Orthodox Darshanas)
Political th… Read More
2016-10-20 11:30
Map of the 16 Janapadas. Source: Wikimedia Commons
I was reading about non-monarchical forms of government in ancient India. Really I was interested in what they call the “Republics&rd&hell…Read More
2016-10-06 13:36
Lysander Spooner. Image Source: Volokh
Wipe out, then, these feudal robbers – the whole race of kings, and queens, and nobles, and all their accomplices in every grade of life, and tak… Read More
2016-08-31 21:48
(Click to go back to Part I: Doctrines)
(Click to go back to Part II: Proto-Materialism in Vedic and Tantric Traditions)
Orthodox Hindu Schools
As anyone familiar with the orthodox Hin… Read More
2016-08-29 10:58
I already made a post about Hindu iconography in Japan, as expressed primarily in Shingon Buddhism. Now I’ll look to the west. As in the east, Hindu iconography appears in an… Read More
2016-08-15 17:57
Here is an example of the style of painting which emerged in India under the British East India Company:
Great Indian Fruit Bat
Date: ca. 1777–82
Geography: India, Calcutta
Culture: C… Read More
2015-02-15 03:33
The cover of Richard Eaton’s book, upon which this post is premised.
I just reread Richard Eaton’s book The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760, and thought I’… Read More
2014-08-17 21:15
“In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent….If a wife obeys her husband… Read More
2014-08-12 21:40
“I warned you once that
Duryodhana’s mischief
Would be the cause of
The annihilation of the kingdom.”
–Vidura in Mahabharata (207.30)[1]
This post will be shorter t… Read More
2014-03-10 07:27
Mahatma Gandhi portrait, 1931. Image Source: Wikimedia
In much of what I’ve recently read on Gandhi, there exists the impulse to find a unifying structure which underlies his thought… Read More
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