People need to question existing patterns

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My column: “The Viswaguru Imperative” - Part:II: 

Sri Aurobindo renounced politics in his thirties and took to the path of his sadhana for India’s regeneration and human transformation. Swami Vivekananda was twenty-nine when he plunged into the sea at Kanyakumari and swam across the shark-infested stretch to meditate on the last rock at the confluence of the three seas, at the end of his countrywide travels as a parivrajak. It was here, while meditating on the plight of his countrymen and compatriots, who were downtrodden and under subjection, that he evolved a plan for India’s regeneration and went on to generate a storm in both the West and India. When Nanu Swami transformed into Sree Narayana Guru, descending from his intense penance on the Maruthwamala Hills, he was thirty-one. It was as Sree Narayana Guru that he founded the Sivagiri Mutt and led the historic and transformative educational, social and religious reform movement that has left a lasting and living imprint on the national psyche…

Which icons do the Modi abusers, whom some tell us can make India Viswaguru, then follow or draw inspiration from? They reject Sri Aurobindo, remain silent on Vivekananda, and have betrayed Ambedkar. Who, then, are their idols? Self-styled Sri Aurobindo experts who pat the self-styled Gen Z Modi abusers on the back and repose faith in their ability to make India Viswaguru must instead ask them to read, absorb and internalise, if at all possible, Sri Aurobindo’s advice to the students of the National College. His appeal to them to “Work that she [India] may prosper. Suffer that she [India] may rejoice…” remains relevant and striking across generations and decades. That appeal, that earnest injunction, is the surest recipe, formula and ideal for India’s rise. It is the only counter to the Grammar of Anarchy and its false harbingers. It is the only authentic way for India to become Viswaguru.

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"Elections may change governments, but societies change only when people begin to question existing patterns and imagine better possibilities..

Throughout his campaign, @PrashantKishor repeatedly spoke about education as the foundation for addressing unemployment, improving livelihoods, and creating long-term opportunities"

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Those who won power by using WhatsApp lies are upset about Instagram Reels and suddenly discovering the virtue of news. Credibility is earned by character and intellectual clarity, not by trolling, twisting and narrative-fixing or blind patriotism.

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So we have kings from all 4 varnas. This means that the varna system is not something that is enforced but just a guideline 

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Essential reading for anyone who really wants to understand Varna function and how it is to be understood and advanced. The innate mapped to function in a fractal way.

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This is where we need clarity and distinction between the social construct and the concept. Varna is macro and also micro, but operates in a pervasive way. "system", "organization" reading of it is a very recent one, inspired by normative colonial morality. There are varna dharmas. It is not described as a social organization in the shastra. All the language you see is "a brahmin should do xyz, king should apply abc rule in case of a brahmin". So you are treating individual based on his varna, not treating a group in a certain way. It is not just a guideline - alignment between one's innate nature and one's vocation is ideal. But seers know the complexity of human mind and collectivity too. So alignment is sought and achieved with effort and evolution, not normatively imposed. Over the millennia, biggest empires have been ruled by sudras and that is not a collapse of varna but demonstrative of how upward mobility works in a society that understands varna.

Collapse of varna is the loss of political-military leadership and brahmin taking it up in 18th century - Maharashtra and UP for example. From that point, knowledge function suffered irreversibly, not by brahmin's choice as a crisis measure. So what is needed today is that sanyasi is relieved from social service into brahma vidya, and that brahmin is relieved from social service into knowledge function and anushthana. Without which we cannot generate what is needed for our collective rise. This is the way to understand varna dharmas - the knowledge generation can only happen when relatively satvik dharmikas are devoted to knowledge function, and unless that happens you keep getting controlled by foreign ideas. So in short no decolonizing is possible. And no genuine kshatra can be created without brahma shakti. One with fighting spirit may fight, but that will not become kshatra unless the satva-rajas are systematized. In turn, it cannot happen without satva being systematized. Bottom up wont fly.

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Technically Hindu goddesses are not all fierce, since they are all essentially mother goddesses. And therefore all are kind and benevolent

They may have their fierce forms like Kali (a form of Shakti), but they become fierce only when called upon by the male gods, these forms are fierce only to do their bidding. The concept of a goddess is quite patriarchal, where even her anger should be let out when needed to protect the patriarchal ethos.

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What can Buddhism teach us about the self?

Oxford Professor of Indian Philosophy Monima Chadha explains how “substance” – the philosophical idea of something existing independently – doesn’t exist in Buddhism. And if separate entities don’t exist, the notion of the self as an independent substance falls apart.

Join Chadha alongside Slavoj Žižek, Martine Nida-Rümelin, Federico Faggin in “The mystery of the self and the body”. iai.tv/video/the-myst…

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Will there ever be consensus on consciousness? | iai.tv/video/the-mira…

Join as Tim Crane, Bernardo Kastrup, and Susan Blackmore debate if the key to consciousness can ever be explained in terms of the physical.

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From refugee child to renowned AIIMS professor—discover Dr. Bijlani's inspiring journey, the art of healing, and why holistic medicine transforms lives. Watch now! #Healthcare #Inspiration youtu.be/eXWFljBDscA?si… @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas @PariksithSingh

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What remains when identity dissolves? Discover the profound reflections of “An Embryo of Space” from the collection Satya: Poems to My Father with @PariksithSingh and @MakrandParanspe. youtu.be/McN8JjMrbUI?si… @AmazingVedas

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The Making of Propaganda Infrastructure in Contemporary India

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A Chakraborty - 2026

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At risk to be modern? HIV, cinema and the biopolitics of Indian masculinity

P Das - Medical Humanities, 2026

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D Sharp - European Journal of Political Theory, 2026

In recent years, states have expanded their formal legal powers to strip their subjects
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RA Bhat - 2026

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denied water from a cup, served food on a banana leaf instead of a plate and …

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A Sainaba - 2026

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advocated by Hindutva. To analyse tradition, modernity, and the representation of
man–woman relationships, this study draws upon postcolonial feminist theory …

What does it mean to care for others

 “You should put your hands in the soil every day,” Anu said one of the evenings Shoaib had joined her and her family for dinner at their home in Himachal Pradesh, northern India. Anu relished her work with the soil, and she urged Shoaib to make a small garden while he was there on fieldwork. It was among the things in life she utterly held dear. After living through years of domestic violence, she felt that soil was the final substrate of belonging; when working the soils in the garden she described herself as being with the earth, even when her work in the garden exhausted her. She often complained of backache. Anu told Shoaib that working the soil was the way to stay grounded, the only relationship that mattered when everything else might fall apart. Soil care offered the possibility for renewal – for both the land and herself. 

She found it virtuous and creative, even on occasions when her harvest was lost to sudden turns of weather or feral cattle. She found satisfaction in animating the soil, nurturing its qualities so a variety of her selections could eventually grow and prosper. Something more than use value or material prosperity was cultivated in Anu's garden. To Anu, there was something inexpressible and irreducible about soils, a sort of ontological attraction, for which she sometimes used the English word “energy”. Working the soil with her hands, she felt rewarded and recharged. On the other hand, working the familial bonds she had once held high hopes for now felt relatively unrewarding and disheartening. Working the soil had become important for her in unanticipated ways.

Born in the mid-80s, Anu grew up witnessing widespread social and ecological change. Across the Himalayan state, small apple orchards were emerging, girls began attending public schools and college, small-town markets expanded, newspapers and media proliferated – all accompanied by irreversible changes in food, vegetation, climate, social relations, and responsibilities. Not only were the relations to soil changing, but so were the relationalities of family, gender, caste, villages, and small towns. Agricultural intensification happened alongside diversification of non-farm livelihoods. Both the work of nature and the nature of work (Gidwani, 2000) experienced irreversible and uncertain change.

Analytically, “toil” pries open a tension between the virtues of hard work, weariness and hoped-for reward. Toil is a critical aspect of the nature of work acceptable to, or expected of, different social groups. Toil nests work in specific cultural, political and ecological contexts. Grounded in the soil relations of Western Himalaya, this article investigates the relation between human toil and the ability to care. What does it mean to care for others (including nonhuman others) in a world where sedimented habits and old ways of knowing and responding no longer offer a reliable means to renewal (Brown, 2024; Ghosh, 2018; Tsing, 2015)?

The toil for soil: Earthing agricultural care in the Western Himalaya

SS Ali, F Ginn, N Millner - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2026

… In the sections that follow, we will show how certain qualities of the toiling body
are integral to the cultivable soils of western Himalaya. Our aim is not to arbitrate
whether toil is bad or good, but to highlight three tensions. First, the tension between …

First published online April 1, 2026 The toil for soil: Earthing agricultural care in the Western Himalaya Syed Shoaib Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-071X shoaib@theappletree.blog, Franklin Ginn, and Naomi Millner

The eThics of Yoga and The spiriT of godmen

JS Alter

… Baba Ramdev’s rhetoric of Hindutva nationalism is the antithesis of Gandhian cosmopolitanism,
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Can the Saree Speak? Exploring Tradition, Heritage and Beyond

A Chatterjee - TEXTILE, 2026

The present study interrogates the multiple meanings of cultural heritage in
UNESCO instruments, emphasizing its distinction from—yet partial convergence with—cultural
property. Tracing the saree’s historical trajectory—from ancient handloom traditions …

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S Basu - Contemporary South Asia, 2026

… As one Dalit non-profit worker put it, ‘It is only during riots that we are made to feel
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temporary alliance only when mobilizing them against Muslims. At other times, caste …

The Violence of Hindu Nationalist Statecraft

KB Nielsen, AG Nilsen - Current History, 2026

… As the historian Vinayak Chaturvedi has shown in his 2022 book Hindutva and
Violence: VD Savarkar and the Politics of History, Savarkar … As fact-finding reports
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[PDF] Anti-Muslim violence in India's religious ethnocracy

N Kaiser - Contemporary South Asia, 2026

… Using the religious ethnocracy lens, I argue that anti-Muslim violence is not solely
instrumental and/or epiphenomenal to Hindutva politics, but is also a part of the
processes and techniques involved in the social construction of security, institutional …

A man on a cellphone tower in Punjab is at centre of gathering protest for anti-sacrilege law

S Zargar - 2026

… “In the last 8-10 years, there has been a rise in rightwing politics in Punjab, parallel to
the rise of Hindutva in the rest of the country,” the observer said. Traders in and around
Samana alleged that pro-Khalistan slogans were frequently raised at the protest. …

[PDF] Anti-caste pedagogy as a personal and political statement

A DasGupta, S Sircar - Postgraduate Pedagogies, 2026

In an interview with Amrita DasGupta, Srilata Sircar expounds on anti-caste
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of Indian students overseas increases. Sircar explains how caste, a rigid social …

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J Neo - International Journal Of Constitutional Law, 2026

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[PDF] Colonial Legacies and Democratic Transformation: Institutional Continuity and Political Identity in Modi's India

S Suravaram - 2026

This thesis examines how both colonial legacies and post-independence political
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K Hayat, KA Qureshi - Journal of Applied Linguistics and TESOL (JALT), 2026

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[PDF] DECOLONIZATION OF ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW IN INDONESIA: TRACING TRANSFORMATION AND CONTINUTIY

MN Hadi, M Wahib, M Irfan, AK Riyadi - Hakam: Jurnal Kajian Hukum Islam dan …, 2026

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Furore over Gitanjali J Angmo

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

I have compiled multiple clips from a programme on Subramanian Swamy's YouTube channel featuring Gitanjali Angmo — co-founder of the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh. In it, she calls for removing "secular" from the Constitution, wants Sanskrit as the national language, endorses the Ram Mandir and a "Hindu Rashtra" and rejects the Aryan Invasion Theory. 

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This is highly problematic! Remember, Aryan migration is now a scientifically proven fact. There's ample genetic evidence for it, in addition to linguistic and historical evidence. However, NCERT textbooks misrepresent the genetic data and Hindutva ideologues reject it

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Aryan migration is a fact for which proof still exists in the animist temples of southern India. But the problem is in Romila Thapar's use of the word "invasion" that has been conveniently used by the Golwalkarist-turned-Savarkarist lobby to blur the issue. Since they reject both peer review and international examination as "Western" there is no option but to approach it politically

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@GitanjaliAngmo why? Do you want to spoil the image and respect Mr. Sonam got for his rational and moral fight against injustice brought by jingoistic nationalism?

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She quoted Aurobindo multiple times who in fact had a proto-nazi idea of an intellectual superman, his partner created a neo-colonial cult society which runs to this day near Pondicherry where the members own land and resources and local tamil people work for meagre salaries

people who are drawn towards these don't want structural change or emancipation, they dont want an egalitarian society, they are by design predisposed to suppress dissent under a garb of superiority

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Interesting how you're drawing a distinction between "religion" and "spirituality" while quoting Sri Aurobindo and invoking Sanatana Dharma as the foundation of India's civilisation. This framing is not new—it closely mirrors a long-standing ideological position associated with the RSS and its broader intellectual tradition: that Sanatana Dharma is a civilizational ethos rather than merely an organized religion.

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According to this lady, *Sanatan* and spirituality are one and the same... On the other hand, she is misquoting Aurobindo; Aurobindo defined *Sanatan* in the context of India, not spirituality... What a downfall...

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Stop hiding behind Sri Aurobindo because this is a clear compromise with BJP and RSS.

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Kitna bhi Sri Aurobindo aur spirituality ka gyan de lo, aakhirkar yeh narrative seedha RSS aur BJP ke political propaganda ko hi suit karta hai. Yeh 'spirituality' ki aadh me chal raha compromise saaf dikhta hai.

Stop hiding political propaganda behind the mask of spirituality and philosophy

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क्या आपको मालूम है, वांगचुक साब की पत्नी गीतांजलि जी 'हिंदू राष्ट्र' की बड़ी समर्थक हैं. संविधान से सेक्युलर शब्द हटवाना चाहती हैं.संस्कृत को बतौर राष्ट्र भाषा चाहती हैं.मोदी जी की समर्थक है,नेहरू की आलोचक और पटेल की प्रशंसक! पता नहीं, मैडम कहां थीं अब तक!चलिये,कुछ तो बात बनेगी!

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केवल किसी एक शब्द के प्रयोग के आधार पर किसी व्यक्ति को "संघी" या किसी विशेष राजनीतिक दल का समर्थक घोषित कर देना उचित नहीं है। किसी भी विचार या शब्द को उसके संदर्भ, इतिहास, स्रोत और आशय के आधार पर समझना अधिक संतुलित और बौद्धिक दृष्टिकोण होगा।

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For Sri Aurobindo, Sanatana Dharma is not a party ideology. 

मुझे ऐसा लगता है कि Ms. गीतांजली वांगचुक द्वारा सनातन धर्म का जो उल्लेख किया गया है, उसे श्री अरविंद के विचारों के संदर्भ में भी समझा जा सकता है।

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यदि गीतांजलि वांगचुक श्री अरविंद के विचारों से प्रेरित होकर सनातन धर्म की बात करती हैं, तो उन्हें भी अपने विचार रखने और उनकी व्याख्या करने का उतना ही अधिकार है। लोकतांत्रिक समाज में किसी भी अवधारणा पर विभिन्न व्याख्याएँ होना स्वाभाविक और स्वस्थ है।

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मेरा मानना है कि किसी भी शब्द को सीधे किसी एक राजनीतिक दल की विचारधारा का पर्याय मान लेने के बजाय, उसके इतिहास, मूल (origin), संदर्भ और विभिन्न व्याख्याओं (interpretations) पर चर्चा होनी चाहिए। तभी एक स्वस्थ और सार्थक संवाद संभव है।

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मैं स्वयं श्री अरविंद की अनुयायी नहीं हूँ, लेकिन एक समाजशास्त्र की विद्यार्थी के रूप में मैंने उन्हें एक दार्शनिक, शिक्षाविद् और सिद्धांतकार (theorist) के रूप में पढ़ा है। उन्होंने सनातन धर्म की व्याख्या एक व्यापक दार्शनिक और आध्यात्मिक अवधारणा के रूप में की है।

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Aurobindo talks about inner transformation. Ambedkar reminds us that spirituality without justice becomes hollow. Both contribute to the ongoing evolution of Indian thought.

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Can we expect any better from those who celebrated the abrogation of Article 370 when Kashmir was turned into an open air prison. This is @GitanjaliAngmo in all her glory endorsing the formation of a Hindu Rashtra

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Dear @GitanjaliAngmo, Invoking Sanatana Dharma while ignoring Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s fundamental critique of caste within Hindu social order presents only part of the picture. If the message is about equality and Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, why not celebrate the Bhakti saints, Kabir, Ravidas, Tukaram and others, who challenged caste, ritual hierarchy and social exclusion? India’s civilisational strength lies in its struggles for equality, not in romanticising oppressive structures.

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Respectfully, this presents a false choice. Acknowledging Sri Aurobindo's understanding of Sanatana Dharma does not require rejecting Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's critique of caste. They addressed different questions.

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India already had a network state in the 70s

Hippies got together, bought land and moved from across the globe to create Auroville, which is very similar to a network state

Theyre constantly going to court and in the 80s the indian gov took over control by making a new law

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auroville is also the clearest proof that the host nation state never actually lets go, the moment it got big enough to matter india just legislated itself into ownership of it

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Auroville basically proves that buying land isn't the same as buying sovereignty. You're still one law away from being absorbed by the host state.

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So!?! Decolonization of South Asian Studies is very vital. All universities should have below books and teach from it:

1. Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by Rajiv Malhotra.

2. De-Moralizing Identity: The Mythology of Human Rights and The Heathen in His Blindness by S.N. Balagangadhara.

3. Sanatan Dharma: The Future of Civilization by Hira Ballabh Joshi.

4. The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century by Dharampal.

5. India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present by Shivshankar Menon.

6. The Invention of World Religions by Tomoko Masuzawa.

7. The Human Cycle. The Ideal of Human Unity. War and Self Determination by Sri Aurobindo.

8. The Nay Science: A History of German Indology by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee.

9. Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism by Jakob De Roover

10. The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg.

11. Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf

12. God, Science and Reality by Pinaki Gangaopadhyay.

13. Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science by Dick Teresi

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Hinduism and Science: Themes, Texts, and Contexts

R Thomas - Theology and Science, 2026

… Contemporary proponents of Hindutva even argue that everything that we find in
modern … Media studies scholar Chopra explores the life of Hindutva on social
media by closely looking … use of the science of archaeology by Hindutva …

The Hindu and the Brahmin: Non-Brahminism and the Hindu Imagination in Early Twentieth-Century Western India

R Sarwate - Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the …, 2026

This essay locates the Vedokta controversy of 1899—a public debate about the
purity of the king's body and the Kshatriya status of the Marathas—as a
transformative and disruptive moment in the Marathi public world of the early …

Debating Gandhi (Critiques, Controversies and Reinterpretations)

A Pattanaik - Gandhi Beyond Independence: The Relevance of …, 2026

… His concept of Hindutva defined the nation in terms of common heritage, language,
and religious tradition. For Savarkar, national strength required a clear and cohesive
identity. … Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? Veer Savarkar Prakashan. …

[PDF] A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT 2019 IN INDIA: LEGAL, POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES

R Mandal

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, passed by the Indian Parliament in
December 2019, has provoked intense debate for its departure from India’s secular
and inclusive citizenship ideals. This PhD-level review examines the CAA from legal …

[PDF] ETHNO RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE AND ANTI MINORITIES LEGISLATION IN INDIA, POST MODI REGIME (CASE STUDY OF MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN

H Allauddin, A Iqbal, F Shahzad

… Hindutva, an official platform of BJB is actually a modern political ideology that
promotes Hindu supremacy and is striving to transform India, which is
constitutionally a secular … (What Is Hindutva?, nd). However, there is nothing in …

Race, Caste, and Class Interface in Achintya Biswas's Dalit Play Encircling Pressure

SS Naskar - Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the …, 2026

The article, through an analysis of the play Encircling Pressure by Indian Dalit
playwright Achintya Biswas, aims to demonstrate how caste and race are similar to
some extent and have nearly equal roles in terms of discrimination within a …

[HTML] India a Home Only to Hindus? New Refugee Policy Exacerbates Tensions

MN Welcome

A new citizenship amendment bill introduced in the Indian parliament in July 2016
proposes easing the path to citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis,
and Christians fleeing persecution in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. In …

[PDF] Plural policing in and through the railway: a view from India

N Joshi - Policing and Society, 2026

This article draws on archival research and ethnographic observation to historicise
the organisation of policing in the Indian Railways, focusing particularly on how it
traverses institutional boundaries – public and private, regional and national, routine …

Echoes of Persuasion: Political Slogans, Digital Media, and Youth Voting Behavior in India

J Malik, D Bisht, E Idziak - 2026

This study examines the impact of digitally disseminated political slogans on the
voting behavior (VB) of young Indian voters. It examines the psychological
mechanisms—repetition, social endorsement, and emotional resonance—through …

[PDF] Compounded marginalization in social media politics: How religious and gender identities shape online harassment and the cost of political engagement

S Ahmed, R Deng, M Masood - New Media & Society

This study examines the intersection of political social media use, online harassment
resulting from political expression, and the perceived physical, social, and emotional
costs of political engagement and how these dynamics differ across religion and …

Nietzche had a problem with the Examined Life

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Discover how Vedic meditation connects Dhi (higher intelligence) with Dhyana (focused awareness), and explore the timeless wisdom that underpins modern mindfulness. Watch the full conversation with @MakrandParanspe and @PariksithSingh on: youtu.be/hdBb5CeU7iA?si… @AmazingVedas

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Vritra (वृत्र)—the force that conceals, the obstacle between us and the light of knowledge. Discover the deeper symbolism and timeless Vedic tale of Vritra and Indra with @MakrandParanspe and @PariksithSingh Watch full conversation on  youtu.be/uTWfDnEGfOA?si… @AmazingVedas 

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Too many "neo-trads" have a problem with introspection, guilt, reflection, generosity, love - as if these are all "christian" virtues

This is a self-goal. Don't try to bring back bronze-age norms. It's not "cool" and you will never win any room, besides "likes and retweets" from incels on X

All these virtues are seen in Greece as societies progressed and got more complex. Plato's dialogues embrace all these virtues and stoutly defend the "Examined Life"

You see it in India too in the post-Epic age with the rise of new ideals - be it non-violence, asceticism, dispassionate karma (gItA). Texts like shAnti parva, much of vedAnta, gItA is a testament to it.

This isn't christian per se.

Don't make the pagan vs christian fight to be one of "badass vs saint". You ain't winning that battle, and you only end up batting for christianity

The misplaced love for philosophers like Nietzsche is resulting in this hyper-masculine rhetoric disguised in "trad" overtones. Nietzche had a problem not just with Christianity but also the "Examined Life" more broadly. He disliked Socrates / Plato and the classical tradition of Athens. 

Just because he said something nice about Manu Smriti shouldn't make us fans of his. He wouldn't like reflective, vedantic texts either

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We are going back to a new kind of feudalism. Asset prices have ballooned, the rupee's value has fallen, and there are no jobs. Millennials were lucky to be young at the right time (the early 2000s) and grew their assets and incomes alongside India's stellar growth during the 2001-2011 decade. They will obviously be more conservative and keep voting for the status quo.

The Gen Z generation that grew up in Amritkaal will neither have assets nor jobs unless they are very good at what they do. Modernity has also taken away the comfort of the traditional Indian family from many of these guys. Lots of them will never get married or raise children. These guys will be called incels by girls and losers by millennials for not getting a seat or a job.

Inequality is rising, and society is more divided than it was in the previous decade. Politics will keep becoming more caste-based because everyone wants a greater share of the pie when they know the pie is not going to grow.

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See, the problem is Modi supporters are too much invested in next elections. I do not think these guys are here for winning any elections. They are here for violent overthrow of the govt.

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CJI uses the word cockroach , which is a very weird language. Then some random kid studying in Boston starts this movement. The whole thing was started within a month. Someone is pulling the strings very smartly. We will see what the end game is. I do not think it is elections.

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Until now it has a very strong parallel with what happened with Bangladesh. Something Judiciary did led to some very hyper protests. Only thing we need to wait and see how they are going to pull the coup.

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The message in this ancient story, as beautifully retold by @shekharsuman7, is powerful. However, exposing individual leaders only provides temporary relief. To find lasting solutions, it is far more important to expose the core theology and ideology that shapes them. Sparing the underlying doctrine only allows the problem to survive and grow.

For centuries, generations of Hindus have failed to do a proper root-cause analysis. Instead, they personalise systemic threats by blaming individuals. This critical blind spot allows hostile ideologies to escape scrutiny. For instance, despite a thousand years of destructive Islamic rule, Hindus only criticise individual Muslims. They never ask what specific doctrines motivate those individuals to commit acts of vandalism against Hindu civilisation, demography, and geography.

Likewise, India has suffered decades of organised communist violence. This includes Naxalism, Maoist insurgency, and left-wing extremism that killed thousands of innocents, destroyed public property, and disrupted governance. Yet, Hindus never question what drives individual communists to commit such barbaric acts.

For decades, Christians involved in what is euphemistically called the Northeast insurgency have killed thousands. They continue to destabilise India, Hindu society, and demography from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Gujarat to Manipur in every possible way. Yet, Hindus rarely ask why they do that. 

This same pattern repeated with Punjab terrorism, where Sikhs slaughtered nearly 40,000 Hindus. In every case, Hindus attack the actors rather than analysing the conditioning that indoctrinated them.

Today, this same failure is visible in how people handle the Sangh Parivar and #Sanghis, who cause enormous sabotage to the Hindu religion and destroy systems of governance. Criticising individual leaders or attributing all systemic issues to Narendra Modi misses the forest for the trees. Narendra Modi is simply a product of the RSS and its underlying framework. The exact same destruction would happen under any other #Sanghi. By focusing on the individual leader, Hindus miss the true source of the problem, which is the #PseudoHindutva ideology of the RSS.

To ensure civilisational survival, Hindus must learn to expand their focus to fighting both the individual symptoms and the underlying disease by dismantling the ideological fount that motivates them. #RSS_Mukt_Bharat

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Sir, you would have been celebrated a hero had you given this communication in May. And taken action on Dharmendra Pradhan during UGC fiasco itself. There has been no accountability until external pressure.

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It should have been done a year ago but better late than never. Take this discontent seriously. CJP isn't the issue. Even deep state isn't. But public discontent, widespread fatigue and shimmering anger is.

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Consciousness, Character, and Curriculum: The Cross-Disciplinary Imperative of Sri Aurobindo's Educational Thought

SS Pujahari - 2026

… Even Haridas Chaudhuri, interpreting Integral Yoga in global philosophical
contexts, affirms that its anthropology provides “a multidimensional … Integral
knowledge thus demands the cultivation of intuition, ethical awareness, and inward …

[PDF] Humanistic Education and Holistic Development in Ramakrishna Philosophy: A Philosophical and Pedagogical Inquiry

S kumar Pan - Creative Flight, 2026

… , Ramakrishna Philosophy, Value Education, Spiritual Pedagogy, Integral
Education, Ethical Formation … Spiritual practices such as meditation, yoga, and
scriptural study are integral components of the curriculum. … Method Psychological …

[PDF] DECIPHERING THE POST-SECULAR TURN: RELIGIOUS RESILIENCE, IDENTITY POLITICS, AND GLOBAL ADAPTATION

N Rungwong, P Horakul - Asian Crime and Society Review, 2026

… Hinduism in the 2 1 st century is primarily defined by the ascent of Hindu
nationalism (Hindutva) in India. Jaffrelot (2 0 2 1 ) analyzes that … The use of online
media, particularly WhatsApp, to propagate Hindutva narratives and fake news that …

The Unexplored Role of Dramaturgy in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Online

OA Saifudeen - Online Trust and Safety, 2026

Dramaturgy is a Sociological approach developed by Irving Goffman that utilizes the
theatrical metaphor to explain how identity formation and reconstruction can occur. It
explores the persona that one comes to adopt to overcome varying circumstances …

[PDF] Praxis International Journal of Social Science and Literature

S Bairagi

This article offers a queer feminist anthropological analysis of gender and sexual
minority activism and cultural representation across West Bengal (India) and
Bangladesh from the 1990s to the present. It argues that queer activism in Bengal is …

[HTML] Punitive domicide: bulldozer justice and punishment in India

F Zuberi - Contemporary South Asia, 2026

… In the ideology of Hindutva, the Muslim of India today is projected in the image of
the invader who, in medieval history, plundered and invaded originally ‘Hindu’ lands.
This Muslim subject bears … Reiterating the Hindutva’s assertion that Muslims are …

Ambedkar, BR, The Annihilation of Caste, New Delhi: General Press, 2020.———, The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India: A Study in the Provincial …

B Bagul, J Begari, M Byapari, S Mukherjee, L Cabrera…

Bibliography Page 1 203 Bibliography BOOKS Ambedkar, BR, The Annihilation of
Caste, New Delhi: General Press, 2020. ———, The Evolution of Provincial Finance
in British India: A Study in the Provincial Decentralization of Imperial Finance, 1925 …

[HTML] Category: History, Culture, Architecture

SAN Rezavi

… Through sustained propaganda and mass mobilization, organizations associated
with the ideology of Hindutva transformed the mosque into a political target. When a
mobilized crowd demolished the structure in full public view, the act was celebrated …

Asymmetric Information

R Prasad - A Case-Based Approach to Game Theory, 2026

This chapter investigates situations where different players possess different levels
of information, leading to strategic behaviour like brinkmanship, bluffing, and
signalling. Beginning with the theory of hardball tactics, it analyses how information …

Sequential Games

R Prasad - A Case-Based Approach to Game Theory, 2026

… The current phase of violence is integrally linked to the promissory cocktail of
Hindutva and development that propelled the BJP to power in 2014. … Pleasing
development enthusiasts while accommodating Hindutva gangs is the balancing act …