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• 04:13, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Conversion to Hindu Dharma - Perspectives from Various Sampradayas (Created page with " There is an ongoing quest, especially among those who practice yoga and meditation, to dwell deeper into the secrets of life and living. The more they tend to reach out sincerely the closer will they get towards vaidika dharma or sanātana dharma, Hinduism if you will. Once they stand on the threshold of this oldest continuous surviving tradition which is at once a philosophy, spirituality, religion, way of life and culture, they have reached home. Yet many among such s...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:59, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Aghori Parampara - Dispelling Myths (Created page with " After attempting to present our understanding of the Aghorī paramparā in previous articles, here I would like to talk about some of the common misrepresentations of the Aghorīs as well as their actual practices and provide a safe space to learn about them. Let us look at Reza Aslan’s CNN Documentary, which tried its level best to twist and misinterpret the Aghorī sampradāya. Blatant Hindumisia blinds journalists and researchers alike, it prevents them from bein...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:56, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Aghori Parampara - Lineage and Practices (Created page with "==== The Lineage ==== Śiva has five faces and each has a name. Sadyojāta, Vāmadeva, Aghora, Tatpuruṣa, Īśāna. The dakśiṇa or south-ward looking face is called aghora. The essence of this knowledge was first passed down to guru Dattātreya. Dattātreya swāmi as he is popularly known divided this knowledge into two. The first is called yoga sampradāya. The second is called aghora sampradāya. Both these traditions together are called Nātha sampradāya (Shanka...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:51, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Aghori Parampara - Sadhana, and Philosophy (Created page with " A sect that has borne the brunt of being caricatured ad infinitum is the Aghorī. It has been othered like no other and has spawned many a fantastical tale around its origins, practices, and membership. Making fun of its adherents for looking a certain way or creating an Indiana Jones level of misinformation around its supposed practices, is a reductionist caste, cows, curry (Rajiv Malhotra) approach towards a very revered panth. Trying to appreciate a different sect on...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:38, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Sanskrit vs FATE Languages (Created page with "==== Language and Creativity ==== Language is deeply connected to the process of creativity. Man became man, when he discovered language and started cogitating on deeper and more abstract problems related to life, existence and culture. A regional language is deeply intimate with the culture, society, politics, food and all other aspects of human culture of the people inhabiting that linguistic and cultural space and the metaphors and idioms that come out in a regional l...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:35, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Shiva-Shakti of Language and Impact of Colonialism (Created page with "==== The Śiva-Śakti of Language ==== “I speak Hindī” – millions from north India would say this. But how true is that? Can they really speak Hindī? Do they speak Hindī? If we observe what we speak and how we speak then we will find that we are practically speaking English or some other language by using the grammar of Hindī. All our nouns, adjectives and adverbs have become either English or Farsi, Arabic, Turkish or Urdu. The same is true about any other Ind...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:30, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Decolonizing Language (Created page with " How do dialects evolve into languages? And what role does colonialism play in this process, particularly in the context of Bhāratavarṣa, one of the greatest language cauldrons in the world? Answering these questions leads us on a quest which makes us understand the history of our culture, civilization and religion much better. To answer them we need to explore the process of how dialects evolve into languages and compare the process in North India to what happened in...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:27, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Towards Dharma-centric Polity : Universalization of Ganesha Utsava (Created page with "==== Dharma, Religion and State ==== One of the founding premises of a modern secular State is that religion and politics should not mix. Though India became officially secular much after its independence, due to Nehruvian ideas dominating Indian socio-politics, “secularism” has been the guiding light of the Indian State since independence. And from a leftist, liberal and secular point of view, there really is no dilemma over the question of mixing politics and relig...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:24, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Swayambodha and Shatrubodha - Two Wheels of Civilization (Created page with "==== Svayaṃbodha and Śatrubodha joined by the Axle of Dharma ==== The good news is that more and more Hindus are waking up and developing a sense of Śatrubodha, understanding and studying the enemy to be able to defeat them. But is that enough? Is it enough to know your enemy? In the past two decades, even those Hindus who have a highly developed Śatrubodha faltered on their own identity, culture and civilization. In their eagerness to recognize, call out and diffe...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:20, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Swayambodha and Shatrubodha - The Framework (Created page with "==== Why Do We Need a Framework? ==== Cultural phenomena progress through three phases: Naïve, Sophisticated and Decadent. A few of them however escape the downward turn towards decadence and acquire a canonical status. It is artefacts such as a definitive book, an anthem or a ritual that distinguish a canon from a mere trend. '''With time, that becomes tradition.''' Tradition is not static, it is dynamic and living because it has an unchanging core that adapts to the...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:17, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Quest for Happiness: Art As A Redemptive Force (Created page with " Culture in India existed in harmony with Nature and did not seek to destroy it. Instead social laws imitated natural principles and individuals were exhorted to transcend the material limitations spiritually by walking the path of self-realization. What is important for us here is the fact that this spiritual quest for freedom from natural constraints was imitated by art in its own sphere. Art acted as a redemptive and elevating force in the life of man. Coomaraswamy...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:14, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Quest for Happiness: Two Cultural Paradigms (Created page with " Culture was not always pitted against Nature as it is in today’s modern world. Nature-conducive cultures existed all over the world, but its most expansive expression was seen in Bhāratavarṣa dictated by the values of Sanātana Dharma. ==== Conflict Paradigm ==== Culture in various modern definitions is seen as a tool of man to mold Nature for his own needs. In this Man vs. Nature narrative, culture and technology are always pitted against the forces of Nature. I...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:11, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Quest for Happiness: A Civilization in Imbalance (Created page with " One of the most fundamental quests of human life is to be happy. One can debate on the meaning of the word ‘happiness’ but the quest itself remains indisputable. All human actions pivot around this central quest. While individuals want to be happy, institutions rush to fulfill this ‘need’. Almost all of contemporary relations between the individuals and the institutions can be seen through this relationship whether the institution is the State, the free market,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:37, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 12 - Universal and Eternal (Created page with " Putting various Bhāratīya consciousnesses together - and making them greater than the sum of their parts - is the New Dream. '''It is Hind Swaraj, it is The Mother, it is the Khalsa, it is Shiva, it is Venkata, it is the Ramcharitramanas'''. When I look back at the history of Bhārata, I find myself in the Kashmiri pandit mapping the impossible to map Ananatag cave, in the Jat soldier pushing back the invader from the West. in the toiler of the Gangetic plains and i...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:32, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 11 - Songs in Stone, Part and the Whole (Created page with " From this prolonged stay in eastern Bhārata, we take a sojourn to look at the solid structures that we build with our own hands. '''At this point, complaining about the lack of a sense of Indic aesthetics in our modern architecture has become akin to beating a dead horse'''. Public architecture in modern Bhārata is a complete mess, with almost no connection to the diverse traditions of building things that have evolved in this country. No “secular” public space to...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:30, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 10 - Nations are Languages, and Civilization A Song (Created page with " Yes, I know, dear reader. I promised you a positive vision for the future in an earlier part of this essay series, but what I’ve given you so far is three more sections of analysis! I’m fully aware of the fact that you have come here for a viable answer to the question: '''What will the ''New Dhārmika Dream'' be?''' The one that replaces ''Shuddho'', and inspires the next generation to make our civilization whole again. I think I’m now ready for my humble stab at...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:26, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 9 - The Blockchain of Dharma and Who We Are (Created page with " There’s an endless debate, one I often find unimaginably tiresome, in our political discourse, about the origin of Hindu Dharma, the history of the early Āryan people, and how Bhāratīya civilization came into being. Most of these theories are about “invasions”, “migrations”, impositions, colonizations, etc., all of which are focused on creating the same basic structure of narrative for Bhārata’s story as a civilization. '''This is essentially a Hegelian...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:24, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 8 - The Buffet on Offer (Created page with " In the “A House of Grain” chapter of ''A Wounded Civilization'', V.S. Naipaul makes the following pronouncement: <blockquote>But the alarm had been sounded. The millions are on the move. '''Both in the cities and in the villages there is an urgent new claim on the land; and any idea of India which does not take this claim into account is worthless'''. The poor are no longer the occasion for sentiment or holy alms-giving; land reform is no longer a matter for the rel...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:21, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 7 - Knowledge Must Be Filtered Down (Created page with "<blockquote>“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. '''A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance…'''</blockquote><blockquote>The...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:15, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 6 - Governing Gaul and the Deserved Defeat (Created page with " The broth prepared using the ingredients of the Brahmo Dream, the Fabian Dream and শুদ্ধ, brings us to the Legacy Elite of today. This is not to say that they were only influenced by these three sources or impulses. There were obviously many more variables, sometimes even going in opposite directions to the ones I’ve mentioned. But I do think that in the battle for the hearts of the Legacy Elite, these three Dreams have won out, at the cost of other Dreams l...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:13, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 5 - Shuddho (Created page with "==== '''Shuddho - শুদ্ধ''' ==== At the stroke of midnight hour, the Fabian Dream found itself in-charge of a neutered nation. Its aspirations for the eleventh hour worker were suddenly subjected to the annoying distraction of the forced displacement of millions of people within their own nation. The reality check of Partition finally forced the Fabian elite to pay attention to a group of people they had been condescending and ignoring for decades: the old Musli...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:08, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 4 - A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (Created page with "==== '''Ingredient #2: A forgotten work, and a Wolf in Sheep’s clothing''' ==== By the late 1800s, the Brahmo Dream had been internalized by the second-generation of the emerging anglicized Indian elite. But as often happens, these ideas were now considered too boring, too lacking in energy and in radical possibility. They became the ideas of the grumpy old men who pounded the desks at INC sessions and sang sincerely for the long life of the King of England. They were...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:05, 18 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 3 - First Contact with the Anglos (Created page with "==== '''Where to start?''' ==== It is the special mimicry of '''an old country which has been without a native aristocracy for a thousand years''' and has learned to make room for outsiders, but only at the top. The mimicry changes, the inner world remains constant: this is the secret of survival. '''Yesterday the mimicry was Mogul, tomorrow it might be Russian or American, today it is English'''. * An Area of Darkness Hindu elites existed in the medieval wastes of the...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:56, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 2 - Significance and Genealogy (Created page with "==== Why the বাঙালির কল্পতরু Matters ==== The বাঙালির কল্পতরু worked because it gave the young, ambitious, forward-looking Bengali Hindu something to strive towards - a higher culture and higher purpose for them to lose themselves into, and to contribute their lives and efforts towards. It allowed them to be able to look beyond immediate self-interest, and become a part of a once-in-a-lifetime revolution. It was the...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:32, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Bangla Dream, Part 1 - The Dream and it’s Imperfections (Created page with "==== The Bangla Dream ==== If you have read Aurobindo Ghosh’s ode to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in his journal Bande Mataram, you will have come across this beautiful line:<blockquote>“What is it for which we worship the name of Bankim today? What was his message to us or what the vision which he saw and has helped us to see? He was a great poet, a master of beautiful language and a creator of a fair and gracious dream - figures in the world of imagination; but it...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:18, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Guruvayurappan - The Timeless Healer (Created page with "<blockquote>सान्द्रानन्दावबोधात्मकमनुपमितं कालदेशावधिभ्यां निर्मुक्तं नित्यमुक्तं निगमशतसहस्रेण निर्भास्यमानम् । अस्पष्टं दृष्टमात्रे पुनरुरुपुरुषार्थात्मकं ब्रह्म तत्वं तत्...") Tag: Visual edit
• 23:01, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Panchamukha Shiva (Created page with " In the dhārmika fold, every form and expression of the divine can be understood in at least four different standpoints: the absolute, the cosmic, the departmental, and as the incarnation who appeared on earth to re-establish dharma. From the highest, absolute standpoint, Bhagavān Śiva is the formless, absolute Reality, which is the nature of pure Consciousness. He is no different than Śrī Viṣṇu Himself. From the cosmic standpoint, Bhagavān Śiva represents the...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:56, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Theory and Practice of Dharma in Governance (Created page with " The concept of Dharma, deeply rooted in ancient Indian scriptures, carries profound and multifaceted meanings. Its origins can be traced back to the Ṛgveda, where it derives from the root "dhṛ," signifying to uphold, support, or nourish. In the context of governance, understanding Dharma provides invaluable insights into sustaining and nurturing society, ensuring stability and prosperity. ==== '''Fundamental Meaning of Dharma''' ==== In its most fundamental sense,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:52, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Sri Aurobindo's Principles for Revitalizing Bharata’s Soul (Created page with "==== Journey of Self finding – Nation Soul ==== Sri Aurobindo reconceptualized the abstract notion called Nation into an embodiment called Nation Soul. This identity-forming process is a tremendous contribution from him. The idea of a Nation popularly stands out as an abstract idea. This in turn results in a weak vision of National Development. When one delves into abstracts, the process of self discovery gets hampered. This is a simple subconscious truth we practise i...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:48, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Sri Aurobindo’s School of Bhavani Bharati - An Introduction (Created page with " Sri Aurobindo is akin to a Himālayan peak, whose first glimpse leaves an indelible awe inspiring impression on our mind. A revolutionary, a nationalist leader, a philosopher, a poet, a yogi and a seer. An ordinary mind moves from known to yet another known with a sense of calculable fear. A spiritualized mind establishes an enduring link between the known and the unknown. Whereas, a seer’s mind traverses the realms of the unknown to bridge countless chasms of time. S...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:40, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Tantra Vimarsha (Created page with "<blockquote>जानामि धर्मं न च मे प्रवृत्ति- र्जानाम्यधर्मं न च मे निवृत्तिः। त्वया स्वामिनः! हृदि स्थितेन् यथा नियुक्तोऽस्मि तथा करोमि॥ अन्तरायतिमिरौघशान्तये स्वेष्टशक्तिकरुणाऽरुणा...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:22, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Shri Kali Dhyana: Reflections on Bhagawati (Created page with "<blockquote>शवारूढां महाभीमां घोरदंष्ट्रां हसन्मुखीं। चतुर्भुजां खड्गमुण्डवराभयकरां शिवाम्॥१॥ मुण्डमालाधरां देवीं ललजिह्वां दिगम्बराम्। एवं सञ्चिन्तयेत्कालीं शामशानालयवासिनीम...") Tag: Visual edit
• 22:10, 17 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Balancing Dharma and Constitutional Principles (Created page with " The adoption of the Indian Constitution marked a tectonic shift in India's socio-political landscape. This monumental event not only laid the foundation for a democratic governance structure but also initiated a profound dialogue on the interaction between the Constitution and the nation's cultural and social practices. This discourse often posits that the Constitution inherently conflicts with existing cultural norms, suggesting an underlying assumption that culture ne...") Tag: Visual edit
• 04:06, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Marriage: Part 1 - The Institution of Sacrifice (Created page with " The recent hearings in the Supreme Court of India by a five-judge constitutional bench on same-sex marriage for LGBTQIA+ community have captured the attention of the nation. There are opinions, counter-opinions, and memes in social media and WhatsApp groups, op-eds in print media, debates and discussions in visual media and podcast channels, and casual chitchats and fierce disagreements at office spaces, hang-out joints and even tea stalls. This concerns scientists, act...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:55, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Hindu Family Under Siege : SC Verdict on Property Rights to Invalid Children (Created page with " Recently, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court (SC) of India consisting of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud, Justice JB Pardiwala, and Justice Manoj Misra gave a verdict in the ''Revanasiddappa and Anr v. Mallikarjun and Ors'' case that pertains to Hindu Marriage Act and Hindu Succession Act. Such cases should concern any conscientious Hindu as after losing hold of much of their institutional power in the last thousand years of colonization, i.e., sec...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:52, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Marriage: Part 2 - Grihastha Ashrama (Created page with " ... Authored by Padmavathy Manavazhahan. Published by Brhat.") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:28, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Srimad-Bhagavatam and Conformal Mappings (Created page with "<blockquote>itihāsapurāṇābhyāṃ vedaṃ samupabṛṃhayet bibhetyalpaśrutādvedo māmayaṃ prahariṣyati The meaning of Vedas is to be understood with the help of purāṇas and the itihāsas. Vedas themselves are afraid of those who are unaware of the itihāsas and purāṇas for these ignorant people may end up attacking the Vedas incorrectly.</blockquote>Conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) is a cosmological model that suggests the universe is the same at all...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:21, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Reimagining Our Engagement with the Advancements in Contemporary Physics on Our Own Terms (Created page with " Rapid and rampant proliferation of technology is the most obvious and ubiquitous measure of today’s standard of living across human societies. Therefore it is understandable that the technologically lagging societies have an urge to conclude something about the validity of the underlying framework of thought - the philosophical/metaphysical underpinning - that is driving technology and continuously improving our lives. However, the method of honest inquiry unequivocal...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:13, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Origins of the BANI World : Case for Dharmika Cognitive Shift (Created page with "==== The Frame for Discussion ==== Much has been written about the insurmountable challenges that the tide of modernity has brought along. Today we stand at a perpetual state where both the collective and the individual are on the verge of a breakdown. Leaders in public policy call this a multi-crisis where the individual is facing an endemic of loneliness and emptiness which is in turn fuelled by a culture of constant need for stimulation, a moral sanctioning of indulge...") Tag: Visual edit
• 03:08, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dharmika Metaphysics for Lokasangraha (Created page with "==== The Indian Ontological View of Reality ==== The Indic worldview emerges from a civilization spanning thousands of years. It is a tradition that is living, vibrant and unbroken across the ravages of time. Because Indic worldview is diametrically opposed to the Western worldview imposed upon us today, it has the potential to completely change how we view the world, the nature of existence, and our fundamental ideas of what constitute purposeful living - if and when we...") Tag: Visual edit
• 02:58, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page One-life vs. Multiple-life Metaphysics (Created page with " When thinking of what is fundamentally different between a Hindu worldview and Western one, a few primary points come to mind. Here, by Western we refer in specific to the Judeo-Christian worldview, which also includes the Islamic and is alternately called the Abrahamic worldview. The seeming difference of a monotheistic conception vs. a polytheistic one is relatively superficial, in that it more describes an outcome of the fundamental than the fundamental itself. But...") Tag: Visual edit
• 02:51, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 3 (Created page with " All of OIT does not rest upon asserting these connections as true. The case is already made without these notices. But with the case established, it’s special pleading not to see dispersal patterns in Dāśarājña names. Talageri connects Ālinas with the Greek Hellenes, and the Alans of Roman records. The point is not to folk etymologize Ālina, Hellene and Alan. The point is to speculate afresh on previous paradigms, given that IE dispersals did happen OIT. First...") Tag: Visual edit
• 02:43, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 2 (Created page with "==== '''D - The Dāśarājña Data''' ==== The bulk of the data about the Battle of Ten Kings is found in sūktas of Maṇḍala 7, all attributed to Maitrāvaruṇi Vasiṣṭha. A complete list of the sūktas in question is shared as appendix to this essay. Some things of note: * 7-18-5 refers to the crossing of river Parūṣṇī, and the “fords” around this river is read as the well-irrigated situation around this river during the Mature Harappan phase by Stuhr...") Tag: Visual edit
• 02:25, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 1 (Created page with " History is an art. Artifacts of the past talk to us in silence, and we fill the empty spaces with narratives that are presumably rational, reasonable and well-substantiated. When this is done well, we arrive at what looks like an elegant story, a ‘real picture’ of what really happened. Sometimes these artifacts, and ensuing narratives, congeal around a singular or group of events, such that we derive information about a significant arc of history. One such congealin...") Tag: Visual edit
• 02:14, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 4 (Created page with " The jāti-varṇa superstructure was the Indian way to manage the fundamental problem of stewarding it all, and when combined with the four āśramas and puruṣārthas it was the very essence of dharma. It was OUR way of managing collective wealth and stability, as well as individual well-being and stability. A way to exorcize monopolies and allow for individual aspirations. A way to preserve balance in society, such that each fulfilled themselves regardless of the con...") Tag: Visual edit
• 02:09, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 3 (Created page with " The Śukras and Bṛhaspatis, the Bhṛgus and Āṅgirasas, the fire-bringers and the metallurgy-magicians, had done their job. They had laid down the palimpsest that is Bhārata, but much more was to be carved atop yet. Each layer of India’s civilizational trajectory builds atop another, and with the Vedic Indians it was time for yet another layer. It was time for our civilization to become fractal. '''When you (re)embed the same wisdom and insights at every new l...") Tag: Visual edit
• 02:03, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 2 (Created page with "Our examination of civilizational trajectory so far summarizes to this: Modern homo sapiens, once they had eliminated all competing human species, were left to deal with competing tribes of same competence/ability/motivation. In broad, our history on this emerges violent and genocidal. But surely humans across the planet attempted peaceful solutions- ones that recognised both shared interests and differing paradigms. The Indian civilization contains vivid records of thi...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:53, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 1 (Created page with " Humanity’s route to ‘progress’ has been a faustian bargain. Every next level of organization, co-operation and productivity has mandated new choices, new sacrifices and new problems. In the Purāṇas, humans are listed alongside cattle, goats and horses as “domesticated animals,” implying that ancient Indians too perceived this bargain. Every civilizational trajectory is different, but all deal with some common and fundamental problems. This is better under...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:48, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Hinduism in the Blindspot (Created page with " In both academic and general discourse on the prevalent web, it is easy to understand ignorant/dismissive/derogatory views on Hinduism as a result of varying degrees of bigotry and/or Hinduphobia. But what bewilders is the ignorance of Hinduism/Dharma among the free-thinking, open-minded, and even conspiracy theorizing corners of the web. '''Among those who speak of UFOs as either psychic phenomena or as the evidence of higher/non-material entities, among those who pu...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:36, 15 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma (Created page with " Orwell and Huxley, two literary titans, painted contrasting yet eerily prophetic visions of dystopian futures. Orwell’s “1984” is a stark tableau of totalitarian dread, where Big Brother’s iron fist crushes individuality and truth becomes a twisted weapon. Huxley’s “Brave New World” presents a subtler horror – a hedonistic Eden, where engineered happiness breeds complacency and drowns genuine meaning in a sea of drugged up stupor. In the modern world we...") Tag: Visual edit