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The Monster, the Self, and Dharma: Reading Frankenstein Through Indian Philosophy

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein reconfigures the narrative from one of transgressive creation to one of ethical abandonment within fractured relational orders. It foregrounds a deeper failure: not the act of making life, but the collapse of sustaining relations that render life intelligible, recognizable, and morally accountable.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

Featured

Once Upon a Time: Why We Need Stories

On fairy tales and their enduring civilizational, cultural, and psychological importance

Sai Priya Chodavarapu

Social Commentary

Was Karṇa Rejected by Droṇa? Dismantling Karṇa Myths - Part 1

Karṇa’s ‘rejection’ by Guru Droṇa- touted as an example of caste discrimination in ancient India. However, Karṇa WAS a Droṇa-śiṣya!

Bharathi V

Indian Knowledge Systems

The Strait That Cannot Be Controlled

The Strait of Hormuz is often seen as a fragile chokepoint, but history shows it functioned as a resilient hub sustained by adaptive merchant networks, not just control.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

Geopolitics

From Empire to Entrenchment: The Life and Afterlife of a University

Born as a colonial project to shape minds for governance, the University of Allahabad once became a crucible of debate, literature, and nationalist imagination. Today, its story reveals how universities can expand in reach yet lose clarity of purpose, caught between democracy, bureaucracy, and the fading idea of knowledge itself.

Dr. Anurag Shukla

Social Commentary

Śaṅkara: Thirty-Two Years That Still Shape a Civilization

When a culture’s subsoil erodes, everything tilts: How Śaṅkara’s 32-year journey gave a civilization its memory back.

Cherish Rajpurohit

Indian Knowledge Systems

Āryabhaṭa and the Foundations of Classical Indian Astronomy

A tribute to Āryabhaṭa, whose Āryabhaṭīya as a seminal synthesis of mathematical precision and astronomical innovation; the foundation of a scientific tradition within Indian Knowledge Systems.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu

Indian Knowledge Systems

Book Review | The Long Siege by Chaitanya Giri

A rethinking of colonization as a technopolitical and scientific lag, rather than a mere historical episode.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu

Cinema And Books

The Rise of the Satavahana Dynasty: Stability and Sovereignty :

Satavahanas: Guardians of the Deccan, builders of prosperity, part 1

Amogh Vaidya

History

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The Monster, the Self, and Dharma: Reading Frankenstein Through Indian Philosophy

Once Upon a Time: Why We Need Stories

Was Karṇa Rejected by Droṇa? Dismantling Karṇa Myths - Part 1

The Strait That Cannot Be Controlled

From Empire to Entrenchment: The Life and Afterlife of a University

Śaṅkara: Thirty-Two Years That Still Shape a Civilization

Āryabhaṭa and the Foundations of Classical Indian Astronomy

Book Review | The Long Siege by Chaitanya Giri

The Rise of the Satavahana Dynasty: Stability and Sovereignty :