by M.K.Sudarshan August 12, 2026: Chennai, India 📌 At a Glance: The Architecture of Indian Civilization “What is Bharatiya Sanskriti? Look no further than the two epics. The Ramayana is all about what Dharma is, and the Mahabharata is all about what Dharma is not.” ⚖️ DHARMA (Virtue): The unyielding standard of absolute self-sacrifice (Rama’s exile)Continue reading “The Twin Pillars of “Bharatiya Sanskriti”: Mapping the “Purusharthas” through Epic Thesis and Anti-Thesis, the “Yin and the Yang””
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“Ekam sath viprah: bahudah vadanti”: is not about Inclusivity but Universality
Arguing that the Rg Veda’s ideal of “Ekam Sath” is not an inclusive one and that it refers only to the various gods mentioned in a specific line of the concerned Rg Veda text is founded on misunderstanding. If the argument is to be accepted then the Universality of the very idea of Dharma upon which the Vedic Faith is founded gets negated!
How Manu Smriti Served Liberal Historians and Social Anthropologists as a Handy Tool to Stigmatise Indian “Patriarchy” as Misogynistic (Part 3 & 4) Concluded
By M.K.Sudarshan Chennai, India : June 22, 2026 Part III: How Liberal Historians Perpetuated the Colonial MythThe Continuation of Orientalist Narrative Post-independence, liberal historians and social anthropologists continued the British Orientalist narrative rather than correcting it: Key Figures: • Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1920s–1950s): Blamed Manu for caste oppression; burned Manu copies (1927)• Uma Chakravarti: “BrahmanicalContinue reading “How Manu Smriti Served Liberal Historians and Social Anthropologists as a Handy Tool to Stigmatise Indian “Patriarchy” as Misogynistic (Part 3 & 4) Concluded”
How Manu Smriti Served Liberal Historians and Social Anthropologists as a Handy Tool to Stigmatise Indian “Patriarchy” as Misogynistic (Part 2 of 4)
By M.K.Sudarshan Chennai, India : June 22, 2026 Part II: How British Colonial Orientalism Made Manu “Canonical”The British Imperial Purpose The elevation of Manu Smriti to “preeminent Hindu law” was not accidental—it was a calculated imperial strategy serving three purposes: Purpose #1: Simplify Governance• British administrators needed a “single code” for Hindu law• Manu providedContinue reading “How Manu Smriti Served Liberal Historians and Social Anthropologists as a Handy Tool to Stigmatise Indian “Patriarchy” as Misogynistic (Part 2 of 4)”
Kārpaṇyam, Kārpaṇya-doṣham, and the Study of Prapatti: Reading Rahasya Traya Sāram in its Proper Pedagogical Constellation
श्रीमान् वेङ्कटनाथार्यः कवितार्किककेसरी ।वेदान्ताचार्यवर्यो मे सन्निधत्तां सदा हृदि ॥ Śrīmān veṅkaṭanāthāryaḥ kavitārkikakesarī |Vedāntācāryavaryo me sannidhattāṁ sadā hṛdi || Meaning: May the glorious Venkatanatha, the lion among poets and logicians, and the supreme master of Vedanta, always reside in my heart. Overview The most compelling scriptural prelude to the doctrine of prapatti is found not in aContinue reading “Kārpaṇyam, Kārpaṇya-doṣham, and the Study of Prapatti: Reading Rahasya Traya Sāram in its Proper Pedagogical Constellation”
Sri Krishna dialogues with the “Unknown Sri Vaishnava”: On modern Friendship
-Part I– The train was already moving past the suburbs when Krishna looked up from the window and sighed. “Look at them,” he said softly. “All these young people seated so close to one another, and yet each seems miles away. No one speaks. Their eyes are lowered, their thumbs are busy, and their facesContinue reading “Sri Krishna dialogues with the “Unknown Sri Vaishnava”: On modern Friendship”
The Arc of a Brave New 22nd Century World… the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Bible – Part 3 (CONCLUDED)
Confronted with such a pattern, it is unsurprising that two great scriptures of the world — one recent in history, and the other very ancient — the Bible and the Bhagavad Gītā speak not in the language of dispassionate geopolitics, but in the idiom of divine justice and cosmic rectification. It is cruel irony, perhaps,Continue reading “The Arc of a Brave New 22nd Century World… the Bhagavad Gītā, and the Bible – Part 3 (CONCLUDED)”
The Moving Arc and the “One‑Tenthers” – Part 2 of 3
If the arc can be read as a product of resources and strategic geography, it can also be read as a mirror of power asymmetry. Throughout most of human history, the making of the arc’s fate has been reserved for what I call the “One‑Tenthers”—the small minority of great‑power states, imperial elites, and ruling‑class networksContinue reading “The Moving Arc and the “One‑Tenthers” – Part 2 of 3”
The Arc of Human Sorrow – Part 1 of 3
I. The Arc of Human Sorrow in the World If one were to trace, on a single map, the heaviest concentration of war, pillage, and displacement across human history, the line would run from Libya through Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Persia—an arc that has, for millennia, been less a geographical accident than a structuralContinue reading “The Arc of Human Sorrow – Part 1 of 3”
Mapping the “Dreams of the World”: Freud, Jung and the Bhagavath Gita
What a fascinating Infograph indeed on the Freudian stuff that the Dreams of the whole world is about! If you study the map closely, you will not fail to notice that nearly the whole of world populations have either the “Snake” or the “Falling of Teeth“ to be objects appearing as recurring themes in theirContinue reading “Mapping the “Dreams of the World”: Freud, Jung and the Bhagavath Gita”