Arkacandra Jayasimha
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Poison Trees: Mythological Fiction & Hindu Values – 1: Fixing the Bow
Arkacandra Jayasimha, cross-posting a May 2026 series, answers a Centre for Studies in Hindu Conservatism essay on mythological fiction, arguing in part one that its reading of Marx’s ‘opium of…
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 3)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part three of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, argues India’s post-independence settlement was half-hearted on integration, letting Muslim power centres persist while dividing Hindus, and draws…
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 2)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part two of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, examines the thesis that the Muslim League won and most Muslims stayed, using Deleuze and Guattari to frame…
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 1)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part one of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, agrees that diversity is not India’s central problem, but questions whether the diagnosis of Partition as its trauma…
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Meltdown Bhāṣya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.1)
Arkacandra Jayasimha continues a project reading Nick Land’s accelerationism through Hindu texts, introducing Land’s “technocapital singularity” as a parasitic, self-assembling intelligence and framing it as the starting point for a…
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Meltdown Bhāṣya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.2)
Part 1.2 of the Meltdown Bhāṣya commentary on verse 1.1.1 sketches a history of capitalism, commoditisation and production, tracing how Nick Land’s idea of a technocapital singularity draws on Deleuze…
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H/acc — Towards a Hindu Reading of Accelerationism
A long essay, first published in March 2023, offering a Hindu reading of accelerationism. It treats technocapital and AI as an inhuman process, draws on Nick Land, invokes Narasimha, and…
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A BP Retrospective: Balochistan in 2014
With Dhurandhar in cinemas, a pointer back to one of the blog’s earliest posts, on the dirty war in Balochistan in 2014.
