I listened to the above on a podcast. To be frank it was a bit ho-hum. To non-brown listeners some of the stuff was surprising, but I had heard most of it elsewhere before, and Varsha Venkatasubramanian is not particularly heterodox, so her “UC Berkeley” affiliation immediately indicated a lot of her answers to the … Continue reading Was the nation-state inevitable?
Discussing the relationship between culture and crime scares most enormously. But does discussing it help improve human flourishing for people around the world? Please read the first article in this series hyperlinked at the bottom. Please also read these two very fine PDF reports on suspensions of students in the USA and California by race … Continue reading Is American culture sharply increasing crime? (a)
Disclaimer: As this post deals with an academic discussion on the Swastika symbol, I have included various images containing Swastika below. If you are repulsed by the symbol or do not like to look at it, please consider yourself warned. Also, for the same reason, this post is NSFW. Growing up in India, I had … Continue reading What’s in a name? That which we call a Swastika, isn’t exactly a symbol of hate
A good, wide-ranging interview with Romila Thapar (original link is broken, I am not sure what it was, but this video is around the same time (and i posted another one below this post) I did have a few random thoughts of FB and just copy and paste them here. Not well formulated, but you may … Continue reading
After our discussion on industrialisation in India, I began to wonder: if the Earth were one country, one government, one infrastructure grid, one economy, where would its industrial heart lie? Geographically, the answer is obvious. The natural centre of the world, for energy, labour, and trade routes, isn’t London, New York, or Beijing. It’s the … Continue reading The Earth’s Lost Industrial Heart
When Bahá’u’lláh wrote that every word of the Qur’ān bears meaning and intention, he was reminding us that revelation, properly read, resists reduction. Scripture, like language itself, is alive; it breathes, it hesitates, it renews. Yet somewhere between the living word and the legislated code, the hijab became a symbol, of modesty, of defiance, of … Continue reading Hijab: Between Revelation and Regulation
I’ve been busy, but I can’t shake the feeling that we’re living through the beginning of a new world. It was acute with the SCO summit; not just through the headlines, but the atmospherics. The handshakes, the body language, the ease. It’s the kind of thing that barely registered in Western media, but Modi’s presence, … Continue reading Trump Has Birthed Eurasia
I was riffling through the comments and my jaw dropped when Kabir claimed Hinduphobia doesn’t exist. It struck me as both historically and emotionally tone-deaf. I didn’t respond at the time, but I’ve been reflecting on it since. Let me say upfront: Hinduphobia does exist. It may not always manifest in overt violence or systemic … Continue reading Hinduphobia Exists, But Pakistan Was Not Born from It
This post is a continuation of my Introduction to Accelerationism. The goal of this project is to explore Accelerationist Philosophy (with an emphasis on the work of Nick Land) and explain it from a Hindu perspective with an exegetical and comparative focus on the Vedas, Itihāsas, and Tantras, among other traditional Hindu texts. Technocapital Singularity … Continue reading Meltdown Bhāṣya: Verse 1.1.1 (Part 1.1)
Over the past few months, I’ve noticed a marked improvement in the quality of conversation on BP. A large part of this, I suspect, is due to eliminating trigger-response dynamics; as seen when I barred Q on a technicality. It created space: suddenly, the commentariat was thinking, not reacting. In that quiet, something became obvious. … Continue reading Why Pakistan Is a Colonial Project & India a Civilizational One
