Dharmic traditions
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At Negombo, the Indian subcontinent meets where it still can
Writing about a Bahá’í gathering at Negombo on 11 May 2026 attended by friends from Pakistan, Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, the post argues that Sri Lanka is now where…
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Why India’s National Calendar Needs Urgent Correction
X.T.M argues that India’s national holiday calendar is distorted, with five Abrahamic festivals central and most Dharmic ones optional. He proposes swapping them for five indigenous festivals, and contends that…
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Why Brown Pundits Needs a Spine, Not a Consensus
X.T.M answers charges that BP leans one way, saying he moderates by the civilisational context of the speaker, not by politics. He blames lapsed editorial oversight for recent rows and…
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BP may have just jumped the shark
X.T.M mocks a claim that a Brahmin calling someone sub-human is casteist, arguing that an insult is an insult and that caste-specific moral disclaimers amount to moral policing.
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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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War in the Sanskritopolis
X.T.M reads the Thailand–Cambodia border dispute through the shared Hindu-Buddhist heritage of Southeast Asia, noting the Theravāda and Mahayana divide, and argues India should act as a civilisational fountainhead in…
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Musings of a Shinto Rishi
Struck by an interview with Florian Wiltschko, an Austrian Shinto priest in Japan, the author sees parallels between Shinto’s nature-centred outlook and a Dharmic sensibility, and reflects on how both…
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Bengal and Dharma: A Recipe for Revival
Reposted from the author’s Medium page, this essay argues that Dharmic civilisation has lost ground over centuries, including Punjab, Sindh and Bengal, and that reviving Bengal means going back to…
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Problems with the terms INDIC and DHARMIC
The author says he cringes at the terms Indic and Dharmic, now popular with the rise of Hindutva as umbrella words for native Indian faiths, arguing Indic first described Indo-Aryan…
