The Quantum and the Eternal
How physicist Erwin Schrödinger turned to the Upanishads and Advaita Vedānta for his view of consciousness, identity and the self.
Ānvīkṣikī: essays on history, philosophy and politics
Essays in English on history, philosophy and politics, mostly about India and the wider Indic world. Every essay is free to read. The name is the classical Sanskrit term for the discipline of critical inquiry.
7 essays published so far, most recently on .
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THE ARITHMETIC OF BETRAYAL
How the Mandal Commission, OBC reservations and the Indra Sawhney judgment reshaped Indian politics and the balance of caste power.
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The Triple Fragmentation:
An essay on the crisis of coherence facing the project of building a modern Indian nation-state, and the fractures behind it.
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Indo-Fijians overtook indigenous Fijians numerically in the 1940s then Why are they minority now?
Indo-Fijians outnumbered indigenous Fijians by 1946. Girmit, colonial policy, fertility, the coups and emigration explain why they are a minority today.
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The Human Tapestry of the Slave Trade
How the transatlantic slave trade dismantled African societies, and how their peoples, beliefs and traditions survived across the Americas.
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Beyond Angkor: Why Is Vietnam Frequently Excluded from the History of Hindu Influence in Southeast Asia?
Why is Champa, the Hindu kingdom of central Vietnam, so often left out of the history of Hindu influence in Southeast Asia?
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Why This Website Exists
Why Ānvīkṣikī was started: a serious research platform for Indic thought, culture, history, philosophy, politics and society.
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