Xiyato Saanvi

Published Essays & Articles (7)

• The Triple Fragmentation:

  15 August 2026 History 6 min read

  An essay on the crisis of coherence facing the project of building a modern Indian nation-state, and the fractures behind it.

  Topics nation-state · Indic · civilizational · coherence

• THE ARITHMETIC OF BETRAYAL

  16 August 2026 Political Theory 17 min read

  How the Mandal Commission, OBC reservations and the Indra Sawhney judgment reshaped Indian politics and the balance of caste power.

  Topics Mandal Commission · OBC · Indra Sawhney · VP Singh · caste · Hindutva

• The Quantum and the Eternal

  21 August 2026 Philosophy 10 min read

  How physicist Erwin Schrödinger turned to the Upanishads and Advaita Vedānta for his view of consciousness, identity and the self.

  Topics Erwin Schrödinger · Upanishads · Vedanta · Advaita Vedānta · quantum · consciousness

• Beyond Angkor: Why Is Vietnam Frequently Excluded from the History of Hindu Influence in Southeast Asia?

  3 August 2026 History

  Why is Champa, the Hindu kingdom of central Vietnam, so often left out of the history of Hindu influence in Southeast Asia?

  Topics Champa · Vietnam · Angkor · Southeast Asia · Hindu

• Why This Website Exists

  3 August 2026 Psychology

  Why Ānvīkṣikī was started: a serious research platform for Indic thought, culture, history, philosophy, politics and society.

  Topics Indic · research · philosophy · history

• Indo-Fijians overtook indigenous Fijians numerically in the 1940s then Why are they minority now?

  15 August 2026 History 12 min read

  Indo-Fijians outnumbered indigenous Fijians by 1946. Girmit, colonial policy, fertility, the coups and emigration explain why they are a minority today.

  Topics Indo-Fijians · Fiji · Girmit · Bavadra · emigration · demography

• The Human Tapestry of the Slave Trade

  14 August 2026 History 7 min read

  How the transatlantic slave trade dismantled African societies, and how their peoples, beliefs and traditions survived across the Americas.

  Topics slave trade · transatlantic · Yoruba · Santería · Africa