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Poorvam publishes research, essays and conversations on culture, philosophy, literature and the arts.
This essay investigates the text Bhūtaḍāmara Tantra, examining a philosophical tension: “How does a tantra so deeply embedded in ritual coercion reconcile itself with the...
Commemorative Volume · Call for Papers
Poorvam International Journal invites scholars to contribute to a double-blind peer-reviewed commemorative volume honouring Prof. Jay L. Garfield.
PIJCACE · Peer-Reviewed Journal
This study proposes that there exists a deeper structural affinity between performance practice and philosophical inquiry than is ...
This review essay examines Nalini Bhushan and Jay L. Garfield's new translation of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freed...
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s immortal creation Byomkesh Bakshi stands apart from other conventional detective characters both in term...
This paper explores the theme of female autonomy extensively with special reference to demanding female authority, rights, and fre...
PIJCACE · ISSN 3107-6866
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This essay examines how relativity and quantum mechanics transformed modern understandings of physical reality and reopened questions concerning the role of the observer. It explores the quantum measurement problem, the Copenhagen and von Neumann–Wigner interpretations, and their implications for consciousness and observation. The essay then considers Erwin Schrödinger’s reflections on life and consciousness, including his conception of a unified consciousness, before turning to Bertrand Russell’s neutral monism and epistemic empiricism. It concludes by asking whether the rise of artificial intelligence may force renewed engagement with the metaphysical question of what consciousness reveals about reality.
This essay explores consciousness through a personal and philosophical inquiry into mind, reality, and experience following the death of philosopher Anand Vaidya. It examines physicalism and the explanatory gap surrounding subjective experience, alongside Vaidya’s engagement with panpsychism, Vedāntic illuminationism, and Rāmānuja’s account of the conscious self. The essay then traces changing conceptions of knowledge, perception, causality, and reality through Descartes, Newton, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. It concludes by considering how modern physics reopened questions concerning fundamental reality, challenging the apparent completeness of earlier mechanistic accounts of the world.
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What does it mean to be plural? What happens when a poet invents not just characters but entire selves — each ...
Selfless Minds offers a new interpretation of no-self metaphysics in Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosa-Bhasya. Monim...
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Poorvam International Journal of Creative Arts and Cultural Expressions invites original philosophical essays exploring Buddhist Episte...
Our first annual newsletter chronicles the completion of one year of the Poorvam research ecosystem, highlighting 14 published peer-rev...
Lectures & Talks
What does it mean to be plural? What happens when a poet creates not merely characters, but entire selves? In this episode of Authors in Conversation, Poorvam welcomes p...
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Swami Medhananda (Dr. Ayon Maharaj)
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खेला · Khelā
Match classical Sanskrit roots (dhātu) and etymologies to their modern philosophical equivalents.
Play Koṣa →Identify the poetic meter (Chandas) and philosophical origin of timeless classical verses.
Play Śloka →Split compound Sanskrit terms into their morphological and phonetic constituents.
Play Sandhi →Connect thematic philosophical triads through shared semantic and textual linkages.
Play Setu →
