Sādhāraṇīkaraṇa : Underlying Process for Experiencing Rasa
This article examines the concept of sādhāraṇīkaraṇa (generalization) as the indispensable condition for the experience of rasa in classical Indian poetics. While rasa is...
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From Sthāna to Samādhi: Reframing Nṛtta in the Nāṭyaśāstra through Yogic and Tantric Frameworks, with Extensions to South-east Asian Dance Traditions
This study proposes that there exists a deeper structural affinity between performance practice and philosophical inquiry than is ...
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The emergence of the modern-day Bhāṣyakāras in the discourse of modern Indian Philosophy
This review essay examines Nalini Bhushan and Jay L. Garfield's new translation of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freed...
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Deductive vis-à-vis Didactic: The Curious Case of Byomkesh Bakshi
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s immortal creation Byomkesh Bakshi stands apart from other conventional detective characters both in term...
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Female and the Occult: Re-defining Female Autonomy in Stree and Bulbbul
This paper explores the theme of female autonomy extensively with special reference to demanding female authority, rights, and fre...
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The 'New' Physics and the Return of the Questioner
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.
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The Making of Modern Observer
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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Koṣa (कोष)
Match classical Sanskrit roots (dhātu) and etymologies to their modern philosophical equivalents.
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Identify the poetic meter (Chandas) and philosophical origin of timeless classical verses.
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Split compound Sanskrit terms into their morphological and phonetic constituents.
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