FeaturedPosted on October 15, 2020October 16, 2020 Landscape in the Nāṭyaśāstra and clues to its spatial origin: A study in 2019 (Dr. Padmaja Venkatesh Suresh and Megh Kalyanasundaram)
FeaturedPosted on July 29, 2020July 29, 2020 Reading Yāska’s Nirukta in 2020: jottings of consequence to the Global history of astronomy, Yāska’s chronological epoch and the Indic history of writing and knowledge systems
FeaturedPosted on August 5, 2018June 28, 2019 Fact check: Is the 2018/08/02 piece by Sunil Menon and Siddhartha Mishra in Outlook not an example of fake news/information being propagated?
FeaturedPosted on July 22, 2018February 8, 2020 2012 Cambridge-published Tirthankar Roy’s book “India in the World Economy – From Antiquity to the Present”: Two observations
FeaturedPosted on October 10, 2016March 24, 2017 Slow reading of some ‘lines’ of the Founder of Murty Classical Library of India
FeaturedPosted on September 23, 2016February 19, 2020 Consideration of Indian (literary) Classicism as depicted by Professor Sheldon Pollock and identifying some of its implications
FeaturedPosted on September 1, 2016January 10, 2021 A limited response to Meera Nanda’s essay “Hindutva’s science envy” in Frontline
Posted on February 19, 2021 “Separation of Powers” in global legal history: evidence from Indian Knowledge Systems seen alongside ‘The Crown and the Courts’ and ‘The First Constitution’
Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 Eurocentrism and more in the 21st century: the case of ‘Suum cuique tribuere (Ancient Rome, c.1000 BC–AD 565)’ and ‘A New History of Dharmaśāstra’
Posted on December 11, 2020January 1, 2021 ‘Legal document’ in Dharma jurisprudence: An analysis of the early chronology of ‘lekhya’ and more in ‘A New History of Dharmaśāstra’ and ‘A Treatise on Dharma’
Posted on November 28, 2020January 1, 2021 The earliest textual attestation of ‘dharmaśāstra’ and more: an analysis of chronology in ‘A Dharma Reader’
Posted on August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 A sentence-by-sentence response to Kasturi and Gomes’ article ‘To Say That an Indian Nation-State Existed in the Ancient Past Is Historical Manipulation’
Posted on July 13, 2020July 24, 2020 ‘Unpublishing’ of webpages on india.gov.in domain that contained phrases “the invasion by the Aryans” and “The Aryans came from Central Europe and settled down in India” (July 2020)
Posted on June 23, 2020October 11, 2020 That which Iain McLean called ‘one of the finest parts of WN,’ seen in the light of Balbir Singh Sihag’s analysis of the अर्थशास्त्र (Arthaśāstra)
