Category Archives: Politics

The turning of the yugacakra

Posted on October 26, 2022 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

As the wheel turns, what goes up comes down and what is down comes up, again and again. There is a symmetry to the process in the downward and the upward movements, albeit in opposite directions. The old Hindus, right … Continue reading →

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Vikīrṇā viṣayāḥ: India and the Rus

Posted on June 12, 2022 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Our sleep was disturbed by a dream with a circulating motif whose exact story line, if any, was lost upon awakening. It started with a tall elderly man of West African ancestry playing cricket (batting) with the swagger of a … Continue reading →

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The death of Miss Lizzie Willink

Posted on May 2, 2022 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Late that spring, Somakhya and Lootika were visited by their mleccha friend Irmhild. Letting her sleep off the jet lag, they left for work. Given the good weather, Lootika returned early to check on their friend and go out with … Continue reading →

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Geopolitical summary: March 2022

Posted on March 31, 2022 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The autumn dawn As the 40th day of the autumn of 2016 CE dawned, the mahāmleccha left-liberals were sunning themselves in the last rays of the setting Ardhakṛṣṇa. He was the hero of the age for them, a veritable yuganātha, … Continue reading →

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Transcripts of conversations: the addiction principle:

Posted on March 15, 2022 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

A friend recorded some of our verbalizations and made transcripts of them. He sent them to us to and we decide to edit them and post them as and when we get the chance — not out of a narcissistic … Continue reading →

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On the passing of E.O. Wilson

Posted on December 28, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

E.O. Wilson, one of the great biologists of the age, has fallen to the noose of the king, the black son of Vivasvān. He lived a long, productive, and eventful life, just 8 years shy of a century. He was … Continue reading →

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Some words on mleccha cartels

Posted on December 26, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

An embedded anthropological study of social substructures is vital to grasp some of their features that seem baffling to the outsider or the “uninitiated” insider. Much of what we will be talking about here has been said in some form … Continue reading →

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The rise of Navyonmāda, the subversion of the Mahāmleccha-s, Cīnānusāra and beyond

Posted on October 31, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The past The dynamics of the establishment of the counter-religious unmāda-s are of some interest. The pūrvonmāda of pharaoh Akhenaten arose from the moha in his own head and was imposed on the populace due to his imperial power. It … Continue reading →

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Bhairavānanda’s wicks: a retelling

Posted on July 17, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

It was early in the school year and the last class for the week, the English class. The students were restless as the sea at the time of the tide from the pull of the impending weekend. For the first … Continue reading →

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Some talks at the Indic Today portal

Posted on June 26, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We had a chat with with C Surendranath, Contributing Editor and (in part with) Yogini Deshpande, Editor in Chief of Indic Today. It is divided into four parts: 1) https://www.indictoday.com/videos/manasataramgini-civilization-counter-religion-continuity-collapse-i/ A few clarifications for this part: 1) We do not … Continue reading →

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Pandemic days: Vaccines and war

Posted on May 23, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

In American history-writing we come across various attempts to the justify the use of nuclear weapons on Japan in the closing phase of WW2. We often hear the claim that by using the nukes they avoided a large number of … Continue reading →

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Pandemic days: Galtonism hits India

Posted on April 26, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

At some point last year, we stopped writing any further dispatches regarding the pandemic catastrophe from the disease because everything was playing out more or less as laid out in the earlier notes. There was the whole public drama around … Continue reading →

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Huntington and the clash: 21 years later

Posted on February 8, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

This note is part biographical and part survey of the major geopolitical abstractions that may be gleaned from the events in the past 21 years. Perhaps, there is nothing much of substance in this note but an uninformed Hindu might … Continue reading →

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Prakīrṇaviṣayāḥ: Life, brains, warfare and society

Posted on November 29, 2020 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

1 On big brains An occidentally conditioned person remarked that “we were making bad use of the great brains we have evolved. Instead of using it for human betterment, we were expending it on killing each other with sophisticated weapons.” … Continue reading →

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Winners and Losers

Posted on August 10, 2020 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Somakhya and Lootika were visiting the Śūlapuruṣadeśa for work reasons. Unlike their ārya ancestors, they did not like being on the move much. It was a rare occasion that both had been able to travel together and it brought them … Continue reading →

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Pandemic days: the fizz is out of the bottle

Posted on June 8, 2020 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Just this morning our brother remarked that the fear of the virus has inverted this month with respect to the actual infection. We literally hear this: in the past few months, while home-bound, we at least had aural quietness for … Continue reading →

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The culmination of Galtonism or pandemic days-3

Posted on April 13, 2020 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We saw a list of famous elderly people whom the virus has already placed in the abode of Vaivasvata at the time of writing. We recognized at least two names: (1) Robert Carroll the paleontologist, whose hard to find book … Continue reading →

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The culmination of Galtonism or pandemic days-1

Posted on April 5, 2020 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

While many thoughts crowd our mind we have hardly felt the drive to put them down on a more visible medium. Such is the nature of the times when things happen reminding you of the inexorable turning of the yuga-cakra. … Continue reading →

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Human journeys, ascents and descents

Posted on December 15, 2019 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

As we headed towards the bus-stand to take our homeward conveyance, we saw an unusual stir in its vicinity. We passed a clump of young, well-to-do, white American women ambling along holding over-sized coffee or cola cups and exclaiming: “Wow!” … Continue reading →

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Some (geo)political talk

Posted on November 18, 2019 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

A political bloviation follows: We must preface this by stating we do not have any affiliation to the party currently ruling India or the RSS and actually have no specific interest at all in electoral politics in India or elsewhere. … Continue reading →

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Fraudulent science by Indians: some really bad news

Posted on March 3, 2019 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Around 2011 we were approached by a researcher of Indian origin for a collaboration in biochemistry regarding a family of proteins whose biochemical functions we had uncovered. After more than an year of dealing with him, it became clear that … Continue reading →

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Liṅga-kāmādi-sūtrāṇi

Posted on February 3, 2019 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Devanagari PDF version .. Sūtrapāṭhaḥ .. atha liṅga-kāmādi-sūtrāṇi vyākhyāsyāmaḥ . jīvasūtrāṇunām anukrameṣu parimeyā vikārā jīvā-paramparāyā+avaśyam . jantvoḥ saṃgrāmas tasya paramaṃ kāraṇam . tasmād ajāyata jīvasūtrāṇunāṃ vyūḍhīkaraṇam . RecA-nāma jīvakāryāṇu-kulaṃ jīvasūtrāṇunāṃ vyūḍhīkaraṇaṃ karoti . mukhyaśo ‘nagnijīvasūtrāṇunām . anagnijīvasūtrāṇu-mithunayor maithunāt . idam … Continue reading →

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A Political roundup August 15 2018

Posted on August 16, 2018 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

As I remarked to a friend, much of the stuff in (geo)politics which is relevant to us is what we have predicted before based on the relatively straightforward model of mleccha-marūnmattābhisaṃdhi i.e. the anti-heathen coalition of those infected by Abrahamistic … Continue reading →

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A brief note on some new developments regarding the genomics of Indians

Posted on April 1, 2018 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

When we wrote a previous article on this matter we had stated that new data will alter the details of our understanding of picture discussed therein. Indeed, two new manuscripts which were deposited in the past month by McColl et … Continue reading →

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Of lives of men; of times of men-III

Posted on December 6, 2017 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Of lives of men; of times of men-II As they were talking, they saw a sallow-complexioned youth pass by them some distance away carrying a bat on his shoulder. Vidrum waved out to him and he responded similarly and after some … Continue reading →

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Of lives of men; of times of men-I

Posted on November 7, 2017 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Sharvamanyu and Vidrum arrived at the campus where Somakhya and Lootika were in their final days of college. Sharvamanyu had already been working for several months while Vidrum had just completed the last but one of his major exams for … Continue reading →

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Braided power: a brief note on the last great steppe power: the Mongol-Manchu system

Posted on July 24, 2017 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We first read of matters pertaining to this note with some interest in books which had newly arrived at a library in our old city that we mainly visited for Sanskritic literature. We wished to summarize everything we had learned … Continue reading →

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A superficial look at national population density and some life history features

Posted on May 20, 2017 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Over the years we have repeatedly checked out various collections of data pertaining to the human condition in the same manner as we attempted to apprehend scientific data. We have wondered whether to write on them in any detail. We … Continue reading →

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Marching onward in the American spring but where to?

Posted on May 7, 2017 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We hear in the news that the students (and whoever else) at the University of California, Berkeley, are in state of ferment. This is unsurprising in itself given that the it has for long been the center of American student … Continue reading →

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loka-nīti-carcā

Posted on January 22, 2017 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

pdf in Devanāgari (loka-nIticharchA) vijaya-nāma mahā-mlecchānām bahuprajāvān bahupatnīvāṃś ca vyāpārī gṛha-krayāc chailūṣa-pradarśanāc ca mahādhany abhavat । sa marūnmattair abhibhṛtāṃ pūrvatana-mleccha-rāja-patnīm atikrāntvā rāja-nirvācanam ajayata । so ‘bhavat mlecchādhipatiḥ । virodhakās tasya+anekāḥ । tasya vijayasya ca paṭṭābhiṣekasyānantaraṃ vṛṣṭy-ante puttikā ivo(u)tplavante bahavaḥ saṃkṣobhakāḥ … Continue reading →

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śūlapuruṣasya vicāraḥ

Posted on August 31, 2016 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Somakhya’s cousin Babhru and his family was visiting him during the vacation before they were to join university. After lunch he convinced Vidrum and Sharvamanyu to come over to his house when they got the chance for he thought more … Continue reading →

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Nālika-s

Posted on July 28, 2016 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The first week of college had ended. Vidrum was returning from an eatery with his new friend Manjukeshi after an early supper. The two of them were rather surprised by the ferocious competitiveness of their classmates. Some refused to discuss … Continue reading →

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Turning of the Turkic wheel: unmattābhisaṃdhi, battles won, battles lost and march of marūnmāda

Posted on July 22, 2016 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

When the Mamluqs controlled the rākṣasālaya-s of Mecca and Medina they were rather zealous about their possessions just like the modern tyrants of Saud. After the Osman sultan Mehmed II had completed an important milestone for marūnmāda with the conquest … Continue reading →

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A geopolitical package: July 2016

Posted on July 9, 2016 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

One often hears of the tale of Śivājī and his men killing the gigantic marūnmatta Afzal Khan in popular narratives. It was certainly an event that captured the imagination of the lay Hindus and continues to do so to this … Continue reading →

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A commentary on the vairin-s and the like of Viṣṇuśarman’s tradition

Posted on June 28, 2016 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

In one sense Viṣṇuśarman’s political presentation was nothing short of revolutionary. One may rightly ask: why so? One could say after all he was merely encapsulating in tales the principles already laid out by the ancient ārya-s and thoroughly presented … Continue reading →

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Some notes on the heathen Lithuania and its demise

Posted on March 13, 2016 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Clinging to the inner coast of northern Europe lies Lithuania, a nation which at best only marginally figures in the Hindu historical and geographical consciousness. Conquered twice by the Soviet “empire” it had all but ceased to exist as an … Continue reading →

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unmāda-carcā

Posted on March 11, 2016 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The Mohammedan scientist Al-Bīrūnī was the model Abrahamistic investigator of other cultures in whose mold even those of the modern era are cast, be they from the prathamonmāda or the dvītīyonmāda or their secular variants. He was quick to recognize … Continue reading →

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A reiteration regarding the heart of the fundamental conflict

Posted on December 19, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We are somewhat zealous in recycling unused bits of writing lending a certain pleonastic touch to the material presented here. We are placing herewith a bit of unused writing concerning the topic on which we have just written a note, … Continue reading →

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Turning of the Turkic wheel: plucking the red apple

Posted on November 27, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

In 527 CE Justinian became the emperor at Constantinople. He is remembered as a saint in the orthodox church and is famed for his enforcing of the Nicean creed. He crushed other interpretations of Christianity and rebuilt the famous church … Continue reading →

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A geopolitical round up: last week of Nov 2015

Posted on November 25, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Many turns of the sun ago, when we were still a kid in school, we had some classmates who had an unbridled admiration and enthusiasm for the Anglosphere and a rather deep-seated self-identification with it. While their English had little … Continue reading →

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A case of Gaṅgā as a negative example and a lesson in discernment

Posted on October 27, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

A version of this article was originally published on IndiaFacts ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ With the river Sarasvati going dry the plains watered by the Gaṅgā became the focus of civilization in India. This civilizational phenomenon is philologically mirrored in Hindu tradition with … Continue reading →

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The ponderous tale of the tombstones

Posted on June 1, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

“Since you are recording the diverse Vaidruma-s would you record the tombstone variation? While other matters like the sloths of South America, the megalithic culture of India, cave paintings, or even WW2 might be more interesting to the occasional reader … Continue reading →

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World War 2 and the like

Posted on May 10, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Right away we should state that there is going to be some dilation – hence “the like”. “In my generation, we lived under the impression that the term patriotism was poisoned during Nazi times. German history, unlike American or French … Continue reading →

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Incomplete men

Posted on March 11, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

This article was first published on Feb 18, 2006. However, we thought it was apposite to re-publish it with some additions give the recent attack on the Hindus by the mlechCha propaganda arm. Liberals are a putrid and noxious bunch. … Continue reading →

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The doctor and the speech at the right-wing think-tank

Posted on February 25, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

It was a late Friday afternoon and Vidrum had returned home early from the hospital. He spent some time in his garden making a ball from the paste of rain-tree pods, a messy but immensely meditative activity, which his friend … Continue reading →

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The Indian republic and the microcosm of social media

Posted on February 12, 2015 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We have spent most of our adult life in a world connected by the internet. It offers a few opportunities, which were largely absent in the world before it, though it must be emphasized that these come with major downsides: … Continue reading →

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Subhas Chandra Bose: An autobiographical reminiscence

Posted on December 4, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

By the time we were between the seven and eight years of age we had acquired some elements of the history our people from our parents: We knew of the coming of the ārya-s and the relationship of Indo-Aryan languages … Continue reading →

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A geopolitical segment: the news-traders

Posted on October 25, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We have earlier proposed on these pages the postulates of the first responders and the preta-rākṣasābhisaṃdhi. These, together with the peculiar consequence of much of our elites’ vyavahāra happening in the āṅglika bhāṣā, has allowed our mleccha-, and to an … Continue reading →

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Some vignettes on the provenance of the Mogol tyrants

Posted on October 22, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Published first in a slightly modified form at IndiaFacts In the autumn of 1404 CE Timur-i lenk, after having spread the terror of Islam all over Asia for more than three decades, was poised to launch the final campaign of … Continue reading →

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The fifth story

Posted on September 14, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Perhaps we should not be expending our extra-professional writing time on such stories; however, a long conversation with kauṇḍinyā after a long time since she left for the trivarga-deśa incited us to record yet another variation. ~o0o~ It was the … Continue reading →

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Lessons from the past: A look at the earliest Mohammedan invasions of Central Asia

Posted on August 22, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

First published at IndiaFacts: http://www.indiafacts.co.in/isis-caliphate-lessons-earliest-mohammedan-invasions-central-asia/ By the 1000CE the Turks were already on their way to becoming the primary spearhead of Islam against the Hindus of India, the heathen civilizations of Central Asia, and the Christians in the West. The … Continue reading →

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A visitation and ruminations

Posted on July 18, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Most of our fellow travelers in school and college, with some exceptions occasionally alluded to in some form on these pages, were boring people to us. Their interests, political views or aspirations did not overlap seriously with our own. However, … Continue reading →

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Some meanderings on early medieval history from the view point of nAstika compositions

Posted on July 13, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

A image of the goddess vajreshvarI from a Dilwara temple built by a jaina banker-businessman of the chAlukya period later embellished by bhAmA sAH This epistle is a brief discussion on the socio-political developments in early medieval India emerging from … Continue reading →

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A geopolitical segment

Posted on July 4, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Nothing has really changed in the world as long as the mlechCha-marUnmattAbhisaMdhi continues as usual. Yet, a large fraction of the Hindus we have observed have a weak apprehension of this outside a relatively small circle many of whom are … Continue reading →

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Remembering Emperor Julian

Posted on June 27, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

On 26th June 363 CE the great philosopher-emperor Julian died from a wound that was inflicted in all likelihood by a Christian traitor in his own ranks (said to be sent by Christian saint Basil for his assassination). He was … Continue reading →

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The engineer, the dead fish and the bag of earth-the End

Posted on June 2, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

From Part-V kathA-puchChaM Viruses have been around since the beginning of life and locked in conflict with cells and other viruses since then. In course of this epic conflict they have given genes to cells and taken genes from them. … Continue reading →

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Wise viShNusharman’s vignette on biological warfare

Posted on April 13, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

brahmA rudraH kumAro hari-varuNa-yamA vahnir indraH kuberash chandrAdityau sarasvaty-udadhi-yuga-nagA vAyur urvI-bhuja~NgAH | siddhA nadyo .ashvinau shrIr ditir aditi-sutA mAtarash chaNDikAdyA vedAs tIrthAni yakShA gaNa-vasu-munayaH pAntu nityaM grahAsh cha || ::::::::::::: Tennyson had put it: “Nature, red in tooth and claw” … Continue reading →

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The alien seeks to belong

Posted on March 28, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

barbarin was born in an indigent brAhmaNa household. They lived just beyond a sprawling slum in an area where the Mogols had formerly camped during their final struggle with the mahArATTa-s for that city. In his youth he had been … Continue reading →

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The successors of the kaunteya-s in the national memory of bhArata-s and bhoTa-s and related discursions

Posted on December 26, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

As per the mahAbharata, the great war on the kuru field came to a conclusion with the smashing of duryodhana’s thighs by bhIma. While balarAma wanted to kill bhIma for unfairly defeating the kuru prince in the gadAyuddha, kR^iShNa convinced … Continue reading →

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Some reflections on the Khans Qaidu and Du’a and the great Khan’s lost legacy

Posted on December 9, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Prolog In our youth we spent an inordinate amount of time reveling in intricacies of history that few around us really cared for. Not unexpectedly, a girl told us that she was shocked that we took these readings in history … Continue reading →

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The tale of the two classes of vaNij-s

Posted on October 23, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

It is with some trepidation that we discuss the vaNij-s for, belonging to the head of the puruSha, we are removed from the arts and the ways of theirs. But this is more a discussion on how their history played … Continue reading →

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The moment of silence

Posted on August 15, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

In the days long past, when we were still young, we did not like the 15th Aug holiday very much – it was not really a full holiday for we had to attend school for a few hours of faux … Continue reading →

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A Sayyid kills a Kashmirian yogin

Posted on July 22, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The Kashmirian brAhmaNa jonarAja wrote a rAjataraMgiNi describing the rule of various Moslem tyrants in Kashmira after the end of Hindu rule. He is rather laudatory in his description of the Sultan Zayn al Abidin (reign 1418-1470 CE), who is … Continue reading →

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khilonmAda-charchA

Posted on July 20, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Visualize a situation where a plasmid encoding a bacteriocin infects a bacterium. This bacteriocin kills all other conspecifics (to the extent we can define a conspecific in bacteria). Consequently, the rivals who might compete for the same resource as the … Continue reading →

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A brief rant on the Indian political system

Posted on June 11, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The coming elections in the secular, socialist, democratic republic of India certainly seem to be a rather important fork in the road. A member of the clan mentioned that an exuberant Hindu politician had declared that this election will mark … Continue reading →

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Vignettes of the wisdom of the kuru and the pa~nchAla

Posted on May 14, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The defining element of our identity was the formation of the rAShTra by the kuru and the pa~nchAla, the foremost of the bhArata clans. It is the legacy of this rAShTra of the bhArata-s, rather than documents like the constitution … Continue reading →

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A Hindu polemic against the pretamata

Posted on April 30, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

When the English gained ascendancy after the defeat of the marATha-s and the sikh-s they had gained military control over India but they knew well that their hold was still tenuous. Hence, in the period leading to the first war … Continue reading →

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A brief note on spies, subversionists, white indologists and “regional studies”

Posted on April 28, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

While today the US, as the leader of the leukosphere, is renowned for its intelligence and subversion operations all over the world, it has acquired this capability relatively recently in historical terms. Although the FBI carried out various intelligence and … Continue reading →

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Chinese incursion of 2013: Just the beginning?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Hindus face three major civilizational threats – two from the Abrahamisms, the religions of peace and love, and one from the legalistic Han imperialism. The assault from the religion of love is primarily spear-headed by the leukosphere and is abetted … Continue reading →

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The Euro-American academic system: few more thoughts

Posted on April 15, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The neglect of human sociobiology Our intellectual tradition: non-existent, decadent, or congenitally dilute? One may see the following as rollovers from the above. As we have stated before on these very pages, one thing the old Hindus were good at … Continue reading →

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The lesson of arjuna

Posted on March 5, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The third paNDava, as an impetuous warrior, the embodiment of the great indra on earth gave a powerful lesson to his brother yudhiShThira when urged by his wife yAj~nasenI. The pith of this lesson is truly one for the kali … Continue reading →

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The end of the heathens

Posted on February 10, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

In 438 BCE the 12 meter image of the great goddess Athena made by the foremost of the yavana idol makers, Pheidias under the patronage of Perikles was installed at the Acropolis in Athens. It was built with 1.1 tons … Continue reading →

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A note regarding the multilingual poetry of jayarAma kavI

Posted on October 31, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We had a discussion with an acquaintance regarding the local linguistic pride and chauvinism among those who identify with desha bhAShA-s in bhArata. We had encountered the effect most forcefully in two modern states of the secular Indian republic, namely … Continue reading →

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The conversion

Posted on August 13, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

It was many many moons ago. We were seated upon the wall near the viShTa-parvata when the kR^iShNa-shUdra materialized in front of us. He was looking agitated. Just a few days before the English teacher had asked the class to … Continue reading →

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The Hindu struggle in the mountains and a discursion on philological encounters with the turuShka-s

Posted on July 16, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Sometime after Bhairappa, a noted writer among the karNATa-s, published a novel that was supposed to concern the turuShka-bhArata saMgrAma, we happened to be journeying deep in the karNATa country. As the events would conspire, we found ourselves in the … Continue reading →

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The apocalyptic vision

Posted on May 28, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

◊◊◊◊ Lootika and her sister Varoli, who was visiting her, had cooked up an elaborate meal for the visitors who were to arrive later in the day. Thereafter, as the two were lazing on the couch, Lootika remarked: O Varoli … Continue reading →

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An indigo South Asian, hemu’s salt and other interlocutions

Posted on April 23, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

For a while Mn has been keeping only Ivy league company – as he would say from one Ivy league school to another, much to the envy of flotsam deshI mortals. Indeed, he made his appearance with an entourage of … Continue reading →

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Some more ramblings on the mlechCha-marUnmatta abhisaMdhAnaM

Posted on April 1, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The mlechCha-s outwardly appear to have been at war with the shashidhvaja-s since the first days of the khilI-moha propagated by the adi-marUnmatta. But throughout history several actions of mlechCha-s have ended up strengthening the marUnmatta-s rather than weakening them. … Continue reading →

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Aptitude, education, the ape and politics

Posted on February 17, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The yogin experiences, but at the height of his practice there is neither object nor subject in his experience. The kavi experiences, and in the pinnacle of his practice his world is unified under increasingly robust ontologies. When he attains … Continue reading →

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Reading the downward turn of the yuga-chakra

Posted on January 12, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

A conversation, tinged with sorrow and pleasure at the same time, reminded us of a pickle of chillies that was so artfully crafted by ST in her flourish of sUpakalA. But one thing was clear that the yuga-chakra was turning … Continue reading →

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Some considerations on Indian polity

Posted on November 13, 2011 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Along with the failure to restore saMskR^ita, one of the congenital defects of modern India was its failure to reacquire its tradition of political thought. While such visions might have existed in the world of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio, they were … Continue reading →

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yuddha-vyUha-s, mlechCha-s and vaNija-nIti in the last Hindu empire

Posted on October 9, 2011 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The narrative of the final stages of premodern bhAratavarSha remains in a rather misleading state, despite these times being much closer to our own. In the modern phase (post-independence) tacit encouragement from the occidentally oriented chAchAjI resulted in historical narratives … Continue reading →

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Rehabilitating king vidyAdhara and the sense of Hindu identity

Posted on September 17, 2011 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The prelude tvam Adau vikramAdityaH sR^iShTo .abhUH svAMshato mayA | mlechCha-rUpAvatIrNAnAm asurANAM prashAntaye || (bhaTTa somadeva in the vetAla pa~nchaviMshati) I generated you vikramAditya as a part of my own self to silence the asura-s in the form of the … Continue reading →

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The tale of Hindu and Sanskrit in the English mind

Posted on December 19, 2010 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

A plot of the words Sanskrit/Sanscrit and Hindoo/Hindu in English literature from 1790-2010 using the Google Ngram viewer. * Note the steady change in with Hindoo and Sanscrit being replaced in English by Hindu and Sanskrit. * we see a … Continue reading →

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What should they teach?

Posted on October 24, 2010 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The prolix Balagangadhara of Ghent in a talk available on YouTube brings up the question of teaching bhAratIya viShaya-s in mlechCha universities. In this regard we have earlier discussed the California textbook case the role of the activist indologists in … Continue reading →

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The making of identities

Posted on August 14, 2010 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

It is important that Hindus as a part of their defensive strategy anthropologize their rivals – this act of reverting the gaze on them is also critical to redress the balance of power. An important aspect of this is the … Continue reading →

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mAhAsamanta “feudalism”?

Posted on July 31, 2010 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

“nUtana-mAnava-samAjasya-purashcharaNam mArksa-engelsa-lenina-nAmadheyAnAm tejasvinAm mahA-mAnavAnAm punIta-smaraNArtham ||” Thus, Kosambi the pitAmaha of the deshIya rudhira-dhvaja-s offers his ma~NgAlacharaNaM to his mentors, of all places in the introduction to his edition of the vAkya-s of bhartR^ihari. He claimed that he was working … Continue reading →

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The dangers of Turkey

Posted on May 31, 2010 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

This is just a brief distraction from our paleontological narratives to which we hope return. It is important for Hindus to observe Turkey. Some time ago in our discussion on Islamic potentates we had mentioned that Turkey sits on a … Continue reading →

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Society and biological constraints

Posted on April 7, 2010 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

For long we have remained a sAkShI on the ethology of Homo sapiens. We have observed with how the man-made constructs interact with biology. We realized that constructs that conflict with strongly selected biological elements bring grief to man. In … Continue reading →

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The mlechCha brain behind the sword arm

Posted on March 18, 2010 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

It is hardly pleasant to talk about geopolitical issues concerning Hindus these days. Yet, from time to time those urges of the arm-chair general are hard to curb. I received from the sources articles by Vishal Agrawal and Rajiv Malhotra … Continue reading →

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Of dogs and underdogs

Posted on February 14, 2010 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

While being hemmed in by the hima pralaya we spoke to the va~Nga paNDita. We concurred that there was not really anything new to comment on geopolitics, for what ever we had to say had been said and things were … Continue reading →

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The third enslavement?

Posted on October 21, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The coming of the marUnmatta-s resulted in our first loss of freedom. The leukotestate indologists and their xanthotestate fellow travelers from the eastern fringe of the world told us that it was no enslavement but a cultural enrichment (Hey, we … Continue reading →

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A note on some recent work on Indian genetics

Posted on October 5, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Recently the English scientific tabloid published an article on the genetic variation in Indians which has led to some excitement among the Hindus. The reactions of what appears to be the majority of internet-active Hindus were rather predictable and keeping … Continue reading →

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Yet another geopolitical yarn

Posted on September 30, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

As the va~Nga paNDita said it is no more fun to talk of geopolitics for what we have been prognosticating is turning out to be so nauseatingly true. Further, whatever new stuff we might have to say turns out to … Continue reading →

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Asia and geopolitics

Posted on August 16, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The mettle of any nation or for that matter any individual is tested in war or strife. That is why we are inspired by the image of the soma-drinking thunderer: “AshuH shishAno vR^iShabho na bhImo ghanAghanaH kShobhaNash charShaNInAm| saMkrandano.animiSha ekavIraH … Continue reading →

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More on the tragic failure of the brahma

Posted on June 19, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Wandering like an incorporeal observer in the midst of the mlechCha-s, chIna-s and other peoples, in the northern regions of madhyama mlechChadesha, I was reading the biographies of two of my renowned coethnics S. Chandrasekhar and GN Ramachandran (being a … Continue reading →

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Geopolitics of the tantra age: an attempt at a blunt assessment

Posted on April 2, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The va~Nga-paNDita placed the following issue before ekanetra and me. He had seen a somewhat convergent theory amongst both Hindus and Hindu-haters. We lay this out as some kind of pUrva-pakSha for further study. -The beginning in the gupta age … Continue reading →

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Hindu setbacks in confronting the mlechCha va~nchaka-s

Posted on March 7, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The news reached us through certain channels that the Hindu-s had met a defeat in their attempt to correct biases against them in the textbooks of the state of California. While our own life hangs in uncertainty and the karNa-yakSiNI … Continue reading →

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Our intellectual tradition: non-existent, decadent, or congenitally dilute?

Posted on February 27, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Perhaps the greatest mind of all times was Karl Gauss. Among the men of genius he stands at the pinnacle of existence, perhaps with Chingiz Kha’khan. I keep a 10 DM note with the portrait of Gauss in my office to remind … Continue reading →

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Genetic determinism, sociology and history

Posted on February 12, 2009 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The exuberantly prolix leftist wordsmith SJ Gould who churned out many a quasi-scientific essay on a nearly quotidian basis stated: “There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years. Everything we call culture and civilization we’ve built … Continue reading →

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