Blog
Member guides, student resources, institution spotlights, and stories from the Indic knowledge community — written and reviewed by people inside it.
Literary & Cultural Club — September Meet: Monday, 7 September 2026
First Monday, as always: the club gathers on 7 September — reading circle, the internship cohort’s field stories, and the season’s plan.
Yoga Before the Mat: What the Sutras Actually Teach
Of the Yoga Sutras’ 196 aphorisms, only three concern posture — the Yoga lane opens with what the text actually says.
Purusha, Prakriti & Karmic Flow — Dr. Robert Svoboda (Talk Notes)
The scoreboard’s most-drawn teacher: Dr. Robert Svoboda on the metaphysics beneath Ayurveda — parampara, kula devata, and why vidyas need humans to survive.
The Manuscript Libraries of Kashi
Behind Varanasi’s lanes sit some of the world’s great manuscript collections — a members’ field guide to where the tradition keeps its memory.
The Samskaras: A Parent’s Map
Sixteen rites mark the road from conception to the world — a plain-language map of the samskara framework for parents raising children now.
Bhasha & Vyakarana: Language as Knowledge — Prof. Shrinivasa Varakhedi (Talk Notes)
The Sanskrit & Languages lane opens: Prof. Varakhedi on shabda and artha — how language builds the world it describes.
Nyaya & Vaisheshika: The Logic Schools — Dr. Ram Chandra Sharma (Talk Notes)
From the Sangam IKS Series: the darshanas that gave India its logic and its atomism — an invitation with viewing notes.
Reading a Temple: Vimana, Gopuram, Garbhagriha
A temple is a text in stone — this member guide teaches the grammar: plan, sanctum, tower, and gateway, and what each is saying.
#BringOurGodsHome — Vijay Kumar on Reclaiming India’s Stolen Deities (Talk Summary)
Volunteers with Google, Twitter, and stubbornness traced India’s stolen deities across the world’s museums — and started bringing them home.
The Pramanas: How the Tradition Knew What It Knew
Before debating what the tradition knew, learn how it decided that anything counted as knowledge at all — the pramana framework in working order.
How RTE Reshaped Indian Schooling — Dr. Anjana Thadhani (Talk Summary)
A paediatrician who has assessed 35,000 children with learning disabilities examines what the Right to Education Act actually did to Indian schooling.
Cleaning the Ghats of Kashi — Temsutula Imsong & Shailesh Pandey (Talk Summary)
Two volunteers, three hundred kilograms of waste, and a movement the Prime Minister endorsed — the talk that turned seva into a template.