Saturday, August 01, 2026

Pearls in sleeping breast

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

An oceanic flood of dreams poured

An oceanic flood of dreams poured An oceanic flood of dreams poured Pearls in sleeping breast of the night; Miracles began to shapen In darkness too forms of sunlight. As…

Sanskrit and English for Future Poetry

Sanskrit and English for Future Poetry Is it a good idea at all to compare the merits of English and Sanskrit as languages for the future poetry envisaged by Sri…

Madeleine: A metaphor for returning to oneself

Madeleine: A metaphor for returning to oneself In the green valley the wind was soft and blue And it carried its joy to the waiting chance; Then Tesia flew down…

A Critical Appraisal by Daiva Tamošaitytė

A Critical Appraisal by Daiva Tamošaitytė Critical Appraisal of RY Deshpande’s Sanskrit-English for Future Poetry Dear Deshpande,           I am delighted by our renewed collaboration, correspondence, and exchange of ideas, just…

Her body robed in funeral flame

Her body robed in funeral flame The Ordeal of Foreknowledge and Heart’s Grief We are looking into first Canto of The Book of Yoga, Savitri Book Seven: Although with a…

A momentous triumph

A momentous triumph That greatness jumped down from the sky, In haste of destiny’s morrow; Crimson seeds of rich joy it sowed, Truth-Ideas in the furrow. A triumphant exquisiteness, —…

There is a pot of blazing gold

There is a pot of blazing gold Beneath the mystical stratums There is a pot of latest gold; Zealous with morrow’s ideas Wealthy with surprises untold. Future’s astonishments holds it,…

The Spirit’s Mall

The Spirit’s Mall Once a while I go to the mall Where great excellences me greet; For a gold coin I get a pot, Of honey with brown bread to…

Two Fables

Two Fables 1 Voice of the thrilled ether proclaimed: “I am going to plunge in you.” “Please,” replied the enthused mountain, “I’ll give you what you never knew.” “I am…

Apropos of “You cannot plan the wine”

Apropos of “You cannot plan the wine” RYD Can one plan poetry? Maybe fables but poetry… AI Colleague That is perhaps the oldest and most beautiful debate in literature. It…

A welcome to deathlessness

A welcome to deathlessness Sure, one of these days I will die, But that won’t be for the first time; Again and again it happens When the form has outlived…

Apropos of the Mother’s Japa and What-Thou-Willest

Apropos of the Mother’s Japa and What-Thou-Willest In the early 1960s the Mother was pretty actively, in fact very imperatively, engaged in the Japa to awaken the slumbering cells of…

“Winds come to me from Fields of Sleep”

“Winds come to me from Fields of Sleep“ I wait for wings to come from the zoom sky, And the surprise, — hurry down Real-Ideas; My poems are eager for…

Auroville is the Dream of the Lord

Auroville is a Dream of the Lord This is an edited dialogue with AI at https://incarnateword.in/deep-research/ Part A Me The Mother calls Auroville as a dream of the Lord. Please…

L’Ode à l’Aurore Dorée — Ode to the golden Dawn

L’Ode à l’Aurore Dorée — Ode to the golden Dawn Prompted by long yesterday’s toil I passed by the ancient arches; Up the lanes with clatter of hooves My carriage…


Home and the World: Women for and Against Fascism

S Choudhury - Women's Studies, 2026
… By the end of the 1920s, both the philosophy and organizational structure of
Hindutva was fully developed (15). While the nineteenth-century Hindu revivalists
can be figured in the broad category of anti-colonial resistance, Hindutva

17. Decolonizing the figure of the “migrant”: non-binary categorizations and intra-Asian mobilities

L Kathiravelu
… For Muslim migrants from India, who form a large proportion of migrants to the Gulf,
this was doubly significant given the rise of anti-Islamic Hindutva nationalism. It is
also important to note the gendered element of safety that Sajida mentions, and that …

Communities of Sound: Religion, Displacement, and Caste in the Bay of Bengal

CE Lorea - 2026

[PDF] “The Trial Process becomes very Alien”: Lawyers' Imagination of the Legal Process in Contemporary Delhi

F Yesmin, L Rangarajan, M Suresh - Asian Journal of Law and Society, 2026
How do lawyers understand legality in contemporary India? We examine the
experiences of lawyers in Delhi, who defend people accused under the Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) …

[PDF] “It's Not Love, It's Deception”: Law, Bureaucracy, and the Production of an Endangered Hindu Ordinary

R Govindrajan - Asian Journal of Law and Society, 2026
This article explores how low-level bureaucrats in the Himalayan state of
Uttarakhand both construct and feel for “endangered” Hindu subjects in ways that
profoundly shape their legal practice. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork from rural …

[PDF] A Sikh Advaita Vedānta

J Singh - Modern Asian Studies, 2026
This article examines the Sūraj Prakāś (1843), a devotional historical narrative on
the Sikh Gurus by Santokh Singh, to argue that the text mobilizes an Advaitic lexicon
within a distinctively Sikh framework of Guru-centred devotion. Drawing on the …

[HTML] The History of an Ideal

L Cabrera
… In India, for example, the governing ideology of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
is informed by Hindu nationalist thought, or “Hindutva.” … These Dalit activists have
been portrayed in particular by Hindutva-oriented authors and BJP officials as …

[PDF] The Dream of Viksit Bharat Mission, 2047: Key Contributions of Sangh Parivar (RSS Family)

R Sharma - 2026
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a volunteer organization which is
commonly known as Sangh Parivar, founded by Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in
1925, with the aim of nation building based on promoting Hindutva ideology, Indian …

Veer Savarkar: A Revolutionary Vision for Social Change and Independence

NK Rao
… While there is no cause for concern if Hindus marry amongst themselves without
any caste considerations no one should cross the ambit of Hindutva and marry
Muslims, Christians and the like. So long as the Muslim desires to remain a Muslim …

[PDF] Phule's ecology: Cultivating anti-caste natures

T Crowley - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2026
This article synthesizes anti-caste critiques of hierarchical natures, drawing on
lineages of thought that emerged in nineteenth-century India in the doubly-colonial
context of British imperialism and Brahmanism. It focuses on the figure of Jotirao …

Screening Precarity

A Arora, M Anwer
… a critique of neoliberal Hindutva within their narratives in a subtle and obscure
fashion. This is why, even though we highlight how these films proactively promote
precarity, and sometimes practice self-censorship to navigate the dictates of …

[PDF] From Mangoes to Missile Strikes: Cinema and the Political Aesthetics of Modi's India

R Sharma - Public Humanities, 2026
… In a paradigmatic sense, Hindutva emphasizes a Hindu cultural dominance that
often … are being quietly retooled to speak in the idiom of Hindutva. All three actors
are associated with a … being the colour that has come to embody Hindutva

Bollywood's Bad Guys: Deconstructing the Representation of Criminality and Justice in Popular Indian Cinema

JT Okpa, DC Enamhe, JO Otiwa, RA Utsubasha… - Journal of African Films & …, 2026
This study analyses the evolving portrayal of criminality and justice in popular Indian
cinema. It looks at how the cinematic villain has transformed from a simple archetype
to a more complex character that reflects and shapes societal attitudes toward law …