Bodha is a think tank and research group,
focused on contemporary issues of cultural concern, to inform core areas of policy with wisdom derived from Hindu traditions. We also curate cultural experiences of core Hindu institutions like the temple, and provide churn to the Hindu intellectual renaissance.
Our Verticals
Research
To illuminate hidden universal forces and long arcs in foreign and public policy; to reveal the design of core Hindu institutions like the temple, gurukula, family, and charity; and to turn the social sciences lens with a Hindu view, Bodha engages in focused research projects. These projects combine deep and immersive field research with rigorous theorization based on core cultural ideas.
Cultural Tours
A guided tour of four to five days to beautiful and hitherto unexplored temples and kshetras of Bharatavarsha. Anveshi tours are full of architectural, sculptural and cultural splendor, and also an immersion into living systems carrying beautiful cultural traditions for thousands of years.
The Big Questions
Every year we will formulate big questions stating major problems that capture core concerns in the contemporary journey of Hindu society, and put those questions to great thinkers, leaders and activists. The Big Questions vertical will seek answers which will move the needle towards solving the stated problems.
Bodha Academy
Modern fault lines in Hindu society stem from an identity crisis manufactured by the British, by institutionalizing identity-based fault lines through academia and other institutions. At Bodha, we address this by training scholars every year in anthropology and sociology from an Indic point of view.
Our Publications
Svayambodha and Shatrubodha
This book is a small attempt to take the intellectual Hindu renaissance forward by rekindling the viveka that is necessary to differentiate between dharma and adharma. The Svayambodha–Shatrubodha framework does this by making Hindus aware of their civilizational core on one hand and by sensitizing them about the civilizational threats that Sanatana Dharma and Hindu society face today.
Fractal Maṇḍala
Fractal Maṇḍala is a fresh exploration of Indian civilization through its own stories and traditions. It follows India’s journey from the deep past of the Holocene to the early Iron Age. Using the Purāṇas, Vedas, Itihāsas, and ancient genealogies, the book shows that what is often called ‘myth’ today was, for ancient Indians, a way of preserving history—a civilizational memory encoded in stories, songs, and symbols.