Big Questions
Bodha asks foundational questions facing Hindu society today, from civilizational renewal to Dharma, institutions, culture, and modernity.
Hindu society today sits at the cusp of great change. Hindu consciousness is awakening across the nation and awareness of civilizational issues is rising. Established mentalities about Hindu society, dharma, and culture are being challenged, status quos are being quashed, and new paradigms are coming into force. An intellectual renaissance is underway.
Bodha wants to aid the process by asking provocative questions about some of the most fundamental problems and open questions that Hindu society faces today. There are issues that are not settled, questions that are perennially asked by every Hindu generation, and novel dilemmas that we face today.
In our Big Question series, we will ask one significant question every year at Bodha, and go to great scholars, activists, thinkers, leaders and stakeholders of Hindu cultural renaissance. Their answers will be compiled and published as a book with an introduction about the question, and the problem that it addresses. By this, at Bodha, we intend to initiate great intellectual churn in Hindu society, leading to narrative building which will aid the reestablishment of a correct Hindu worldview rooted in facts and history.
Big Question 2026
Is Hindu Unity Compatible With Indian Diversity?
For 2026, the Big Question we are tackling is, in a sense, the question of India vs. Bharata. Can Hindus unite without flattening the diversity that defines India? Are unity and diversity complementary, or in fundamental tension?
Read More →This Big Question 2026 is made possible by the generous support of Shri Hari Kiran Vadlamani, the founder of coHari. We are grateful to him for his patronage.
All Big Questions
What is the Core of Sanatana Dharma
What is the unchanging core of Sanatana Dharma - an idea, an institution, a worldview, or a value system? Bodha's most foundational research question.
What does Being Indian Mean
What does Indian identity mean in light of Partition, the Muslim question, and conflicting nationalist visions from Gandhi to Savarkar to Nehru?
What Will Destroy Hindu Society
Sita Ram Goel's 1981 warning revisited - a rigorous examination of the forces - demographic, cultural, and ideological - most likely to destroy Hindu society.
What Hindu Institution Will Generate All Others
Which Hindu institution could regenerate civilizational life if everything else were lost: state, gurukula, temple, or something else?
What Will Save Sanatana Dharma
Inspired by the Śaunaka praśna of the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad - what is the one idea, institution, or action whose presence would ensure the survival of Sanatana Dharma?
Is Modernity Compatible With Hindu Values
Is modernity - with its secularism, rights-framework, and assault on varṇāśrama dharma - compatible with Hindu values, or structurally hostile to Hindu civilization?
Is Hindu Unity Compatible With Indian Diversity
Can Hindus unite without flattening the diversity that defines India? A civilizational question about whether unity and diversity are complementary or in fundamental tension.
Does India Need Another Republic
Does India's constitution - built on rights rather than duties, and arguably biased against Hindus - need to be replaced with a second republic rooted in Dhārmika values?
What Idea Must Die, for Hindu Renaissance
What idea must die for Hindu renaissance to happen - caste, secularism, modernity, sarva-dharma-samabhāva, or the very category of religion applied to dharma?
What Do Hindus Practice, but Cannot Prove
What do Hindus practice with deep śraddhā but cannot prove - karma phala siddhānta, reincarnation, mantra efficacy - and what is the right epistemic posture toward such axioms?