4238 words | Apr 28, 2026
How to Build a Civilization
Understanding the emic Hindu view of civilization, its purpose, design, and challenges, by playing a civilization builder game with Sanskrit dhatus as the building blocks.
Amritanshu Pandey
3450 words | Jun 25, 2023
Sanskṛta vs. FATE Languages
The battle between Saṃskṛta and FATE languages (Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, English) for the cognitive and expressive inheritance of India - why language is not culture-agnostic, but the primary site of civilizational contestation.
Pankaj Saxena
2414 words | May 28, 2023
Decolonizing Language
How colonialism froze the evolution of North Indian vernaculars by installing FATE languages (Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, English) as prestige languages - and what it would take to let them grow again.
7436 words | Sep 2, 2022
Decolonization - A Personal Footprint and Some Ramp Ways
Decolonization as daily practice - a personal account of what it actually looks like to replace a colonial operating system of the mind - starting with the words you use, the foods you eat, the festivals you observe.
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