
A video has to keep moving. You cannot stop mid-argument to establish a premise, and you certainly cannot footnote a claim while somebody is watching on a phone.
Essays can do both. They can take the long route, cite the source, acknowledge the strongest objection properly instead of gesturing at it, and leave a permanent record you can check rather than a clip somebody edits out of context.
Epistemology, metaphysics and the Indian traditions nobody teaches properly.
ReadCognition, trauma and mental health read against social conditions.
ReadInherited hierarchy, and why it survives being officially abolished.
ReadNot against believers — against belief that was never opened.
ReadPower and institutions, written without a permanent side.
ReadBias, motivated reasoning, and the gap between knowing and doing.
ReadFour essays on how a conviction forms, hardens, and then begins defending itself against evidence.
Start reading SERIESWhat inherited hierarchy does to the mind holding it — on both sides of the line.
Start reading SERIESNyaya, Vedanta and Buddhist logic treated as philosophy rather than heritage.
Start readingSearch by keyword, filter by category, or read the archive in order. New essays land roughly every week.
Hindi and Urdu couplets, posted as they are written. Twenty of them are on the poetry page.