Nibandha · निबन्ध
Long-form writing at the intersection of Hindu philosophy, contemporary culture, and the examined life. Published when the thinking is ready — not on a schedule.
Most Recent Essay
The global yoga industry is worth $80 billion and growing. The tradition it draws from has almost nothing to do with what it sells. This essay is not a complaint about cultural appropriation — it is an attempt to recover what was actually being transmitted in the original teaching, and why its loss matters far beyond the yoga studio.
The Bhagavad Gita does not tell Arjuna to find balance and take care of himself. It tells him to stand up and do what is required. A reckoning with how contemporary wellness culture has domesticated one of the tradition's most demanding teachings.
Between the temple and the yoga studio. Between heritage and appropriation. Between pride and defensiveness. An honest accounting of where the diaspora stands — and what the tradition itself says about living in a foreign land.
They are among the most demanding philosophical texts ever written. They require everything of the reader. Here is why that matters — and how to begin reading them properly.
Long before the word "ecology" existed, the Vedic tradition had a name for the sacred relationship between human beings and the living world. This essay recovers it — and asks what it demands of us now.
Between the 6th and 17th centuries, a wave of poet-saints swept across India, breaking caste, gender, and class barriers through the revolutionary theology of divine love. This is the story the history books largely missed.