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ongoing अनुभूतिप्रकाशः

Anubhūti-prakāśa, Taittirīya — verse by verse

Vidyāraṇya's versified exposition of the Taittirīya Upaniṣad's brahmavidyā — the Brahmavallī taught śloka by śloka, Śaṅkara's bhāṣya woven in as support, in Sanskrit, Telugu and English.

4 verses
ongoing अपरोक्षानुभूतिः

Aparokṣānubhūti, verse by verse

Śankara's pocket-sized handbook of direct realisation, read slowly - one verse a fortnight, with the bhasya tradition and a reflection in plain prose.

6 of 144 verses · across ~5 years
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Escape Velocity

How America built the machines that left the Earth. The physics, the metallurgy, and the engineering of the Saturn V, the Shuttle, and what comes next -- told as the story of one equation nobody could get around.

8 of 12 parts · across twelve parts
ongoing कठोपनिषद्

Kaṭhopaniṣad, verse by verse

Yama teaches Naciketas the knowledge that conquers death. The Upaniṣad of the Kṛṣṇa-Yajurveda, read verse by verse with Śaṅkara's bhāṣya — in Telugu, Sanskrit, and English.

1 of 119 verses · across ~5 years
ongoing माण्डूक्योपनिषत्

Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad, verse by verse

The shortest of the Upaniṣads and, by Muktikā's verdict, sufficient by itself for liberation — twelve mantras read with Śaṅkara's bhāṣya and Gauḍapāda's Āgama-prakaraṇa kārikās, in the nine-section format.

1 of 12 mantras · across the twelve mantras
ongoing मेघदूतम्

Meghadūtam, verse by verse

Kālidāsa's cloud-messenger, read verse by verse — mūla in three scripts, word-by-word meaning, and Mallinātha's Sañjīvinī, with a note on metre and figure for each stanza.

1 of 111 parts · across ~2 years
ongoing विजयनगर

The City of Victory

The empire that stood as the great shield of the South for over two hundred years — from a sage's vision on the Tungabhadra to the marble bazaars where diamonds were sold by the heap, and the fire that unmade it in a single season.

3 of 9 chapters · a nine-part history
ongoing कालः

The Indemnity

Nothing the Raj did in Punjab was illegal - that is the charge. Four books on the law as the weapon, the men it hanged, and the one court that issues no indemnities.

0 of 4 books · across 1857-1947 and after
ongoing ॥

The Long Wound

A ~2,300-year chronicle of the invasions of Sanātana Bhāratha — and of the civilisation that survived them. From Alexander to the present, told from the conquerors' own records, honouring the defenders who would not bow.

5 of 24 chapters · across ~2,300 years of history
ongoing जय भवानी

The Marathas

A magnum-opus chronicle of Hindavī Svarājya in nine parts — from the breaking of the Deccan and the fall of the last Hindu shields, through Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the Chhatrapatis who followed, to the empire that reached the Indus and the long resistance to the British.

9 of 9 parts · a nine-part series
ongoing त्यागराज कृति शतकम्

Tyāgarāja Kṛti Śatakam, kṛti by kṛti

One hundred kṛtis of Tyāgarāja, read verse by verse — sāhitya in Devanāgarī and IAST, word-by-word padaccheda, bhāva, and rāga lakṣaṇa. The Ghana-rāga Pañcaratna first, then a rāga-grouped traversal.

1 of 100 kṛtis · across ~2 years