Ideas
Yāska and the Birth of Vedic Hermeneutics (Part 2)
Editorial Desk
Jul 21, 2026 6 min read
This companion essay follows the reception of Yāska's Nirukta across two and a half millennia, from Sāyaṇācārya's Vedic commentaries a
Yāska
Sāyaṇa
Kumārila Bhaṭṭa
Dayananda Saraswati
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Ideas
Yāska and the Birth of Vedic Hermeneutics (Part I)
Editorial Desk
Jul 21, 2026 16 min read
This essay introduces Yāska, the earliest known systematiser of Vedic etymology, and his foundational text, the Nirukta. It traces his plac
Yāska
Nirukta
Nighaṇṭu
Vedāṅga
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Ideas
Are You Really an 'I' Without a 'We'?
Editorial Desk
May 15, 2026 6 min read
A philosopher asks whether the self can exist without others, drawing on phenomenology, Indian thought, and the shared experiences that make
identity
selfhood
collective consciousness
phenomenology
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Ideas
Who Are You, Really? Fernando Pessoa's Strange Answer
Editorial Desk
May 15, 2026 6 min read
A look at how Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa invented over a hundred inner selves, and why the questions he asked about identity echo ideas
Fernando Pessoa
identity
philosophy of self
Indian philosophy
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PIJCACE
Domestic Porosity and the Transcultural Uncanny in Select Japanese and Indian Folk Narratives
Debasmita Sarkar
Mar 7, 2026 Vol. 1, No. 2
This essay examines how Japanese folk narratives produce the uncanny not through spectacular supernatural intrusion but through subtle distu
Uncanny
Mythopoeic Substitution
Domestic Space
Ningyō
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PIJCACE
Nithin Sridhar’s Chatuh Shloki Manusmrti: Tradition, Authority, and the Fourfold Framework
Amritanath Bhattacharya
Mar 7, 2026 Vol. 1, No. 2
This review essay examines Chatuh Shloki Manusmriti: An English Commentary by Nithin Sridhar, situating the work within the broader intellec
Manusmriti
Dharmaśāstra
Anubandha Chatuṣṭaya
Nithin Sridhar
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PIJCACE
Suffering, Struggle and Soliloquy: A Postmodernist Reading of Krishna Baldev Vaid’s None Other
Srijani Dutta
Mar 7, 2026 Vol. 1, No. 2
This paper examines Krishna Baldev Vaid’s None Other (1992) through the lens of postmodern literary theory, focusing on the themes of suff
Postmodernism
Krishna Baldev Vaid
None Other
existential crisis
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PIJCACE
An Analytical Study of Vālājapēṭ Veṅkaṭaramaṇa Bhāgavatar’s Musical Style Using Select Compositions
Gayathri V B
Mar 7, 2026 Vol. 1, No. 2
Guru–Śiṣya paramparā is a revered tradition of learning through close mentorship. It is a system rooted in the concept of paramparā,
Guru–Śiṣya paramparā
Vālājapēṭ Veṅkaṭaramaṇa Bhagavatar
Śrī Tyāgarāja
compositional forms
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