Ideas
Not Path, but Mārga: Piyal Bhattacharya in the Inner Journey of Exploration (Part 2)
Editorial Desk
Jul 21, 2026 9 min read
This interview presents a sustained dialogue with Mahāmahopādhyāya Piyal Bhattacharya, founder of Chidākāśa and originator of the conc
There is another dimension — the metaphysical. In your Nāṭya
one witnesses a movement from the mundane toward the metaphysical. What
then
is the metaphysical in your Nāṭya? What is adhyātma for you? In truth
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Ideas
Not Path, but Mārga: Piyal Bhattacharya in the Inner Journey of Exploration (Part 1)
Editorial Desk
Jul 21, 2026 12 min read
This interview presents a sustained dialogue with Mahāmahopādhyāya Piyal Bhattacharya, founder of Chidākāśa and originator of the conc
Mārga Nāṭya
Nāṭyaśāstra
Bharata Muni
bhāvānukīrtana
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Ideas
Dance as Truth
Editorial Desk
Jul 21, 2026 11 min read
In this interview, Lubna Marium — dancer, choreographer, and founder of Dhaka's Shadhona — discusses her new initiative Embodied Feminis
Lubna Marium
Embodied Feminism
Shadhona
Bangladeshi dance
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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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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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