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Publications |
| Articles on Transgressive Sacrality, comparative religion, anthropology, and semiotics | |
| Abhinavagupta and the Synthesis of Indian Culture: essays on aesthetics, philosophy, religion | |
| Sunthar's Ph.D. thesis on Abhinavagupta's Conception of Humor plus fresh papers. | |
| Elizabeth's D.Litt. thesis (Terror and Protection) on Bhairava-worship in India and Nepal | |
| Digests of collaborative intercultural thought (multi-logues = samvâda) spanning several years | |
Outreach - in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Romani, Chinese |
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| Sub-sites hosted by friends featuring their respective circle and focused dialogues | |
| Athens-Benares | rediscovering the Asiatic soul of Greece and (post-) modernity of Indian tradition |
| Chicagoland Desis | Directory of Desi resources across Chicagoland and the US Midwest |
| Chindia | (re-) construction of (ancient) civilizational partnership as driving force behind rise of Asia |
| Dia-Gnosis | knowledge management and self-recognition across the Internet or Abhinava on steroids! |
| Esoteric philosophy | post-critical confluence of Western and Indian thought - a Nietzschean Abhinava? |
| Free Enterprise | 'individual' autonomy (svâtantrya) translated into socially responsible capitalism |
| Galleries of Artists |
[pending] |
| Hindu-Christ | religious faith interiorized, individualized, pluralized or human (history re-) divinized |
| Hindu Civilization | bringing 'Hinduism' up-to-date? Hindutva, (pseudo-) secularism, and svAbhinava |
| Indo-Roma | devoted to rebuilding the cultural bridges between India and the Roma diaspora |
| Jerusalem-Benares | multilateral dialogue between Abrahamic, Hindu, and pan-Asian traditions |
| Lhasa-Benares | Abhinava's transfiguration of the Buddha - Renaissance of Dharma within Hinduism? |
| Mecca-Benares | role of (a revitalized South Asian) Islam in constructing an egalitarian new world order |
| Primordial Man | rediscovering our ontogenic and phylogenic roots among the shamans of Oceania, Africa & Amerindia |
| Feminism | tradition, gender, and transgression - the androgynous (shâkta) God-ess (ardha-nârizvara) |
| WTC-911 | collective representations (Babel), sacrificial violence (Bhairava), and politics of globalization |
