📢New #openaccess publication by Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing!👀

"Flowers, Gods and Scholars. The Puṣpacintāmaṇi, a Nepalese Digest on Flowers in Worship" by Astrid Zotter.

Read & download:
https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1562

A Hardcover edition has also been published and can be purchased from bookstores and online booksellers.

#indology #sanskrit #nepal #worship

📢New #openaccess publication by Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing👀

"Coṉṉa Vaṇṇam Ceyta Perumāḷ Temple Inscriptions, Kāñcipuram" (G. Vijayavenugopal, transl. by V. Muralidaran) - Vol. 1 in the new book series Pathika: Studies in South Asian Texts and Traditions (eds. Hüsken/Anandakichenin)

Read & download:
https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1739

Hard- and softcover editions have also been published and can be purchased from bookstores and online booksellers.

#indology

is superior to learning within a living system?

📖🪑💰

#IndianHistory #EducationSystem #Indology #ColonialImpact

means living behind?

👁️🌿💰

#Indology #TribalHistory #GDPTrap #IndianHistory

Not resilience.

Only lack.

This is how narratives are built.

Not always by lying-
but by choosing what to show.

And more importantly… what not to.

Because one frame can travel farther
than a thousand lived realities.

So ask-

Was this documentation…
or curation?

And when images shaped opinion back then-
who controlled the lens… and who paid the price?

📷👁️💰

#ColonialGaze #IndianHistory #Indology #VisualHistory

But this shrine still stands.

Raw. Unapologetic.
Unfiltered memory of what we once understood.

So ask
-

Was this ever “primitive”…
or are we the ones who became uncomfortable with life itself?

🌺🪨

#Kamakhya #Shakti #IndianHistory #Indology

What did we lose when we replaced systems
we barely tried to understand?

📜👴💰

#IndianHistory #Education #Indology #Madurai

Who lost more in that transition?

👴🛠️💰

#IndianHistory #CasteDebate #Apprenticeship #Indology

What was once part of a living ecosystem…
became “employment” under a new gaze.

And here’s the discomfort-

Did we modernize work…
or standardize hierarchy in a different form?

Because today too-

One sits in AC offices.
Another stands at the door.

Different clothes. Same posture.

So ask-

Is this progress…
or just a better-dressed hierarchy?

🚪🧍‍♂️💰

#IndianHistory #ColonialImpact #WorkCulture #Indology

It is about us.

Why are sites older than Harappa still waiting?
And more importantly… what exactly are we waiting for?

#Archaeology #Indology #Harappan #Bhirana #Kunal