Essays, Dialogues & Critical Thought

Exploring Externalism and the Mental

A Dialogue with Prof. Madhucchanda Sen

This transcript was recorded on 15 March 2026 via Zoom; the session ran for 1 hour 22 minutes and 37 seconds. The original transcript was au...

Exploring the Subject as Freedom: A Dialogue with Nalini Bhushan and Jay Garfield

Transcribed from the recorded session of 21 February 2026. Speaker identifications are editorial. Jay Garfield\\\\\\'s transcript artefacts ...

Fernando Pessoa Imagination and the Self – A Dialogue with Jonardon Ganeri

In this lecture and open discussion, Jonardon Ganeri introduces the central argument of his recent book, Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and th...

Who Are You, Really? Fernando Pessoa's Strange Answer

Adapted from "Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self"

A look at how Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa invented over a hundred inner selves, and why the questions he asked about identity echo ideas...

Are You Really an 'I' Without a 'We'?

A philosopher asks whether the self can exist without others, drawing on phenomenology, Indian thought, and the shared experiences that make...

Yāska and the Birth of Vedic Hermeneutics (Part I)

This essay introduces Yāska, the earliest known systematiser of Vedic etymology, and his foundational text, the Nirukta. It traces his place...

Yāska and the Birth of Vedic Hermeneutics (Part 2)

This companion essay follows the reception of Yāska's Nirukta across two and a half millennia, from Sāyaṇācārya's Vedic commentaries and Kum...

Dance as Truth

Lubna Marium on Embodied Feminism, Artistic Freedom, and the Pursuit of Meaning

In this interview, Lubna Marium — dancer, choreographer, and founder of Dhaka's Shadhona — discusses her new initiative Embodied Feminism, w...

Not Path, but Mārga: Piyal Bhattacharya in the Inner Journey of Exploration (Part 1)

This interview presents a sustained dialogue with Mahāmahopādhyāya Piyal Bhattacharya, founder of Chidākāśa and originator of the concept of...

Not Path, but Mārga: Piyal Bhattacharya in the Inner Journey of Exploration (Part 2)

This interview presents a sustained dialogue with Mahāmahopādhyāya Piyal Bhattacharya, founder of Chidākāśa and originator of the concept of...