This is not a review post  (Here have your review post--10/10 + greatest animated thing i ever watched + real art+ masterpiece + divine= its a cult classic, please go watch* it).  *And this is the viewing order i followed= 26 original episodes  (TV series) + The End of Evangelion (movie). Ok. The show has many many themes- beautifully crafted and overlapped layer by layer- religious iconography, dharmic concepts, psychology, philosophy and  science fiction. And the show is  very direct about these references in episode names, dialogues etc. There are many resources on the internet listing all of these, their interpretations, their significance but there isnt a single article/sentence anywhere pointing out the use of  Indic themes. I found a published paper by a History of Art major in America talking about interpreting the themes in a "Japanese Buddhist context rather than a Western one" . That paper(which was confusing, not entirely correct and was probably filled up with im

"Artha is the sustenance or livelihood of men, and  Arthaśāstra  is the science of the means to Artha" सुखस्य मुलं धर्मः   - Dharma is the root of happiness.         Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Arthaśāstra is an treatise on statecraft. "Artha" itself refers to material wealth (one of the 4 Purusharths in Sanatan Philosophy-Dharm, Arth, Kama, Moksha) so the book is "Science of Wealth" but the book covers almost everything needed for efficient functioning of a state. Statecraft itself was a subject of much interest in ancient Indian political thought- it was a subject in universities and this particular  Arthaśāstra was a part of course material for elite education in India for centuries (for ease of teaching, every book (there are 15 in total- these are right now just chapters and we do not know if they were entire books orignally) ends with a small memorable shloka summ

So basically what i am doing since 27th  september. Other than researching/planning: 1)X FILES binge watching X files season 1. Yes I am watching a 27 year show rn rather than GOT or B Bad or whatever is the new fad.  I like the concept of X files much more than these big budget behemoths.  So the titular " X files" is a department of the FBI which looks into paranormal deaths, alien abductions, cryptids, and all conceivable conspiracies n quackeries. The upper echleons of govt actively tries hides to hide stuff while the lower staff considers the dept to be a waste of tax payer's money. Our male lead Fox Mulder is assigned to X files because even though he is a good agent, he is obssessed with paranormal phenomena, acts like a nutcase and insists that his sister was kidnapped and taken away by aliens when he was a kid, all these things obviously dont sit right with his superiors. In the first episode, he is joined by (actually sent by the bosses to spy on him) Dana Scull

                                                                                                                                            Well hello there !                                                                                                                                                                                 <Gen Kenobi> This is spontaneous writing. Not a planned structured argument. Which is quite unusual (even for me). But it is VERY therapeutic. Writing with the flow. Copying thoughts. <redacted much so psychoanalysis wont work> There are two basic queries this post aims to tackle- one, WHAT? and two, WHY? It is an unsaid fundamental axiom of questioning, that we always go from the former to the later <unless of course the utterer of "what" is deaf, but exceptions are natural, anyways> WHAT This is a blog. About history, politics, current events, reviews and random thoughts. On the Internet. Run by me. Being read by you. Everythin