यम आयेगा साकी बनकर साथ लिए काली हाला पी न होश में फ़िर आएगा सुरा- विसुध यह मतवाला यह अंतिम बेहोशी, अंतिम साकी, अंतिम प्याला है पथिक, प्यार से पीना इसको पथिक, प्यार से पीना इसको फ़िर न मिलेगी मधुशाला फ़िर न मिलेगी मधुशाला - Harivansh Rai bacchan...
Is there any good book that traces Indian castes and tribes throughout time? I found this site by luck: https://indculture0.tripod.com/tindex.htm and the communities stuff is very fascinating. Any books that compare? Not the same Marxist shit abo...
How to get into Trika Tantric Shaivism
inb4 guru I am not rich enough to afford one I just want to understand the philosophy and meditation Any suggestions, anons?
Disillusionment
There is a certain kind of cognitive dissonance when I read western literature or even anything that isn't in relation with our culture. I enjoy them thoroughly but most do not remain relavent in relation to my daily life due to how different the cir...
heestory n shie
hello anons. i am historically illiterate, and am here for two things. >1 need recommendations on books about indian history, ancient and modern (post '47). this goes w/o saying, but please make sure the sources are as unbiased as possible. >2...
want to understand history and spirituality better
hi anons, i’ve been wanting to learn about hinduism and indian history in an unbiased way. i don’t follow any left or right ideologies, and i’m not really active politically (or socially xP). i just want to understand the lore and the ideologies (lik...
Why do the Indian elites communicate only in English?
melancholy recommendations
hello /lit/bros, i am currently going thru it, and would like to milk the fuck out of it by reading some raskolnikov-esque supersadboy books. ples drop thy recommendations beelo.
Is it reals
Pls tell
This month's reads
Let's go
/lit/ bros, help me
Need some good book full of vitality and life I’m in a bad phase in my life, even suicidal.
Why do women love him?
I can’t fathom what does these tier-1 living pajeetas and foids who never had any trouble in their life find so relatable in Dostoevsky. Every woman I meet is like “much dostovesky 🎀” “he’s my everything” “he’s a pookie” “he would have loved Tayl...
GUYS IM GOING TO READ DOSTOVISKY for the first time
Got the book online, LETS GET READING!
Gāndhâra Mahäjanapāda
ARYAVART WILL BE ONE AGAIN
Muhammad bin Tughlaq: the scizho king.
~~anon from bdchan here!!~~ >Moved the capital 1500km south on a random Tuesday >Forced everyone to walk from Delhi to Daulatabad, many died on the journey. (Why????) >Later changed his mind and moved it back. (?????) >Invented token currency ma...
>2025 >Still hasn’t read picrel NGMI
Despair and the last man
This is something that came up to me quite a while ago. Der letzter mensch, or the 'last man' is unequivocal opposite to the over-man in Nietzsche's work. But what is interesting is that he doesn't expound upon the last man as much as he does about t...
Passages
Man, the bravest of animals and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suff...
Based Wittgenstein
>Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of mind. >Was born in one of the wealthiest family in Europe at that time >Gave away all of his wealth and...
Brutal Cuckoldry in Karnataka’s Lingyat religion
I decided to read the Vacanas of southies and this is what I found kek. Southies been cucks since centuries
When baji rao had delhi just for fun
Were temples back in the day also painted
This question was lingering in my mind after i saw some pics on twitter then i went to wiki of Kailasha temple at Ellora caves built in 8th century CE. You can see the faided paints, some sections which retain paint. That made me question - w...
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Kino psychology book thread
Drop psychology book recommendations. You can also post philosophy related book but mention it explicitly
>I'm a sick man,im a spiteful man.Im an unattractive man
Brahmi Script General - /BSG/
I want to create a font for brahmi, a custom keyboard map or something which can be used to type in brahmi. Anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gupta_script pic related is gupta brahmi script. Goated. Brahmi script is the origin of all indic...
Kino
Delhi (1938) - Jack Cardiff https://youtu.be/hiSFxKMO_2Q?si=Q0WNz-dazDD6RMeT
If you read philosophy and all these thoughts doesn't come naturally to you, it just never began for you. Reading scientific literature or religious literature is much superior than any of this Nietzscheslop
Kino Read
Came across this wonderful book. Instead of looking at China from the ITcelliya's lens, we should start observing the Chinese way of life from raw and organic interactions Hindu society has had with the proponents of Chinese tenets.
Does anyone here read just to feel less lonley? I feel like I have company when I read, the thought of being alone goes away from my mind.