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Rann, Talvār te Ghoṛā
A translation of Afzal Ahsan Randhawa's short story.
Aug 14, 2023
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March 2023
The madman in samādhi
On Giani Gian Singh Almast
Mar 3, 2023
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February 2023
Bhakta, Lover, Martyr
On the enduring motif of the sacrificed head
Feb 2, 2023
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January 2023
On Waris Shah's Hīr
ਹਾਜੀ ਲੋਕ ਮੱਕੇ ਨੂੰ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਮੇਰਾ ਰਾਂਝਾ ਮਾਹੀ ਮੱਕਾ।—Pilgrims go to Mecca; my Mecca is my beloved Ranjha. (Bulleh Shah) “When the lover has become the very…
Jan 7, 2023
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October 2022
The Devi's vortex of war
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.” (Georges Bataille, 1944) “Through its…
Oct 23, 2022
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September 2022
On Maya
ਤੁਹੀਂ ਕਾਲ ਕੀ ਕਲਾ, ਕਾਲਕਾ ਦੁਸ਼ਟ ਬਿਭੰਜਨ।—You are Kaal’s kalaa: Kaalikaa, destroyer of the wicked. (Naveen Panth Prakaash, Giani Gian Singh) “Magic is the…
Sep 30, 2022
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August 2022
The Consecrated Warrior in Dasam Bāṇī's Khalsa cosmos
“The vital center of the heroic world is violent catastrophe.” (Jan Heesterman, 1986) ਜੂਝਬੋ ਜੂਝ ਕੈ ਪ੍ਰਾਨ ਤਜੈ ਜੁਝਾਇਬੋ ਛਤ੍ਰਨ ਕੋ ਬਨ ਆਯੋ ॥—To wage war, to…
Aug 21, 2022
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July 2022
Bībī Bimal Kaur dīāṅ do tasvīrāṅ
Ruminations on the Devī's sacred gesta
Jul 26, 2022
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On the nature of satiyuga
“Every sacred space implies a hierophany, an irruption of the sacred that results in detaching a territory from the surrounding cosmic milieu and making…
Jul 14, 2022
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June 2022
A genealogy of Sikh sovereignty
ਸਤਿਗੁਰ ਨਾਨਕ ਦੇਉ ਹੈ ਪਰਮੇਸਰੁ ਸੋਈ ॥— “Guru Nanak is the true Guru; he is Paramesaru (the Supreme Lord) himself.” (Vārāṅ Bhāī Gurdāsa: Vār 38, Pauṛī 20) — …
Jun 21, 2022
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Notes on sovereignty
Giani Sher Singh speaks of how Guru Gobind Singh considered the stature of the Khalsa to be "heavier" than the Gurus, heavier than Akal Purakh even…
Jun 12, 2022
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The Sublime Life (and Death) of Sidhu Moose Wala
“In a universe where impersonal matter endured forever but the personal self was extinguished at death, the most which could survive of that self was a…
Jun 1, 2022
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