Critical theory across media, law, politics, and religion — essays, frameworks, and archival research from The Acharya Review.
The Temple the Takedown Didn't See
Frisco, 2026 — an essay on surveillance, categories, and a $61 million blind spot
Read essay →Six miles from the doorstep where the camera knocked stood the largest Indian-run institution in North Texas — $61 million in assets, unexamined. Recovering what the Frisco takedown looked past explains the takedown better than the takedown explains anything.
Also published
Dukh and the Duke: The Five Thieves as Systemic Agents
Gurmat Political Theology in Moulin Rouge! and Devdas
Heeramandi: The District the Goddess Lost
Bhansali's Return to the Kotha — Colonial Law, Sacred Space, and the Argument Netflix Didn't Know It Was Making
Mind as Policy
Reinforcement Learning, Belief, and the Old Technology of Changing Yourself
In preparation
- SICIMoulin Rouge! and Devdas: You Cannot Possess the Sacred
- SICIThe Goddess Requires the Courtesan
Named series
The Erased Foundation
A forensic genealogy recovering the Indo-Iranian substrate beneath Western civilization's moral and theological architecture. The move is not parallel validity — it is prior claim.
5 published · 1 plannedThe Consciousness Wars
On selective scientism, entheogenic erasure, and the epistemic colonialism that structures Western neuroscience's refusal of non-Western consciousness frameworks.
1 plannedSICI
Sacred Indic Critical Intelligence — applying Panj Chor, bhakti tradition, and tantric theology to film and media analysis as an alternative to the Campbell hero's journey.
2 published · 2 draftedThe Matrix Bridge
Reading the Wachowskis' trilogy through Gurmat — not as comparative religion but as translation: the vocabulary the films reached for and could not name. Same move as The Erased Foundation: not parallel validity, prior claim.
5 published · 2 plannedCritical theory, video lectures, and courses. Critical theory across comparative religion, film and media theory, legal thought, and political economy — recovering suppressed intellectual genealogies and building new critical frameworks from Indic philosophical traditions.
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