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The Truth About Yoga

Or: How a 3,000-year-plus-old practice designed to free you from the endless cycle of suffering got repackaged as “tone your core in 30 days.”

Articles

  1. The Ultimate Guide To Power
    Long before Machiavelli figured out how power works, a bald Brahmin in ancient India had already laid out a playbook that broke it down, systemised it…
    Published on Sep 24, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

  2. The Bhagavad Gita: Explained
    Before Instagram quotes and self-help podcasts, there was the Bhagavad Gita: a 700-verse dialogue on life, death, and everything in between. Delivered…
    Published on Aug 11, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

  3. Indian Philosophy: In A Nutshell
    A brief history of how an entire subcontinent decided to spend millennia arguing about who we are, why we suffer, and whether the world is even real or…
    Published on Jul 16, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

  4. The Indus Valley Civilisation
    Who built cities with private bathrooms in 2500 BCE? Why can’t we read a single word they left behind? And how did a civilisation bigger than Egypt and…
    Published on Jun 16, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

  5. Itihāsa: How Indians Saw History
    What’s the difference between Itihāsa and history? A lot, actually. One’s about truth with a capital T, the other’s about using evidence to reconstruct…
    Published on Jun 1, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

  6. How I Research & Write Stuff
    People sometimes ask how I come up with ideas and write about them like I actually know what I’m talking about. So here’s the unsolicited answer, in…
    Published on May 16, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

  7. The Hindu Temple At Azerbaijan
    What’s a Hindu Temple doing 3,500 kilometers away from India… in Azerbaijan, of all places?
    Published on May 8, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

  8. How India Got Its Nukes
    There was a time when the US, China & Pakistan ganged up against India. So India built nukes — by outsmarting the CIA, dodging spy satellites, and…
    Published on Apr 27, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

  9. Battle Of The Ten Kings
    Let’s rewind to a time before the Mahabharata, before the rise of the great empires, before even the idea of “India” meant anything. In the beginning…
    Published on Apr 18, 2025 by Cultural Chronicler

The Itihāsa Imprint

Excavating old ideas to explain your new nonsense.