Featured Essay
Zoroastrian Rulers and the Naming Erasure
VK Singh
What the Achaemenid kings actually called themselves — and what the erasure of those names was designed to conceal
Read Essay → The Erased Foundation · Essay 1
The founding names of Western civilization's first imperial dynasty were not Greek transliterations. They were Avestan — drawn from the same linguistic substrate as Sanskrit, carrying cosmological meaning that the renaming actively suppressed.
Indic Religion & Philosophy · 6,200 words
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Named Series
Series I · 4 Essays
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.
Zoroastrianism · Sanskrit · Guru Nanak · The Matrix
Series II · In Progress
The Consciousness Wars
On selective scientism, entheogenic erasure, and the epistemic colonialism that structures Western neuroscience's refusal of non-Western consciousness frameworks.
Epistemology · Scientism · Vedic Pharmacology
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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.
Moulin Rouge! · Devdas · Panj Chor · Vidushaka
About the Institute
VK Singh is a critical theorist whose work spans comparative religion, film and media theory, legal thought, and political economy. His writing recovers suppressed intellectual genealogies — the Indo-Iranian foundations of Western theology, the pharmacological substrate of Vedic cosmology, the extraction logic of late-stage capitalism — and builds new critical frameworks from Indic philosophical traditions.
He holds a degree in Economics from the University of California and completed USC's Universal Summer Producing and Directing Workshop Program in summer 2009 under Don Zirpola.
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He holds a degree in Economics from the University of California and completed USC's Universal Summer Producing and Directing Workshop Program in summer 2009 under Don Zirpola.
Full Biography →