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Medha Journal Video Essays

Animated arguments and visual explorations that turn a difficult idea into a model you can use.

Featured video essay · Philosophy & Consciousness

Ikigai asks what you were made for; svadharma asks the same question of your own dharma. The Common Man walks through both, and through the third chapter of the Bhagavad Gita on acting without being ruled by the results.

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Strategy & Geopolitics

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Strategy & Geopolitics

Why Countries Choose to Lose — The Hidden Game Behind Geopolitics

The Common Man uses the Three-Board Test, the Prisoner’s Dilemma and loss aversion to uncover the game beneath an apparently irrational decision.

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Strategy & Geopolitics

The Garrison Trap: Why Pakistan’s Military-First State Is Unravelling

A structural account of what happens when a military becomes the organizing institution of the state it was built to defend.

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Strategy & Geopolitics

A Cockroach’s Gambit: Manufactured Revolts and Asymmetric Warfare

Why an apparently weaker actor may benefit from disorder, resilience and a radically different definition of victory.

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Strategy & Geopolitics

The Two-Game Trap: India’s Nested Game Strategy

A decision that loses on the visible board may create leverage on the domestic or systemic board.

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Philosophy & Consciousness

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Philosophy & Consciousness

The Architecture of the Subtle Body

A guided inquiry into the conceptual architecture through which Indic traditions describe embodiment and experience.

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