Where Literature Meets the Infinite

The Loom & the Silence

A sanctuary for slow, deliberate contemplation, where memory, grief, human struggle, and the silence of higher powers are given room to speak.

A LITERARY SPACE

For questions that refuse to die.

These pages pull at the threads of memory, confront difficult questions of purpose and endurance, and follow the intimate cartography of human grief without resorting to easy answers.

Books by Rajiv Mudgal

Fiction, philosophy, memory, and myth.

These Books are stunningly original work that invites you to slow down, look inward, and examine the profound movements of your own life's chronology.

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Autobiographical Novel

The Gods Have Gone Silent

Devtaon ka Maun

A philosophical journey through non-dual Vedanta, modern India, spiritual struggle, existence, and the silence of higher powers.

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Poetic Novel

O Yasmeen...

A Cartography of Grief

A literary meditation on Partition, diaspora, love, exile, memory, and the borders that grief draws across land, body, silence, and time.

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Novel

A Boy Once Waited at the House of Death

Kālidāsa's Letters to Dignāga

A boy waits at Death’s threshold and discovers that the deepest inheritance is not an answer, but a question that refuses to die.

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About Rajiv Mudgal

The Author

Rajiv Mudgal

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Rajiv Mudgal is an Indian author whose life and work are deeply shaped by an early departure from home

At the age of ten, he left home and wandered into the wilderness

This experience later became the foundation of his work examining human struggle and the silence of higher powers.

From the Journal

Essays & Reflections

Films



"Shaher"


Based on the play ‘The arrival of devastation’ Shaher is a unique film that tries to capture the essence of our times in a cinematic time capsule.


As the society evolves rapidly, the city affects and displaces every person who in no way fit its schemata of things. The globalization of its ways on a planetary scale uproots and upturns everything, from traditions, culture and the remotest of the people.


All the characters are rooted in their traditions and the disappearance of these traditions also means the disappearance of their world. The temple wall with its 4 by 4 space is what is left. They own it in the sense that this space has hailed them, has gathered them and their gathering and owning up of the place as their own gives the place its meaning and character and now even the small confined space is practically owned by the temple committee which they had helped form. Release from this confinement arrives in the body of Langda, a crippled beggar who offers them release and exit.


"Bayaan"

Bayaan' Is about the missing daughter of a social activist who runs a small printing press and is murdered.

It deals with the issues of Trust, Identity and Interfaith marriage.

The film highlights the problem of being human in the times of disturbing social crisis.



"The Humiliated"


The Humiliated or Machhali is about the troubled life of a Writer/filmmaker who is haunted by his past. Kumar is having panic attacks and recurring dream that haunts him every night. While undergoing psychoanalysis he is confronted with deep-rooted memories that is wreaking his married and professional life.



What is the core of all my writings

Can Darkness light itself

Anṛta (अनृत) is a Sanskrit term whose basic meaning is “not ṛta”, that is, what is contrary to ṛta (ऋत).

Anṛta is not simply a lie. It is a structural untruth, a condition in which speech, perception, institutions, and inherited ideas become separated from ṛta, the order of reality. The crucial feature is that anṛta does not usually announce itself as false. It appears rational, orderly, useful, and even inevitable from within the system that produces it.

Psycho-History and Anṛta

Psycho-History and anṛta are inseparable in Rajiv Mudgal’s work. If Psycho-History asks how history enters the human mind and continues to shape perception, memory, identity, institutions, and action, anṛta describes the condition in which that inheritance becomes distorted and begins to reproduce itself as truth. Anṛta is therefore not merely something that happens in history. It is something that can become embedded in the consciousness through which history is subsequently experienced and reproduced.