THE LOOM & THE SILENCE

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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.

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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

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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.

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In the play ‘The arrival of devastation’ we meet Bansi who is a tuneless minstrel, Durga a passionate potter, Mahapatra is a failed healer and Vishnu a dumb and devastated poet. Each of them are voices, opening themselves and inviting you into their memories. Fate has brought them together to a remote and forgotten temple. The temple infuses new life into them. They have accepted their destiny and hold no grudge. Until one day a crippled Langda from the city comes to their village.

The sacred place means to feel at home, to belong to, it is also a location and so our play deals with issues of place, location and sacredness that gathers people as well as disappearing traditions, crafts and also ‘Location' that disrupts dislodges and scatter prior ‘Unities'.

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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.