Eight subjects, one mind.
A working map of the subjects Shailendra Srivastava returns to — in his books, his research notes, and forthcoming articles. Each subject will, in time, host its own collection of writing.
The science and commerce of stones. Where mineralogy, optical behaviour, valuation and trade meet — and where a single ruby opens onto a long history of geology, kingship and craft.
Intelligence that is built rather than born. The research follows AI from its cognitive roots to its present-day consequences — for knowledge work, creativity, identity and labour.
The mind watching the mind. How subjective experience arises, how it recurses on itself, and how it produces both religion and science from the same neural architecture.
The deep timeline that made a brain capable of asking religious questions. Evolution, language, sociality and the long path from primate cognition to civilisation.
Where the God-concept comes from. Mortality awareness, dreams, agency detection, ritual and myth — read together as a single long story of how belief became possible.
Two ways of asking the same world. The research treats science and philosophy as complementary forms of inquiry — one empirical, one conceptual — and refuses to collapse either into the other.
What is coming, and how to think about it. AI, biotechnology, materials, energy — read not as hype but as a continuation of the same civilisational question.
The largest container of all the above. How cities, states, religions and technologies together make — and unmake — the worlds human beings live inside.
This section is the future home of long-form writing by Shailendra Srivastava — articles, research notes and short essays across the eight subjects above. The architecture supports per-topic feeds and per-article pages. Sign up for updates via the contact page to be notified when the first pieces go live.