In this perspective, thought unfolds not through separation, but through correspondence. Meaning manifests when different modes of attention are permitted to coexist, balancing and moderating one another through harmony and proportion. This approach views knowing not as accumulation but as alignment, in which clarity emerges gradually through attentiveness and measured consideration.

The guiding phrase of अन्वय ANVAYA, Attentive to Being, is not a slogan but a practice of orientation. It names a mode of staying with what is present without haste or extraction. To be attentive to being is to allow existence to disclose itself in its own tempo, without forcing it into categories of use, opinion, or conclusion. Attention here is neither passive nor possessive; it is a disciplined receptivity, an ethics of regard. Being is not approached as an object to be mastered, but as a field of relation within which thought, body, language, and world continually respond to one another. In this attentiveness, understanding does not arrive suddenly but gathers slowly, through patience, restraint, and care.

The Shape of the Whole

अन्वय ANVAYA is centred around five modes of engaging with life. These are not mere categories but dynamic movements, each originating from a distinct experiential register and possessing a unique resonance.

Collectively, they constitute a field of equilibrium, reminiscent of the elemental ways in which the world has traditionally been understood not solely as matter, but as rhythm, tension, flow, breath, and openness. These forces are not merely symbolically named; they are perceived as orientations that shapehow thought, experience, and expression remain interrelated.

The structure of अन्वय ANVAYA is designed to encompass these movements harmoniously, without establishing a hierarchy. Each section exists independently yet is enriched through its relationship with the others.

Five Ways In

देहविद्या Deha Vidya-  Study of Embodiment

देहविद्या Deha Vidya begins where thought touches ground, where ideas give way to sensation, rhythm, and lived presence. This section listens to the body not as an object to be analysed or corrected, but as a witness that remembers, responds, and endures. Breath, fatigue, pain, recovery, ageing, and resilience appear here not as symptoms alone, but as ways through which life makes itself felt. Writing gathered under Deha Vidya remains close to experience. It may arise from medical practice, healing traditions, everyday observation, or long attentiveness to one’s own bodily life. Health here is not approached as a destination or achievement.

It is experienced as a dynamic balance that shifts over time, across environments, and with inner state. The body carries memory in ways language often cannot. It absorbs what is hurried, resists what is imposed, and reveals what is neglected. Like earth, it bears weight quietly, responding not with argument, but with presence. Deha Vidya exists to honour the body’s grounded intelligence, allowing it to be read rather than overridden. Readers will encounter writing shaped by patience, humility, and care. This section addresses those who recognise that the first awareness of imbalance is felt long before it is named, and that healing begins not with intervention but with listening.

न्याय Nyaya – Law

न्याय Nyaya turns toward judgment as a moral and human act. This section reflects on law not merely as a system of rules, but as a form of measure that shapes responsibility, restraint, and consequence. It brings together writing that examines how decisions are made, how boundaries are drawn, and how justice is upheld through institutions and individual action.

Law possesses the capacity to clarify, protect, and effect transformation. However, it also risks becoming rigid, exclusionary, and overwhelming when disconnected from ethical reflection. Like fire, it can either illuminate or consume, depending on its management. Nyaya persists within this tension rather than resolving it prematurely.

The discourse in this section progresses deliberately through the realms of legal and moral existence. It rebuffs spectacle and certainty, favouring meticulous reasoning, introspective judgement, and attentiveness to consequences. Although technical details may be introduced, they must never overshadow ethical significance.

Readers drawn to Nyaya are those who understand justice not as a mechanical outcome, but as something lived, carried, and sustained through discipline and care. This section invites reflection on law as a living responsibility rather than a procedural tool.

राज्य Rajya   – Politics and Power

राज्य Rajya observes the flow of power at its most subtle and influential levels. Political life often manifests through noise, urgency, and proclamation; however, its underlying mechanisms operate silently through structures, customs, and assumptions that shape daily life.

Authority circulates long before it manifests explicitly. It ingrains itself within institutions, traditions, and collective imagination. Similar to  Air, power moves unobtrusively, permeating spaces, guiding actions, maintaining order, and occasionally suppressing it. Rajya focuses on this covert circulation rather than its overt displays.

The writings compiled here contemplate governance, legitimacy, collective existence, and restraint devoid of allegiance or reaction. They inquire into the endurance of political forms, the justification of authority, and the means by which power may be constrained without descending into chaos or coercion.

Readers may anticipate essays that do not merely pursue current events or positions. Instead, Rajya provides a more deliberate engagement with the conditions that enable power to stabilise, fracture, or evolve. This section addresses those who wish to reflect on politics beyond immediate concerns, with seriousness and distance.

दर्शन Darshan  – Philosophical Reflection

दर्शन Darshan opens space rather than closing arguments. This section contains questions that do not seek resolution and thoughts that require time to breathe. Philosophy here is not treated as a system to be mastered, but as a practice of seeing, attending, and remaining present to difficulty.

Darshan allows thought to widen and gain perspective. Like the sky, it does not confine. It offers distance without detachment, openness without vagueness. Writing here moves patiently through questions of meaning, relation, form, and understanding, resisting the impulse to conclude too quickly.

Clarity in this section is not immediate. It emerges through sustained attention, careful language, and inward discipline. Complexity is not reduced, but held with care.

Readers drawn to Darshan are those who are willing to stay with uncertainty, recognising that some forms of understanding deepen only when allowed to remain unfinished. This section invites philosophy as an act of attentiveness rather than resolution.

रस Rasa    – Poetry and Sensibility

रस Rasa. This section explores the realm where emotion influences thought, allowing the loosened grip of cognition. It compiles poetry and lyrical compositions that do not explicitly explain themselves but instead utilise rhythm, imagery, and silence to communicate meaning. Here, language is employed not to argue or define, but to enhance perception.

Poetry flows, adapts, and reshapes experience effortlessly. Similar to water, it retains what passes through it, conforming to the form of its encounters. Rasa exists to honour this subtle power of language, where emotion is not regarded as excess but as refinement.

Writing within this section may be minimal or abundant, still or dynamic, yet it remains conscious of structure and restraint. Silence is accorded its rightful space. What remains unspoken is as significant as what is conveyed.

Readers might encounter poems that linger beyond initial reading, invite repeated engagement, and resist immediate clarity. Rasa addresses those who perceive poetry as a means of understanding rather than merely an ornamental form of expression.

Its First Offering

The inaugural issue of अन्वय ANVAYA centreson the theme of “Balance and Form”.

Throughout its pages, balance is regarded not as a static condition to be achieved, but as an ongoing mode of attentiveness maintained over time. It manifests in instances of restraint, in the deliberate choice to avoid haste, and in the meticulous consideration of experience. Conversely, form is not perceived as an externally imposed structure; rather, it is seen as coherence that emerges when thought, language, and emotion are carefully integrated.

Articles and poems transition through various registers, each preserving its unique cadence while maintaining a subtle connection with one another. This connection is not explicitly declared or debated; instead, it is perceptually sensed. The matter does not demand resolution or finality. Instead, it creates an environment of vigilant awareness, encouraging the reader to observe where equilibrium is perceived, where form persists, and where relationships intensify without explicit assertion.

अन्वय ANVAYA is published biannually, with issues released in January and July, allowing each volume the time and space required for reflection, return, and continuity.

What Readers May Find

अन्वय ANVAYA does not ask to be scanned. It asks to be entered.

It is designed for readers who are willing to slow down, to read without concluding, and to return without expectations. The magazine does not offer answers or positions. It provides continuity, patience, and space.

These pages exist where listening is valued, where intuition is trusted, and where ancient ways of knowing are allowed to breathe again, not as recollection or revival, but as a living presence encountered in the act of reading.