Corrections Policy

Our commitment to accuracy

We check what we publish before it goes live, following the standards set out in our Fact-Check Policy. That process reduces errors; it does not eliminate them, particularly across a subject as old, as textually contested, and as regionally varied as Sanatana Dharma, where a claim that is settled in one lineage may be actively disputed in another. When we get something wrong — a date, a translation, an attribution, a claim we should have qualified — we correct it openly and say what changed.

How to report a mistake

Any reader may report a suspected error by writing to corrections@prajnainsights.com with the article’s URL, the specific claim in question, and — where possible — the source you believe supports the correction. We read every message this address receives. We do not require you to be a specialist to point out an error, though specialist reports naturally help us verify a correction faster.

We aim to acknowledge a correction request within three working days and to resolve it, one way or another, within fifteen. If we conclude no correction is warranted, we will tell you why rather than simply going quiet.

Minor corrections

Minor corrections cover typographical errors, broken links, image-credit mistakes, small date or spelling errors, and similar slips that do not change the substance of what was written. These are corrected directly in the published text without a formal notice, though the article’s “last updated” timestamp changes to reflect the edit.

Major factual corrections

A major correction is one that changes the substance of a claim — a misattributed verse, a reversed historical sequence, a mistranslated term that alters meaning, or a source that turns out not to say what we said it said. In these cases, we:

• correct the text itself, rather than leaving the error to stand alongside a caveat;
• add a dated correction note at the foot of the article stating what was wrong and what changed;
• update the article’s “last updated” date; and
• record the correction in our public log, described below.

We do not quietly edit a published claim of this kind and hope no one notices the difference. The correction note stays on the article permanently — it is part of the article’s record, not a temporary disclosure.

Retractions

A retraction is reserved for the rare case where an article’s central premise is unsound — built on a source that does not exist, a fabricated claim, or reasoning that cannot be repaired by correcting individual facts. A retracted article is replaced with a notice explaining why it was withdrawn and, where relevant, what we have since published in its place. We do not simply delete a retracted article and remove all trace of the episode; the notice remains at its original URL.

The correction log

Every major correction and retraction is recorded, in date order, with a link to the affected article and a short description of what changed. We publish this record because a corrections policy that cannot be checked against an actual log is a promise, not a practice.

As of this policy’s effective date, no major corrections or retractions have been logged. That is a statement about how new this publication is, not a claim that our archive is free of error — we have not yet had the benefit of enough attentive readers finding our mistakes for us. We expect this log to begin filling in, and we would rather it started honestly empty than started with entries we invented to look established.

Update timestamps

Every article carries its original publication date. Where an article has been edited after publication — for a correction, or to add material as our understanding of a subject deepens — it also carries a “last updated” date. We do not alter an article’s original publication date to make an edit look like new work, and we do not use the update timestamp to obscure when a correction was actually made.