A reading list

In an earlier post, I’d talked briefly about the Emergency and my small involvement as an activist. Many…

Back at base

The Kerala trip, which involved the better part of three days wandering around the fraught Kannur/Kasargode region and…

Book recco: TGWAB

The calligraphy of the graffiti artists was superb, sometimes as beautiful as the brushstroked Bengali words that adorned…

PSA: Free books

This treasury of classical works brought to you by Open Culture. Did I mention it is free? Ok.…

Speed reading

A signatory of a petition last week that called for Sanskrit scholar Sheldon Pollock to be removed from…