education
In 2012, I was travelling to one of my favourite places in India - Shimla. Viceregal Lodge in Shimla is a beautiful building, housing the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. There is a small book store in the campus. While rummaging through antiquated books, I chanced upon Education and Humanism
Today is one those sleepless nights when my unbearable migraine takes me to the terrace. The black and blue sky before sunrise in winter is comforting and chilling at the same time. There was a halo around the waning gibbous moon today. I went to down to get my gear
Ist mir mîn leben getroumet, oder ist es war? Have I dreamt my life, or was it a true one? -Walther von der Vogelweide Rhythm of Learning, Rhythm of Life. Why did I write this for [Northstar](https://www.northstar.edu.in)? More often than not, my thoughts are not
ragasvara
Raga is a sanctuary amidst swathes of dry, arid expanse. It is incredible, almost magical, to see what a small parcel of land, taken care of, loved, can do for our ecology. The primary dwellers of Raga are the trees, plants, birds and animals.Our ecology is kind and strong,
I look forward to Fridays each week. Fridays are for Noesis, our philosophy class. Over the years I have veered more and more towards literature and philosophy embedded in literature. But sometimes, we take up something topical and dive deep in to it. 29th July, Friday was International Tiger Day.
tools
Over the years, I have written in so many places starting from WordPress site, to blogger, to Medium, to Ghost, to GitHub pages and more using tens of tools which I won't even begin to recall. I do not engage with or write on social media. I self-host
It is easy to believe that Raga Svara is a "business" and that it is different from Northstar or RKU, which are our learning institutions. But that would be an error. If anything, Raga is an even more potent form of learning. Raga is about bringing back the
With Raga Svara, and with Northstar as well, but more acutely at Raga, I come to the question of étranger or xenos. I am unable to take on the role of a subservient host. Hospitality is an act of giving and receiving, a game if you will. The rules and
Sometimes I wonder how I stumbled upon Borges. I remember one passage that shattered my mind. The opening paragraph of Michel Foucault's The Order of Things had these lines: This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read
This is Andromeda Galaxy. Photographing this one was really hard for me. Many many hours to get this image. Astronomy and astrophotography is a humbling experience. What we are seeing is 2.5 million light years away. And it is still the closest galaxy to ours. I still have a
borges
This week I led a close reading of Jorge Luis Borges's short story The Babylon Lottery. It is one of my favourite short stories.
The greatest writer of the 20th century, if not all time, for me, is Jorge Luis Borges. And if one reads Borges, he must also read Roberto Bolaño. I haven't read Bolaño before and I am starting with 2666. A serendipitous start with this quote in the book&