Book: The Fruits of Our Desiring: An Enquiry Into the Ethics of the Bhagavadgītā for Our Times Author: Multiple A wonderful collection of essays fro… ...more

I really like books by old folks looking back on a life well-lived. This is one of those. Below are some of my thoughts on the book. LKY chose to orga… ...more

SEBASTIAN THURN The thing that worked best for me is to be relentlessly driven by the desire to solve problems I really care about, and to be open to … ...more

Corruption (specifically, graft1) in public offices has a really bad name - erodes public trust, offsets growth, destabilizes institutions. It’s also … ...more

This was a delicious little Kannada film I saw over the past weekend. During a road-widening project in present day Bangalore, skeletons are discovere… ...more

Pulp to end all pulp. ...more

Book: Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism Author: Johannes Bronkhorst Among all the ideas this book introduced to me, the one that I am going to sp… ...more

நான் எனக்காக மட்டும் எழுதக் கூடியவனாக இருக்க வேண்டுமென்றே ஆசைப்படுகிறேன்… ...more

Charles Allen's history of peninsular India. ...more

A tamil haiku. ...more

Cosmopolitanism in tenth century Asia. ...more