My learning journey at Stanford continued over the summer with an extremely intense course on “the archive”, an artifact of great fetishization in the humanities. Here is a quick overview.
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Many years ago, as the final capstone project for a learning journey at my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, I wrote something best described as “creative non-fiction”. It combined elements of autobiography with some ruminations on cricket and Indian identity. That project is presented below, unchanged.
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The second year of my MLA program ended with a bang in the form of a course on poems. Here I thought it’d be interesting to lay out an abridged version of my response to Blue Swallows by Howard Nemerov.
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I’ve been thinking and writing about Iain M. Banks recently, in the context of a learning journey I am on at Stanford. Reflecting on his work in an academic setting was a different experience and got me thinking — thinking about how we think about the future.
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In which I speak about science fiction and fantasy, and the universality of all fiction. And some book recommendations!
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Public domain bios, such as on LinkedIn or a company web site, hide many stories. Here I want to drill into one of my personal transitions that reads a certain way, but hides a much more complicated reality.
Read MoreHere is the best of what I read in 2021.
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Here I write briefly about language, and specifically the language of English in India. I have some counterintuitive ideas…
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Last week, I finished my first year of a learning journey in the form of a part-time degree program designed for working professionals with an interest in the humanities. Feels like a good time to take stock and make some observations.
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