I am in India’s capital city, New Delhi, where I am scouring through archival materials these days. Archives are the places where governments and private individuals (possibly of importance) share ...

Apart from this one book, I have not meaningfully read any other book. Even when I tried to read a few pages from Ram Guha’s Gandhi Before India to make sense of how Gandhi’s life was and what ...

Every once in a while, I put my head down and write the most boring things in the world. That seems like a good catharsis away from all PhD work. And today is one such. In this newsletter, I try ...

It has been a while since 2024 is over–and it is time for a 2024 recap. Years pass by, and with every new year, we tend to reflect on how our previous year was—and what we wish the next year to be: ...

Things Orhan Pamuk Tells Us About Writing Well. The first author I introduce here today is Orhan Pamuk. I stumbled upon Orhan Pamuk’s essay in the New Yorker through my PhD supervisor, Roland Bleiker ...

The start of March has been spectacularly ominous. At the start of the month, Brisbane witnessed something unusual, even by the standards of Brisbane weather. Cyclone Alfred—Alfie, as some Aussies ...

Besides these, I have also read this novella by Banana Yoshimoto, titled Kitchen, published in 1988 and translated in 1993.This book is lovely. I won’t write anything about it here. Perhaps, if you ...

I am writing this newsletter about how I became a runner and how my journey has come to shape me. Today has been good so far. I did the Parkrun today. In South Bank Parkrun, where I ...