the historian Sanjay Subrahamanyam on Martha Nusbaum's book on India

'The problem of narrative exposition finds a quite different solution in Martha Nussbaum’s The Clash Within, a book less than half the size of Guha’s doorstop. After training in Hellenistic philosophy and the

Beautiful Yamani Bilawal by Pandit Panchakshari Swami Mattigatti, one of the two main students of Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur. An exquisite interpretation full of pathos - different from both his guru and his gurubhai Pt Rajshekhar Mansur youtu.be/uC29K4B92V4?si…

For fans of Pt Mallikarjun and Rajshekhar Mansur in Bangalore. My friend and gurubhai Dr Mithun Chakravarthy is singing Bangalore International Centre this Thursday (May 16th). He is a superb vocalist, a senior student of Pt Rajshekhar Mansur, and steeped in the Mansur/Jaipur-Atrauli gharana

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1/2 Accountability Initiative at Centre for Policy Research is hiring Field Consultants & a Senior Field Consultant for projects in Karnataka. The consultants, over 2 months starting June 2024, will be expected to conduct field work in different Gram Panchayats.

A Tribute to A.T. Ariyaratne - a remarkable Gandhian in Sri Lanka radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/a-tribute-to-a…

Missing my aunt LV Sharada today. She would have been 84. Here are some vignettes from her first movie - Girish Karnad’s classic ವಂಶ ವೃಕ್ಷ Vamsha Vriksha (1971) youtu.be/2pBoFgK8oZw?si…

“Life is like the Vīṇā, when it is strung too taut, the strings break, when it’s too loose, no sound comes out. The string that produces a tuneful sound is not too tight & not too loose.” -Gautama Buddha

Gold Dīnāra of the Vīṇā playing Emperor Samudragupta of India(335-375 CE)

This is an amazing project outlining the history of the formation of all Indian states. Great work. Congrats!

Unsurprisingly, Edward Luce's take on the campus protests is by some distance the best and most sophisticated I have read.

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It is my guru Pandit Rajshekhar Mansur's second death anniversary today. I remember him with love, respect and gratitude. Here is a beautiful, short, performance by him of raga Bihari youtu.be/DZzwbiNiNQw?si…

This article by Soumaya Keynes points out the gap between the incentives and culture of academic research and the needs of policy. To me it highlights the central importance of groups like World Bank Research - independent researchers who are not in academia. We may be part of The

An absolutely fabulous concert in Washington DC by T M Krishna accompanied by HN Bhaskar on the violin and Sivaraman Balasubramanian and Vijay Ganesh on the mridangam. A musician who transports you to another realm when he sings, while making the audience think, question and

One of the vexing things about being embedded within the development policy apparatus is the degree to which powerful people feel the need to listen to western academics with no experiential knowledge of the global south largely to boost their lack of intellectual heft. And - the

It is afternoon here in DC. Time for some raga Multani. Ustad Amir Khan sings a Meera bhajan - Daya Kar Giridhar Gopal from the movie Shabab. Music composed by the great Naushad sahib. youtube.com/watch?v=zLppZz…

Jishnu Das's very thoughtful essay that tries to get us (development economists) to think harder about why we do what we do. linkedin.com/pulse/did-deve…

Can someone explain to me how this differs from Vedanta, and if western philosophers espousing the “consciousness is nothing more than an illusion” POV draw the obvious parallels? Or is it like Judith Butler and other western academics writing tomes on non-violent resistance