Keerthik Sasidharan
Keerthik Sasidharan is an author who lives in New York City. His forthcoming book The Dharma Forest will be published by Penguin India
My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: Keerthik Sasidharan, Author and essayist
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21 December 2019
A History of Forking Paths
The countdown to the post-post-World War II age has begun
13 December 2019
Being Doubtful in a Secular World
The history of Indian disbelief adds a wrinkle to the story of modernity
29 November 2019
The Epic Epiphany
The abiding attraction of the Ramayana to Indian society, and to the Indian mind, lies in the innumerable idealised social relations that abound in the epic. Its importance as a template for social bonds is what is often missed in the textual discussions that preoccupy scholars
15 November 2019
Cultural Evolution
As Xi Jinping comes calling, a close examination of China’s effort to educate its students and lead well-funded research platforms—from a state that sent poets to jail for subjectivism to Jack Ma’s Alibaba
10 October 2019
The Gita and Being Modern
Why the platitudes of our time are not an alternative to the religious vision of the Bhagavad Gita
05 August 2015
Authors
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of the forthcoming book Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism and India’s Road to Modernity. Views are personal
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