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Varanasi New! Saints, I see the world is mad.If I tell the truth they rush to beat me,if I lie they trust me. –Kabir, 15th cent.Nagarjunakonda New!Third cent. CE Ikshvaku city, home to the great philosopher Nagarjuna and where rich women were the primary patrons of Buddhism.Nalanda New!Between 5–13th cent. CE, monks from across Asia came to learn grammar, logic, philosophy, theology, astronomy and medicine.KhajurahoHow did a culture that exalts penance and renunciation depict sex so vividly on temple walls? Why did this tradition disappear?DholaviraA metropolis of the Harappan Civilization in the Rann of Kutch (2600–1900 BCE), with amazing water harvesting and fine reservoirs.VijayanagarHow did Vijayanagar acquire its riches and vast armies that foreign travellers gushed about? What is its legacy in south India? Selected VideosGlimpses of Zambia A journey to Zambia, including a national park, Lusaka, Livingstone, Victoria Falls, and more.For our learning, natural talents, and labor, what rewards and entitlements can we fairly claim?River of FaithA documentary film about the Kumbh Mela 2013, an ancient pilgrimage festival that's by far the largest gathering of humans on the planet.The Leatherbacks of TrinidadA tiny village on the northeastern coast of Trinidad is home to the "so-ugly-they're-cute" leatherback turtles.White Desert, EgyptScenes from the hauntingly beautiful White Desert in the eastern Sahara, with its otherworldly white chalk rocks.Stories About the End of the World On two big challenges before us: mass extinction, climate change.The Climate Crisis and India Myths about the gathering climate crisis and India's response to it.What Do We Deserve?For our learning, natural talents, and labor, what rewards and entitlements can we fairly claim? The Bhagavad Gita Revisited Why the Gita is an overrated text with a deplorable morality at its core. 1: Historical and literary context; 2: Textual critiqueThe Dearth of Artificial Intelligence Despite big advances in computing, AI has fallen woefully short of its ambition and hype. Why is AI in such a braindead state? Book ReviewsThe Delusion of Merit in Indian Higher Education New!On Ajantha Subramanian's The Caste of Merit. The Perils of Majoritarianism On Samanth Subramanian's This Divided Island.The Rationalist and the Romantic On Arundhati Roy's intro to Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste.Making Sense of CryptocurrenciesThe ideology, political economy, and prospects of cryptocurrencies.Coming to AmericaOn the making of the South Asian diaspora in the United States.On the Politics of Identity The good, the bad and the ugly about identity politics.The Paradox of the Belief in a Just World Parsing through the fiction that I am the sole author of my success and our wilful blindness to our inherited privileges. Delhi: the City of Rape?How caste patriarchy distorts the reality of gender violence.On Eating Animals"Nearly all meat-eaters in America participate quite directly in a cycle of suffering and cruelty of staggering scale"A Place Called HomeGoing "home" can be bittersweet. In one of his most personal essays, Namit revisits Gwalior, the city where he came of age.The Minangkabau: Mixing Islam and MatriarchyThis matriarchal society of Muslims in Indonesia reminds us that religion and culture are never cut from whole cloth. Forthcoming!The Land beyond the Sindhu: Journeys through Early India A book of travel and cultural history by Namit Arora Publisher: Penguin India | Release date TBD Love and Loathing in Silicon Valley New! A novel by Namit Arora (India edition, 2019) Namit Arora does for Silicon Valley what Tom Wolfe did for Wall Street in The Bonfire of the Vanities: with keen eye and sharp wit, he captures the culture and mores of the place. But Arora is funnier. And sweeter.” —S. Abbas Raza, Editor, 3QD More here. Buy from Amazon IN, US, UK A California StoryNew! A novel by Namit Arora (US edition, 2019) Namit Arora writes with an enviable briskness and ease... Readers will be amused, saddened, angered and educated as they read this rigorously unsanitized version of thedesidream. Suvir Kaul, AM Rosenthal Professor of English, UPenn More here. Buy from Amazon US, UK, IN The Legend of Virinara A novel by Usha Alexander (2018) A lone woman travels fearlessly into the jungle to confront the enemy. She holds the fate of an entire world in her hands. A beautifully written story about love and war . . . This is historical fiction done right. Anil Menon More here. Buy from Amazon IN, US, UK The Lottery of Birth Essays by Namit Arora (2017) By one of our finest critics. In a raucous public sphere marked by blame and recrimination, these essays announce a bracing sensibility, as compassionate as it is curious, intelligent and nuanced. Pankaj Mishra More here. Buy from Amazon IN, US, UK Leaving Idaho A novelette by Usha Alexander (2017) When Craig Olsen returns to Idaho to say goodbye to his dying uncle, who raised him, he comes face to face with matters he can no longer evade ... [He] is forced to confront the shadows of his past, including what he must accept and what he must disown about the people he loves. More here. Buy from Amazon. Only the Eyes Are Mine A novel by Usha Alexander (2005) "The clash of cultures and identities between the first and second-generation Indians in America is poignantly portrayed... a saga of hardship, betrayal, survival, spirit and enduranc... a good read." The Sunday Tribune More here. Buy from Amazon.

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