Knowledge is power: The unintended outcomes of Orientalist William Jones’ study of Sanskrit texts

Looking back on Jones’s legacy on his 275th birth anniversary, which falls on September 28.

Girish Shahane

· Sep 28, 2021 · 11:30 am

Passing the pandemic with Pamuk: How to travel the world from one room during the lockdown

Even when you’re confined to your writing desk, your bookshelf will take you somewhere else altogether.

Pallavi Narayan

· May 30, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Essay: You cannot go back home once you have left it. You find it afresh in literature and language

A literature professor’s meditation on how a book can take us back home.

Kunal Ray

· Dec 29, 2019 · 07:30 am