"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.
Between 5–13 cent. CE, monks from across Asia came to learn grammar, logic, theology, philosophy, astronomy & medicine.
Nicholas Gordon, host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, interviews Namit re: Indians (40 mins, audio only).
Namit Arora's TEDx talk on why civic sense matters, why we Indians have so little of it, and what might raise it.
1: What We Talk About When We Talk About The Weather
4: Tales From a Changing World
6: Modern Myths of Human Power
10: On Progress as Human Destiny
11: Of Gods and Men and Human Destiny
12: Musings on the Anthropocene
13: Stories of Wealth and Distribution
14: Toward a Polyphony of Stories
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