Prof @McGillU | Anglophone & World Lit | Environment, Aesthetics, Empire, Cold War, Translation |
Montréal, Québec
Joined June 2017
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"The fundamental difference between all these reimaginations and Nolan’s film is that the others offer lifeworlds that are internally coherent and credible."
For our final August piece, @shonedeep analyses the Odyssey!
Read on: thelastdvd.com/a-chimera-of-…
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A new low in academic publishing? An article accepted for publication in The Manchester School now has a required authors agreement from @wileypublishing to hand over all rights for use by AI companies! Authors please read your agreements carefully to prevent such appropriation!
गत्वा चोर्ध्वं दशमुखभुजोच्छ्वसितप्रस्थसन्धेः
कैलासस्य त्रिदशवनितादर्पणस्यातिथिः स्याः ।
शृङ्गोच्छ्रायैः कुमुदविशदैः यो वितत्य स्थितः खं
राशीभूतः प्रतिनिसमिव त्र्यम्बकस्याट्टहासः ॥
Going further north, be the guest of Kailāsa, whose peak‑joints were loosened by the arms of the ten‑faced [Rāvaṇa], the mirror of the celestial women;
with peaks white like water‑lilies it stands, spreading across the sky, as if it were the nightly accumulation of the three‑eyed [Śiva’s] loud laughter. Kalidāsa, Meghadūta (1.58) #himalaya #kailash #kalidasa #outstandingpoetry
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First there was Jake Charkey, now there is Chris Votek. May the tribe of Khayal cellists prosper into eternity. youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YlJa5N…
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My tribute to Jurgen Habermas who died on March 14, 2026. As a philosopher, he helps me think about the utopias shaped by stranger-socialibility.
What can be said about Habermas (Nancy Fraser etc have written) from my location in Bangalore?
Out now in @scroll_in
scroll.in/article/1093285/ju…
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Cover reveal (customary tweet). So much excite.
Out later this year, 9 unique treatments of the idea of India at its limits, across disciplines.
Afterword by Francis Cody.
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My poem titled 'Tidepoem' (first published in the @ricjournal in 2024) is in the The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2024/25 (eds. @vinita65 and Sukrita; thanks are due to the esteemed jury).
[This is my third time featuring in the Yearbook, am very grateful.]
amazon.in/dp/1913738221?ref_…
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“The writer, you see, is not simply a journalist. He interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.”—Naguib Mahfouz
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