On Anne Carson
Nobel, Tenure Imperfections and Loving What You Do.
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India’s Most Read English Author
Jeffrey Archer, Ladies vs. Ricky Bahl, and doing what you love.
Year of the Lightday
We have hurled a stone now a light day's away.
Quietness of Grace Bestowed
What is a prized possession that you have that has little monetary value in the real world?
For me, it is a small blue hardcover edition of the Westminster dictionary, wrapped in two layers of brown paper, decorated by a faint trace of sandalwood paste mark on the front cover. I almost never use the dictionary now, like everyone else, looking up meanings of words online when I do so. However, its use had diminished even before the advent of online search.
To describe what the book means to me, I have to start at the very beginning...
Fluttering Evanescence
Seeking solace in the quietness of early mornings, we heard chirps of Anna's Hummingbird outside the window sill. The female had a laid an egg in a nest resting on the frailest stem of a tree branch [...]
Graduate Loans: Hollywood and Universities
A recent study shows how elite universities have awarded thousands of master’s degrees that don’t provide enough career earnings to pay down the federal student loans. This is an issue that is dear to me: I explain why students "take such bets" and why universities are sometimes like the movie industry, and what could be done to improve the system.
Misunderstood Americans
Carter is often described as a failure of an American president. Now, Kai Bird, the author of American Prometheus, the book on Oppenheimer, makes the case for another misunderstood American, President Jimmy Carter.