Abhishek Sundararajan

Book: Infinite Vision Author: Pavithra Mehta Looking back on my years in India, I realized a while ago that I didn't have many examples of excellence from the subcontinent growing up, outside sport and culture.

Some questions stop me in my tracks and force me to examine my assumptions about the world.

Book: The Fruits of Our Desiring: An Enquiry Into the Ethics of the Bhagavadgītā for Our Times Author: Multiple A wonderful collection of essays from some of the leading theologians and Indologists of the 90s (and now?)

I really like books by old folks looking back on a life well-lived.

SEBASTIAN THURN The thing that worked best for me is to be relentlessly driven by the desire to solve problems I really care about, and to be open to changing my mind along the way when I learn new things.

Corruption (specifically, graft1) in public offices has a really bad name - erodes public trust, offsets growth, destabilizes institutions.

This was a delicious little Kannada film I saw over the past weekend.

Book: Solomon's Vineyard Author: Jonathan Latimer Don’t recall ever having as much fun with a pulp fiction as I did with this one.

Book: Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism Author: Johannes Bronkhorst Among all the ideas this book introduced to me, the one that I am going to spend a long time chewing over is the hypothesis that Brahmanism was just another religion in the Greater Mag…

நான் எனக்காக மட்டும் எழுதக் கூடியவனாக இருக்க வேண்டுமென்றே ஆசைப்படுகிறேன்…

I am always looking out for South Indian history books, or ones that talk about South Indian pop culture, and was really excited to see this book on twitter late October.

நான் உன்னுடன் இருப்பதாலேயே நான் உனக்கு எதுவுமாகவும் இல்லாமல் போகிறேன் -- மனுஷ்ய புத்திரன்

A couple of weeks ago, I saw this magnificent 11th century Buddha from Nagapattinam at the Art Insititue, Chicago, and I feel compelled to write a few words about the things he might have witnessed. © Abhishek Sundararajan.