This is infuriating.

Vladimir Nabokov, in a 1969 interview with the New York Times, evading a dumb question whilst simultaneously inventing the emoticon… :-)

Had a great time translating with Mohini Gupta (she/her). The workshops were so engaging. Also, shout out to Bristol Translates for making this happen.

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Announcement: Ashoka Centre for Translation x New India Foundation Bhashavaad: National Translation Conference August 23rd-24th; IIC, New Delhi Keynote Speaker: Sundar Sarukkai, philosopher & author More details are forthcoming. RSVP at [email protected].

A non-academic asked me what “genre” I write in. Granular academic distinctions aside, I think the answer is “non-popular non-fiction.”

Alvin Goldman, one of the most influential epistemologists of the past 50 years, has died. dailynous.com/2024/08/11/alv…

So poetically put! varsha

'While the translation of a single poem causes much heartache, there is almost no such worry within the sciences.' Sundar Sarukkai on translation is a treat to read scroll.in/article/107309…

An engaging read. "The city offered little chance for casual interaction between them, as most spaces were segregated by sex or under strict social surveillance. Thus they required a new method of communicating love: love letters."

So chuffed to be reading alongside some of my favourite poets to send this little book out into the world. Malayka, Urooj, Sagar and Abdur, thank you for joining me for this. HarperCollins oxfordbookstore

New paper. philpapers.org/rec/TORLIT-2

It was a pleasure meeting everyone!!

Please join Logic Society of Delhi for World Logic Day celebrations (Jan 15-22). More details here: logic-society-delhi.github.io/logic-day-2025…

I've been opening to a random page of my Proust every day, and I always seen to fall upon a lovely passage

no conversation about artificial intelligence is remotely interesting

Always lovely to see a translated work win awards.

Terrific overview in Scroll of 10 years of Literary Activism, with contributions from poet Charles Bernstein, critic and biographer Jon Cook, novelist and critic Saikat Majumdar, and critic Laetitia Zecchini that are fresh and full of insight: scroll.in/article/108409…

read aristotle with great enthusiasm and commitment read the metaphysics, the physics, on the soul, nicomachean ethics, eudemian ethics, the categories, the analytics philosophy as a whole is a miracle, but that there was ever such a mind is fucking unbelievable