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An Obituary For My Father
My father died on June 16 at the age of 90. I have relied on his memoirs — the first, which covers the first half of his life, is a wonderfully…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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Deep Cover: Cricket and Indian Identity
I’ve realized over time that this blog, while implicitly autobiographical, has a small set of essays that are explicitly so. I’ve decided to make this a…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
LinkedIn Bios Are Not The Whole Story
Public domain bios, such as on LinkedIn or a company web site, can be very misleading. If you looked at my LinkedIn bio, for example, you might come…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
On Belonging
My Father’s Passing A few months ago, I wrote about my father’s life. In writing that obituary, I realized that the 41 years he spent in the Indian Air…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
On Identity, via Kwame Appiah
Issues of identity are front and center in our time. Old certainties are, for some, antique; and for others, they represent the one thing to hold on to…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
Three Reasons I Took The GRE This Week
Earlier this week I took the GRE. I'm middle aged, not going to grad school (well, not any time soon), this is an extraordinarily busy time for me, it's…
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Ramanan Raghavendran
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