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Apr 12, 2023 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

July 2022

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…

Jul 15, 2022 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

December 2021

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…

Dec 31, 2021 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

September 2020

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…

Sep 12, 2020 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

July 2020

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…

Jul 2, 2020 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

September 2019

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…

Sep 19, 2019 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

March 2017

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…

Mar 31, 2017 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

March 2015

Fannie's Oyster Bar

“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its…

Mar 26, 2015 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

January 2014

Roebuck, Ponting, Clarke and the Fall and Rise of Australian Cricket

Michael Clarke and his merry unchanged-throughout-the-series men have crushed England -- 5-0 in the Tests and up 3-1 in the one-dayers as of this…

Jan 25, 2014 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

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