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Ramanan Raghavendran

October 2022

My learning journey at Stanford continued over the summer with an intense course on “the archive”, a highly fetishized subject in the humanities. The…
Ramanan Raghavendran

June 2022

I’ve been using my blog to chronicle, in an episodic way, a learning journey I have been on at Stanford. The adventure continues! *** The second year of…
Ramanan Raghavendran

March 2022

Did life in your great Utopia really get so boring you needed a war? — Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas Recently I wrote about how some of the best…
Ramanan Raghavendran

December 2021

The header of my Twitter profile contains a quote by Michel Foucault that I reference often. Like most great philosophers, he took a hundred words to…
Ramanan Raghavendran

June 2021

Last week, I finished the first year of a learning journey in the form of a part-time degree program designed for working professionals with an interest…
Ramanan Raghavendran

April 2021

I often feel the English language — or pretty much any other human language — is singularly unequipped to deal with metaphysical concepts. This is one…
Ramanan Raghavendran
This brief essay is adapted from a longer paper I wrote on the subject. As I go through a learning journey, I find myself looking below the surface …
Ramanan Raghavendran

February 2021

I read sections of the Decameron recently along with the story of The Little Hunchback from the 1001 Nights, as part of an ongoing learning journey. I’d…
Ramanan Raghavendran

January 2021

We are still pagans I’ve been reading Beowulf recently, in the very fine Heaney translation, as part of an ongoing learning journey. One discovery has…
Ramanan Raghavendran

November 2020

Decades ago the issue of “translation effects” came to lodge in my brain, in the course of reading Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. This is a…
Ramanan Raghavendran

October 2020

I read Antigone and the Aeneid (well, the first half of it) in consecutive weeks as part of a learning journey. Here brief observations on translations…
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