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For Tarun
Tarun Bhartiya was the best husband I have ever met. Other obituaries will begin with other vocations: poetry perhaps, or photography; he was most famous as a maker of movies. He received and returned the National Award. But I met him first, and knew him best, as Angela’s husband. Tarun was also an excellent and…
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Separation Anxiety
Literature offers us many answers to the dilemma of victorious warriors: the lucky, like Achilles, die; the unlucky, like Paul Atreides, go quite mad. Agamemnon is murdered, Odysseus turns feral; this is the way the world ends, never all at once.
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The Stakes of Silence
If Kant’s entire argument presumes the impossibility of ontology as a species of valid knowledge, in what sense does he “rescue” it?
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Across These Miles
This, then, is what they don’t tell you about fieldwork: a lot of it is about earnestly realizing that certain things are universally ridiculous, but they are never the things you expect.
