Rishita Chaudhary

In Woolf's words, it made us ask: "But why live at all”

For those who had lost religious faith, Russian literature became the place to contemplate essentially religious questions, and for those who retained

it, Russian literature became a way to revitalize it.

At watershed moments of upheaval and transformation, we anticipate with terror the absence of the familiar parts of life and of ourselves that are being washed away by the current of change. But we fail to envision the unfamiliar gladnesses and gratifications the new tide would bring, the unfathomed presences, for our imaginations are bounded by

Gandhi is not an anti-modern as much as an internal critique. The kind of modernity that arose in Europe which he saw spreading in India, he said there were alternative of modernity, which did not take the same route as Europe. There might be a different modernity.

Difference between Propositional and Perspectival Knowledge

Propositional knowing: knowing that is something the case

Persperctival knowledge - knowing what’s it’s like to be you in your state of mind, here, right now.

The parenting thing is that a couple is always fundamentally at an informational asymmetry about making a decision on whether or not

The subject matter can be dispiriting. But the books themselves are, I think, uplifting. None tries to ignore the brutal horror and devastation in the events it covers. None treats the victims as too remote to care about or the perpetrators as too monstrous to understand. None gives in to apathy, cynicism, or indifference. Instead, all make heroic