Rishita Chaudhary

the belief that divinity is to be found not in some outside deity, but in the human soul itself, in its fidelity to itself as a fractal of nature, a particle of the perfect totality of the universe, which Margaret Fuller — Emerson’s greatest influence — called “the All.”

Purva-Paksha refers to the thoughts of predecessors. There’s a prejudice where all Indian Philosophers, anything worth saying has already been said done in Vedas. Series of thinkers in the past, conflict, their views form a ladder. Truth can be seen by climbing the ladder (cute metaphor)

cumulative process (fu rand)

‘Intellectual Tradition is a

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Artificial Intelligence is a socio-technical system shaped by human values, histories, languages, and ways of knowing, while simultaneously reshaping how societies create meaning, relate to one another, and imagine the future. Engaging with AI through the lens of culture allows us to move beyond questions of efficiency and optimisation, toward

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Sontag points to literature’s essential allure — the comfort of appeasing our anxiety about life’s infinite possibility, about all the roads not taken and all the immensities not imagined that could have led to a better destination than our present one. A story, instead, offers the comforting finitude of both time and possibility:

Cognitive endurance refers to the capacity of independent engagement with a challenging problem, in the presence of accessible solutions. For example, a student’s cognitive endurance regulates how long they struggle with a math problem before looking up the solutions in the textbook’s appendix.

Like athletic endurance, cognitive endurance can be

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The result is an inviting, accessible, and powerful read. As I moved through the work, I felt as if Srinivasan was situating me on a map so I could proceed more effectively and intelligently as an advocate for all women. I shared this with her one day this summer over Zoom. “Yes, I’m not trying to give answers,” she told me, “but help people get a... See more

We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the-world into a being-at-home. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable. They even make it accessible, like a house. They structure time, furnish it. In his novel

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