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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Why not an Indian Institute of Humanities?

Like all good advisors, Prof. Sheldon Pollock is looking out for his students and hence strongly advocates the creation of an Indian Institute of Humanities!
Seriously though, this is a must read OPED in The Hindu from Pollock on the irony of endowing classical language status to Kannada and Telugu even as scholars who can read [...]

Renewing soil

Wendell Berry has a typically wise column (co-written with Wes Jackson) in today’s NYTimes in which he calls for a new agricultural policy for the next 50 years. Here is the key quote:
Clearly, our present ways of agriculture are not sustainable, and so our food supply is not sustainable. We must restore ecological health to [...]