From Shankara to Abhinavagupta
By Luke McCusker, 07/28/2019. In Bangalore, I met with Professor Sundar Sarukkai. The humanities have been undervalued in contemporary Indian education, sidelined in favor of [...]
My encounters with Kolkata
By Isobel Chiang, 07/26/2019. And then, just like that, it was time to get on a plane to Kolkata. "You’re going to Kolkata?" people would [...]
An Insufficient Phenomenological Reading of Old Delhi
By Luke McCusker, 07/21/2019. Delhi is a city within a city: Old Delhi within New Delhi. Already there is an exterior and an interior--Delhi within [...]
First taste of Chinese food in India
By Isobel Chiang, 07/17/2019. Last night, I finally had the chance to try Indian-Chinese street food. Or is it Chinese-Indian street food? As I continue [...]
Heidegger and Shantiniketan
By Luke McCusker, 07/15/2019. Alongside his intellectual pursuits, Martin Heidegger was a Nazi sympathizer. While the grounds for his position may have been philosophical rather [...]
Landed in Delhi
By Isobel Chiang, 07/11/2019. In the Airbnb I’m currently staying in, there’s a paperback book on my nightstand. It’s called “The Sikh Gurus,” and it’s [...]
Some most important drawbacks on India from the characteristics of the service-oriented industrial structure – 3rd Post, Notes
07/03/2019. The characteristics of the service industry itself determines that the service-oriented industrial structure has a lot of beneficial effects on the economic development of [...]
Heidegger and Shankara
By Luke McCusker, 06/18/2019. In his aesthetic writings, Martin Heidegger suggests that art works can make us aware of the nonconceptual, undefined, unmanifest reality out [...]
The Ningbo Odyssey: Part Two
By Yang Allen, 06/18/2019. Over the past month, I have been to 55 villages in Ningbo. Before entering the rural sites, I was confident to [...]