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Twin Peaks: The Return is David Lynch's swansong. He returns to helm the show in complete control (for the first time) as (co)writer, di...

The sublimation of the individual into the collective, the longing of an atomic existence to be subsumed into a coherent ensemble, the desir...

Vinod Kumar Shukla wins the Gyanpeeth this year. The unbearable lightness of his prose, his unassuming, self effacing personality and rooted...

Towers of midnight (Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson) Yellowface (Rebecca F Kuang) Stalin: Paradoxes of Power [1878–1928] (Vol. 1) (Steph...

Marx, the ultimate applied Hegelian.

Is mathematics a language? This is an intriguing philosophical question that gets at the heart of what we mean by both "mathematics...

What's the difference between physical sciences and social sciences? In social sciences, the experimental subjects fight back. 

Q: Are you a Bayesian or are you a Frequentist? NF: I am dear sir, but an Opportunist.

I am a patriot because I am a premium consumer.

When Milton Friedman made the comment about the equivalence of two theories (implicitly chracterized by assumptions they're based on, sa...

Mani Kaul and Kumar Shahani are 'scholar filmmakers'. The scholarly aspect is as important as the film in which the visuals are embe...

He never disclosed his opinions, fearing people would think him mad and foolish. And after all, what was more distateful than sharing dear-h...

 The superlative living master Amit Dutta at his most direct, and most accessible in the 2 minute 'The Scent of Earth' [मिट्टी इत्र]...

'Yellowface' by Rebecca F Kuang is an unputdownable, wickedly funny book that's worth devouring in one sitting. This is how grea...

The Exile (Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott) Platform (Michele Houellebecq) A Crown of Swords (Robert Jordan) Conversations with Friends (Sally R...

 

The Arrow Impossibility Theorem (Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen) The Ascent of Money (Niall Ferguson) Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need...

On how the Indian economy after independence came to be influenced by one statistician in "... an academic institute in the quiet outsk...

From 'The cultural evolution of love in literary history' [Bamaurd et al. 2022, Nature Human Behavior]. (Link to paper here:  https:...

 From the pen of the peerless Slate Star Codex : The Pax Americana playbook for international norm violations is: the US slaps sanctions on ...