India

Thoughts I found this book when looking for a copy of G.N. Devy’s other book (India: A Linguistic Civilization). I read through it in a sitting because it was quite short (I’d say it’s about 180 pages in length). Devy’s work has always been hard to read, not because he’s a poor writer - he is excellent - but because it’s dense writing, efficient to a fault. This book is a little different, perhaps because I’m familiar with the themes of the Mahabharata from reading the Debroy translation of the BORI Critical Edition. ...

Date: March 19, 2024 Dear Toriyama-sensei, Is it weird that I’ve been saying that starting phrase to this letter multiple times the last few days? Ever since I heard of your passing, I have been reading people’s comments online, from those of random Internet people, to Oda-sensei and Kishimoto-sensei’s touching eulogies. I can’t really say I know you that well. I never touched your video game bodies of work, oddly though, I’d just started playing Chrono-Trigger1 a few weeks ago. I don’t know what made me start playing it. I’d tried several times earlier in my life, but I never went too far. ...