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Planetary India: seventy five years of Indian Independence
Today is the seventy fifth anniversary of India’s independence from British rule. It was a monumental achievement built on the sacrifice of millions…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Aug 15
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Planetary Animals
A slow restart
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Aug 1
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Factors of Accumulation III
All roads lead to Kaifeng
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 24
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Factors of Accumulation II
There’s a profound saying about Chan (Zen) practice: Great faith, great doubt, great determination. The great Chan patriarchs would be aghast to learn…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 23
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Factors of Accumulation I
Silver and Lapis
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 22
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Second Contact, Part III
According to Borges, Pierre Menard was a practitioner of right-handed Tantra in public. Among his many achievements was a book on George Boole’s…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 21
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Second Contact Part II
There’ something refreshing about hard SF. The writers whom I admired (and still do to a lesser extent) didn’t care about literary skills - their…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 20
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What is it like to be a Planet? Part II
It was fun reading Solaris; I was sucked in at the very beginning and finished most of the book in one long sitting. The truly alien atmosphere, the…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 17
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What is it like to be a Planet? Part I
Hard Science Fiction, if not Science Fiction as such, is the story of society’s victory over nature, so complete a victory that society has left the…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 16
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Second Contact
First Contact First contact is when the hero encounters the alien for the first time - ideally an alien intelligence, but if he isn’t ambitious, he…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 15
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Lemmings and other animals
Lem beyond Solaris. Solaris Beyond Lem.
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 14
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The Globe and the Earth So Far
Today’s update is both a retrospective and a prospectus, or in plain English: where we have come from, and where we are going. Swimming into our Ken I…
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Jun 13
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