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Apophatic by Amit Majmudar

Nov 13, 2024 | firstthings.com | Amit Majmudar

Not with the myth and phosphorus of metaphor. Notwith lines of force looped in true-love knots. Not by dumping the urn and reading the ashes. Notthrough sonic wantonness, but not through disciplined listening, either. Notwith numbers always setting words at naughtnor letter-cluttered words whose O is nought. Not by guessing at the sea’s pet name for night. Not by vivisecting “noun” and naming all its parts. Notwith tongs and not with tweezers, notwith tongues and not with gestures.
Why Hinduism Survives

Oct 30, 2024 | openthemagazine.com | Amit Majmudar

Essays | Open EssayLike Bharatanatyam, it has adapted to a hostile environment Rukmini Devi Arundale revived Sadir Attam as Bharatanatyam MY WIFE DANCES and teaches Bharatanatyam, and my daughter learns from her. Observing my loved ones—both born and raised in the US—embody sacred figures from mythology while thousands of miles away from India, I got to thinking about the antiquity of this dance form.
Why Hinduism Survives

Oct 30, 2024 | t.ly | Amit Majmudar

Essays | Open EssayLike Bharatanatyam, it has adapted to a hostile environment Rukmini Devi Arundale revived Sadir Attam as Bharatanatyam MY WIFE DANCES and teaches Bharatanatyam, and my daughter learns from her. Observing my loved ones—both born and raised in the US—embody sacred figures from mythology while thousands of miles away from India, I got to thinking about the antiquity of this dance form.
Poem Meant to be Folded

Oct 8, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Amit Majmudar |Brigham Young

KeywordsIntimacy, Transformation, VulnerabilityRecommended CitationMajmudar, Amit(2022)"Poem Meant to be Folded,"Inscape: Vol. 42:No.2, Article 7. Available at:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol42/iss2/7
The Language Trap

Oct 3, 2024 | t.ly | Amit Majmudar

Essays | Open Essay English stands between India and the West when it comes to Hinduism (Illustration: Saurabh Singh) AS AN AMERICAN STUDENT of Indian history and politics, I have often wondered why English-language journalists—and the Anglophone Indians who inform, and are informed by, their books and articles—seem not to see what is before their eyes. It is easy to attribute their misreadings and elisions to malice, to the propagandist’s creation of slanted narratives. And we would be...
The Language Trap

Oct 3, 2024 | openthemagazine.com | Amit Majmudar

AS AN AMERICAN STUDENT of Indian history and politics, I have often wondered why English-language journalists—and the Anglophone Indians who inform, and are informed by, their books and articles—seem not to see what is before their eyes. It is easy to attribute their misreadings and elisions to malice, to the propagandist’s creation of slanted narratives.
The Mathematician’s Next Life

Oct 2, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Amit Majmudar |Brigham Young

KeywordsMathematics, Transformation, NatureRecommended CitationMajmudar, Amit(2021)"The Mathematician’s Next Life,"Inscape: Vol. 41:No.2, Article 11. Available at:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol41/iss2/11
Restoring the Sun God In Kashmir

May 9, 2024 | openthemagazine.com | Amit Majmudar

IF RELIGION ITSELF were to vanish tonight, it would reappear at dawn. The sun has inspired worship for centuries, across civilisations, the obvious objective correlative of the divine. The Rig Veda has its hymns to Surya, and the Sun is conceived as one of the eyes of the Cosmic Man in the Purusha Sukta as well as the Gita’s universal form. The Sumerians had Shamash, and Inti was the patron deity of the Incas.
Restoring the Sun God In Kashmir

May 9, 2024 | t.ly | Amit Majmudar

IF RELIGION ITSELF were to vanish tonight, it would reappear at dawn. The sun has inspired worship for centuries, across civilisations, the obvious objective correlative of the divine. The Rig Veda has its hymns to Surya, and the Sun is conceived as one of the eyes of the Cosmic Man in the Purusha Sukta as well as the Gita’s universal form. The Sumerians had Shamash, and Inti was the patron deity of the Incas.
The malice-dance of John Cowper Powys

Apr 17, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Roger Kimball |Victor Davis Hanson |Keith Windschuttle |Amit Majmudar

For some reason, no opening of any novel I have ever read has stuck in my mind in the way that this has:From Waterloo Station to the small country town of Ramsgard in Dorset is a journey of not more than three or four hours, but having by good luck found a compartment to himself, Wolf Solent was able to indulge in such an orgy of concentrated thought, that these three or four hours lengthened themselves out into something beyond all human measurement.