Anil Menon

1 month ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy |Anil Menon

Having bowed to the deity, whose head is like an elephant; whose feet are adorned by gods; who, when called to mind, relieves his votaries from embarrassment; and bestows happiness on his worshipers; I propound this easy process of computation, delightful by its elegance, perspicuous with words concise, soft and correct, and pleasing to the learned. So begins Bhaskara’s Lilavati in Henry T. Colebrooke’s classic late 19th century translation.

Nov 24, 2024 | scroll.in | Anil Menon

“My literary taste is unorthodox, by current standards. I happen to think it’s sound, and I do my darnedest to defend it in my criticism. But I’ve never been bold enough to imagine that my literary judgments amount to objective, provable truths. That said, I don’t view them as negotiable either. So the prospect of sitting down with a couple of strangers to haggle about our respective tastes in literature struck me as radically unappealing.”— 'Judge a literary prize?

Nov 4, 2024 | thehindu.com | Sudipta Datta |Anil Menon |Pranavi Sharma |Sharmistha Jha

“I love the fact that a book can be like a living thing,” said one of the judges for the Booker Prize 2024, as they were narrowing down the titles for this year’s shortlist from the longlist of 13 books. Artist and writer Edmund de Waal, head of the prize jury, said the list included “books that navigate what it means to belong, to be displaced and to return”, with settings ranging from World War I battlefields to America’s Deep South in the 19th century to the International Space Station.

Sep 27, 2024 | thehindu.com | Anil Menon

The key axiom underlying Canadian author Anne Michaels’s Held is that the world is akin to photographic paper, which when washed in the developer fluid, reveals objects coalescing into negative being, silver particle by silver particle. Indeed, this ontological metaphor is made explicit early on in the story. Going for a night walk by the river, John — the character who opens the story — thinks: “The moonlight — silver iodide.

Aug 20, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Anil Menon |Olubukola Olamide Olatosi |Robert J. Schroth |Saif Goubran

AbstractIntroduction: In 2022, the Government of Canada introduced the Interim Canada Dental Benefit (CDB) to support Canadian families with children < 12 years of age. This program operated from October 1, 2022, to June 30, 2024, with two application periods. The purpose of this study was to analyze data on applications accepted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) during the first 18 months of the program.