The Journal
टिप्पणियाँ, निबंध, प्रेषणNotes, Essays, Dispatches
Occasional writing on art and culture — the book that hasn't been written yet, in the form of a journal.
The Journal · Essays & Dispatches
3 recent
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Essay
Mar 2026 · 9 min
The Quiet Arithmetic of Preservation
To preserve is not to freeze — it is to choose, each generation, which fragments are worth the labour of continuance.
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Dispatch
Feb 2026 · 6 min
Madhubani, Seen from a Tokyo Room
A note on Tokio Hasegawa’s Mithila Museum and the long diplomacy of pigment, plant and patience.
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Criticism
Dec 2025 · 11 min
Reading Dinkar, Slowly
On returning, in one’s sixth decade, to the poet one first learned by rote — and finding the music newly strange.
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The Ledger · Recognitions
12 honours, quietly noted
From the Bihar Kala Puraskar and the Rashtriya Swasti Samman to three IITF Gold Medals — the full ledger now lives on its own page, with ceremony photographs and citations.