Quote of the Week - VIII

आचख्युः कवयः केचित्संप्रत्याचक्षते परे 
आख्यास्यन्ति तथैवान्ये इतिहासमिमं भुवि 

Some poets told this epic before. 
Others are telling it now. 
Different narrators will tell it in the future.

~ Mahabharata, by Ved Vyasa, Truschke's translation. 

Previous post in the series.

Sailing

 The great thing about this blog is that hardly anyone reads it. It has never been picked by search engine crawlers nor has it been associated with my name. And that's good because it gives me a chance to maintain a simple journal without the pressure of entertaining an audience.

I've been working like a maniac this year. It hasn't been smooth sailing. Most times I've underperformed and I've taken a long long time to get to an acceptable standard of performance. Research is hard and it's harder when you have the broad span of interests I insist on pursuing.

I have spent the past two and a half years on a grand quest to tame something I have only begun understanding. My mind is working and it is squeezing a month's worth of work every 10 days. And still it isn't enough. I need to do more.

This year is almost ending though there are quite a few days left in December still. I will persevere and I will push myself all the way. If nothing else, I feel the excitement of this phase, the imminence of facing the music, and some measure of power pulsing through my veins.  

Allez, I guess.

Best Books Lists 2020

1. The FT's list by different categories. I particularly liked their best fiction list.
2. The Economist.
3. Foreign Affairs.
4. New York Times.
5. Wall Street Journal.
6. Time.
7. New Yorker.
8. The Paris Review.