Iswarya

Iswarya

@iswaryav.bsky.social

Finding an escape route from the bad place. Translator. Academic. Bibliophile. Come talk to me about drama, consciousness, and PhD life!

185 Followers 251 Following 22 Posts Joined Aug 2023
1 year ago

Could you please share some prominent channels on YouTube hosting such content? My student is researching this specific topic and it might be incredibly useful to him.

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2 years ago
a screencap of a Tumblr post where users are discussing how goth Mary Shelley was. among the topics:

- Shelley lost her virginity on her mother's grave
- Lived in a crypt after the gentleman poet died
- What a calcified heart means, exactly: "it had grown bone within itself and possibly around itself"
- The poem she wrapped around the heart called "Adonis". "Adonis was one of his last poems, in which a deceased poet's subjects (nature, Spring, the stars) mourn him, and long to join him in death. Then the narrator tells them do not mourn, for he has gone beyond where the minds and emotions of humans matter, to the Natural Spirit that is the source of all beauty."

The last user in the screenshot laments, "It's so sad to realize that peak goth was hit so long ago"

I am freaking out, what an absolute legend.

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2 years ago
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Conflating Hinduism with Vedic religion is a dangerous distortion Portraying any philosophical position or social movement against Sanatana Dharma or Vedic religion as anti-Hinduism is a deliberate distortion that will prove dangerous to India’s age-old mei-gnana ...

Glad to share it in the good place too that this important essay by Tamil writer Jeyamohan has been published in my translation here: frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/e...

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2 years ago
A mother polar bear and her two cubs

In a historic win, the White House cancelled all existing oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is great news, but the animals who live there still need our help. Join us in expressing support for the strongest possible protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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2 years ago

my Likert Scale

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⭐️⭐️⭐️: Whatevert
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⭐️: Hatert

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2 years ago

See @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social here.

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2 years ago

You can check out the newsletter by Laura Portwood Stacer if you have not yet seen it. She offers programmes that walk people through the process of getting their academic book proposal drafted.

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2 years ago

Much of the fiction I've translated is yet to be published but this is an essay I loved translating and I am glad it's out in the world.

frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/v...

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2 years ago

Dying at Bergson's description of cubism "Their idea was that any painting must be made of squares"

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2 years ago

Such birthday glow! Have a happy one!

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2 years ago

Sounds fun. Adventurous.

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2 years ago

Thank you! :)

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2 years ago

Here is a link to my first published book review in a national magazine and I am really excited for people to read this:

frontline.thehindu.com/books/portra...

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2 years ago

I know I have not been regularly posting (skying? winging? what do we call it?) here, but now I have something pretty exciting to share!

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2 years ago
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Book Proposal Development Grants

Book proposal development grants for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Scholars in the Humanities

press.princeton.edu/book-proposa...

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2 years ago

We hope it will. Probably the last switch we make for many more years.

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2 years ago

One of your regulars, IIRC?

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2 years ago

I thought it was hilarious and then I saw some of the wild reaches! *SMH*

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2 years ago

Hmmm.. I couldn't find the feed. (Still figuring out how this works.) But the hashtag showed me some posts and I kinda think that's not what I was looking for. BTW, do hashtags work here? They don't seem clickable

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2 years ago

Where's the #LitTwitter equivalent of this site? Am I not following the right folks? I don't see any of the buzz over there replicated here for the National Translation Award longlist just announced!

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2 years ago
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Colleague tested my new phone camera today and...

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2 years ago

Shoutout to @chembarathi.bsky.social for inviting me over! This is so quiet and enjoyable :)

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2 years ago

Hey, thanks a lot for helping me out!

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2 years ago

Thank you. This helps. A lot!

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2 years ago

Not sure how this works. Should I DM him?

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2 years ago

Yay! Finally in bird sanctuary! 😚

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2 years ago

Well, here I am, finally!

If I can manage to find a fraction of my #LitTwitter folks here, I'd be happily away from the ❌ site!

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