The Patna High Court dealt with this deep jurisprudence back in 1957. It has the priceless line: “Pan is certainly not a food-stuff. It is a masticatory.”
A lot has been written about Mali's last concert, mostly focussing on his antics, his mannerisms, his chastising of accompanists.
People tend to forget that it is also an incredible 90 minutes of live music. [Thread]
The concert starts with an Anandabhairavi (O Jagadamba) that switches repeatedly between chaste and whimsical. Back and forth and back and forth, and all in a flash. (Don't miss the mathematics at the end.)
Dec 31, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
On the floor of Parliament, @PChidambaram_IN asked the Govt to share the opinion of the AG or SG.
Instead, the PM and HM shared a silly video from Jaggi Vasudev; even Times Now was constrained to fact check it.
The law officer is an important cog in our democracy. [Thread]
Challenging a law as unconstitutional in court is the last step - the checks before it is passed are equally important. Debate in houses of parliament, reference to parliamentary committees, public consultation, and even before all of this - the opinion of the law officer.
Mar 12, 2019 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Here, Vikram Chandra (of Sacred Games fame) writes a really interesting piece about the Sanskrit grammarian Panini, who created rules that produced a language with (literally) infinite words. Unimaginable genius.
blog.granthika.co/panini/
The Maheshwara-sutra, a small part of his rules, is in itself one of humankind’s greatest intellectual achievements. His rules are astonishing for their brevity and clarity. And it is the power of Paninian grammar that has kept Sanskrit in that same form for over two millennia.
