_
In Memory of DD Kosambi
His articles on numismatics were numerous enough to merit publication in a separate volume entitled Indian Numismatics, though this happened years after his death.The study of old coins aroused Kosambi’s intellectual curiosity about the kings who struck the coins. The study of old records, he says, ‘meant some mastery of Sanskrit, of which I had absorbed a little through the pores without regular study,’ having worked informally with his father. He acquired the requisite mastery by applying his usual problem-solving method. He took up a specific work, the simplest being Bhartrihari’s three shatakas, or centuries, of epigrams (subhashitas). His first articles on the topic were published in 1945. But Bhartrihari’s text was defective, necessitating text criticism, which he undertook by studying about 400 manuscripts. . . . Read More
Philippines increasingly ensnared in US war preparations vs China info letter of the NDF of the Philippines Vol.VII No 13
Making Of A Police State : the Maharashtra Special Public Security (MSPS) Bill
International Forum for Peace 2025 Brussel 23 -24, June 2025.
Comments by V.Geetha and S.V.Rajadurai on Comrade Anu’s observation of Self-Respect movement and Periyar in the book Scripting the Change: Selected Writings of Anuradha Ghandy.
AI: bubbling up
