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The lecture course on New School history I teach with my friend J (called Who New?) started today! We're meeting in the same lecture ha...

Theorizing Religion '16 began today - a nice group, good discussion. But preparing for it this morning I encountered what looked to be ...

After a hiatus of seven years , I'm back on the Faculty Senate, a chance to get a broader view of the life of the university as a whol...

Other Kailash yatris have been sharing their pictures. Here's one of me, with two Nepalis, walking on water at Lake Manasarovar.

One of these is, perhaps, Mount Kailash! They are part of the Unisphere, the lasting monument of the 1964 New York World's Fair held in...

The real objective of the Corona Park visit was the Panorama of the City of New York , now in the Queens Museum. I've wanted to se...

I've carried a course introducing the discipline of religious studies with me since I first started professoring. Once called "App...

The reality of the imminent start of the academic year made itself felt today. Not one, not two, not three but four  presentations/ meeting...

Some more Kailashes (both uncredited, from here and here ).

The Silk Roads is slowing down in its second half, like a high-speed train approaching its destination. Chapter 16 has brought us to the F...

My return to Kailash is over and done with, but my research project around it is only getting started! I'd initially thought to try to ...

New York has its pleasures too - what a nice thing when friends from out of town show them to you! Some Japanese friends were here for the ...

It's been exactly a month since I last shaved. I thought of this as part of being a yatri - a discipline as well as a marker of time...

In not very many days I'll be up to my neck in religious studies and other class-related research. To take advantage of the calm before...

Three stones came home with me. The largest is from Kailash - perhaps the same kind of stone, though I picked it up on the final day of th...

Back to Lang, after what feels like a lot more than four weeks. Everything's set for the new academic year, which starts in a fortnight...

Perhaps a little narrative would be in order too, to explain what I was doing in those far-flung places! New School's India China Insti...