Last updated on 26 December 2023
On my shelf (things that I want to start reading soon!)
- Veer Savarkar - A contested legacy - Vikram Sampath
- The materiality of the past - History and representation in Sikh tradition - Anne Murphy
- The new scientific spirit - Gaston Bachelard
Currently reading
- The WEIRDest People in the world - Joseph Henrich
- The Doctrine of Vibration - Mark Dyczkowski
- Trans: When Ideology meets Reality - Helen Joyce
- Orientalism - Edward Said
Books
Non fiction
- 2023
- The Sphota Theory of Language - Harold G. Coward
- The Problem With Democracy - Shadi Hamid (notes )
- ‘Yogini’ in South Asia - Interdisciplinary approaches - Istvan Keul
- Evolutionary Causation - Tobias Uller and Kevin Lala
- Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt (notes)
- 2022
- Which of us are Aryans? Rethinking the concept of our origins - Romila Thapar, Michael Witzel, Jaya Menon, Kai Friese, Razib Khan
- The Mathematics of Gods and the Algorithms of Men - Paolo Zellini
- 2021
- A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane - Samanth Subramanian
- The Opium Wars - W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello
- Religious Difference in a Secular Age - Saba Mahmood
- Smut: Erotic Reality/Obscene Ideology - Murray Davis
- Projections - Karl Deisseroth
- India that is Bharat - J. Sai Deepak
- Savarkar: Echoes from a forgotten past, 1883 - 1924 - Vikram Sampath
- 2020
- Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine - Norbert Wiener
- The Art and Politics of Science - Harold Varmus
- On Human Nature - E.O. Wilson
- Among The Believers - V. S. Naipaul
- 2019
- Reconceptualizing India Studies - S. N. Balagangadhara
- Do all roads lead to Jerusalem? - S. N. Balagangadhara
- As Others See Us - S. N. Balagangadhara, Divya Jhingran
- Chance and Necessity - Jacques Monod
Fiction
- The Dark Forest Trilogy - Liu Cixin
- Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami
- The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Papers
Classics
- Dependency on Medium and Temperature of Cell Size and Chemical Composition During Balanced Growth of Salmonella Typhimurium - M Schaechter, O. Maaloe, N. O. Kjeldgaard, 1958
- More is Different - P.W. Anderson, 1972
- Preponderance of synonymous changes as evidence for the neutral theory of molecular evolution - Motoo Kimura, 1977
- The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: a Critique of the Adaptationist Programme - S. J. Gould and R. C. Lewontin, 1979
Recent
- Intercellular Competition and the Inevitability of Multicellular Aging - Paul Nelson and Joanna Masel, 2017
- Information Gerrymandering and Undemocratic Decisions - Stewart et al., 2018
Essays
- Who can name the bigger number? - Scott Aronson
- The bitter lesson - Richard Sutton
- On the cruelty of really teaching computer science - Edsger Dijkstra
- Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944-2019) - Stephen Wolfram
- The Salvation of Doug, and The Demise of Bill - William Sullivan, Douglas Kellogg
- What Nihilism is not - Nolen Gertz, from Nihilism
- A Tract Against the Prevailing System of Hindoo Idolatory - Raja Rammohun Roy, 1820
- The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences - Eugene Wigner