The New Yorker

Gary Snyder, the Zen poet, lives on a hundred backcountry acres in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, meditates mornings, and thanks his food before he eats it, clapping his hands together and saying “Itadakimasu,” which is Japanese for “Thank you very much.

Full text: Invoking Hitler, Raghuram Rajan warns: A strong govt may not move in the right direction

When Dr Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, was invited to DD Kosambi Ideas Festival held on February 20, 2015 in Goa, who’d have thought that he would discard his RBI hat and put on his hat as “a professor in the field known as political economy “? And go on to give an extraordinary s