reading — recommended reading
Chenna Basava Nayaka Kannada
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
A Vijayanagara-era historical novel of loyalty, war, and fate.
The Doctrine of Vibration English
Mark Dyczkowski
Kashmir Shaivism's theory of consciousness as dynamic pulsation.
The Last Kings of Shanghai English
Jonathan Kaufman
Two Jewish families who shaped modern China from opium to revolution.
Indian Method in Acting English
Prasanna
Natyashastra-rooted approach to performance and rasa.
Gödel, Escher, Bach English
Douglas Hofstadter
Strange loops, self-reference, and the emergence of mind.
Gödel's Proof English
Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman
The incompleteness theorems explained for non-mathematicians.
Parva Kannada
S.L. Bhyrappa
The Mahabharata retold without divinity, only human ambition.
Ficciones Spanish
Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths, infinite libraries, and the architecture of thought.