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Iswarya
@iswaryav.bsky.social
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Finding an escape route from the bad place.

Translator. Academic. Bibliophile.

Come talk to me about drama, consciousness, and PhD life!
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jmawork.bsky.social
I am freaking out, what an absolute legend.
a screencap of a Tumblr post where users are discussing how goth Mary Shelley was. among the topics: - Shelley lost her virginity on her mother's grave - Lived in a crypt after the gentleman poet died - What a calcified heart means, exactly: "it had grown bone within itself and possibly around itself" - The poem she wrapped around the heart called "Adonis". "Adonis was one of his last poems, in which a deceased poet's subjects (nature, Spring, the stars) mourn him, and long to join him in death. Then the narrator tells them do not mourn, for he has gone beyond where the minds and emotions of humans matter, to the Natural Spirit that is the source of all beauty." The last user in the screenshot laments, "It's so sad to realize that peak goth was hit so long ago"
March 9, 2024 at 3:52 AM
iswaryav.bsky.social
Glad to share it in the good place too that this important essay by Tamil writer Jeyamohan has been published in my translation here: frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/e...
Conflating Hinduism with Vedic religion is a dangerous distortion
Portraying any philosophical position or social movement against Sanatana Dharma or Vedic religion as anti-Hinduism is a deliberate distortion that will prove dangerous to India’s age-old mei-gnana ...
frontline.thehindu.com
October 21, 2023 at 11:38 AM
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oregonzoo.bsky.social
In a historic win, the White House cancelled all existing oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is great news, but the animals who live there still need our help. Join us in expressing support for the strongest possible protections for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
A mother polar bear and her two cubs
October 12, 2023 at 6:58 PM
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sbarolo.bsky.social
my Likert Scale

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October 11, 2023 at 11:38 AM
iswaryav.bsky.social
Much of the fiction I've translated is yet to be published but this is an essay I loved translating and I am glad it's out in the world.

frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/v...
effies.bsky.social Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · Jul 27
What's your favorite thing you ever published?
September 29, 2023 at 1:51 PM
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emilyherring.bsky.social
Dying at Bergson's description of cubism "Their idea was that any painting must be made of squares"
September 26, 2023 at 4:54 PM
iswaryav.bsky.social
Here is a link to my first published book review in a national magazine and I am really excited for people to read this:

frontline.thehindu.com/books/portra...
September 23, 2023 at 3:44 PM
iswaryav.bsky.social
I know I have not been regularly posting (skying? winging? what do we call it?) here, but now I have something pretty exciting to share!
September 23, 2023 at 3:41 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
Book proposal development grants for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Scholars in the Humanities

press.princeton.edu/book-proposa...
Book Proposal Development Grants
press.princeton.edu
September 12, 2023 at 3:16 PM
iswaryav.bsky.social
Where's the #LitTwitter equivalent of this site? Am I not following the right folks? I don't see any of the buzz over there replicated here for the National Translation Award longlist just announced!
September 2, 2023 at 1:31 AM
iswaryav.bsky.social
Colleague tested my new phone camera today and...
August 31, 2023 at 5:28 PM
iswaryav.bsky.social
Shoutout to @chembarathi.bsky.social for inviting me over! This is so quiet and enjoyable :)
August 30, 2023 at 7:22 PM
iswaryav.bsky.social
Well, here I am, finally!

If I can manage to find a fraction of my #LitTwitter folks here, I'd be happily away from the ❌ site!
August 30, 2023 at 6:29 PM