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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1 August 1816:

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Address at the Thirty-sixth Annual Dinner of the War Resisters League by Martin Luther King, Jr., February 2, 1959:

As you know, the establishment of social justice in our nation is of profound concern to me. This great struggle is in the interest of all Americans and I shall not be turned from it. Yet no sane person can afford to work for social justice within the nation unless he simultaneously resists war and clearly declares himself for non-violence in international relations.

What will be the ultimate value of having established social justice in a context where all people, Negro and White, are merely free to face destruction by strontium 90 or atomic war.

If we are to find a new method to avoid such terrible possibilities, it will be based on love not hate; it will be based on reconciliation and not retaliation; it will be based on forgiveness and not on revenge.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

How it ended the last time a Vance negotiated with Iran:

Page of text from Jimmy Carter's account of his time in office, describing the resignation of Cy Vance.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

From the philosopher and soldier J. Glenn Gray’s “The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle” (1959):

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This was so much fun -- thanks to Sean Smith and Alex Moran for organising it!

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Nobody throws shade like Nabokov:

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A unique, searing voice, and exceptionally good:

Cover of “every one still here” by Liadan Ni Chuinn

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Easily the best novel(s) I’ve read all year:

Cover of Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Pratap telling it like it is. This truly is the land of Maya.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Last swim in the ocean for the year.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The highest quality backlit screen I’ve ever seen at any conference at the Saxena Auditorium at IIT-Bombay. @somakrc.bsky.social we should get one of these!

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

IIT-Bombay has pretty sunsets and… unusual signage.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

From Saul Bellow, "The University as Villain":

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What a little coterie of criminals:

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 13/02/2024

What the Government of India doesn’t want you to know:

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

After days of nonstop rain, finally some sun. Now for @keithwilson.net on Travis…

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

First talk of 2024 done and dusted!

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

What's up with car crashes and causes?

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Anybody read Block's latest book? My students and I couldn't figure out the argument in this paragraph (p. 311) -- the last line in particular. Any help would be great!

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Sad to leave Dharamsala, but sadder still to see the scale of construction and consequent ecological destruction since my last visit in 1998. The only picture I took that captures something of what it was like.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Looming pragmatic contradiction:

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Finally in my hands, a first edition of Thomas Mann’s “Order of the Day” (1942)… warnings that went unheeded.

Front page of Thomas Mann’s Order of the Day

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I'm doing an independent study with two undergrads on Ned Block's latest book. Each week one of us constructs and presents an argument map of each chapter. Incredibly efficient way to isolate and discuss key claims while keeping an eye on the dialectic. Total joy to work with such talented students.

An argument map of Ned Block's latest book, Chap. 2

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Mohammad Zubair deserves global acclaim. Few have done more in India to combat the relentless flood of hateful propaganda of the BJP and its minions.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Adam Smith's uncompromising views on attendance:

Adam Smith's views on attendance from IWoN.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Hi! I’m an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University (pictured below), near New Delhi, India. I work on perception but my interests range broadly. The deteriorating political climate in India often drives me to post philosophical extracts that speak to the issues of the day.

Picture of Ashoka University’s campus, where I work.

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