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March 6, 2026

Conversation between Alexander and Diogenes in Sanskrit Verse

Diogenes the cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός) seems to be the Internet’s favorite philosopher. He lived around the fifth and fourth centuries BCE with a simple lifestyle, forgoing...

शुकविलापः

The following is a Sanskrit translation of Lekhnath Paudyal’s 1917 poem पिंजडाको सुगा (Parrot in a Cage) that I did a couple of years ago. There are, it seems to me now, both...