Ankur Betageri

I asked the kitten which religion it belonged to and it became very contemplative.

Street art near Mandakini Enclave, New Delhi

Tomato cheese pasta

Garlic egg fry and parota

Why do magpies steal?
1. Magpies value what we value and seek to possess them.
2. Magpies suffer from hereditary kleptomania.
3. Magpies are attracted to shiny or bright objects.

Ash gourd subzi and chapati-bread. (Because when I make chapati, it becomes chapati-bread.)

Neera or coconut sap tastes like very sweet tender coconut water. In its fresh form it's an invigorating health drink but after fermentation it turns into palm wine.

Is Italian spaghetti 🍝 originally eastern?

The earliest mentions of spaghetti and other kinds of pasta are present in Marco Polo's The Description of the World (1298). It is said that Marco Polo introduced spaghetti to Italy after spending 17 years at the court of the Chinese Emperor Kublai Khan. Even if spaghetti existed in Italy before Marco Polo, historians believe it was introduced to Italy by Arabs travelling from Central Asia.

Mead is one of the oldest a****lic beverages in the world. An Indo-European drink, it's Indian equivalent -- some would say source -- is the honey-based drink Madhu. The madhu in madhupaan and madhushaala originally referred to a mead-like (or beer-like) drink made of fermented honey.

The cat discovers itself every day by smelling new things. My becoming-animal moment.

Glad to have my story 'A Rite of Passage' in the latest May-June 2023 issue of Indian Literature!

My short story collection Bhog and Other Stories is now available on Flipkart!

https://t.co/QqVg3eFaTs

How do we understand nebulous sound information in songs? Do we listen to them for music, affect or meaning? What role does contextual consciousness play in our cognition? My article "Sense-making and Intensification of Affect in the Production and Apprehension of Sound. The Idea of Exo-brain" answers these questions and makes the novel proposal of Exo-brain. Have a look!

Sense-making and Intensification of Affect in the Production and Apprehension of Sound. The Idea of Exo-brain In this paper I examine the process of getting affected by and the process of making sense of non-language sounds and propose the idea of the contextual cognitive apparatus or exo-brain. We are affected by a singing voice even when we do not fully understand the sounds produced by it. When the liste...

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali! 🪔

We feel we have learnt a skill
When the performance of an action
Has the spontaneity of a natural action.

My article "Quality of Life and the Experience of Context" is now available on arXiv.

Quality of Life and the Experience of Context I propose that quality of life can be compared despite the difference in values across cultures when it is experienced at the sensory and perceptual level. I argue that an approach to assessing quality of life which focuses on an individual's ability to organize his or her context by perceiving posi...

Very pleased to know that I have been awarded "Distinction in Doctoral Research for the year 2020" by IIT Delhi.

Basant Badal Deta hai Muahvre, the Hindi translation of my English poems by R. Rajesh, published by Yash Publications is available here:
https://bit.ly/3boBoQo

It begins with breath-control... Happy international yoga day!

Kalidasa

"Sciences and humanities should not be divided. The bridges between disciplines must be kept alive for the emergence of meaning in life." M. Serres.

If Ganges is the anglicization of Ganga, Lakmé is the Frenchification of Lakshmi/Lakhmi. In Leo Delibes' 1883 opera Lakmé, Lakmé is the name of an Indian woman.

Of the 1700 words invented by Shakespeare this is the longest: Honorificabilitudinitatibus.

Interesting typo!

Photosynthetic vegetation is one of the most important carbon sinks which removes carbon from the atmosphere. On World Environment Day let us pledge to grow more plants. 🌱

Translation of my poem « Stones, Trees and Birds »