Mohini

Lit prof, dabbler and very part time writer, RT and likes not endorsements

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@MetalSpearFish Why don’t you start with the Chinese greats and then some poetry?

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@Manuel_do_rio I’m on volume 6 - greatly enjoying revisiting stories from my childhood

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@PAHoyeck That’s funny!

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@MajorsBruc34400 Why?

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@MajorsBruc34400 I skipped to your part!! 😊 Will watch it in its entirety this weekend

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@JaycelAdkins Maybe the IF is anticipating a probable éventualité because the sages were wise and learned and understood human psychology very profoundly

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

Some things change and some things stay the same! Great books are the common denominator, change or no change!

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

When I was at Harvard, the sociologist David Riesman took an interest in me and personally arranged my transfer to St. John's College in Santa Fe.

At Harvard, I sat in large lecture halls listening to brilliant people talk. At St. John's, I sat around a table with fifteen students reading Euclid, Plato, and Dostoevsky, and we argued about what those texts actually meant.

That experience rewired my brain.

I learned that understanding doesn't come from being told the answer. It comes from wrestling with hard questions alongside other people who are also wrestling. The tutor at St. John's doesn't lecture. They ask questions. They let the silence sit. Their only role is to ask questions, not to lecture.

It’s the practice I've spent my entire career bringing into schools and classrooms. I watched what happened to students, including myself, when the conversation was real and the texts were worthwhile, and I've been sharing this tradition with young people my entire life.

Riesman saw something in a working-class kid and pointed me toward a tradition of learning that changed my life. I've been trying to pay that forward ever since.

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@PAHoyeck Fuckalt?!

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@MajorsBruc34400 @grok That’s weirdly hilarious!

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@niespika @gchampeau It depends on the students! Some are completely bilingual or even multilingual by the end of their studies and some struggle! But even they are better off speaking at least two languages for a myriad reasons

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

Finally finished it! What a story, what never ending drama, what craziness, what understanding of the human psychology and sociocultural shenanigans

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@JaycelAdkins Online works perfectly for me!

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@JaycelAdkins Very doable! Some sections read really very fast!

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@JaycelAdkins Are you going to read all the volumes?

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@JaycelAdkins On vol 4 as we speak!

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@kannaroy @niespika @JaycelAdkins Once again, just because one thing is true, it does not make the other untrue! A sort of coexistence of truths!

[Mohini @Indianlitwitch]

@kannaroy @niespika @JaycelAdkins I believe you are missing my point or perhaps it is my fault that I have not been clear enough! Incidentally, both Genji and Story of the Stone are foundational to the said cultures just as much as Ramayana is to ours. it’s academic/high brow for foreign readers but not to them.