
Ep 257: Objects Speak to Annapurna Garimella
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Academics Are Forced on These Grooves
Being a scholar is a deeply romantic space that you must allow yourself to have. I write in different avenues because i want different kinds of audiences. Even my engagement with te j c b prize was for me to come out of one space and enter another place. All these things are really, really important. But if i give myself the time and the space and i'm observing myself, i'm observing what i'm reading. And that something happening takes time and space. So i work on mediaeval material, or i work on the essay i sent to you one of the founders of the indian studio pottery movement. These are people that existed before my time. It's deeply romantic,
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