Notes on South India - by Sam Enright - By Reason Alone

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Observations from a brief visit

I recently travelled to India for the first time. I visited Chennai for five days, and Pondicherry for four. This was a ludicrously short time in which to visit such a big and diverse country, but I was logistically constrained on both ends. Before going there, I knew almost nothing about India. In preparation, I read John Keay’s India: A History and Amartya Sen’s The Argumentative Indian. I also listened to the back catalogue of three podcasts about India: Ideas of India, The Seen and the Unseen, and Empire. Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu, India’s southernmost state, and Pondicherry…

Notes on South India - by Sam Enright - By Reason Alone

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