Manousha Dhiwaghar
@manoushaD
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Historian of diplomacy and political theology. Bylines featured in @ProvMagazine , @PublicSeminar, and elsewhere.
Joined July 2011
“What was buried is not lost. It endures. It waits to be spoken.” The Tamil condition lies between a buried city and a mass grave. Keeladi and Chemmani are not opposites. They are coordinates. My latest essay: https://t.co/kJFJ3i65a1
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So pleased to see that our forthcoming book on the "Later New Testament" (Hebrews-Revelation) is available for pre-order. I also love this cover, which my daughter said was "creepy." (I'm taking it as a compliment.) https://t.co/cuS3TVARdi
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On the birth anniversary of Rajendra Chola I, I recall an age when the Tamil kingdom spanned across seas. The Brihadeeswarar Temple, commissioned in his reign, stands as a @UNESCO monument to the Cholas’ legacy; from Tamil scripts shaping the Thai language, to coins found in
The Rise of the Cholas Although well known in India, the Chola Empire remarkably unknown in Europe or the US. That is surprising because they created one of the craziest empires in world history.
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Desperately sad to report that you’ve read enough to start writing
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Have you ever wanted to become just as well-educated as a monk or nun in 8th century Northumbria? Using some evidence from the works of Alcuin of York, I put together a comprehensive reading list for what you would have learned. Check it out: https://t.co/WSRV4MRsDs
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Carthusian monks walked so introverts in academia could run. Presenting on the Carthusians this week for a medieval religious life class, which means I’ve never related more to 12th-century monks. As Thomas Merton observed, the Carthusian does not endure solitude as
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Something a little different but wildlife related. It's been described as Photograph of the decade. A lone elephant atop of the Victoria Falls. Probably a once in a lifetime shot. Amazing composition and lighting. Credit to Marsel van Oosten Photography
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Captured last night- probably the coolest comet shot I've ever gotten. I've never seen such a dynamic tail on a come. Incredible active, and moving quickly, which makes photographing it a challenge. See how it moves in the reply.
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Easily one of my favourite novelists. Canadian, with Tamil–Sri Lankan roots, and a singularly extraordinary writer. Running in the Family is a book I return to often, finding solace in the journey of a man who charted a heritage not unlike my own.
"This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world." Michael Ondaatje, "The English Patient"
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Worth the risk of heartburn ❤️
Remembering the time a Philosophy society in Cambridge served spinach samosas so they could call them ‘spinosas’
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No one thought more deeply about what it means to think after the machine; to heal artificial intelligence without abandoning it. His intellectual heir might just be Byung-Chul Han.
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From the LOTR timeline where Queen Berúthiel was never exiled and used her authority to have her cats monumentalized.
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Origen, long maligned as too allegorical for the Church and too pious for the academy, finally gets his due. This is a landmark in patristic Christology, excited to read this soon!
Release day! The Life of Jesus in the Writings of Origen of Alexandria (Cambridge University Press) https://t.co/rfsrdXwYD3
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile. — J.R.R. Tolkien
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Forever grateful to call this place home ❤️ Happy turkey day 🇨🇦
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to borrow one of my books, I’ll need three letters of reference
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The genius of his writing is summarized with this one line: “That’s what reason is given man for, to escape from what worries him.” — Anna Karenina, Book 7, Chapter 31 She speaks it, and then the curtain falls.
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