Namit Arora

Namit Arora is the founder of Shunya's Notes (his former nom de plume, Shunya, gave this blog its name). After being a solo blog for almost eight months and 72 posts, Shunya's Notes mutated into a group blog in June 07. Contact him for editorial enquiries or comment (email, website).

Namit is a travel photographer, prose writer, and Internet technologist. He has lived in four countries, visited dozens, and now divides his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and New Delhi. Over the years he has created what is perhaps the most extensive photojournal on India, focusing on portraits, wildlife, archeology, culture, and nature. His essays, fiction, and book reviews have appeared in several publications. He is currently at work on his first novel (some fiction and non-fiction he likes).

Selected Posts Rereading Naipaul The Politics of God Pinker, the Storyteller How Terrorism Works The Wonder That Was India America and the Cold War Respecting the Holocaust Eugenics Record Office On Being Spiritual Al-Beruni's India On Photography The Carvakas On Diversity On Patriotism Potala-in-Exile Nagarjunakonda Jack the Dripper Free Market News Nalanda University Reporting from Home Death in the Afternoon Peter Brook's Mahabharata A Mousetrap for Metaphysics A Day Trip to My Alma Mater Servitors of the Divine Consciousness