Mastodawn

I could ve spend my Sundays in #jnu library where I could connect to more people
When I worked in #Delhi
But I chose to spend them in cannought place where it was unlikely to happen
-- DelhiDiaries

Ian Kluft ✅✈️🎈🌋May 22

"Juneau might get an Alaska Airlines flight to Portland, without stopping in Seattle" by KTOO (PBS Juneau, Alaska) - At a city council meeting, Alaska's capital city pressed Alaska Airlines for a route from Juneau #JNU / #PAJN to Portland #PDX / #KPDX for alternative connections to the Lower 48 around congestion in Seattle #SEA / #KSEA. https://www.ktoo.org/2026/05/22/juneau-might-get-an-alaska-airlines-flight-to-portland-without-stopping-in-seattle/ #aviation #travel #PNW

Juneau might get an Alaska Airlines flight to Portland, without stopping in Seattle

Juneau International Airport leaders say the route is inevitable, but the airline is a bit more hesitant.

KTOO

Know Thyself Apr 25

Priti Interesting Pick

I shared with my friend my blog post
“The Various Culinary (Philosophical?) Dispositions Round the World”
And she picks this to highlight to me
From the more than 20 entries in that post
“Ramana Maharshi: Who is the one who likes the pudding.”
Knowing she loved that Argentinian, too,
I message her:
You’d have liked this, too:
Latin Americans: Che Guevara never cared for the pudding.
She replies without much fanfare
Yes
I did.

This shift from the mental
To the metaphysical
Is so interesting
In her who is still in the thick of action
More wise than Arjuna
In defusing conflicts across the continents
Having studied how these patterns play out
At Fairleigh Dickinson and JNU
No accounting for the shift
Except to recognize
She is one of the few lucky ones
To whom the Self is starting to reveal itself.

nāyam ātmā pravacanena labhyo na medhayā, na bahunā śrutena:yamevaiṣa vṛṇute, tena labhyas tasyaiṣa ātmā vivṛṇute tanῡṁ svām.

-(Katho Upanishad, 1.2, 23)

Translation: This Self cannot be attained by study of the Scriptures, nor by intellectual perception, nor by frequent hearing (of It). He whom the Self chooses, by him alone is It attained. To him the Self reveals Its true nature.

#ConflictResolution #FairleighDickinson #JNU #Poem #Poetry #PritiVaishnav #UN

Know Thyself Apr 24

Youth

I remember all too clearly
Some days from my youth
No, not the time spent
In someone's company
Actually not in their company
If you know what I mean,
But some other days
Actually far too few days
To recount some
My mind goes back
Recalling my visit to JNU
Where a friend was studying
(Himadeep, now a prof at Vassar)
Another friend was there, too
(AV Satish Chandra, gold medalist
At JNU in pol sci).

I remember the student elections
Had gotten underway at JNU
That guy from Bihar
Contesting for president
Spoke in just chaste Hindi
That the southerner in me
Was quite charmed,
And I heard him
Sitting beside my friend
And his classmates
Some of whom were girls
Who seemed more at ease
Those Delhi girls
Than those from my hometown.

I remember banging my head
Between the two eyebrows
Against the drum, at JNU,
When I bent in to take water
And injuring myself
And being young
I wondered if that would leave a scar
Ruining thus my chances
Of a girl ever dating me
And my friend was exasperated
Said he,
"First treat that injury
Stop thinking all that."
Now I tell myself
It is just that scar
Which made all the girls
Down the years
Hesitate
Yes, just that,
And not my personality
Or overall looks
That for me
Was the real dialectical materialism
In my life.

Then there was Varun(?)
Hima's classmate
A slightly fat guy
And hence his nickname enugu
Who was the topper
Who went on to do
PhD from Oxford
On some scholarhsip (Rhodes or Inlaks?)
And I smiled at him
From across the dining table
Having breakfast
(God, so much chapati and dal).

Then those teas under the trees---
I do not recall, but
Surely they must have been discussing
Marx
And some waiting for the library to open
Those Civil Services aspirants.

Then staying some days
On that Delhi trip
Way back in 1986
At Narasimha's place
Who was in the law school
And Sanjay was there, too,
Little could I know
Both would go on
To becoming Supreme Court judges
(Shh, forget I said that,
They do not want the public to know
They are my friends
Lest someone curry their favour)
And the law school back then
Was a pretty vibrant place
Plus, Sanjay and I
Took a photo
In front of the supreme court
Which photo I have since torn up
In one of those moods
When I do not value anything in life. #AVSatishChandra #Family #Friendships #HimadeepMuppidi #JNU #JudgeOfTheSupremeCourtOfIndia #JusticePamidighantamSriNarasimha #JusticeSanjayKumar #Life #Love #MentalHealth #PSNarasimha #PVSanjayKumar #Poem #Poetry #PuligoruVenkataSanjayKumar #StudentDays #SupremeCourtJudges #Writing

Mathrubhumi English Mar 25

Four IITs, JNU and BITS Pilani rank among world’s top 50 in QS subject rankings, as India doubles its global academic presence in 2026. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/education/news/qs-world-university-rankings-2025-india-performance-nf8nbc8e?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #QSWorldRankings #IIT #JNU #BITSPilani #IndianUniversities

Groundxero Mar 8

Fifty-one JNU students were detained and 14 arrested by the Delhi Police on February 26 over a students’ protest march to the Ministry of Education, demanding implementation of the recently stayed UGC guidelines for the prevention of caste discrimination in higher education institutions, alongside condemning the casteist remarks made by JNU Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit in a podcast interview.

#JNU #casteism #fascism #India #education #freeJNU14

https://www.groundxero.in/2026/03/05/photos-the-jnu-long-march-over-anti-caste-discrimination/