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Anusha Rao

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Anusha Rao

@AnushaSRao2

@UofTReligion; Oscillates between studying religious history and poetry; meanders occasionally into philosophy.

Jersey City, NJ

raoanusha.com

Joined September 2012

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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Jan 21, 2024
What do the old Sanskrit masters say about flirting, daydreaming, quarrelling, making love and breaking-up? An ancient guide to love for modern readers. OUT on 14 FEB @HarperCollinsIN My labour of love with @suhasm :)
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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Mar 3, 2025
If you thought you were unlucky... sampūrṇam api cēd adya praviśeyaṃ mahōdadhim so 'pi nūnaṃ mamālakṣmyā viśuṣyēt saritāmpatiḥ
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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Oct 13, 2022
Sanskrit for throwing out the baby with the bathwater: शिरसो मुण्डने तस्माच्छिखामुण्डनमप्यभूत्: Trying to shave your head, you shaved off the शिखा too! (Vadirajatirtha in the Yuktimallikā I.986)
Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Dec 14, 2022
Fun evening hosting dinner for colleagues and friends at U of T today! Invite in Sanskrit ✅ Menu in Sanskrit ✅
Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Aug 10, 2023
Of all the vain Sanskrit poets I've read, Ghanaśyāma of 18th cent. Tanjore is perhaps the vainest! (from his Prabodhacandrodayavyākhyā)
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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Jan 21, 2024
Rather, read the book for how to trick a guy into courting you while making him think it was all his idea 😏
Suhas Mahesh
@suhasm
Jan 21, 2024
Tactics from this material got me a girlfriend, then a wife, in @AnushaSRao2. Might work for you too?
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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Aug 13, 2023
If you have been bored to death by people reminiscing about their glory days, you're not alone—so were people a thousand years ago! Bhartṛsārasvata in the Sūktāvali:
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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Feb 17, 2024
My thesis dedication to @suhasm, aka, What love in Sanskrit looks like ;) This thesis is offered to him who is one only without a second and yet seconded by me who although very far away is in my heart. Disclaimer to Sanskrit and Vedanta enthusiasts: Puns not translated
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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Jan 18, 2022
Shakuntala's takedown of Dushyanta in the Mahabharata: अण्डानि बिभ्रति स्वानि न भिन्दन्ति पिपीलिकाः । न भरेथाः कथं नु त्वं धर्मज्ञः सन् स्वमात्मजम् ॥
Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Feb 24, 2024
A bit late to the party... But here we are reading our own book at last @suhasm
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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Jan 31, 2024
Really unfortunate that translations of primary sources aren't recognised as important scholarly work. Related of course to the obsession in academia to always produce new and original ideas instead of building carefully upon what we have.
Dr Francis Young
@DrFrancisYoung
Jan 31, 2024
What we really need are universities that support scholars who never publish articles or monographs, but spend their whole lives editing and translating primary sources. The problem is not that we’ve become obsessed by publication, but that we don’t prioritise primary source work
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Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Dec 13, 2020
An irredeemable loss. His Sanskrit commentaries and his Kannada translations are simply unparalleled. He often quoted in his discourses: अदर्शनादापतित: पुनश्चादर्शनं गत: । udayavani.com/english-news/s…
Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Oct 13, 2022
New gem of a Sanskrit idiom: Cutting off your own nose just to give someone else a bad omen नासां छित्त्वापि दुष्टः स्वाम् अन्यस्याशकुनं चरेत् (Vadiraja again!)
Anusha Rao
@AnushaSRao2
Nov 15, 2019
सरोरुहाक्षीणि निमीलयन्त्या रवौ गते साधु कृतं नलिन्या । अक्ष्णां हि दृष्ट्वापि जगत् समग्रं फलं प्रियालोकनमात्रमेव।।