Jagat

It is commonplace, I think, for bloggers (or perhaps all writers) to see the world as grist for their blog. And then, as with anything in life, you make your choice and you run with it. I guess the blogger has the great advantage of not having to pick anything; it's the freedom to be mediocre. I was down on the floor making a shipment and, out of the blue, Philippe asked me whether you had to be a believer in order to be a scholar of religion, which started a bit of a discussion. The place I went to was, however, more influenced by Garrison Keeler than by Rupa Goswami... Garrison Keeler is the raconteur par excellence who has a weekly show on American Public Radio called "Lake Wobegon Days." It's folksy, homespun and all that. I hadn't heard him in a long time when I accidentally caught the program on the radio Sunday afternoon, and quickly got caught up in his mastery of the art. Every story must have a moral, which rides on the back of the rasa, the emotional pa...