Agnes Callard+

Living Kidney Donation

This year, I got evaluated to donate a kidney, and was declined on medical grounds. Here I look back on my reasons for considering it, my experience with the process, and my views about this in general.

Learning to Give to Charity

Check out GivingWhatWeCan.org and GiveWell.org.

Analytical Jurisprudence

What is law?

Sex Differentials in Rates of Birth and Infant Mortality in India

Heatmap of sex ratio at birth: https://youtu.be/n0H0WLz9-5I

A Father's Gift

A couple of years ago my dad emailed me and my brother: I very well understand that I am quite an ordinary person, similar to billions of others who lived on this planet before me and some more billions who will follow. As such there is no need for me or for anyone else to write my (hi)story. But just in case you want to know about me some time later… I do not know many such things about my father. Hence these details. I might have told you some of these in bits and pieces but never systematically.

Caste, Unlike Race

Background I am from a middle-class Telugu Brahmin family in South India. My understanding of caste is based on my experience living nearly three decades in Hyderabad, Chennai, and Pune. I have some additional knowledge through school lessons, a few good movies, and the occasional newspaper or magazine article. My opinions are as a lay urbanite from an upper caste.

Public Philosopher Agnes Callard

Agnes Callard is a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago who specializes in ancient Western philosophy and ethics. She has been practicing public philosophy since 2018 or so. I first came across her through her conversation with Tyler Cowen

Twitter’s Identification of Bots

A study on the prevalence of misleading/malicious bots on Twitter

Out of My Mind

About my experience with clinical depression