Kuch Khayaal/some thoughts

Overwhelmed by choice

An edited version of a proposal for study I wrote up for a Ph.D. program I applied to (and didn’t get in to)

Television medical dramas

A look at television medical dramas since the 1950s to present day, and why they have appealed to audiences and continue to do so. The appeal, I argue, hasn’t really changed in form since the days of radio dramas. I use Herta Herzog’s study from the early 1940s, “On Borrowed Experience: An Analysis of Listening to Daytime Sketches,” as the archetype for my conception of audience appeal.

Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Section A provides a brief summary of the book; Section B makes an argument against the claim that Kuhn’s book sets a bad image of science for students of science.

Ian Hacking’s The Social Construction of What?

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Review and critique of Ian Hacking’s book The Social Construction of What?, on the social construction of scientific knowledge.

Dilip P. Gaonkar’s rhetoric of science

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Dilip Gaonkar claims that rhetorical vocabulary is inadequate for interpreting scientific discourse, since it was devised for the production of discourse (speech in particular). I refute Gaonkar’s claim with the aid of two excellent articles on the subject of rhetoric of science by L. Cecarrelli and E. Schiappa.

James Joyce: Religion in Dubliners

Swami Vivekananda on caste

Slavic studies: John Huss (Jan Hus)

Slavic studies: The Rise of Muscovy

The New Economy (of the year 2000)
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Elderly studies: Activity in adults

Elderly studies: Men at Midlife