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Medieval Architecture of DC
DC is known for its neoclassical architecture, but is also home to a large number of medieval-inspired buildings.
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Akhi Pillalamarri

March 2024

The Prescience of Dune
Dune's vision of our human future is probably more accurate than most other Sci-Fi
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Akhi Pillalamarri

February 2024

How Bureaucracy Changed the Roman Empire
Lessons from the Late Antiquity
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Revisiting Tolkien
I’ve been a casual dabbler of constructed worlds and languages since I was about ten years old. But nothing much has persisted over time, except the…
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December 2023

November 2023

Taverns, Teahouses & Caravanserais
We need to bring back local taverns and teahouses where people could just congregate and chill.
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October 2023

Why Were The Andaman Islands So "Remote"?
The Andamans were situated between major Indian Ocean trade routes
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The Precariousness of Knowledge
The continuous transmission of a literary corpus often hung by a thread.
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Eating Neolithic
The how and the why...
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How Often Do I Think About Ancient Rome? About Other Ancient Civilizations?
In response to the recent social media trend about women discovering that the men in their lives think about ancient Rome weekly—even daily—I too must…
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September 2023

Journeys Through Three Ancient Cities
Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of spending a week each in three large, imperial cities: Istanbul, Delhi, and London. In each city, I…
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History of India Series
My published articles on Indian and South Asian history, arranged roughly chronologically.
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