The Indian Philosophy Blog began on 2 January 2014; we have now been up for a full ten years – with over 800 posts up by now, exploring Indian philosophy from many different angles, and nearly a thousand current subscribers.
From the start, the IPB has always been a group effort. Thank you to all the contributors who have posted here and left comments. Thank you to Elisa Freschi and Ethan Mills for being co-managers of the blog now, and to Matthew Dasti and Malcolm Keating for playing that role in the past. Thanks also to John Leen for creating a robust backup plan for the site (in case something happens to me!) If you are reading this, thank you as well, for being a part of the community of readers that keeps this blog alive.
Stay tuned, as we have some celebration plans in mind in the year to come. We would like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to think about scholarly networking and collaboration in the field of Indian philosophy in the future. We hope to host a panel at the APA or other conference on the subject, and have some commemorative posts, in the year to come. Thank you again for being part of this journey with us.
Many thanks to you, Amod, for taking care of the technical side of things and, more importantly, for dedicating time and energy to insightful posts with an amazing discipline! I learnt a lot through them and a further lot through the comments by so many fascinating readers.
Dear Elisa and Evan,Many thanks for your very important and wonderful blog.I. send it out to as many of my friends both in academia and elsewhere here in Canada.
May I ask how it is possible to contribute or offer submissions to the Blog? I have a friend who teaches and publishes both n Toronto and India who would like to contribute to the blog but is unsure as to the procedure for doing so.Your suggestion and advice would be greatly appreciated. Respectfully yours,Rick Ficek
Hi Richard, thanks for your message. Please tell them to write to me, Ethan or Amod.
In response to Elisa Freschi’s comments to Richard Ficek’s remarks I sent Freschi an email to her utoronto.ca address as I wanted to send her an attachment containing an endorsement from philosophers of repute for the new book ‘Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today: An East-West Dialogue’, published by Palgrave Macmillan, in the series Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy. The whole process has been generated by International Society for World Philosophy (ISWP) [iswphil.org], incorporated in Canada, and located at Massey College, U of Toronto. I wanted to bring to your notice the endeavours on the part of ISWP.