Poetry
1. Oxford University Press for “What could my mother be to yours?” by Cempulappeyanirar, translated by A. K. Ramanujan in The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology, Oxford University Press, 1994.
2. Susie Tharu and K. Lalita for “A woman well set free!” by Sumangalamata and “If I ask her not to get too close” by Muddupalani, translated by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita in Women Writing in India: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology, The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1993.
3. City Lights Press, copyright © 1998 by Andrew Schelling, for “Black swollen clouds” and “To Her Daughter” by Vidya, and “Nights of jasmine & thunder” by Shilabhattarika, translated by Andrew Schelling in The Cane Groves of Narmada River: Erotic Poems from Old India, City Lights Books, 1998.
4. The Wylie Agency for “A poet should learn with his eyes” by Kshemendra, translated by William Stanley Merwin and Jeffery Moussaieff Masson in East Window: The Asian Translations, Copper Canyon Press, 1998.
5. Columbia University Press for “I don’t know mantra from tantra” from Karpūmmañjarī, 1.22–23, translated by Ronald M. Davidson in Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement, Columbia University Press, 2002.
Figures
1. Martin Howard for figures 3.13, 3.14, 3.15, 3.16 and 3.17. Images (and videos) available at http://randomwraith.com/logic.html. Martin Howard is a physicist from the UK with a keen interest in mechanical computing.
2. Alex Papadimoulis of TheDailyWTF.com for figure 6.1. Image available at http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/201101/DependencyGraph.png.
3. MIT Libraries for figure 4.3.
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VIKRAM CHANDRA is the author of three highly acclaimed works of fiction, most recently Sacred Games, which won the Hutch Crossword Award for fiction in 2006. Chandra lives in Oakland and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
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