Brownies rock!

THIS is why I'm going to love my South Asian lit class:

He was a mathemetician, an astronomer. But he was also a Sanskrit scholar, an expert astrologer...I (and my generation) was troubled by his holding together in one brain both astronomy and astrology; I looked for consistency in him, a consistency he didn't seem to care about, or even think about. When I asked him what the discovery of Pluto and Neptune did to his archaic nine-planet astrology, he said, 'You make the necessary corrections, that's all.' Or, in answer to how he could read the Gita religiously having bathed and painted on his forehead the red and white feet of Visnu, and later talk appreciatively about Bertrand Russell and even Ingersoll, he said, 'The Gita is part of one's hygiene. Besides, don't you know, the brain has two lobes?'

- A.K. Ramanujan on his father in the essay "Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?"