Dear Professor Deshpande, 

Thanks for sending the link. Enjoyed listening to your podcast. I knew several parts of the story, but it was good to get a sense of your more recent views and perspectives on Sanskrit Studies, Indology, South Asian studies, Linguistics, Religion, and the state of these fields in North America and India. You have been fortunate to work with teachers like Professor Cardona and Paul Thieme and SD Joshi, such a great modern lineage, especially in the grammatical traditions. It's also pretty obvious that you continue to work as much as you ever did, retired or not, which is really excellent for the entire discipline.

Of course some of us get to see your Krishna poems on social media, a delightful sidelight!  

Warm regards from cold, polluted and Covid-struck Delhi, 

Ananya.