It is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living. Contrasted with this is a relationship to external reality which is one of compliance, the world and its details being recognized but only as something to be fitted in with or demanding adaptation. Compliance carries with it a sense of futility for the individual and is associated with the idea that nothing matters and that life is not worth living. In a tantalizing way many individuals have experienced just enough creative living to recognize that for most of their time they are living uncreatively, as if caught up in the creativity of someone else, or of a machine.--Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality
This is sad news. Unfortunately no one had been in touch with him here for a number of years. I will let folks know.Jesse Knutson PhDProfessor of Sanskrit Language and LiteratureDepartment of Indo-Pacific Languages and LiteraturesUniversity of Hawai'i, Mānoa461 SpaldingIt is creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual feel that life is worth living. Contrasted with this is a relationship to external reality which is one of compliance, the world and its details being recognized but only as something to be fitted in with or demanding adaptation. Compliance carries with it a sense of futility for the individual and is associated with the idea that nothing matters and that life is not worth living. In a tantalizing way many individuals have experienced just enough creative living to recognize that for most of their time they are living uncreatively, as if caught up in the creativity of someone else, or of a machine.--Donald Winnicott, Playing and Reality
On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 8:23 AM Robert P. GOLDMAN via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:Dear Colleagues,I am very sorry to have to report to you the passing this morning of Professor Ramanath Sharma, generally known to his friends and colleagues as simply Rama, surrounded by his family in Atlanta Georgia after a long illness. Rama was born in Chhata in Ballia District in 1939 as the eldest son of Pandit Raghunath Sharma, the author of the commentary Ambākartrī on Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya.Rama did his M.A in Hindi Literature at Allahabad in 1959 and another in Linguistics at Agra in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Rochester in 1971 where taught Hindi language and Literature until 1975. We served together there when I was professor of Sanskrit and we became close friends and colleagues. He then became Professor of Hindi and, later on, of Sanskrit at the University at Hawaii at Manoa where he chaired the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures.Rama’s passion was vyākaraṇa and he will be best remembered for his monumental six volume translation and annotation of the Aṣṭādhyāyī which was published by Munshiram Manoharlal Privvate Ltd. between 1987 and 2003.Rama is survived by his daughters Manimala and Neelam, both of Atlanta, and his son Alok of San Francisco and will be fondly remembered by his colleagues and generations of students.na khalu sa uparato yasya vallabho janaḥ smarati |Dr. R.P. GoldmanWilliam and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit EmeritusandProfessor in the Graduate SchoolDepartment of South and Southeast Asian StudiesThe University of California at Berkeley
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