Liesl Schwabe is a writer and educator. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Words Without Borders, the American Literary Review, Off Assignment, and LitHub, among other publications. She previously served as a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar and as the writing program director at Yeshiva College. She is currently a scholar associate at the Institute of Language Studies and Research, Kolkata, and the director of the Writing Center at Berkshire Community College.
Liesl Schwabe
Articles
All but Appeared: On Douglas Ober’s “Dust on the Throne”
Liesl Schwabe reviews Douglas Ober’s “Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India.”
A Portrait and a Mirror: On “To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism”
What creates conditions for a dictatorship? The daily indignities that force people to turn to a messiah-despot.
The Enduring Relevance of Liberal Arts in India: Henry Derozio and the Bengal Renaissance
Liesl Schwabe dives into the history of the Bengal Renaissance and one its start figures, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.
Books for the People! A Day at the Kolkata Book Fair
Liesl Schwabe explores the upholding of Bengali literary traditions at the 43rd International Kolkata Book Fair.
The Motion of the Pestle
Liesl Schwabe reviews Gendun Chopel's "The Passion Book: A Tibetan Guide to Love & Sex."
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