User:Varada

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Acorn
The acorn is the nut of the oak tree and its close relatives, in the family Fagaceae. Acorns usually contain a seedling surrounded by two cotyledons (seedling leaves), enclosed in a tough shell known as the pericarp, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. This acorn of the species Quercus robur (the pedunculate oak), with a length of 25 millimetres (1 inch), was photographed in Keila, Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

Hi! I am Varadarajan, a native of Cochin, in the state of Kerala. Currently I am a research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.

I was introduced to this Borgesian world of Wikipedia by my friend Amar V Chandra. I am deeply indebted to him for this.

Here, I have mostly been doing minor corrections and editing. Apart from this, I have started a few entries on lesser known writers on philosophy and literature. In the case of the already well written articles on philosophers I mainly add to the bibliography. Hope to do a lot more in the coming days.

Some of the entries I started here:

Geuss

Amitav Ghosh

Frederick C. Beiser

Frederick Neuhouser

Alexander Nehamas

Edmund White

Anthony Grafton

Enchi Fumiko

Commodore Books

Paul Guyer

Some of the entries I plan to work on in the coming days:

Stuart Hampshire

Charles Taylor

Alasdair MacIntyre

Gilbert Harman

Thomas Nagel

Hoshang Merchant