Neel Mukherjee

This is my friend Prachi Deshpande’s blog. Prachi is a historian but her blog is mostly about knitting. Yes, you read that right. Knitting. Did you know that knitting is the new string theory, the new Zadie Smith, the new Harry Potter, the new Spielberg film, the new ‘El Bulli’, the new Grand Unified Theory, all rolled and purled into one? (I’m sure Prachi is going to take exception to the word ‘new’). In other words, knitting is big, very, very, very big indeed. I didn’t know this. It took me Prachi and her blog to open up this whole new world to me. It gives me the same shiver that people get when they discover the existence of something utterly unknown, like life in a different galaxy, or the solution to the Poincarré conjecture. Knitting! I can’t get over it. I peek at it every now and then to remind my insular self about the multiplicity of worlds. Then I feel like Giordano Bruno. And she has food porn there, too. Don’t forget: Jason negotiated his way out of the minotaur’s maze with the help of Ariadne’s ball of thread. Sorry, wool.