Sonam Kachru

Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Sonam Kachru is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He is a contributor to Words Without Borders.

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Written by Sonam Kachru

An ancient stone pillar with a lion sculpture on top surrounded by ruins, a tree, a water body and a hazy landscape.

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The ancient world

Ashoka’s moral empire

Being good is hard. How an ancient Indian emperor, horrified by the cruelty of war, created an infrastructure of goodness

Sonam Kachru