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Brief Lives

Anand Vaidya (1976-2024)

Manjula Menon on the short but full career of a ‘disciplinary trespasser’.

In a 2016 interview, my husband, the philosopher Anand Vaidya, reflected on his future: “I would like to see myself twenty years from now as someone who has pursued a deep engagement with core debates in analytic philosophy, especially the epistemology of modality, but also someone who has helped develop cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary philosophy in a serious way.”

Anand did not live to see those twenty years. He passed away in October 2024 at the age of forty-eight, after a battle with cancer. But in his too-brief life he fulfilled much of his vision.

I have written about my grief elsewhere; in this article, I want to focus on celebrating Anand’s many professional accomplishments.

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