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Borrowed Words
Some years back, when I was in a Rumi phase, because who wasn’t, I used to quote: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field, I’ll meet you there. I said it like I’d discovered it. I said it like it was mine. Fifteen years ago, quoting Rumi was already cliché. But it was… Continue reading
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The Other People Who Weren’t There
The India AI Impact Summit started today. I know this because I have spent the last two months watching it unfold on LinkedIn before it even began. Every other post was someone announcing they’d be speaking, moderating, or appearing on a panel about how AI will change everything about AI, which is changing everything about… Continue reading
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The Kal Paradox
Why Indian English Isn’t Broken, It’s Running on a Different Backend Woman and Clock, Louise Bourgeois (fair use) Salman Rushdie once observed that no people whose word for ‘yesterday’ is the same as their word for ‘tomorrow’ can be said to have a firm grip on time (Midnight’s Children). He was talking about the Hindi word kal,… Continue reading
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