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If you want to have a conversation about whether Hindutva and Hinduism are the same thing, don’t have it with random strangers on the web. Have it with your own family on… more ›
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I live in a small town on the east coast of India. If I close my eyes and sit quietly around 5am, I will hear the songs of birds, the sound of… more ›
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A huge part of speculative and imaginative literature, especially its genre variants, is that strange things happen. But another part of it is that many of these strange things are actually plausible… more ›
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As someone who gets more than his share of Hindutva trolls, I learned some time ago the problem with calling Right Wing trolls names like monsters and maniacs. The problem is that… more ›
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I frequently write about generative AI from the perspective of a writer. Occasionally, a chirkut tech bro with the mental horizon as broad as a his dick will ask what gives me… more ›
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A newsletter is a very personal thing. When I subscribe to yours, I am putting my trust in you that you will send me something of your making and that it will… more ›
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We often talk about technology as if it is just a tool and that there isn’t anything good or bad about it. The good or bad, we are fond of saying, comes… more ›
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My father recently went to a school reunion. Everyone there, like him, was in their seventies. Some had back problems, some had their joints giving up, some had diabetes ruining their meals… more ›
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I was speaking to someone about the kind of issues we often have with our parents and chanced upon an expression of the problem that I had not used earlier. “I think… more ›
