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The Boy from Ashok NagarPersonal Essay · Shashi BellamkondaThe Boy from Ashok Nagar When I read that Sundar Pichai's family waited five years on a government list just to get a telephone, and that when it finally arrived the neighbors came to his house to make their calls, I stopped reading. Not because the detail surprised me. Because I lived it.We had the phone in our house in Ashok Nagar.…
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I recently read a news piece where China described the United States involvement in the Iran conflict as a "Sisyphean trap." The specific geopolitical critique caught my…
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Cultural Observation | April 18, 2026
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Growing up middle class in India, there was always a pang of regret when I thought about how the "rich" lived. Standing at the bus stop with a heavy book bag, I wou…
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Dakhni: A Living Integration of Languages in the DeccanVerified Fact: Dakhni (Deccani) evolved over 700 years as an independent language, primarily in the courts of the Deccan Sul…
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The first time I understood what speed felt like, I was sitting in a bullock cart in Telangana. The cart moved at the pace of the oxen, which is to say it moved at the pace of the…
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