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न आत्मीय मंच आयोजक
न शुभचिन्तक सम्पादक
न संरक्षक प्रकाशक
स्वांत: सुखाय बस चल रही है मेरी कविता
नदी में नाव-सी
वृक्षों में हवा-सी
धमनी में रक्त-सी
और बहुत कुछ वक़्त-सी
आप के रूप में
आज जो मिला है
एक अच्छा भावक
इस स्वांतः सुखाय के लिए
हर्षप्रद यही है
और प्रेरणादायक
Poetry: स्वांतः सुखाय, केशव शरण
Painting: The Solitary, the Wanderer and the Poet, by Delmar Harmood Banner and Josefina Alys Hermes de Vasconcellos
None of us is perfect.
We are all magnificent works in progress.
And i find that exhilarating.
Because it means…
We inhabit a universe of possibilities!
You begin to realize that people aren’t playing one another with the help of computers; the computers are playing against other computers, using humans as fleshy armatures to move the pieces.
…Perhaps by now we’re so used to playing against, or for, our digital masters that we’ve lost interest in something so messy and human that its strategies can’t be simulated by an online bot.
Yet all of these games persist, even if we now know that when we play, we are not unique beings with a divine spark of genius but merely models in an obsolete generation of thinking machines… To play a game is, as Professor Suits said, to try to solve a voluntary problem. But it is also a voluntary engagement with another human, temporary but total, to create a shared narrative of attack, defense, stalemate, victory and loss. The one thing a computer can never do is enjoy another computer’s company. Let us hope that no new genius arises to teach them how to do that.
What a wonderful eulogy to games, masquerading as a book review!
” at the tea stall, which is called tapdi, adda, kona depending on which region in India you are, few things matter other than the tea, the perspective, and this easiness of familiarity that it brings among people. There simply are no differences among the tea drinkers thronging the little stall, which by way of ambience offers friendly chatter, the generous aroma of freshly brewed masala chai weaving and wafting through the air, the occasional call of “chottu saheb ko chai de aa,” and eventually a cup of soul satiating tea that seems to have been made to your preference.”
Such a wonderful ode to the chai stalls of India.
I’m still sceptical about web3. I think it will happen, just not in the way most people think it will. The rest looks very exciting, and just a little scary! But read the whole thing for yourself, and decide.
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