In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT (who left us 19yrs ago today) was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
At the peak of the Cold War, one woman mounted her bicycle in Ireland and headed for India via Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. She emerged knowing “that for all the horrible chaos of [politics] this world is full of kindness” https://t.co/kLR23ULfNP
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, with an incredibly thoughtful answer to the smartest person he's ever met. If you listen closely to the words he uses, including "empathy" and "wisdom," you'll realize a certain group of people he's not describing.
I just read a perceptive and richly informative essay in Hindi on the great ecologist Madhav Gadgil, who died recently. It is written by a young research scholar at Delhi University, @tyagishubhendraarch .
Here is a link:
https://t.co/aLl1ZHnKPI
A more precise statement: All modern humans have an unbroken lineage of about 300,000 years going back to Africa. All Indians carry a genetic lineage going back about 60,000 years to the arrival of the Out of Africa migrants. All Indians also carry the genetic lineage of the people who would go on to build the Harappan Civilization, a mix of the Out of Africa migrants and later migrants from ancient Iran, going back to perhaps 7,000 years ago. Most Indian population groups also carry the genetic lineage of the Steppe migrations from Central Asia between 2000-1500 BCE that brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent, as also the East Asian migrations that brought Austro-Asiatic languages after 2000 BCE. Yes, we do carry a long genetic lineage, one that goes far beyond 5000 years, as we are a mix of multiple migrations into India that happened in prehistory.
"The future is not a place we are going to, but a place we are creating. The path to it is not found, but built, and the act of building it changes both the builder and the destination."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
@kaushikrj6 When Umar Khalid quotes and draws parallels to the sacrifices made by Christ and Bhagat Singh - that's because he earns that right. Wherever we are on our spectrum of political and ideological beliefs, he should be freed.
My latest book - We, The People of India, will be launched in Delhi on 6th February at the Jawahar Bhawan Auditorium. The book is an historical, cultural, and philosophical exploration of the symbols that represent our nation.
At the Delhi launch, I will be in conversation with Nivedita Menon and Sanjay Hegde, moderated by Seema Chishti.
Look forward to seeing you. @WestlandBooks
Pre-Order the book on Amazon: https://t.co/n3qR0ml9pc
Boston Dynamics was running 10months ago. Everyone else is just playing ketchup
But what’s impressive is how fast the gap between human and robotic movement is closing. Irreversible so too.
The high speed tsunami is coming