Dev Baul – My Logbook

Footloose

For the first twenty-five years, writing was an activity that helped me to clear exams. In the next thirty five years it was an activity that let me keep my job helped pay the bills. For the next five or ten or twenty or sixty years, I am going to write for fun and intend to have lots of it. That I have you reading this pursuit of fun is pure bliss.

Karma Cola

In work-life you are required to write as per a script—the script might be driven by client’s expectations, employer’s policies or simply the boss’s whims. A contrarian view is not in order most times. In life version 2.0, I feel free from such shackles and I intend to write to express rather than impress

Lost in Translation

Every now and then you come across a piece of writing that excites you enough to grab the next person in your reach and ask them to read it—then you realize that person may not share your excitement owing to a language barrier. At such times, I am driven to translate that piece. Two benefits accrue—first, my appreciation of the piece increases manifold and second, sometimes I may help the author reach a wider audience. Yes, the second benefit is a rationalization for the first.

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Eliminative Patterns

These patterns are disturbing but they remain subjective conjectures and do not constitute actionable evidence. At the same time, patterns are critically important and society cannot ignore them. One can only hope and pray that the eliminative tendencies remain restricted to alternate POVs and do not lead to the physical elimination of the alternate POV holder. We, as a nation, have still not recovered from the consequences of such a physical elimination after 74 years. In 1948, the assassins were disowned and called fringe elements — status quo ante persists in 2024.

Dev Baul September 26, 2024 3 Comments