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The identifiable experience of the educated bourgeoisie has often set a representational limit for Indian writing in English. English from certain other corners of the world – particularly those that have emerged through Black or creolized identities – have created moments of grounded, sensory writing both on the level of dialect and worldview that Indian-English writing has rarely attained even through regional modification and bhasha twists, the achievements of which are of a different nature altogether. But what’s…

While reading S Hareesh’s collection of short stories, Adam, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil, I repeatedly thought how deficient our literary culture would be minus translations. Not that I didn’t know it before but reading Adam is a reaffirmation. The imagination that Hareesh brings to his renditions, the scope of his characters, their quirks and world views akin to the construction of a mini universe of oddballs is all unthinkable in Indian writing in English or the small cocoon that most of such…

Amazon Alexa has been in India for over four years now. The voice assistant, which initially debuted on Amazon Echo speakers, is currently available across a range of third-party devices including smart TVs, smartphones, and wearables such as smartwatches, as well as truly wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds and headphones. And of course, there are Amazon's own Echo devices. Although Alexa kicked off its journey in India only in English, it has gradually started understanding Hindi and Hinglish — a blend of Hindi and English —…