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In the staff room of a government secondary school in a district town, over two years of visits, I worked out where the children of the eleven teachers went to school. Nine were in private schools …

Over one week in February I went through the front pages of four English dailies and the political pages of two Hindi ones, and counted every attribution to an unnamed source. There were sixty-one.…

A man in my Thursday group at the county library once spent eleven minutes constructing the strongest possible case for a position he does not hold. It was a good case. It was better organised than…

Our market runs Saturdays from May to September in the parking lot behind the Methodist church, twenty-two vendors in a good week. I have had a table there for nine years. It is the best morning of…

The feature was a smart summary that sat at the top of the feed. It went out in March. By May, the dashboard showed engagement with it climbing steadily, week over week, in a curve that made everyo…

The lake sits at about forty-seven hundred metres behind a moraine dam, and the monitoring installation on it is good. Water level, seismic, a camera, telemetry over satellite because there is no o…

At half past five in the afternoon the children who had been in his class at eleven in the morning arrive at his house, about fourteen of them, and sit on the floor of a room with a blackboard on t…

The cart is a tablet on a wheeled pole, about five feet high, with a camera at the top and a handle for pushing it between rooms. It connects in under a minute to an interpreter in one of about two…

The localisation project ran for two quarters and shipped eleven languages. Nine thousand strings, professionally translated, reviewed by native speakers, with a proper pluralisation library. It wa…

The duty roster in the staff room of a government upper-primary school I visit in the eastern part of the state is a sheet of ruled paper in a plastic sleeve, updated in three different pens. Last …