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Jan 11, 2025 |
scroll.in | Saikat Majumdar
If there is such a thing as an eloquently disarming break-up letter, it is to be found in David Lodge’s scandalously delicious novel, Nice Work. But what on earth is a disarming break-letter? Or a phone call? Or text message or DM? Is it possible to sweeten a tragic message from the loser who doesn’t have the guts to break up in person? That’s what Charles leaves for Robyn, both struggling, junior academics on the verge of disenchantment in 1980s’ England.
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Dec 30, 2024 |
indianexpress.com | Saikat Majumdar
“The c-word: culture.” Finally, the American politician Vivek Ramaswamy has said it. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.” Attackers have ignored the “our” in this X post, and it’s easy to see why: “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.”How can this not hit hard?
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Nov 19, 2024 |
telegraphindia.com | Saikat Majumdar
Expertise is under attackworldwide. The attacks feel ironic as the professional, baptised the ‘knowledgeworker’ by the 20th-century management guru, Peter Drucker, faces anexistential threat from forms of Artificial Intelligence. This is ironic becausethis attack is not coming from a place of more advanced skill (as AI threatensto be) but from a suspicion of the very notion of expertise.
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Oct 18, 2024 |
thewire.in | Saikat Majumdar
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Oct 18, 2024 |
scroll.in | Saikat Majumdar
Cramming half-heartedly for the Scholarship, I looked up from the red-jacketed Williamson’s History of the British Empire, towards the barrack’s plumed, imperial hillsides where canon-bursts of bamboo sprayed the ridge, riding to Khartoum, Rorke’s Drift, through dervishes of dust, behind the chevroned jalousies I butchered fellaheen, thuggees, Mamelukes, wogs — Derek Walcott, ‘Another Life’, quoted in Abdulrazak Gurnah, ‘Learning to Read’ The imagination of the modern high school or college...
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