उसने मुझे,
ऐसे बाँहों में भर लिया -
जैसे किसी वट-वृक्ष को
बचा रही हो ।

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You say that
such emotion-drenched love is not right.
Some intellectualism must be brought into love.

I never learned to be an adult in love.
I lived the adolescence of love for years and years,
and all those intellectual loves drowned along with their intellectualism.

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Master of stillness, the cat reclines with grace—
proving idleness, too, can be a noble race.


■ The 'noble race' of idleness: where the cat becomes a small guru of non-doing. Contrast this with our own frenetic lives. The cat wins by not competing at all.

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Impatience  
threw Eve out of paradise.

( Check the caption for my take on this.)

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एंटीक शोपीस – ज़मीर

कुछ समय पहले
मेरे ज़मीर ने ख़ुदकुशी कर ली;
मैं अब मज़े में हूँ,
एक बोझ था जो उतर गया है,
सिर्फ़ एक 'एंटीक शोपीस' की कमी हो गई है।

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The Equal Lie
We keep saying men and women are equal,
then expect the man to pay,
the woman to forgive,
and love to survive the arithmetic.

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I am revolving in the air like a coin, 
I am both head and tail in sky, 
In the fall I obey His design, 
Yet the spin itself was mine.

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There was a strange artistry in our parting;
The bond lay shattered, yet would not fade.

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Goodness, love, compassion—
lighten the weight of the world;
And even without wings
we rise like birds.

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Human biases  seep into the AIs we create
Not by intent, but because the maker is of clay.

We think of ourselves as rational and neutral, but our unconscious biases still shape the AI we create. These biases aren't just cultural—they're wired in by evolution and biology. Yet how exactly they influence AI remains elusive, like trying to grasp the sound of one hand clapping.

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