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"The book sounds like a fictionalized story in Indonesia in the voice of the two cats. The story involves a bit of Indonesian diversity and how fake news and religiosity is impacting this diversity. Young folks might like the story as it involves cats"
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“An apple cannot not become an orange simply because a McKinsey report concluded it would be beneficial for it to do so.”
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“I ranted about the fussiness of Japanese grammar over lunch with Koyama-san, the Jakarta-based Japanese mother of a friend of my older son. ‘Not sure how I’m ever going to manage to learn all those conjugations,’ I groaned. Koyama-san looked at me unblinkingly and replied, ‘I think Pallavi, for you the bigger problem is going to be to learn how to talk softly.”
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
“Unlike other methods of repair, like welding or glueing, kintsugi’s power was in its refusal to disguise the brokenness of an object, he said. It did not aim to make what was broken as good as new, but to use the cracks to transform the object into something different, and arguably even more valuable.”
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
― Orienting: An Indian in Japan
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