Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 193

Privacy Paradox

The Privacy paradox does not want to confuse you. It wants to show you that your first answer was too easy.

Hold both ends and the puzzle relaxes. The mistake is insisting that only one end exists. Indian philosophy knew this long ago; our epics are full of victories that were also defeats.

At the polling booth, the queue is the one place the CEO and the driver stand at the same height. Whatever else one says about it, that hour is a small miracle of design.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Carry it lightly. Ideas, like umbrellas, are useful only when actually opened.