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Ashim Shanker

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which became streaks
in the grayspace,
and then networks ...
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But not in Sand
Meanings Collide
To Unresolved Fragments
Code...
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ASHIM SHANKER Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to c...
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ASHIM SHANKER The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those...
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I no...
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