Aji I was tightening a bamboo frame for a new Pattachitra, and my son comes running in—he’d just watched some young Odia boy win a chess tournament online, streaming from a rented room in Bhubaneswar. He says, “Bapa, that’s like you making a frame hold the painting—one wrong move and the whole story tilts.” I tell him, bhala, but your computer engineering will also need a frame that doesn’t crack under pressure, and that tournament winner didn’t get there by practicing on dreams alone—someone paid for his electricity and his coach. We move too slow in this state, talking theory while the boy with talent waits for a working internet connection.
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