Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 288
TTYC
Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. TTYC arrives in a kurta — plain, comfortable, and ready for work.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.
Every colony has a notice board and a gossip channel. The notice board informs; the channel decides. Wise residents read the first and audit the second.
Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. The name is new; the wisdom stood at bus stops long before either of us.