Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 187
Positive Indulging
Some ideas arrive wearing uniforms. Positive Indulging arrives in a kurta — plain, comfortable, and ready for work.
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.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
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. And when you forget it — you will — the world will remind you. It is a faithful tutor.