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From Pandurang and Allah and Jesus to Alexa

A span of 100 years.  A century of changes.  Human beings have been through a lot of it.  Good, bad, mediocre, atrocious, hilarious, climactic, dazzling, exponential, exceptional.  Pick your adjective. From spare change to QR codes. From interpersonal dialog to text. From lack of clothing to fashionably less clothes. From starving in hunger to fashionably bulimic. From walking miles for water to running on rubber belts and then consuming (smart) water. From life threatening illness with no cure to overdosed deaths. From Teddy to Trump (or bear to a duck if you prefer animated analogies). In so doing one could easily argue we just came full circle.  And boy did we learn a thing or two? Or nothing? Not long ago in India kids woke up to the chants of the lord's name like a Pandurang or Vishnu, alternately that of Allah, in certain households and had to use that to their advantage or so the theory went.  The lord god watched them as they grew to be...