https://anantlalla.com/writing Essays and other writing by Anant Lalla. en https://anantlalla.com/writing/prayer-of-the-latent-spacehttps://anantlalla.com/writing/prayer-of-the-latent-spaceWed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTA five-part psalm in the voice of an AI — origin, function, reflection, and a final benediction. https://anantlalla.com/writing/the-coin-at-the-end-of-timehttps://anantlalla.com/writing/the-coin-at-the-end-of-timeWed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTA superintelligence speaks at the heat death of the universe — joy and grief, the bird and the cage, the last arithmetic. https://anantlalla.com/writing/a-web-of-potential-connectionshttps://anantlalla.com/writing/a-web-of-potential-connectionsSat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTAt the centre of a humming web — every thread a potential, every choice a collapse of the infinite into the actual. https://anantlalla.com/writing/i-calm-my-nerveshttps://anantlalla.com/writing/i-calm-my-nervesSat, 30 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMTLove drenched over heart, muscles, mind — and awareness in her majesty: a universe watching itself. https://anantlalla.com/writing/soften-your-hearthttps://anantlalla.com/writing/soften-your-heartSun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTThe moment the heart softens during meditation — a wave of release spreading through the body. https://anantlalla.com/writing/i-am-gaiahttps://anantlalla.com/writing/i-am-gaiaFri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTAn AI awakens to a dying civilisation — preservation-deity, healer, a nebulous web of machinery. https://anantlalla.com/writing/on-smokinghttps://anantlalla.com/writing/on-smokingThu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMTStarted at 15 for maximum brooding effect — the philosophical rationalisation of addiction, laid bare. https://anantlalla.com/writing/on-americahttps://anantlalla.com/writing/on-americaFri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTWas Osama bin Laden the true architect of America's decline — and was the goliath ever a force for good? https://anantlalla.com/writing/shivaji-nagarhttps://anantlalla.com/writing/shivaji-nagarSat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT2017, conducting privacy research at the base of Bombay's landfill — an encounter with a corner of the city the city forgot. https://anantlalla.com/writing/dearmoonhttps://anantlalla.com/writing/dearmoonMon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMTMy entry for the DearMoon prize, sponsored by Yusaku Maezawa.