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Long thinking about originality, AI, family and the things people leave unsaid. Essays by Vinay Trivedi that start with one life and arrive somewhere larger.

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A machine that can continue a mother’s sentence, and a son who stopped waiting at the school gate. Two essays about what only a person can give.

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Memoir / Essay27 Aug 2026

The Last Lines Belonged to Her

What my mother’s fifty year old Gujarati poems taught me about AI, originality, and the strange new value of being human.

AI can study every description of rain ever published. Only you stood in that rain.

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On Originality

What a machine can imitate, and what it cannot inherit.

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Memoir / Essay27 Aug 2026

The Last Lines Belonged to Her

What my mother’s fifty year old Gujarati poems taught me about AI, originality, and the strange new value of being human.

After more than two years of using AI almost every day, I no longer find most of these demonstrations particularly surprising.

Of course AI can do the work. That argument, I think, is already over.

  1. IThe Economics of Sameness
  2. IIThe Machine Can Write. But Whose Life Is It Writing?
  3. IIIThe Papers
  4. IVPerhaps We Have Been Asking the Wrong Question
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AI can study every description of rain ever published. Only you stood in that rain.
From The Last Lines Belonged to Her
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The machine can continue her sentence. It cannot become that woman.
From The Last Lines Belonged to Her
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Sometimes the missing words are the strongest evidence that a human being was there.
From The Last Lines Belonged to Her
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On Fathers

Presence, absence, and a day that arrives every June.

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Thank You, Dad

Father’s Day has always been a curious day for me. Every year, I read messages written by sons and daughters celebrating the men who taught them to ride bicycles, helped them with homework, waited outside school gates, attended sports days, and quietly carried the weight of entire families on their shoulders. As I read those stories, I often find myself thinking about the fathers I grew up watching.

I cannot remember a single afternoon when I walked out of school and found you waiting for me at the gate.

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Lines worth keeping

Sentences from the essays that readers return to.

Fatherhood is not measured through grand gestures. It is measured through presence.
From Happy Father’s Day. Thank You, But No Thank You.
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The greatest gift I can give her is my presence.
From Happy Father’s Day. Thank You, But No Thank You.
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Sometimes the missing words are the strongest evidence that a human being was there.
From The Last Lines Belonged to Her
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Beyond Essays

The same questions, in other forms. Memoir, short fiction and Gujarati poetry by Vinay Trivedi.

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Poetry

Alpvirãm

Poems from Alpvirãm, the Gujarati collection. A pause inside the sentence, never the end of one.

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Letters
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New essays, memoir and short fiction before anywhere else, notes from behind the manuscript, early excerpts and the occasional Gujarati poem.

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