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 The Day I Realized Attention Had Become a Mining Industry A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a small tea shop near a bus stand in Kerala, watching a boy attempt to study electrostatics from a heavily folded NCERT textbook. He would read for maybe twelve seconds. Then unlock his phone. Scroll.

 “The Day I Realized Soil Wasn’t Dirt — It Was a Civilization” A few months ago, I was sitting near a roadside tea stall while traveling through a farming belt in Punjab. It was late afternoon. The air smelled strangely metallic, like wet dust mixed with chemicals. Behind the shop, there was a field glowing almost unnaturally green. Perfect rows. Perfect growth. The kind of field that makes governments proud in reports.