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Bruce Sterling
May 4, 2012 2:41 PM

Kalki Koechlin, Poetess

*I knew the Kalkster would be up to something that no one could expect.

*There's gonna be something else in the Koechlin pipeline here. "Kalki Koechlin, First Indian Woman in Orbit," maybe.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/Who-are-we-asks-Kalki-Koechlin/Article1-845310.aspx

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