The finance minister, Amit Mitra, an economist and former boss of India's main business lobby, stands in an office in Writers' Building, once used by the East India Company.

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Courier was for the creative set, a gadget on which architects might begin to sketch building plans, or writers might begin to draft documents.

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The result has been a push towards long, thoughtful essays on current affairs, attempts at building a star system of writers and so on.

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Considering that the entire futuristic Korean story is performed by its characters in plain English, and that we have no reason to believe that these later post-apocalyptic humans would even incorporate English into their own language, it feels less like a world-building method, and more like the writers being unnecessarily clever.

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Recently, it has been marked by structural tensions, as the writers struggle to contain an overgrowth of subplots an unfortunate side effect of their remarkable world-building skills.

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