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Two decades ago this week, I became a writer. An actual, professional one. This was my first article for The New York Times

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Anand Giridharadas
Mar 06, 2025
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I realized something. It was exactly twenty years ago this week that I became a writer. Which is weird, since I’m a very, very young man still. Incredibly young. The youngest.

Well.

Since everything is terrible right now, why not celebrate the little milestones? This one means a lot to me, because when I started, all I had ever dreamed of was to write for

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