If we could see Mrs. Stokes's coffee dregs, 2023

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A project about translation debacle developed at Duplex's residence, in Lisbon, Portugal.

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In response to Arjun’s question regarding who he is, Shree Krishna reveals his nature as all-powerful Time, the destroyer of the universe. The word kāla is derived from kalayati, which is synonymous with ganayati, meaning “to take count of.” All events in nature get buried in time. When Oppenheimer, who was a part of the first atom bomb project, witnessed the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he quoted this verse of Shree Krishna in the following manner: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

But this was a translation choice made by the physicist, given that the original text testifies about time that counts and controls the life of all beings.

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The photo used is of the explosion of the Stokes Bomb carried out in Operation Plumbbob in Nevada (USA) on August 7, 1957. 

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