Excerpt from Scion of Kunti
Final project for 21M.716
Play Translation and Cultural Transmission,
Fall 2020. Translated from the Marathi play कौंतेय
(Kaunteya) by वि. वा. शिरवाडकर
(V. V. Shirwadkar).
Mix-in Steve
I would never have guessed that my research in programming
languages would take me to the last remaining location of a
hipster Massachusetts ice cream parlor established in the
’70s. I would never have guessed that the first dot-com
domain ever registered had any relation to the invention of
cookies-and-cream ice cream. If you will bear with me through
tangents about MIT, Lisp, hippies, New England scoop shops, and a
tech startup—here’s the story.