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To begin: we met American writing pedagogy in reverse. Gupta first trained to teach writing in India at Ashoka University at the Young India Fellowship program, which is closely associated with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and is now pursuing that interest as a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Arizona (UA) . Dasgupta encountered writing pedagogy at the Rutgers Writing Program as a PhD student in literature and is now in India directing the Centre for Writing and Pedagogy at Krea University. Common to both our experiences is the usefulness of some framing concepts from American composition practice and their necessary adaptations in the Indian classrooms.  \nFor example, conversation both as metaphor and literal aid to make academic writing easier to access is an enduring idea in American composition studies (Bruffee) . In what follows, we recount our experiences of using the concept of conversation to enable academic writing in our classrooms. Each narrative details adaptations of what didn’t automatically transfer to our particular contexts. These adaptations highlight a range of cross-cultural assumptions—from misaligned cultural references to the levels of prior reading and writing skills—that can be taken for granted. Overall, our work has required many more intermediate steps to make writing pedagogy workable in our socially and linguistically diverse classrooms. We learned that what seems matter-of-fact in American composition—the analogy of conversation as talk or strategy for analytic writing—has to be made accessible in our classrooms as something of our own.  \nBeauty of the Burkean Parlor: Anuj Gupta  \nWhile finishing my M.Phil in English literature, I stumbled upon a job opportunity that would change my life’s course. I was hired to teach an academic writing course, which I would eventually manage and administer “Academic Writing at Ashoka” (Gupta), before heading to the US for a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition. For the course, I was eager to utilize exercises from the pedagogic resources shared with us. These resources had been compiled by several teachers trained in US writing pedagogy who preceded me atthe program. I was particularly excited by Graffand Birkenstiens’s They Say/I  \nComposition Studies 49.3 (2021): 139–144  \nSay: Moves that Matter in Academic Writing and its suggestion that written templates of rhetoric were modelled on oral conversations such as those in a“Burkean parlor” a metaphor drawn from the reception room of 18th-19th century Euro-American bourgeois households that hosted stimulating conversations (CriticalSkills) .  \nInspired, I explained in class that writing was like conversations in a parlor—only to find my students utterly confused. One hesitantly asked,“Sir, what do you mean that academic writing happens in a beauty parlour?”I was startled. In my enthusiasm, I had forgotten that in India,“parlours” and“saloons” refer to places that offer skincare and haircare services (something akin to the nail salons that are popular in the US) and not the high-brow bourgeois spaces that Burke had in mind. I decided to go out on a limb to save the situation. After all, even beauty parlours and salons are places of rich discursive exchanges that are intimate and political, even if in an informal context, as has been demonstrated wonderfully in a film called “Everybody says I’m Fine” (Bose) . Instead of taking my students to Burke, I figured I’d bring Burke to my students.  \nI continued with the reference my students readily understood and asked,“Why do you think people go to beauty parlours and saloons?” and “What do you think they do there?” The response was “..umm, to look good?” I agreed:“Yes. 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