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A recent observation by the Supreme Court of India during a hearing on menstrual hygiene and school infrastructure cut through years of polite policy language and said something painfully simple: girls should not have to abandon education because schools lack toilets and sanitary napkins. It should not take the country’s highest court to remind India…

History has been made in Denmark. A little more than two months after the election, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has finally succeeded in forming a new government. The negotiations took time, but the result is remarkable. For the first time in Danish history, there are now more women ministers than men sitting around the government…

We often talk about artificial intelligence as if it represents a complete break from the past. Yet one of AI’s most important challenges may be rooted in a debate that began nearly two centuries ago. In 1841, Charles Mackay, the Scottish journalist and author, published *Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds*. His work…

“We have exciting times ahead. My productivity has increased nearly 10X compared to the pre-LLM era. It has been so much less stressful doing the everyday work I used to sweat over. I seem to be more in control of my tasks. I don’t know how I managed before Generative AI came into my life.”…

India has long invested in training those who run its institutions. Bureaucrats undergo rigorous preparation before entering administration. Judges are shaped through legal education and judicial systems. Military officers are trained before they command troops. Corporate leaders attend management schools before leading organisations. Yet politics — the arena that ultimately shapes laws, policies, public institutions…

Hello and welcome to the 94th edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we look at the why hell hath no fury like a student scorned, explain why in 2026 for Silicon Valley AI stands for “actually Indians”, look at the boring Champions League final between PSG and Arsenal, and ponder the ontological reasons…

I’ve recently been collecting versions, in different languages, of the phrase, ‘the grass is greener on the other side.’ What surprised me was how different they are texturally, geographically and in the images they bring to mind. Kannada says, ‘doorada betta kannige nunnage’, or further mountains are smoother. Unlike the English, who looked out at…

I’ve recently been collecting versions, in different languages, of the phrase, ‘the grass is greener on the other side.’ What surprised me was how different they are texturally, geographically and in the images they bring to mind. Kannada says, ‘doorada betta kannige nunnage’, or further mountains are smoother. Unlike the English, who looked out at…

Zaynich is proof that Indian pharma wants to move up the value chain. Govt can help with laws and incentives Over 80 years, ever since mass production of penicillin began, antibiotics have saved more than 20cr lives. Thanks to them, we live 23 years longer now, on average. But overuse and abuse of these life-saving…

Think about how frustrating it would be to serve time in jail as an innocent person who has never been convicted of a crime, and understand that this is a reality for over two-thirds of all inmates incarcerated in prisons across India, primarily those being held as undertrial prisoners. Many of these individuals are being…