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Thirty years ago, while teaching a robotics lab course at the University of Illinois, my senior colleagues gave me a piece of advice that stayed with me: quit AI and robotics, because the breakthroughs were always “twenty years away.” Decades later, looking at the massive wave of hype surrounding programs like ChatGPT, I wondered if…

Every time a new jobs report drops and AI is mentioned in the same breath, the conversation follows a familiar script. How many roles are at risk. Which sectors will recover. Whether universal basic income is the answer. Whether reskilling pipelines can move fast enough. The debate is urgent, well-funded, and organized around a single…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to citizens to conserve petrol, diesel, defer buying gold for at least a year and avoid foreign travel etc. reminds one of a dormant provision in the constitution under article 360 for financial emergency. There is however no indication whatsoever from the government to declare such an emergency. The provision…

New India doesn’t know what it means. Price signals are a better way to influence its consumption choices “Austerity” is a word people are using a lot this week. It means living carefully, spending less, and avoiding waste. But most Indians today have never really lived through a time of austerity. That’s because two out…

Today’s edition looks at three very different faces of the Indian diaspora: the long legal limbo of America’s immigration system, the spectacular fall of an Indian-origin CEO in a $212 million fraud case, and a Texas teen who turned prom night into a tribute to the grandmothers who raised him. Let’s go. THE BIG STORY…

It’s hard to understand why the education ministry still hasn’t properly fixed the National Testing Agency (NTA). NTA is the group that conducts big exams like NEET, but it has many weaknesses. It is not created by a law passed in Parliament, so its accountability is unclear. It depends a lot on temporary workers, and…

Financial markets have always loved beautiful lies. Not criminal lies. Necessary ones. The kind civilization tells itself when reality becomes too slow, too fragile, or too politically exhausted to sustain confidence on its own. In 2026, global markets are once again intoxicated by one of those elegant lies: that technological acceleration can indefinitely outrun economic…

India’s aviation story is no longer merely about growth in passenger numbers or airport construction. It is now a strategic national transformation story—about connectivity, manufacturing ambition, global credibility, energy economics, and technological resilience. As India steadily positions itself as the world’s third-largest aviation market, the sector is at a defining moment where policy, geopolitics and…

“God is never distracted from you, never forgetful, so you are never apart from Him. He keeps watch over your inner heart in all of your states; if you are in seclusion, He is watching you, and if you are among people, He is watching you. Whatever your state, He is your love!” said A’ishah…

By Jayant B Dave Astronaut Sunita Williams observed that from space, Earth appears as one, and you do not see man-made borders; you see them only when you return to Earth. Your perspective changes in space. Likewise, apparent differences in smaller truths are reconciled when one viewsfrom a higher perspective. At first, the Upanishads seem…