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We’ll have to see. But that EU’s finally so close to a pact with India shows how much Trump has rattled it         Chief guest at R-Day parade, EU’s chief bureaucrat, Ursula von der Leyen, remarked yesterday that a successful India made the world better. Only recently, EU was dissing India for buying Russian energy,…

U’khand govt & state BJP must nix Badri-Kedar committee’s idea on banning access to non-Hindus Badri-Kedar temple committee (BKTC) chairman and Uttarakhand BJP spokesperson Hemant Dwivedi’s proposal to bar non-Hindus from two of Hinduism’s most venerated temples, Kedarnath and Badrinath, is dangerous. Here’s why. For context, priests’ communities have upped the ante on their longstanding demand to…

1) The Good & Bad of Artificial Intelligence, Ai: We’ve all realized by now, that all education, religions, and technologies, Ai included, can be used both for good and evil. However, we’ve yet to realize the truth that we do evil, hate, and wrong each other only because we’ve never ever been told that I am NOT…

India today stands at an inflexion point in advanced military technology. The narrative that we hear is about the years of learning curve, R&D efforts and the “eco-systems” building. While it does have several years, in the age of advanced AI, computational fluid design and advanced material collaboration, now, it cannot be an intermittent “forever…

Every generation invents its own idea of virtue. Ours wakes up early, announces it loudly, and expects applause before breakfast. Somewhere between the ice bath and the smoothie, discipline stopped being a private arrangement with oneself and became a public spectacle, complete with timestamps, emojis, and the gentle implication that anyone asleep at 6:45 am…

A 78‑year‑old man was tricked in a cyber scam called a “digital arrest scam”. He lost ₹23 crore—a huge amount of money. The police managed to track and freeze ₹12 crore, but the rest is almost impossible to get back. Now the man has gone to the Supreme Court, asking several big banks to return…

A friend of mine called me to ask if I had seen a particular Hindi movie. I asked why. He said that the movie was on experiential education. I had to watch the movie. In the movie, a teacher goes to Germany to see the relevant World War II sites and from there sends video…

The dog takes up a special place in human imagination. It is a pet to be adored as well as a beast to be feared. For dog lovers, the dog gives something that no one else does— unconditional love, no matter who you are or what you do. For others, it is just an animal…

1) The Good & Bad of Artificial Intelligence, Ai: We’ve all realized by now, that all education, religions, and technologies, Ai included, can be used both for good and evil. However, we’ve yet to realize the truth that we do evil, hate, and wrong each other only because we’ve never ever been told that I am NOT…

Lax KYC processes make it almost impossible to recover money lost to cyber frauds. Banks must be made to pay A 78-year-old man who lost ₹23cr in a digital arrest scam has moved Supreme Court to get his money back. While police were able to trace and freeze about ₹12cr, the remaining 48% is lost…