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We allow our elders to age, but not to love. When ancient Indian philosophy, Taoist docs, modern science all say intimacy in later life is a vital part of human flourishing, don’t cage it in silence instead A man of 68 came to see me last winter, a little more than a year after he…
Mbappé’s transformation, coupled with France’s emergence as the team to beat in this World Cup, is French coach Didier Deschamps’ greatest achievement yet. The quiet manager finally has a team that embraces his ideas, making them seem unstoppable When Spanish striker Fernando Morientes left Real Madrid to join Monaco on loan, his new manager made…
AI is absorbing India’s entry-level work faster than anywhere else surveyed. Nobody has asked who India’s entry level actually is. Last month, Cognizant and Pearson released a study with a number that should have caused far more discomfort than it did. Surveying 750 HR leaders across India, the US and the UK, the report found…
In Part 1, we established that AI memory is not evidence of a learning mind — it is a retrieval architecture whose costs fall disproportionately on the user. Here, the argument acquires a sharper, more consequential edge for India. Every memory your AI system holds about you sits on physical infrastructure. That infrastructure has a…
By Aditya Mukherjee Recently, a controversy erupted after Trinidadian author Jamir Nazir’s award-winning story, The Serpent in the Grove ,thrust the literary world into a profound debate: if AI can help produce prize-winning fiction, what becomes of creativity, originality, and human imagination? On July 1, Nazir won the overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize, a decision…
School meals should include eggs. There are good reasons for that. The new government in West Bengal has a problem. ISKCON, the organisation that cooks many school midday meals, does not serve eggs because it follows a vegetarian diet. So the government wants to give schools extra money to buy eggs from somewhere else. This…
As Indian firms integrate into global conflict supply chains, US sanction on a Raipur explosives company reveals the accountability gap at the heart of India’s defense boom India’s arms are showing up across the world. Brahmos missiles to Vietnam. Pinaka rocket systems to Armenia. Avionics and subsystems to the US. Even artillery shell components in…
Security and efficiency can coexist through transparent and time-bound processes.India’s security framework under scrutiny At the center of this discussion is ITSAR, administered through NCCS. Under this framework, telecom equipment such as routers, switches, core network elements, and access devices must undergo structured security evaluation before deployment. Why this matters: Lessons from recent breaches Examples…
Most twelve year old girls spend their free time watching Netflix, scrolling through social media, chatting with friends, or keeping up with the latest trends. So did I. But alongside all of that I had another obsession: the ocean. I could spend hours watching videos of divers swimming through coral reefs, exploring shipwrecks, and encountering…
