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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…

The recent West Asia crisis has once again brought spotlight on fuel conservation and substitution of imported crude oil. The highlights of all such discourses can be distilled in a two-pronged approach: pushing Electric Vehicles (EVs) and blend Ethanol into fuel to the maximum possible extent. But the most effective, zero-emission fuel saver that is…

There is a quiet asymmetry sitting inside every conversation you have with an AI system, and almost no one is talking about it in those terms. We celebrate AI “remembering” us — our preferences, our past conversations, our half-finished projects — as a convenience, a feature, even a kindness. What we rarely ask is: who…

A notification appears.  You pick up your phone for what you think will be a few seconds.  Twenty minutes later, you are watching videos you never intended to watch, reading comments that do not matter, and checking updates that you will probably forget tomorrow.  You put the phone down, only to pick it up again…

When Punit Kumar Sobti elected to enrol at business school, he did so seeking to make a change.  He had spent a decade building a successful career in the tech sector working for a number of reputable firms across India, but desired to create a business of his own. Seeking to ensure his education could…

There was a time, recent enough that most of us remember it without the assistance of nostalgia, when a newspaper understood something fundamental about its relationship with its reader. It was there before breakfast with the quiet punctuality of a government clerk who still believed in public service, interrupted your morning for twenty to thirty…

“A nation’s destiny is shaped not in its parliaments or stock exchanges, but in its classrooms.”  Few institutions shape the destiny of a nation as profoundly as its education system. Economies generate wealth, governments frame policies, and militaries safeguard borders, but it is education that shapes the character, intellect, and values of citizens. If classrooms fail, every…

Last week the Supreme Court ruled that the right to walk on a safe footpath is a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution. That it took a court order to establish something so basic tells us a lot about the state of India’s cities. India has the largest number of urban settlements in the world….

Your phone number has become your online identity. That can be risky. So what can we do about it? In 2010, a group of Dutch programmers created a website called ‘PleaseRobMe.com’. They built it in just four hours. The website used location information that people had shared publicly on Twitter (now called X) and Foursquare….

Why only Kohinoor, take our heatwave too  Colonial hangover or plain bloody-mindedness. Britain’s heatwave is a global obsession, but no May Day distress call over our mercury normally rising over 40 degrees in the shade (that’s if you can find it). Perversely, I landed in London’s oven just as Mumbai finally felt like the fridge….