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As Tamil Nadu’s assembly election approaches, the political script is the same old – Stalin’s DMK in govt is sharpening its federal rights and social justice pitch; ADMK’s trying to rebuild its organisation; BJP’s looking to expand its footprint in a state it has always struggled in. Smaller parties are positioning themselves around identity, language…
After surging for years, the price of gold has entered the realm where storytelling drives its price. Breaking free of the fundamental forces that long explained its ups and downs, it is now rising on tales of global risk and uncertainty – which make this era feel to some observers like the gold rush of…
The Chief Justice of India recently suggested that everyone in India should be forced to vote. But here’s the thing: our Constitution says voting is a choice, not a homework assignment you have to finish. The Big Numbers: In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, about 65 crore Indians voted. That is more people than the…
Top-notch AI models cost billions to build, but almost nothing to steal. AI firms should be on their guard Estimates vary, but AI firm Anthropic has spent over $8bn to train its Claude model. Obviously, it doesn’t want rivals cloning Claude for free, but that’s what three Chinese firms, including last year’s newsmaker DeepSeek, allegedly…
SC bats for compulsory voting. But the Constitution calls voting an entitlement. That can’t be compulsory Two years ago, about 65cr Indians voted in LS polls. That turnout was more than the populations of US and Indonesia – 3rd and 4th most populous countries – combined. But it was only 66% of India’s 98cr-strong electorate…
Companies like OpenAI (who made ChatGPT) and Anthropic (who made Claude) spend massive amounts of money—sometimes over $8 billion—to train their AI. They keep their code “closed,” meaning it’s locked away like a secret recipe. However, recent drama has surfaced involving a Chinese company called DeepSeek. They’ve been accused of “cloning” these expensive models. But…
One of the most subtle productivity errors does not look like an error at all. It looks like initiative. It feels like momentum. It even feels disciplined. It is this: starting the day with the first task that grabs your attention. I call this behavior: running with the first task you come across. And if I…
Today is a significant day in relation to the Maoist movement. Devji, a key leader of the Maoist movement, has surrendered. The previous Maoist chief, Nambala Keshav Rao, was killed by security forces last year. His surrender officially marked the end of the Maoist movement. But for those affected by Maoism, another major development has…
Somewhere between your third weekend review call and your fifth performance calibration, you began to believe something rather tender: that work notices, it keeps score, and it has memory. It does keep score. It just does not keep you. When layoffs arrive, they do not come with thunder. They come with vocabulary. “Restructuring.” “Operating model…
Maya means that which can be measured. So, saying, “All this is Maya,” means everything here can be measured. Volume, temperature, distance, and time can all be measured. Everything in this creation is time and space, and both can be measured, and so it is all Maya. What isn’t Maya? That which is beyond measure….
