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Another digitised exam process brings grief. Why is change rolled out without stress-testing systems? Onscreen marking, offscreen trauma. Several Class 12 students, teenagers all, have exposed more than just the botch-up of mismatched answer sheets. This year, CBSE adopted an onscreen marking system. This entailed that paper-pen answer sheets were scanned; examiners marked digitised answer…

Fancy clubs can be useful places where powerful people meet, talk and make connections. But a club should change with the times instead of staying stuck in the past. India still has many exclusive clubs that were started during British rule. That alone is not necessarily wrong. Humans naturally make groups and boundaries — families,…

Nautapa has just begun. For generations across North India, Nautapa marked those familiar nine days of punishing late-May heat. People planned around it. Homes were built to endure it. Life slowed down in the afternoons and resumed after sunset. But what India is experiencing now no longer feels like a difficult summer season.It feels like…

The visit of the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India this week is far more than a routine diplomatic engagement. It marks a carefully calibrated attempt by Washington and New Delhi to stabilise, revive and strategically re-anchor a relationship that, over the past year, had shown visible signs of strain. In many ways,…

I was wondering about the ways AI can help the hospitality industry across billing, HR, marketing, operations, and supply chain functions. This is what we are going to discuss this week. Why hospitality? No reason. Billing function 1. Reducing Hotel Revenue Loss Through Chargeback Prediction (classification)Chargeback disputes on post-stay hotel folios erode revenue and inflate…

Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran said, “Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let winds of heaven dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one…

For fuel, price hikes will do the job. For rupee, a hike in interest rates, one-time dollar bonds issue for NRIs & capital gains tax rejig will do the trick. Remember, our macros are just fine Media (and social media) headlines are near-apocalyptic. They tell you that an incessant fall in the value of rupee…

Delhi Gymkhana was a dispensation from the state to those who ran the state. But it served a function: a place for making deals quietly. The eviction order is today’s India telling yesterday’s India, your time’s up There is a particular sound a Delhi Gymkhana evening makes. Ice meeting glass. A bearer’s soft-soled approach. A…

Every once in a while, Indian sport throws up a story that feels larger than the stopwatch itself. This week, that story came from Ranchi. While the country was busy scrolling through politics, IPL chatter, and breaking headlines, the petty officer from the Indian Navy quietly ran into history. Gurindervir Singh clocked 10.09 seconds in…

Hybridity and Belonging in Contemporary Art brings together artists from and inspired by Asia whose work explores hybridity, displacement, nostalgia, and the refusal to be confined by a singular identity. Crossing cultural and national boundaries, the artists in this suite at Sundaram Tagore’s new space in London, synthesise Eastern and Western visual languages, forms, techniques, and philosophies….