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By Christopher Mendonca Christian liturgical season of Lent is closely linked to 40-day sojourn of Israel in the desert as they journeyed to the Promised Land. The 40-day season of Lent is a time for fasting and abstinence. It is a period of self-discipline, a reassessment of priorities, and a renewed hope for transformation. Religious…

Running a big international event is not supposed to be super difficult. And if things go wrong, it can make the whole country look bad. Wednesday was supposed to be a big moment for Sarvam AI, an Indian company that made a powerful language model. But instead of talking about Sarvam, everyone started talking about…

Imagine if someone broke a serious rule in school — like badly hurting another student — and instead of being punished, they were allowed to just pay some money and walk away. Would that feel fair? Probably not. That is what the Supreme Court of India recently warned other courts about. The Supreme Court said…

Running a smooth global event isn’t rocket science. Reputational costs of embarrassment can be high Wednesday should have been Sarvam AI’s day to bask in LLM glory, but the buzz was stolen by a private university and its Chinese robot dog. What the Galgotias team did isn’t surprising. Right from kindergarten, schools commend and reward…

“The month of Ramadan is a guest that comes to wash the dust off our hearts,” goes an old Sufi saying. Sufi saints have regarded the fasting of Ramadan as a tool which sharpens the perception of the soul. Hunger polishes the mirror of the heart. Silence and contemplation are the ‘fast of the tongue’,…

Mumbai Climate Week is happening this week. Delhi Climate Innovation Week takes place in the following week. Thousands of people will gather to talk about climate action in India’s two largest cities. Most of the conversations would be about the climate crisis-the catastrophe that we are heading towards, innovations and approaches that we should adapt…

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition we look at the dog controversy at the AI summit, decode Marco Rubio’s civilisational erasure warning for Europe, the Dhuran(Dhar) Derangement Syndrome, and why some of us are not in a hurry to get anywhere.   Dog’s Day Out Ever since…

There was a time when India did not measure its success in quarterly numbers. It measured itself in knowledge, trust, shared prosperity and moral order. Long-run economic reconstructions—most prominently those of Angus Maddison and the ongoing Maddison Project—suggest that around 1 CE India accounted for roughly 30% of global output, and that for many centuries…

Insurance for all by 2047 is a grand vision. However, to get there all barriers must go from now to then. While aspiring to increase the insurance penetration – thereby shrink the protection gap – we are witnessing growing uninsurability in even the world’s largest insurance market. Historically the US is the world’s biggest polluter….

When India assumed the presidency of the G20 and repeatedly positioned itself as the “voice of the Global South,” it marked a moment of diplomatic ambition. From hosting the Voice of Global South Summit to advocating for the African Union’s inclusion in the G20, India has sought to reshape the global conversation. But a critical…