When calamities hit us, they seem to come in great numbers. The Tirupati ‘laddu’ disaster seem to shock us inconsolably - at a time when Manipur has flared up again, Kolkata is mourning the murder of a young doctor and nature has unleashed its fury in Kerala, Delhi, Mumba...
With the recent skirmishes in the Arunachal border and the help China extends to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka we tend to believe that China is India’s ‘enemy number one’. But when we look at India’s foreign policy and now try to analyse its economic strategies, we are proved all wrong....
Narendra Modi’s third reign begins, of course with a reduced margin and also not without controversies. The oppositionhad been campaigning that if he could achieve what he professed – “iss bar 400 paar”- then there would be no more elections. Happily for them, the reduced majority of BJP ens...
Whenever there is an election, we find the politicians speaking in hyperboles – and possibly, 2024 Lok Sabha has reached a crest. About prediction of results we see, for the first time, two apparently ‘rational’ poll analysts giving diametrically opposite figures. So statistics, and their anal...
The seven phase massive election process in the largest democracy of the world is on; and the churn throws up hope as well as despair. When the bubble of election propaganda settles down, we only hope we do not land on mother earth with a thud.The foreign media, which is always suspected to run down...
The 2024 parliamentary elections have brought to the fore several real but hitherto undiscussed and hence uncommon economic issues. The finance minister has declined to fight the election because she said she has not enough money. This is a rare case of personal honesty which we seldom come across f...
The Supreme Court finally struck down the government’s electoral bond scheme last week. It’s a landmark judgment in favour of transparency to the voters. It’s a victory for the people’s act – Right to Information (RTI). But will its removal really reduce corruption – the reason why it wa...
When Amit Shah was campaigning in West Bengal during the Lok Sabha elections, he had promised a moon to rebuild ‘Sonar Bangla’. One of the inquisitive reporters, wondering about the cost of so many projects promised by him, asked Mr. Shah directly as to how he would raise the money to fulfil the...
Today, illusion is more real than reality. The social media has made this possible. As the ancient myth goes, Plato had banished all ‘liars’ from the Republic: they included the poets, dramatists and the creative thinkers. It needed an Aristotle to restore their dignity, stating that ‘imaginat...
A leaked document of OpenAl suggests that the reason of dismissal of Sam Altman was that he had reached a stage in the discovery of ‘artificial intelligence’ which could threaten humanity.Experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) suggest that knowledge in AI is envisaged as having&n...
