We are a future away from the future. Let it come at a carefully treaded pace. It has been nearly two-and-a-half years since we saw the first large-scale and democratised usage of large language models (LLMs). I agree that the world has not been the same place. We have referred to the times as pre-LLM…
When the Make in India initiative was launched in 2014, it set a target of achieving 25% of GDP from manufacturing by 2025. In reality, the share of manufacturing has remained almost constant at about 16%. Amidst this underperformance, one state that stands out for getting 25% of GSDP from manufacturing is Tamil Nadu. Read…
Humanity has obviously gone through various transformations in how we communicate with each other, starting from languages to fiction-creation to books and then mass media that print and TV ushered in the last century. Each of these growth spurts have caused social transformations, and each changes till date are absorbed without a complete collapse of…
The globalisation of English has taken a lot of the foreignness out of foreign travel Bunny and I are in Torino, Italy. And Bunny is eager to try out the conversational Italian she has picked up through assiduous practice on the Duolingo app on her cell phone. We go for a morning coffee to Caffe…
At the Bespoke Art Gallery at Ahmedabad, it is the English Methodist hymn that hums in our senses as we glimpse the world’s oldest materials, pen and paper and clay that extol the beauty of the earth as trees, as ceramics and a steel wired sculpture to harness World Environment Day that falls on June…
One of the most beautiful and mystical states in the Sufi tradition is to experience the richness and abundance of a fakir. Only he is truly abundant who has given up attachment to all material wealth and chosen to accumulate spiritual wealth – basking in the glory of divine love. Fakir is one of those terms…
“Cheese” is what the English-speaking world says when getting a photograph clicked. We Indians have come up with our own “Paneer” for similar situations. In Estonia, it’s “Eesti” – the country’s name in Estonian. Estonians are of course very proud of their achievements since they regained their independence from the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1991….
Securing alternative routes to the landlocked Northeast In the intricate geopolitical landscape of South Asia, few regions hold as much strategic vulnerability and national importance as India’s Siliguri Corridor. Commonly referred to as the “Chicken’s Neck,” this narrow, 20–22 km wide strip of land in North Bengal is the sole terrestrial connection between mainland India…
For Indians the allure of the yellow metal both for its ornamental value and as an asset class, is as old as the country’s civilisation dating back to the times of Indus Valley Civilisation or perhaps, even earlier. While that attraction for gold has not diminished over centuries, its supply side has failed to keep…
In the evolving terrain of constitutional law, the Indian judiciary finds itself at the crossroads of liberty and latent harm, where speech is no longer what it merely says, but what it silently signals. As the architecture of expression evolves, especially within digital ecosystems, courts are compelled to look beyond the literal and into the…
