Risque Management
Wrap it before you tap it; For those all nighters; Is raat ki subah nahin; Always have protection; The heart wants, the flesh takes: this is a small sample of how condoms are advertised across...
View ArticleIs enlightenment a case of metaphysical solipsism?
-By Sumit Paul Two western scholars, orientalists and spiritually inclined individuals of the past century, Aldous Huxley and Carl Gustav Jung began to have doubts regarding the claims of enlightenment...
View ArticleWhy do prices change?
Have you ever noticed that the price of something online isn’t always the same? Like when you check a cab fare, and it’s different for someone else taking the same trip? That’s because some companies...
View ArticleCall it off!
148 years after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, we’ve uninvented it In March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the world’s first telephone call. It lasted for less than ten seconds and...
View ArticleYour phone, your price
Online marketplace is not a fixed-price shop. That’s a double-edged sword “From each according to their ability,” said Marx, and looks like cab aggregators were listening. Viral social media posts...
View ArticleGreenland
Have you ever thought about how countries own land? Imagine if one country could sell a piece of land to another country, like trading toys, but only if everyone involved agrees, and it’s fair for...
View ArticleThe race to equate race with caste is very Raj
There’s an increased attempt to import principles of Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the caste system. It’s propagated by a section of postmodern intellectuals and woke or liberal lobbyists. It poses a...
View ArticleSelf-learning AI doesn’t like bias, but bias follows it
All well-built AI is self-learning in nature, i.e., it observes reality for what it is without bias, decides a course of action, acts on it without any interference, and then observes whether its...
View ArticleGearing for 2025 and beyond
This is the time of year, when things get slowed down a bit, and while one gets time to relax and go on a vacation, spend time with friends and family, it can also be...
View ArticleHello mic testing 1…2…3
Today, let’s get back to basics and discuss the various steps in executing a data science project. One can go more granular than what we have in the following paragraphs. As they say, today’s content...
View ArticleManmohan Singh- history will be kindest! – Part one
The country has entered a period of national mourning after the death of the iconic Manmohan Singh. More than ten years have elapsed since Manmohan Singh vacated the post of Prime Minister of India,...
View ArticleDeath of a PM, a humanist
A N Sinha Institute of Social Sciences in Patna was a tranquil sanctuary for those seeking a break from Bihar’s political skulduggery in the 1990s. Situated in proximity to the iconic Gandhi Maidan and...
View ArticleStupidity Quotient
Earlier we were taught – its all about common sense and as the name denotes, it is supposed to be very common. Soon it changed to – common sense is not very common. But no...
View Article‘A tribute to Dr Manmohan Singh: The scholar-statesman who transformed...
Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s 14th Prime Minister, remains one of the most distinguished figures in the nation’s history. An economist of extraordinary calibre, a statesman of quiet resolve, and a leader...
View ArticleWho gets to age without judgment?
Why Female Actors Deserve the Same Fairness as Male Ones Imagine this: a 45-year-old male actor shows up on screen. He looks older than he did at 25, and no one really cares. But when...
View ArticleWho’s allowed wrinkles?
Female actors should get the hall pass male ones have At 45, male actors don’t look like they used to at 25, nor are they expected to. But female actors? No siree, they don’t get...
View ArticleIt’s never just one thing
What We Can Learn from Manmohan Singh’s Struggles Manmohan Singh was India’s Prime Minister for ten years (2004–2014). When he passed away, people remembered him for his kindness, the way he helped...
View ArticleIt’s Never Either/Or
What Singh’s frustrations tell us about governance EVERY Manmohan Singh obit noted the following: his decency, role as a reformer, hidden political savvy and govt dysfunction in his second term as PM....
View ArticleGames rule: Chess to call of duty
But these simulations can also injure and deceive us Games are a kind of untrue truth, says Kelly Clancy in Playing With Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World. The book’s about how human...
View ArticleWhat Dhirubhai Ambani’s faith & resilience tell us
Authored by Anil Ambani On Dec 28, 1932, in Chorwad, Saurashtra, Gujarat, India, Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani was born to Jamnaben and Hirachand Gordhanbhai Ambani, an ordinary school teacher. To the...
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