Building roads where none existed
It is hard not to write about deepseek-R1 this week. I ran the 32-billion parameter (number of weights in the neural network) version locally using Ollama. Mainly, I liked the availability of a...
View ArticleThe toll of cold waves on urban homeless populations
Delhi’s homeless population faces fatal risks during cold waves due to inadequate shelters and poor resources, highlighting the need for urgent action by government machinery and civil society. Lakhs...
View ArticleEPI Culture
Tell our VIPs: Every Person is Important Power and money buy privileges in every country. What’s unique in India is that here they also become a licence to be a total nuisance to the rest...
View ArticleEPI Culture: Every Person is Important
In every country, rich and powerful people get special treatment. But in India, they don’t just get extra privileges—they also make life harder for everyone else! Imagine you’re peacefully going to...
View ArticleIndia Needs to Grow Faster – What Experts Are Saying
India’s top economic expert, CEA Nageswaran, has written an important report about how India can grow stronger. He talks about three big ideas that the government and businesses should focus on. 1....
View ArticleWell Surveyed
GOI & India Inc should heed CEA’s advice In a lucidly written Economic Survey, CEA Nageswaran makes three key points. The first is deregulation. India needs it to boost its global competitiveness...
View ArticleThe What, The Why & The How Of Huawei
China’s mega hi-tech firm is made in the country’s image Huawei literally means ‘China is great’. House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou tells the story of the...
View ArticleDo worry, be unhappy
Democracy means never having to say you are happy. By all measures, we are living today in the best of times but we complain as though we are in the worst of times. Since 1800...
View ArticleFrom LA to New Delhi, for a breath of fresh air
While Delhi has become my family’s home for nearly two years, my hometown is Los Angeles, California, with its bountiful sunshine, incredible beaches, and of course, the glamour of Hollywood. I had the...
View ArticleBasant celebrates Ma Saraswati, Shiv, and Spring
By- Kamlesh Tripathi Basant Panchami is a lively and vibrant festival that marks the arrival of spring and the veneration of the Goddess Saraswati, the deity of knowledge, wisdom, music, and arts. The...
View ArticleThe climate calculus: Inside India’s green budget for 2025
Picture a future where Indian cities run on homegrown solar panels, nuclear reactors fit into shipping containers, and farmers harvest climate-resilient crops. The Union Budget 2025-26 isn’t just...
View ArticleWhy DeepSeek reminds us of China’s disruptive EV playbook
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting,” wrote Chinese strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu in ‘The Art of War’. This is precisely what his countryman Liang Wenfeng did when he...
View ArticleSlurs hurt too: Review the blind spots in anti-caste law
A Dalit woman and a Muslim man had an affair. The man’s mother opposed their marriage, hurling caste-based abuses at the Dalit woman. Bombay High Court recently ruled that no offence is caused under...
View ArticleWill they spend? A ₹1L cr question
FM gives taxpayers relief at last, but brisk growth is unlikely without long-overdue structural reforms Budget becomes a talking point when people see what’s in it for them. Sitharaman’s latest script...
View ArticleThe great engineer boom and a little misunderstanding
The other day, in my school group, I made a casual remark about how India has an overwhelming number of engineers now — so many that, for many, an engineering degree is treated like any...
View ArticleCartilage Lesions in Kids
Damage to the articular cartilage in kids most often shows up in middle and high school. Here is an update. The articular cartilage is the bearing surface on the ends of bones in all joints....
View ArticleCrash courses
India is growing fast in the aviation industry, but there’s a big problem: there aren’t enough air traffic controllers (ATCs). That’s really bad news. In the U.S., two horrible airplane crashes made...
View ArticleDeal, baby, deal
Trump’s launched his tariff offensive. He’ll come after India too. Time to start inking trade pacts with others It’s hard to please Trump in trade. Back in 2018, he called India “tariff king”. Even...
View ArticleDeal, baby, deal
Trump is starting a new trade war with other countries, and India could be next. It’s time to make deals with other countries to protect our economy. Trump is really tough to please when it...
View ArticleDeepPique
Why can’t India build AI like China? Our software engineers have other priorities Now that a Chinese startup DeepSeek has produced a large language model that has cut the legs from under the hype...
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