Short read: Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds
After Australia became the first country in the world to legislate that children under the age of 16 should not be allowed access to social media, a couple of Indian states are contemplating similar action. Whilst some argue the effectiveness of such a ban, others argue against the ban itself. For those, this week’s first […]
Short read: The air we breathe cannot be a luxury
Whilst much of the northern hemisphere is enjoying the onset of spring, Indian cities seem to have promptly skipped it to enter what is looking like a scorching summer ahead of us. But the good news is that we have some respite from the winter pollution. Naturally, outcries to do something about it have died […]
Short read: Knocker uppers and candle clocks: How people woke up before alarm clocks
Did you know that it wasn’t until the industrial revolution that human beings realised that it was essential to get up at a set time everyday and do so early in the morning? These and other fascinating anecdotes are studded throughout Jocelyn Timperley’s entertaining & informative piece. We learn from her that: “During Britain’s industrial […]
Long read: Why ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
As we still try to grapple with the two extreme views of AI making humans redundant and AI making humans super productive, here’s a lesson from history that can help us think about the former (substitution) and the latter (complementarity). David Oks takes the bank teller’s job and shows how the first technology – ATM […]
Long read: Trump Is Playing Chess. China Is Playing Go
Capt Raghu Raman is the former CEO of India’s National Intelligence Grid and a former officer in the Indian Army. A well-known speaker in corporate gatherings in India, he offers in this piece a comparison between Trump and Xi’s geopolitical strategies and how China is very cleverly putting itself in a position of supreme strength […]
Long read: The secret lives of young India in small-town gyms. Dumbbells, desire, freedom
The interplay of the medieval and the modern in north India continues to make it the most interesting part of India to study. Sagarika Kissu’s story of the how young women are enthusiastically working out in the gyms of small towns in north India is super interesting. Basis what Ms Kissu is saying, it appears […]
We Didn’t Start the War. So Why Are We Being Fried?
Although India doesn’t have anything to do with the war in the Middle East, over the past month, the Nifty is down 11.7% in $ terms, 3x more than the S&P500 (down 3.6%) and nearly 1.5x more the European index (European Stoxx 600 Index down 8.1%). So, why is India so exposed to events in […]
Short read: Less than 7% of male graduates find permanent salaried job in one year, finds new report
Even before the much-feared impact of AI on employment takes effect, India’s graduate employment situation looks to be dire according to this new study. Azim Premji University’s State of Working India 2026 report focuses on graduate employment. The findings are startlingly worrisome. “Less than 7% of male Indian graduates manage to find a permanent salaried […]
Short read: In Good Faith: Diluting the power of lies in a post-truth age
The Oxford dictionary defines post-truth as ‘relating to circumstances in which people respond more to feelings and beliefs than to facts’ with usage as ‘In this era of post-truth politics, it’s easy to cherry-pick data and reach any conclusion you like.’ Not that mainstream media was ever more reliable for the truth seeker, but at […]
Short read: Boong: A Childhood Betrayed, a State Forsaken
Understanding languages and cultures from different parts of India are one of life’s great pleasures. And for those of who have never had the good fortune of visiting Manipur, Lakshmipriya Devi’s award-winning movie ‘Boong’ is a gift from God (or from the ‘Devi’). Whilst notionally Boong is a children’s movie, in reality it is – […]
Long read: How ignorance, misunderstanding and obfuscation ended Iran nuclear talks
The Omani foreign minister’s interview with CBS just hours before the US-Israel attack, in which he emphatically claimed an agreement was being reached at the Geneva talks, will likely go down in history every time the current US-Israel-Iran war is discussed. What was the agreement reached? Why did it not stop the war? Patrick Wintour […]
Long read: ‘We’re constantly surprised’: The strange deep-sea creatures that eat whales
Did you know that there is an ecosystem of creatures which survives by feasting on the bodies of dead whales? In this remarkable piece form Katherine Latham we learn that “when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.” Whales usually die far out at […]
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