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 […]
Long read: The Pentagon Went to War with Anthropic. What’s Really at Stake?
In last week’s 3 longs & 3 shorts, we featured Parmy Olson’s piece on how Claude is helping the American forces in the Middle East identify targets (see here ). However, Ms Olson’s article did not give us details on how exactly AI is driving the “kill-chain” in this war. In this regard, Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ […]
This is the Biggest Boom Ever in Global Capex. Are You Profiting From it?
A confluence of factors – surging power demand, higher defence spend, climate change, AI, shortage of oil & gas – is driving an unprecedented burst of global capex with Europe and America at the vanguard. This surge in capex, which overshadows the scale of capex seen even during World War II, has over the past […]
Short read: Mumbai’s BMC is running schools offering free Cambridge and IB education, and parents are lining up
One area where Indians excel is in creating caste systems. So, within a generation of the economy being opened up to the wider world, India created a three-tier education. The lowest tier is free government schools for the poor. The second tier consists of fee-paying schools affiliated to Indian boards like CBSE, SSC and ICSSE. […]
Short read: The inspiring and tragic story of Mabel Stark, America’s most famous female tiger trainer
Some of us might have come to know about Joe Exotic the Tiger King in the Netflix documentary during the lockdowns. Long before him, there is an inspiring story of a woman who became a tiger trainer, a profession considered the domain of men. “Taking a vacation in California from her job as a nurse, […]
Short read: Neanderthal men mated with Homo sapiens women. It was a matter of preference, study finds
For many years biologists have been puzzled by the fact that “the X chromosome in modern humans has a minimal amount of Neanderthal DNA. The X chromosome is one of the sex chromosomes. Women have two X chromosomes, while men have an X and a Y chromosome. “In contrast, autosomes—the non-sex chromosomes numbered 1 through […]
Long read: India’s LPG Crisis Has An Indigenous Fix. It’s Been Waiting Since 2020.
India’s vulnerabilities emanating from its energy imports have been thoroughly exposed in the recent past from Trump’s trade negotiations involving use of Russian oil to the recent US-Israel-Iran war induced LPG crisis. Whilst we have made significant strides in adding renewable capacity, we are a long way off from energy security. But as this article […]
Long read: Claude AI helped bomb Iran. But how exactly?
Over the past fortnight several news articles have mentioned that the American forces in the Middle East have used Claude to bomb Iran. Obviously therefore we are all keen to understand how exactly does AI help improve the odds of success on the battlefield. (Claude had also been used by the US Marines who captured […]
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