We inhabit an age that mistrusts stillness. Movement is treated as virtue, speed as seriousness and fatigue as proof of commitment. If you are not visibly stretched, visibly overwhelmed and struggling to keep up, there is a quiet suspicion that you are not trying hard enough. The modern professional life resembles a perpetually overcrowded train…
Gone are the days when clients provided developers with the requirements of a solution. If we are not consultative, we are not in the game anymore. If we don’t foresee business challenges and help our customers solve their problems, we should go back 20 years. All of us have come across the joke where one…
How AI hiring is building a new glass ceiling The future-of-work story we were sold was simple: AI will replace humans. What is actually happening is more complicated, and for women, potentially more dangerous. AI is no longer just automating back-office work. It is deciding who gets shortlisted, who gets rejected, who gets flagged for…
As you read this, you may already have forgotten about a child barely ten years old who was fighting for her life in the ICU of a hospital in Greater Noida just two weeks ago. She is no longer in the news. But this is not her first battle. She was fighting for her life…
Recently, when I went to Bhubaneswar, Odisha, I visited the Chausath Yogini Temple (64 Yogini Temple) of Hirapur, also called the Mahamaya Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I was stunned. Hirapur’s Yogini temple is a Tantric shrine with hypaethral (roofless) architecture, as Tantric prayer rituals involve worshipping the bhumandala (environment consisting of all the five elements…
India is steadily strengthening its ties with Southeast Asian nations. PM Modi’s visit to Malaysia (7-8 February 2026) marked an important milestone in India’s engagement with Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Coming at a time of heightened geopolitical competition, maritime tensions, and supply-chain reconfiguration, the visit reflected India’s commitment to deepen ties with key ASEAN…
When actor Vijay was planning his political entry in early 2024, this column hoped he would declare DMK as his primary opponent. He, a debutant promising to be an alternative, has followed common sense to identify the incumbent as his main rival. In fact, Vijay has kept DMK so much in his crosshairs that the…
Ritu Tawde of the Bharatiya Janata Party-Mahayuti and Sanjay Ghadi of Shiv Sena recently assumed office as the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Mumbai respectively. The saffron flag of the BJP-Mahayuti now flies over Mumbai with great pride. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde were personally present at the ceremony. After…
Geopolitical uncertainty triggered by Trump has sharply shifted other nations’ AI focus from ‘safety’ to ‘sovereignty’. This is more than evident in Delhi’s AI summit, where India is pitching for a global leadership role. The shift comes at a time when US-based companies are miles ahead of Europe, and certainly India, on the AI chain…
India has built an LLM, has good startups & upcoming data centres. But that’s not enough Big things happen when people put their heads together. In Feb 1974, a handful of Taiwanese engineers and officials met for a breakfast meeting. Taiwan’s economy depended on labour-intensive factories at the time, but the breakfast group saw competition…