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Opinion | India Has Aced The Software Game. Can It Now Focus On Hardware?

Opinion | India Has Aced The Software Game. Can It Now Focus On Hardware?

Pankaj Mishra | Thursday August 01, 2024

Why do we lag in hardware? If we can excel in creating software that the world depends on, why can't we mirror that success in hardware?

Opinion | Is Sam Altman Wrong About India's AI Capabilities? Yes, And No

Opinion | Is Sam Altman Wrong About India's AI Capabilities? Yes, And No

Umakant Soni | Thursday August 01, 2024

On June 7 last year, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was asked this question when he was in India: Can Indian entrepreneurs compete with OpenAI, or should they even try? His answer was a blunt and definitive "No".

Opinion | Delhi Coaching Centre Tragedy: The Buck Stops Nowhere

Opinion | Delhi Coaching Centre Tragedy: The Buck Stops Nowhere

Bharti Mishra Nath | Wednesday July 31, 2024

No accountability is fixed to prevent the next accident. Lives will be lost, citizens will continue to suffer till the Union and state governments find a lasting solution to revamp India's dysfunctional urban local bodies.

Blog | Ruth Vanita On Love's Rite, Gender, Sexuality, And A Slight Angle

Blog | Ruth Vanita On Love's Rite, Gender, Sexuality, And A Slight Angle

Shruti Kohli | Wednesday July 31, 2024

Dr Ruth Vanita's story, A Slight Angle, is set in the midst of socio-political tensions in pre-independence India of 1920s.

Opinion | Will Bengal Be 'Divided' Further? Mostly Not, Despite All The Rhetoric

Opinion | Will Bengal Be 'Divided' Further? Mostly Not, Despite All The Rhetoric

Jayanta Bhattacharya | Wednesday July 31, 2024

As was the case with Gorkhaland, a separate state for the Koch Rajbongshi community would entail carving out portions of not only Bengal but adjoining states as well. Such an attempt may not sit well with the adjoining northeastern neighbours.

Opinion | India Is Turning Up The Heat On China - And Not Just In Its Neighbourhood

Opinion | India Is Turning Up The Heat On China - And Not Just In Its Neighbourhood

Harsh V. Pant, Sayantan Haldar | Wednesday July 31, 2024

The message is very clear - that New Delhi will not relent in pressing ahead with its pushback against Beijing even as the door is open for China to recalibrate its anti-India positioning.

Opinion | Why Are Our Cities Crumbling Under Just 30mm Of Rain?

Opinion | Why Are Our Cities Crumbling Under Just 30mm Of Rain?

Bibek Debroy and Aditya Sinha | Tuesday July 30, 2024

Our cities are paralysed by a mere 30mm of rain. The death of these young aspirants is a stark reminder of failure at multiple levels.

Opinion | Why Are So Many Tech Graduates In India Unemployable? It's The 'Cliff Effect'

Opinion | Why Are So Many Tech Graduates In India Unemployable? It's The 'Cliff Effect'

Jibu Elias | Tuesday July 30, 2024

Knowing how to code is no longer enough. Thanks to AI, the job landscape is evolving rapidly, and employers in the coming years will seek candidates with deep domain knowledge and an interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving.

Opinion | Here's Why Jammu Is Seeing An Escalation In Terrorist Activities

Opinion | Here's Why Jammu Is Seeing An Escalation In Terrorist Activities

Nazir Masoodi | Tuesday July 30, 2024

In the past three years, militants have established safe havens in the mountains of Jammu. They are trained in jungle warfare, and equipped with US-made M4 carbines and steel-core bullets for targeting armored vehicles.

Opinion | India's Neglect Of Its Athletes Is Also An Olympic-Time Story

Opinion | India's Neglect Of Its Athletes Is Also An Olympic-Time Story

Nishtha Gautam | Monday July 29, 2024

What should winning at the Olympics mean for Indians beyond the immediate photo ops? And what about the promised infrastructural and systemic reforms that would allow Indian children to even think of sports as a real choice?

Blog | The 'Woman-Math' Of A 31-Year-Old, Unmarried, Bengaluru Woman

Blog | The 'Woman-Math' Of A 31-Year-Old, Unmarried, Bengaluru Woman

Sanjana Ramachandran | Monday July 29, 2024

I've met lawyers and designers and writers and artists and technology brothers, and couples and divorcees and singles and weirdos and non-weirdos and what I'm learning is this: there is no right way to live.

Opinion | The 12-Letter Word Giving The Government Sleepless Nights

Opinion | The 12-Letter Word Giving The Government Sleepless Nights

Derek O'Brien | Monday July 29, 2024

A recurring theme in many of the powerful interventions on the Budget was a 12-letter word giving Modi and his coalition sleepless Delhi nights: unemployment.

Opinion | UK 'Kicking' Incident: The 'Civilised' West Must Do Some Soul-Searching

Opinion | UK 'Kicking' Incident: The 'Civilised' West Must Do Some Soul-Searching

Syed Zubair Ahmed | Saturday July 27, 2024

While Tuesday's incident at Manchester Airport may not have the severity of some past events, it still is an example of systemic racism and the West's inflated self-image poisoning institutions.

Blog | Presenting Gulzar, A Poet Who Embraced Quantum Mechanics Like No Other

Blog | Presenting Gulzar, A Poet Who Embraced Quantum Mechanics Like No Other

Arup K. Chatterjee | Friday July 26, 2024

A bulk of Gulzar saab's unexplored philosophical insights far exceed his filmography, poetry, and writings. What is often missed in his language and poetics are his metaphors from quantum mechanics.

Opinion | <i>Sarfira</i> To <i>Shehzada</i>, Bollywood's Obsession With Remakes Is Destroying It

Opinion | Sarfira To Shehzada, Bollywood's Obsession With Remakes Is Destroying It

Latha Srinivasan | Thursday July 25, 2024

Given the multifront competition Bollywood today faces from regional cinema and Hollywood alike, filmmakers in B-Town must start putting their money into original stories if they want to strike gold at the box office.

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