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Dil Doom Doom Kare: Four AI labs lost control of their models this summer. India’s AI governance guidelines don’t mention it Bhupen Hazarika wrote a melody for a heart that will not settle, a heart that trembles because it remembers something it cannot put down. The artificial intelligence industry has spent the past fortnight performing a...

China and India can make Greater Brics a force for the Global South The 18th Brics summit will open in New Delhi on September 12 to 13. India holds the rotating chairmanship this year under the theme “Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability.” The gathering comes as...

Brics built the new solar economy. Now it must build the systems to scale it. Last year, 80% of all new generation capacity added anywhere in the world was renewable. 80% of that was solar. And 80% of that new solar was built in Brics countries.  Three datasets define that...

Tarique Rahman’s BRICS dilemma: Challenges, choices and opportunities for Bangladesh As a BRICS chair, India is hosting the 18th BRICS Summit on 12-13 September in New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Bangladesh’s counterpart Tarique Rahman to the Outreach Session of the summit. Bangladesh...

The Weekly Vine, Edition 106: The radical thing you should do instead of the ’80s AI photo challenge Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. I tell everyone who is willing to listen that there are three great dystopian novels one needs to read. The first, by Bihari lad George...

Second Helping, Edition 2: A Brave New Carbonara On garlic confit, béchamel crimes, the Manchurian defence, and why I am declining my invitation to the future of food. I was recently offered a taste of the future, at lunch, in the office, and...

The mountains have stopped waiting for a consensus The international consensus that formed on climate change is dissipating as geopolitics gets complex. However, climate impacts are getting even more severe. Whether because of the politics of the West or global economic concerns, the...

The seven things I have learnt from people who have learnt seven things There was a time when becoming a guru required inconvenience. You had to retreat to the mountains, renounce a reasonable quantity of worldly goods, sit under a tree for an unreasonable length of time, acquire...

Pranic healing, its spiritual lineage and legacy–Part 3 As we continue to know more about Guru Padmasambhava, the sat-guru of GMCKS, his life & contribution to the world is worth mentioning. His influence extends from India to Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal...

When mountains collapse, the hazard cascades: Build beyond the river’s reach The Himalaya is a landscape of extremes: young and tectonically active mountains, glaciers, steep slopes, unstable rocks, and powerful rivers are increasingly influenced by rapid climatic change. But the catastrophic event of 26 August 2026...