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Shadow AI, sovereign AI: The fine print of India's governance experiment

India, Aug. 9 -- An intelligence inside the state cannot be allowed to roam like a mythological animal merely because it is efficient. Oversight must be proportional to consequence. In a district cou... Read More


Dear Meta, 15 questions on protest you cannot dismiss

India, July 26 -- Whenever a protest spirals into unrest and youth migrate from feed to street, you-Meta-retreat behind a familiar line: that you are merely a platform, not a publisher, making no edit... Read More


How India's space programme became a foreign policy instrument

India, July 19 -- Private firms are beginning to carry weight the state cannot. In May, Skyroot became India's first space unicorn, valued at $1.1 billion. The ecosystem counts over 300 startups and m... Read More


Satluj: The butcherbird's sweet song

India, July 12 -- The butcherbird sings with beguiling charm, its melody masking predation. Innocence cloaks a hunter's intent as dusk settles. Each note of the shrike lures, each silence sharpens. Be... Read More


Brute force vs lean math: How China cracked the cost code of AI supremacy

India, July 5 -- While Washington fixates on export controls and hardware restrictions, a quieter, more insidious dependency takes root in the foundational software layer. For years, the global archi... Read More


Arson, amnesia, and the peacemaker's mask: The great Pakistan makeover

India, June 28 -- Every Iranian enrichment advance, every shortening of the path towards weaponsgrade uranium, rests upon foundations poured by Pakistani hands. Kafkaesque; in the grand theatre of nu... Read More


Fable 5, Fallen: When a trillion-dollar AI needed a passport

India, June 21 -- The Americans have decided frontier models are not global software products; they are strategic assets, as tightly locked as nuclear centrifuges or fighter jets. There is a moment-a... Read More


BRICS vs Bretton Woods is about a gradual reconfiguration of world financial architecture

India, May 31 -- As BRICS challenges Bretton Woods dominance, India balances de-dollarisation, sovereignty, and global financial realignment. Deep in the vaults of the Reserve Bank of India, a quiet ... Read More


Brown sepoys and colonial ghosts: The architecture of attention

India, May 24 -- The problem is the architecture of attention: western outlets applying ideal-type democratic standards to India apply different intensity standards to their own nations. When Helle L... Read More