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Safer digital world: What India's Cybercrime Treaty signature means

India, Oct. 4 -- On 25 September, on the sidelines of the General Assembly's 81st session in New York, EAM S. Jaishankar signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, saying it 'strengthens... Read More


AI in the file: Sovereignty under siege?

India, Sept. 27 -- We are no longer just worried about a classified document being pasted into a prompt; we are witnessing the erosion of the state's cognitive perimeter. A colleague in the governmen... Read More


50 shades of FATF grey: Pak's theatre of compliance

India, Sept. 20 -- Pakistan's latest overture to the Financial Action Task Force follows a script that has by now become almost ritualistic. Days before the October 26 plenary in Paris, Islamabad rais... Read More


Machines that love too well: Child protection in the AI Age

India, Sept. 13 -- Every surveillance apparatus we ever build 'for the children' has a way of outliving the emergency that justified its birth, and of getting inherited, eventually, by whoever happens... Read More


The arithmetic of Meta harm: Fraud as a line item

India, Sept. 6 -- Penalties, in this arithmetic, are not deterrence. They are a licence fee. Sit long enough in any cyber police station in this country and you begin to hear the same three sentences... Read More


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