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Baton charges, lost business, platform profits: The three bills India pays for every agitation

India, Oct. 18 -- The organisers paid in lakhs. The state paid in crores, from budgets it can at least account for. The public paid in time, trade and mobility, in sums claimed loudly and measured bad... और पढ़ें


Sharp's canvas of Otpor: Regime change 101

India, Oct. 11 -- Otpor was a Serbian youth movement that used civil resistance to help overthrow Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000. Look closely at the fallen governments of t... और पढ़ें


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... और पढ़ें


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... और पढ़ें


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... और पढ़ें


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... और पढ़ें


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... और पढ़ें


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... और पढ़ें


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... और पढ़ें