Manu Joseph: The business class seat says a lot about inequality that people don't always want to hear

New Delhi, May 3 -- The best business class flight I have ever taken was with Air India. As the flight was taxiing for take-off, it stopped on the tarmac. There was a snag, and we had to stay in the a... Read More

Manu Joseph: Why filming reality in India is nearly impossible-and what it says about freedom of expression

Visual, April 26 -- A narrow winding cobbled way in Paris. My voice: "It's far worse to be poor in a rich country than to be poor in India. To be poor in the spectacular beauty of Paris is like Assam... Read More

Manu Joseph: Don't read too much into the Noida violence-poverty does not transform people into criminals

New Delhi, April 19 -- Among the worst analyses of human nature is the notion that poverty creates criminal behaviour. Yet, this is a popular perception. As a result, every time an agitation of the po... Read More

Manu Joseph: Why we cannot be sure Bitcoin's secret creator is actually Adam Back

New Delhi, April 12 -- What I'm about to say was once obvious, yet it will seem less persuasive with each passing year: Bitcoin is nothing without its origin story. The story is that an unknown man wh... Read More

Manu Joseph: The young are everyone's hope-but has youth become the world's most overvalued asset?

New Delhi, April 5 -- At a dinner hosted by a family that owns a newspaper business, the conversation naturally drifted towards artificial intelligence, then doom. I said something I believe in, even ... Read More

Manu Joseph: The paradox of being both upper-caste and dark-skinned in a deeply unequal society

New Delhi, March 29 -- In the 1980s, India briefly adored a teenage leg-spinner, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan. Then he faded, and later returned as a commentator. A few days ago, he was in the news after ... Read More

Manu Joseph: Why India's potholes seem poised to become a political issue at last

New Delhi, March 22 -- In my first job, one of my several bosses was managing a crisis at an event the magazine was hosting-police permission was not in place, the electricity had died and the whole t... Read More

Manu Joseph: Why the deaths of more than 100 schoolgirls should be reason enough to end the Iran war

New Delhi, March 15 -- A Tomahawk missile is more than four times the height of an Iranian child. It can carry a 400kg warhead and fly at the speed of a commercial aircraft over 2,000km. It can even f... Read More

Manu Joseph: Artificial intelligence isn't funny and seems unable to grasp why that's so

New Delhi, March 8 -- Like most people, artificial intelligence (AI) is not funny. I check every week. For some time now, I have been asking ChatGPT, and later Claude too, to tell me something funny. ... Read More

Manu Joseph: AI won't render us obsolete-Other humans are far more interesting to us than machines

New Delhi, March 1 -- The fear of artificial intelligence (AI) is so rampant now that it appears to be a matter of decorum to admit to this fear. People keep telling me AI is coming and that I should ... Read More

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