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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- A few months ago when the editor of Rahul Pandita's debut novel asked me for a blurb, I wrote that his book was "addictive". I thought I had found a way to say something meaningf... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- The guy who runs the kirana store in my colony has a wounded look about him because I don't go there anymore. Things were not good between us even without that. He thinks I ask h... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Like birds are meant to fly, we are meant to speak. Yet, we barely speak what is inside us. Most of the time, especially with strangers, we speak nonsense. In my ideal world, peo... Read More