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
New Delhi, Jan. 25 -- One way or another, the central message of all annoying people is 'why can't you be like me?' I cannot think of a more foolish use of human speech. Often this message is conveyed... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- It would appear that we are still in the era of extraordinary mobile-phone videos. The latest among them is footage taken by a bystander in Minneapolis as hooded officers of Amer... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 4 -- As this is my first column of the new year, I thought I would do something challenging-write what is good about the modern world. Here are a few things: Billionaires versus death... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 29 -- If you want higher standards for drinking water packaging in India, who do you turn to? A few days ago, the Supreme Court seemed to scold a petitioner for wanting that, calling h... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 21 -- I am glad that Homebound's shortlisting for an Oscar nomination gives me an opportunity to say something tangential. Modern poverty, even if it comes with a smartphone, is worse ... Read More
New Delhi, Dec. 14 -- In a Netflix documentary that celebrates one hundred years of The New Yorker magazine, its staff writer Andrew Marantz says that he has often been in places where people would sa... Read More