V.A. Nageswaran: We diminish ourselves as humans when we mistake ourselves for machines

New Delhi, July 6 -- Somewhere on the internet right now, a human being is being asked to prove that she is human. She squints at a grid of blurred photographs, hunts for crosswalks and traffic lights... Read More

Steady and stable as she goes: India and the Economic Fallout of the Gulf Conflict

Srinagar, July 1 -- When strikes closed the Strait of Hormuz at the end of February - the channel through which close to a fifth of the world's oil and the bulk of India's crude oil and cooking gas pa... Read More

Nageswaran: the stranger matters-why India must operate by rules rather than relationships

New Delhi, June 22 -- In May 2026, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, addressed Sheffield's annual Cutlers' Feast with a question that seemed whimsical but was not: Can artificial intelli... Read More

CEA: is the market right or wrong about India's prospects in the age of AI? Here's why it's both

New Delhi, June 1 -- Something unusual happened in May 2026. The cyclically adjusted price-earnings (PE) ratio for US equities-the Shiller CAPE, which smooths out the cycle to give a longer view of va... Read More

V. Anantha Nageswaran: AI does not know what it doesn't know-and that's reason enough for abundant caution

New Delhi, May 11 -- A group of 20 AI researchers recently spent two weeks trying to break a set of autonomous AI agents-systems with real email accounts, persistent memory, shell access and the autho... Read More

Rupee puzzle: Why the currency's exchange rate is not justified by India's economic fundamentals

New Delhi, May 4 -- There is a discomforting paradox at the heart of India's current macroeconomic situation. By almost every conventional measure of sovereign economic health-growth, inflation, fisca... Read More