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Why our actions needn't reflect our inner posture-and the question worth asking in pursuit of inner peace

New Delhi, Sept. 3 -- Anyone who has lain awake at night knows that sleep cannot be chased. The harder we reach for it, the further it seems. We can prepare the ground- dim the room, still the body, s... Read More


Nageswaran: Open weight AI has already diffused across the world-with dangers we must act upon

New Delhi, July 27 -- In July, a Chinese company released an AI model called Kimi K3. On many tasks, it matches the best that American firms have built. What sets it apart is that it is 'open-weight.'... Read More


V. Anantha Nageswaran: Do humans know when to stop? The AI race forces us to confront this question

New Delhi, July 20 -- In a recent Financial Times column (2 July 2026, shorturl.at/y6B6Z), John Burn-Murdoch and Sarah O'Connor set out, lucidly and a little chillingly, the asymmetric risks of the AI... Read More


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