Attaining absorption and ecstasy in the love of God

“He who has access to the divine realities is drawn away in rapture,” said Hazrat Sayyid Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (1196–1258), the founder of the Shadhili Sufi order (tariqa). In our…

Bare to dare

From Delhi’s AI Summit to Maoris, protesters have put skin in the game In a demonstration that raised both eyebrows and hackles, some members of Youth Congress gate-crashed the recent…

Bombs Can’t Build A Republic

Khamenei, killed in US strikes, had been supreme leader for over 35 years. His son Mojtaba has emerged as the top contender to succeed him, but forces within Iran’s elite…

‘India is producing many AI developers but very few research engineers and frontier scientists…that’s a problem’

Where does India stand in AI development? Foundation models are not the right primary metric for India right now. That said, India has promising signs of innovation in smaller, frugal…

Why Jensen Huang Isn’t That Smart About ‘Smartness’

By Sonal Srivastava Jensen Huang is a smart man, one of the smartest out there. As CEO of the world’s largest company by market capitalisation, he has to be. In…

Gas Pain

A war involving Iran has caused a major problem for India’s energy supply. Qatar, one of the biggest gas producers in the world, had to stop production after being attacked.…

BJP And Babu

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/end-of-an-era-nitish-kumar-moves-to-rajya-sabha-bjp-set-to-rule-bihar/videoshow/129067294.cms In Bihar, just like in Maha, the party outshone its state outfit ally. But Nitish is still a political presence  Who’ll be CM in Bihar – Nitish Kumar’s unsurprising…

BJP and Nitish Kumar in Bihar

In the state of Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has become stronger than its partner party. For many years, Nitish Kumar was the Chief Minister (CM) of Bihar. Now…

Gas Pain

Iran war has cut off bulk of India’s gas imports. Pain will be felt from kitchens to factories, but there’s a way out It’s four days since Qatar, world’s third…

The new corporate survival metric

For most of modern capitalism, corporations answered one central question: Can you generate profit? But the defining corporate question of the 2020s has quietly changed: Do you deserve to exist?…