The dividend that grows as you give

Sonal Srivastava Who does not want to be rich? We all want fat bank accounts, beautiful properties in pristine Alps or cottages in Himalayas; a house by a beach and…

Isolation Station

Three suicides. Different generations. Different triggers. Yet a quiet, unsettling thread appears to run through them—social isolation, manifesting in different forms. In Attoor, three elderly sisters—two in their eighties and…

A memsahib’s adventures with an elevator, or two

I live in a gated community, which means I am a proud menace to society. To take our entitlement to max, we have a segregated elevator system. Staff get one…

Junk This Idea

Imagine if two grown-up people decide to get married, but the government says they must first prove they told their parents. That’s what the Gujarat government is thinking of doing…

Trump’s Tariffs Are Not Gone Yet

The US Supreme Court recently made a ruling that affects the special taxes (called tariffs) that former President Donald Trump put on goods from other countries. Some people wondered if…

Suggestions for increased effectiveness of Commercial / Tax / Corporate / Industry specific Laws in India

There is no doubt that India faces multiplicity of Laws (at the Centre) passed over many years to take care of eventualities and events as they arise during the nation…

Four sutras for living

Over the years, I have observed that human beings are drawn to concise truths. A single sentence, if held deeply, can shape a lifetime. We call them aphorisms, maxims, or…

Pay-ship day

These days when I am retired, I remember and recollect the dramatic changes which occurred in so many areas during my Naval career and what seemed so difficult and unimplementable…

India’s AI frontier, a brain drain flare-up at home, and the world without religion

This week, India’s AI ambitions make a decisive leap as Sarvam unveils a 105-billion parameter foundational model. Back home, Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu reignites the brain drain debate with sharp…

Smaller models, sovereign intelligence

Part 2 of 2: Why India’s AI future may run through the edge, not the frontier In Part 1 of this series, we argued that India’s MANAV Vision has a…