AI in door-to-door sales

In door-to-door sales, a representative visits homes or businesses in person to promote the product or service and make a sale. This is as traditional as the sales process can…

Progress masks PREJUDICE

Manifolds are the manifestations of caste: There are untouchables and unapproachable, those whose sight itself is a damnation, and those who do not mix in marriage or even in eating…

Illusion and reality: Poetry, politics, and AI

How meaning slips from lyric imagination to power and code in the post-Enlightenment age Christopher Caudwell foresaw the eclipse of poetry by reason. In the post-Enlightenment age of politics and…

When leaders must step forward without letting ego take over

There are moments in leadership when delegation becomes theatre. A system fails. A scandal breaks. A team freezes. A market shifts. A public mistake turns private anxiety into collective panic.…

Transiting morality in governance & families

In the timeless corridors of statecraft, moral values, ethics, and personal conduct have always stood as the bedrock of credible governance. The ancient wisdom encapsulated in the saying “Caesar’s wife…

No country for Chigurh, Lecter

Norman Bates in Psycho, Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. We owe our understanding and dread of ‘psychopaths’ to these…

The path to inner edge for outer success

By Jaya Row Gita is the most powerful and comprehensive guide on how an ordinary mortal can rise above petty, personal distractions to become the extraordinary immortal Spirit. Gita translates…

‘Gen Z walks into a bar…and orders water’

Here’s something surprising: the world is drinking less alcohol. Sure, it’s still strictly regulated. There are age limits, massive taxes, tough licensing, restrictions on sales & advertising, and some places…

Still Supreme (Mis)leader

The spectacular election defeat of Hungary’s longtime strongman, Viktor Orbán, is just the latest in a clutch of ballots that shows European publics’ increasing disenchantment with the Trump-style gospel of…

400 shades of chillies

The potato crowns Bengal’s biryani, squished some, it’s ubiquitous in political rallies, in greasy foil packets. Meanwhile, biryani makers are finding workarounds for fuel shortages. Netas, of course, spar on…