How India’s embrace of AI provides a new model for the Global South

This week at the Global AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, I’ve heard from dozens of leaders from all over the world, and it’s clear most of us want the…

Grammar Of Justice

Courts must heed SC’s message. Payment to victim in lieu of sentencing inverts justice SC on Tuesday read high courts and trial courts a lesson on sentencing for the nth…

Jockeying for the Horse

We too can get ‘Fired’ up for the new Chinese year  The Year of the Fire Horse began on Tuesday. Whatever our geopolitical/economic wishlist, only the blinkered believe that China…

While critics nitpick, the world exults, India builds the future

Naysayers may say whatever they wish, but the overwhelming impression at the India AI Impact Summit is one of awe—bordering on disbelief—at what India has achieved, delivered, and now promises…

GALGOT.AI

Running a big international event is not supposed to be super difficult. And if things go wrong, it can make the whole country look bad. Wednesday was supposed to be…

Religious fasting: An ecological perspective

By Christopher Mendonca Christian liturgical season of Lent is closely linked to 40-day sojourn of Israel in the desert as they journeyed to the Promised Land. The 40-day season of…

Is AI good for democracy?

Politicians fixate on the global race for technological supremacy between US and China. They debate geopolitical implications of chip exports, latest model releases from each country, and military applications of…

Justice as a national service (JANS) – A harbinger of justice realised

The judicial system of our country was once described as facing an existential crisis of its own kind. Over 53 million cases languished across courts, from the Apex Court to…

On justice for the Indian woman

It is not often that a Chief Justice of India publicly questions the wisdom of his own institution in open Court. Which is why, the observation of the present CJI,…

Grammar Of Justice

Imagine if someone broke a serious rule in school — like badly hurting another student — and instead of being punished, they were allowed to just pay some money and…