Kamal Ghorui- Bloggs
- March 17, 2026
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Engineering human-like intelligence into humanoid systems
Humanoid robots look convincing on stage or curated social media forwards. They walk, pick up objects, and in some demonstrations, they even smile and converse. This creates the expectation that…
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- March 17, 2026
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Hey kids, leave them teachers alone!
This is just an old tale, seasoned with a new spice. The old tale being that the other day, a student of mine had an examination coming up – a…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- March 17, 2026
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We’re judged by our spirit of service, character, selflessness – not by our low or high status, vocation, IQ or 3R’s
Not 3R’s nor IQ but being a Karma Yogi guarantees we attain the highest Perfection. And every citizen, even a cobbler, labourer, Vyadh (butcher, hunter who slaughter animals for a living), robber or a simple housewife…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- March 17, 2026
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Electric cooking is good geostrategy
India should cook on electricity, generated from domestic renewables and coal, not imported hydrocarbons, whether liquid petroleum gas (LPG) or natural gas distributed to consumers as piped natural gas (PNG).…
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- March 17, 2026
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Out of the Mouth of Babes
Sometimes the wisest ideas come from children. Two cheerful boys from a village in Tamil Nadu have shown that adults can learn from kids too. Pre-teen brothers Deva and Jiva…
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- March 17, 2026
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In search of our other self
By Jug Suraiya In Plato’s Symposium, a conversation between real and imagined participants, one of the speakers, Aristophanes, recounts how the concept of love came into being. Humans originally were…
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- March 17, 2026
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Wars, Governments, and Facts
While many Americans were watching the Oscars, their president, Donald Trump, was angrily posting messages online saying “FIRED.” But he wasn’t firing someone directly. Instead, he was attacking TV channels…
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- March 17, 2026
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Out Of The Mouth Of Babes…
…often comes the best of wisdom, as two pre-teen Tamil boys have shown. Adults, pay attention Two, toothy’n grinny, underprivileged kids, “child influencers” on Insta and YouTube, made it to…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- March 17, 2026
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The constitutional promise of dignity at the end of life
The question of how a society treats life at its most fragile stage has always tested the moral and legal conscience of nations. The recent order of the Supreme Court…
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- March 17, 2026
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Circles & cylinders
On the shape of things, and how it shifts “You must get into shape!” Kamala pronounced, as she casually body-shamed my generous proportions. I insisted that round was also a…