Ethics of AI and the edge of expression
Courtesy the Instagram handle of The Indian Express, the sight of factory workers wearing head cameras to train artificial intelligence should trouble anyone who cares about dignity at work.
Courtesy the Instagram handle of The Indian Express, the sight of factory workers wearing head cameras to train artificial intelligence should trouble anyone who cares about dignity at work.
The swift collapse of the Trump administration's proposed anti-weaponisation fund is significant for reasons that extend far beyond the fate of a single programme.
The return of El Niño is a reminder that the world’s climate crisis is no longer defined solely by long-term warming trends.
Recently (on May 7 and 8), Swami Sandarshanananda of the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Narendrapur, presented a beautifully modernized view of Hinduism in two succinct commentaries.
In order to narrate and organize the past in a systematic manner, a discipline emerged that came to be known as history.
India’s cities today reveal a contradiction that can no longer be brushed aside as a passing phase of growth.
Wars often end not with a decisive victory but with exhaustion. In the Ukraine conflict, that exhaustion is now being carefully measured, counted, and paradoxically exploited.
The parallel between happenings in 2025 and the dystopian novel 1984 is unmistakable. Between them, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping have all but created the fictional nations of Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, imagined in George Orwell’s novel.
A rift has surfaced within the Junior Doctors’ Front (JDF), a platform formed to pursue legal justice for Abhaya, the young woman doctor, who was brutally raped and murdered at RG Kar Hospital, over financial irregularities linked to the ‘Abhaya Fund’.
India stands at a pivotal moment. We have the ambition to transition from a $4 trillion to a $30 trillion economy, yet we often seem caught between the impulse to reform and the instinct to protect.
