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Jeremy Hsu in New Scientist: Artificial intelligence is enabling India’s politicians to be everywhere at once in the world’s largest election by cloning their voices and digital likenesses. Even dead
Continue readingDeepfake Politicians May Have a Big Influence on India’s Elections
Talk of Indian Prime Minister Modi’s successful economic stewardship is key to his appeal and legitimacy. Yet the record is far from clear cut Debasish Roy Chowdhury at Time: The
by Aqdas Afzal at Dawn: Predictably, the economic crisis rapidly transformed into a political crisis. This same sea front park became the epicenter of anti-government protests. Soon, the president resigned
Scott Hocker at The Week: Kerala is a microcosm of India itself. The 360-mile-long sliver abutting the Arabian Sea is a bewildering jumble of people, places and cultures. Impossible to
Continue readingKerala: One Indian State, Four Exhilarating Ways
Mike Herd, Investigations Editor, The Conversation: Here’s a story about an authoritarian leader of a global power who wants to bend the country in his image. He follows the populist
Nicholas Gordan with the author John Zubrzycki: Post-independence India had a big problem–about 40% of its land wasn’t, well, India. Instead, this land was in the hands of the princely
Continue reading“Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States”
Mihir Dalal in Aeon: To understand Narendra Modi’s India, it is instructive to grasp the ideas of the Hindu Right’s greatest ideologue, the world of British colonial India in which
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Complying with Labor Laws–more specifically minimum wage rate and benefits is generally a music to the ears in this part of the region –MNCs (Multinational Corps.)
Modi’s economy also offers a ‘real alternative’ to China Excerpt of analysis by Diksha Madhok in CNN: India is said to be a prime candidate to benefit from the ‘friend-shoring’
Continue reading“India is (not) going back into the background anymore. It has arrived.”
پاکستان کے نامور شاعر اور دانشور ایک مثال دیتے ہیں کہ شاعری کس طرح ایک سوچ کو سمیٹ سکتی ہے
Ameen Sayani, 91, who achieved fame and popularity all across the Subcontinent, and became a household name with his signature ‘Behno aur Bhaiyo’ greeting while hosting the iconic radio program
Noah Smith at Noahpinion: Pakistan is a vast country of 231.4 million people. It’s one of only nine countries in the world with nuclear weapons. It’s located in South Asia,