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It is one of those enduring half-truths that Modi’s politics is joined at the hip with the interests of ‘middle class’. Budget this year, which has given the biggest single tax-break for the taxpaying classes in decades, will solidify this presumption in the minds of the commentariat, and especially those who think of themselves as…
Budget was once a spectacle – and a compendium of quotable quotes, from Thirukkural to Tagore, prefixed by Manmohan Singh’s invocation of Bismil via the evocative “Sarfaroshi ki tamanna” in 1991. It is now a balance sheet of the Union govt. As it should be, as it is in most of the world. Additionally, and…
Why can’t India build AI like China? Our software engineers have other priorities Now that a Chinese startup DeepSeek has produced a large language model that has cut the legs from under the hype factory of OpenAI and Nvidia, lopping off over $500bn in its market cap in one day, people are asking that old…
FM gives taxpayers relief at last, but brisk growth is unlikely without long-overdue structural reforms Budget becomes a talking point when people see what’s in it for them. Sitharaman’s latest script checks that box. After years, there’s an effort to leave more cash in the middle class’s hands. A day after nudging corporates to be…
China’s mega hi-tech firm is made in the country’s image Huawei literally means ‘China is great’. House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou tells the story of the blazingly successful high-tech firm that got into the West’s crosshairs. US-China trade war exploded into full-scale hostage diplomacy, as CFO…
The who’s who of American tech bosses were flaunted at Trump’s Jan 20 inauguration. It may be coincidental, or political, that a breakthrough Chinese-built AI model, DeepSeek-R1, that openly competes with “reasoning” models like OpenAI’s o1, was released the same day. With its crashing of US tech stocks, DeepSeek seems to have ended Trump’s free…
By Jaya Row William Shakespeare captured the essence of the Bhagwad Gita’s message when he wrote: “All the world’s a stage, and all men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances…” The Gita extols the virtue of sakshi bhav – a witness-like attitude. This objectivity is the key to material success,…
Over the years the tiny state has grown in size compared with the rest of the country Over the years, minuscule Goa has enlarged itself. It’s not that, like a sleeper wakening and stretching, it has nudged itself into the sea it faces. Geographically Goa remains the same, yet somehow it must have expanded, because…
So, the stampede happened. Each death is a tragedy but there’s also perspective – crores of people were at the Kumbh. VIPs given special access to the holy waters seldom face problems. It’s ordinary people who die. Many will say those who die here, at this time, are destined to go directly to heaven, for…
By Ashok Vohra In 1925, MK Gandhi was invited to participate as a member of the Phoenix group of volunteers in the Kumbh Mela, known as Magha Mela before 1857, held in Haridwar. In his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi admits that he was ‘by no means eager to attend the…
