Akhand Bharat …. Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Times of India, January 24, 2024: “Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav finds himself in the news owing to a contentious comment on ‘Akhand Bharat’ that invited a rebuff from … Read More
Times of India, January 24, 2024: “Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav finds himself in the news owing to a contentious comment on ‘Akhand Bharat’ that invited a rebuff from … Read More
While pundits and media obsess about the politics of the immediate, let us take a deep dive into the world of structural misconfigurations that badly affect our national well-being. A … Read More
Do small decisions have far-reaching effects? Dr Frasier Crane insists they do in an episode of the sitcom named after him (Episode 13 titled Sliding Frasiers, Season 8, Frasier). The … Read More
With the elections rapidly approaching all political elements double down on their narratives. If you want to look like a victim, you find ways to look more like a victim. … Read More
This piece could have very easily been about the recent Iran-Pakistan diplomatic spat. But mercifully, it is not. There are two reasons. One, it is still a developing story. Pakistan … Read More
The news that Elon Musk had named platform X’s AI companion ‘Grok’ came as a surprise. The name comes from Robert A Heinlein’s 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. … Read More
When you are obsessing about petty domestic disputes and mundane minutiae of existence you forget to pay attention to the world-changing events around you as they occur. Somewhere between the … Read More
It is customary to write a summary of an entire year’s major events in its final days. I have been doing this invariably for the past twenty-five years. Yes, that’s … Read More
Imagine setting out to settle on a distant planet with a large crew and realising as you land there after a long, arduous journey that you have made no provision … Read More
Countless books have been written about this ape-descended life form that just refuses to take a hint. Kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order primates, species homo sapiens. This is … Read More