AI in the search for earth-like ecology
Pratik Kanjilal It is entirely about pattern recognition and replication, involving no creativity but trying, from experience, to predict human acts like writing a book or drawing a portrait. This week,...
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China’s Ukraine peace plan doomed to fail
E D Mathew Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the plan, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would be ready to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the details....
Festivals of India that awaken the spirit of unity in diversity
Akash Satpute India, the nation with the oldest civilization, culture, and tradition, is a land of festivals. In order to bring society together, numerous concepts entered the globe and many festivals...
Will the real Phalke Award please stand up
Namrata Joshi Of late, a proliferation of private awards and film festivals, named after Phalke, have conspired to befuddle and mislead even as some winners are accused of mixing up the...
Past and present taint keeps opposition divided
Prabhu Chawla The opposition stands divided to destroy one another. Unity in politics is about rationalising opinions and ideologies. Hence adversities unite adversaries. Such a confederacy is often birthed by the...
Remembering and forgetting a WWII Northeast battle
Pradip Phanjoubam Though winners get to write and flaunt the annals of battles and losers generally retreat from it, both always have a fair share of “unclaimed experience”. Sometimes, what remains...
Puffin’ and pantin’ on the Roald Dahl beach
C P Surendran The textual changes in Dahl’s work add up to a massive act of censorship. And this is carried out not by the State, not the social media mobs...
Bureaucracy and its political crutches
Sugata Srinivasaraju The two bickering officers are part of a nationwide phenomenon of being trapped in the web of political expectations, opportunism and factionalism. Even amidst a newsy and rather noisy...
Testing times for Shiv Sena movement and party
Sanjay Patil What will be the future of Shinde-led Shiv Sena? Can we imagine a Shiv Sena without the Thackerays? How will these developments impact the state’s politics in the next...
Ballooning superpower rivalry
Kajal Basu The balloon’s original surveillance target was likely Guam, but the weather skewed the balloon northward. The last month has seen an unprecedented fiasco centred on the US response to...