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BLR Yesterday: Explore Bangalore's transformation through historical maps and archival documents. View maps of the city spanning over 200 years, and see your neighbourhood appear on the map as the city expands. 🔗 blryesterday.com

This is my reporting debut turning out exactly how I dreamed: under the sharpest mentorship; on questions & ideas I spent 2024 stewing in. Big thanks Samarth Bansal The Plank Read now—The AI Eyes That Refuse To See: inside Lucknow’s smart policing network theplankmag.com/ai-safe-city

oh yay! thanks Rest of World 🥰 in case you want to read my story too: theplankmag.com/ai-safe-city

Very excited to join Tech Policy Press's masthead as a Contributing Editor. Since late 2023, I worked as a fellow with their small and mighty team led by the tireless Justin Hendrix, and it allowed me to get back to what I love to do — write regularly. techpolicy.press/tech-policy-pr…

Is Privacy a Public Concern? Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has emerged as a transformative concept in modern governance, promising to make public services more accessible, efficient, and inclusive. Often described as "paperless, presenceless, cashless, and consent-based,"

LATEST: For Tech Policy Press this week, I write on the politics of India hosting the next AI Summit. The pivot from safety to innovation will suit India to showcase homegrown projects and evade scrutiny of its low-rights environment. techpolicy.press/india-will-hos…

The next AI Summit in India "a Global South country with reasonable negotiating abilities... offers a.. opportunity to reframe the geopolitical conversation around AI". And access, sovereignty & innovation will distract from the low rights Amber Sinha techpolicy.press/india-will-hos…

just finished class 2 of a federalism course I am offering this term. early days, but I'm overjoyed to find a classroom so alive, with students who question the basics, take little as givens, and push back when unsatisfied. reading list attached if it's of use to anyone.

X's lawsuit against the Indian government comes at a delicate time for Musk, who is seeking new access to India, and for Prime Minister Modi, who is under growing pressure from Trump on trade. Gift link: wapo.st/4hm9vnW

Happening Now!! Very excited to join today's discussion on the impact of Big Tech on elections in 2024. We are launching the report I worked on with the amazing team at Digital Action. I will speak about insights from Indian elections & broad trends from elections worldwide

For Center for the Advanced Study of India, I locate India's (non-existent) approach to AI regulation by seeking clues from the relative regulatory vacuum enjoyed by entities deploying facial recognition technologies. Thanks to Rohan Venkat for facilitating this.