Treat to discover Keshava Guha through this. Sharp, engaging, witty and observantly caustic! The best books on contemporary India somehow have the word tiger in it : Elephant, Tiger, & Cell Phone" by Tharoor, The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga & now this theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

Read somewhere that wisdom of crowds lies in the aggregate & not in average. it’s the emergent synthesis which makes the wisdom : the delta which is more than the individual parts. Much of this wisdom is from shared learning. Quite simply obvious but paused me for a few moments

Have you ever truly lived in Bangalore and not ever have had Dengue ?

Much of what we call AI today will fade in the background, and it’s whatever hasn’t been done yet Spell check/robot vacuumcleaners are AI we don’t call anymore. AIsnakeoil is a brilliant exposition of artificial intelligence on the spectrum of hype<>what-works & benign<>harmful

“Economic conditions shape moral values, but those values, in turn, shape political and economic outcomes. In today’s politically polarized climate, moral differences often underpin divisions over economic policy.” imf.org/en/Publication…

In the calculus of war, lives lost across countries do not arithmetically cancel each other out. They stack up in collective moral burden of humanity. One can stand by their govt in nationalist solidarity and concurrently bear the moral scar of collateral damage.

Joseph Nye, the stalwart in his last interview gave us these lines: “It's a bad spell, but I think we will survive it. I have no doubt. As I ended my memoir, 'I still have a faint ray of guarded optimism.' It's getting a little fainter, but it's not extinguished."

“It is an inner conflict of a civilisation with layers of psychological sediment that have deformed our collective future.”

Ocean vuong in his latest !

that’s so unnecessary (and funny !)

So “Life in a metro”sequel is knocking on the doors, and the teaser song is of tumhare sheher ka mausam. Lest the Arijit Singh remake version rewrites popular memory of this beautiful ghazal, sharing this gem rendition by Ustad Shujaat khan youtu.be/7mM3vkA7OQY?si…

losing a marker that notched the Lodhi garden sky.