The Truth can never be hidden
The Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi blamed the Pakistani authorities for their ham-handed action in dealing with the hijackers who had seized the Pan Am aircraft, in which 16 people were killed and…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
Whether artificial intelligence (AI) will be able to outperform human intelligence—and whether that will happen in the foreseeable future—is a recurrent question fuelled by the portrayal of AI in popular culture. Central…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
The recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit offers a useful reminder of the limits of India’s efforts to isolate Pakistan at the global level. Pakistan assumed the rotational presidency of a multilateral…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
In 2013-14, the gross value added from India’s livestock sector was about 34% of that from crops. In 2023-24, the last year for which official data is available, that ratio touched 57%.…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
Most of us are indifferent and even averse to feminism, but stay rather curious about feminists. We may not notice this contradiction, let alone admit it, perhaps because we stay engrossed in…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
It wasn’t “shakti” but “bhakti” that I heard when the schoolgirl Jaya Bhaduri sang “Hum ko mann ki shakti dena …” in the film Guddi. It must have seemed natural to me…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
Some months ago, I spent time with a group of young graduates who had each spent about two years teaching in low-income, under-resourced schools across India. They were engineers, economists, lawyers, journalists…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
India’s most important rivers rise in a region it cannot see into, controlled by China, which treats the data about them as an asset to switch on and off. The Brahmaputra rises…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
For decades, our unrealised quest was to be an “A”-rated sovereign. This eluded us. Many of us who interacted with rating agencies remained perplexed by their opaque methodology. The predilections and biases…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep
Type 2 diabetes is routinely treated as a blood-sugar disease, managed through monitoring glucose, weight, blood pressure and cholesterol. A new study published in PLOS Medicine suggests that this approach misses an…
By Sohail Khan · 7 Sep