The Like button, AP news agency reports, has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a doodle on a Yelp pad. Once a tool to rate restaurants, it is now a global metric for human worth, a currency of affection, and a subtle tool for mind games. What began as a noble effort…
In what experts are calling ‘absolutely not what we meant by machine learning,’ a Greek woman has reportedly ended her 12-year marriage after ChatGPT allegedly ‘read’ her husband’s coffee cup and concluded he was having an affair. The grounds revealed not just infidelity, but a younger seductress whose name began with ‘E’ – which either…
At what was supposed to be a routine press conference, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera ended up putting on a performance better suited for a college improv session. Faced with a direct question about trade and tour operators boycotting Turkey and Azerbaijan – two nations that openly backed Pakistan during the recent conflict…
During the 2003 Iraq War, Saddam Hussein’s information minister, Mohammed Saeed Al Sahhaf – known worldwide as ‘Comical Ali’ – stood before TV cameras and denied the presence of American troops even as US tanks rolled into Baghdad behind him. His sheer detachment from reality earned him global notoriety and a fan following among irony…
While Operation Sindoor rumbles on – with soldiers on the move, news anchors shouting over each other, and WhatsApp experts offering military strategy – let’s turn briefly to something more important to everyday survival: the egg. Just a short while ago, scientists declared that the egg came before the chicken (something to do with proteins,…
India’s clinical military success with such clarity of purpose, restraint with power, and zero-tolerance for terror could only have come under a leader cast in a different mould – Narendra Modi. For decades, India had the upper hand against Pakistan – militarily, economically, and diplomatically – but lacked the will to use it. Previous prime…
India has long been the target of cross-border terrorism, most of it stemming from Pakistan. Despite repeated attacks over the decades and loud proclamations of zero tolerance, there remain glaring gaps in our ability to pre-empt, intercept and neutralise threats before they unfold on Indian soil. No one is suggesting it is possible to monitor…
“The Imprisonment of Compassion in the Social Media Age” In the age of social media, kindness and compassion are no longer silent sentiments; they are being captured in the frame of the camera. Today, most of the help is done for ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ and not out of true humanity. Help has now become a…
Pakistan has long relied on nuclear sabre-rattling as a shortcut to global relevance, its military establishment clinging to its supposed arsenal like a magician guarding an empty hat. Each time tension brews with India, Islamabad dusts off its nuclear rhetoric, hoping to induce international panic and pre-emptive peace missions. The trouble is, no one is…
One has to admire the Congress party’s remarkable gift for retroactive genius. The Centre announces a caste census, and promptly, Rahul Gandhi is credited as the visionary who forced the government’s hand. Never mind that for over six decades, when the Congress ruled uninterrupted, the very idea of caste enumeration was brushed under the carpet….
