Eons ago, I grew up around jute mill laborers, power station workers and railway gangmen. They did not have erudition, but they had a certain dignity around themselves, especially when they had a job (which was more often not the case for jute mill laborers). Decades later and half a world away, faces are different, but the stories are virtually identical.
There have been significant changes in the laws in India, which we believe should be emulated in Pakistan. Some of these are mentioned below:
(1) Grant of maintenance to divorced Muslim women.
All over the world maintenance is granted to divorced women, payable by the husband. But reactionary sections among the Muslims took the stand that this was against the sharia law.
In this week’s edition of CrazyStupidTech, I wrote about how Chinese domination of “electric vehicles” is going to become a nightmare, not just for car companies, but also for Silicon Valley.
Ganesh Harinath- (Ganesh Harinath is the Founder and CEO of Fiducia | AI, Inc., a 20-year veteran of information technology and AI. Ganesh was earlier VP and CTO at Verizon and Verizon Media. The views in this column are his own) While Fiducia | AI is primarily focused on Next-Generation Fan Engagement with immersive overlays, […]
By Mayank Chhaya- The distinction of having accumulated the second longest time in space by a U.S. astronaut has come to Sunita Williams unintentionally and unplanned. Had it not been for five helium leaks and a thruster issue faced by Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June last year Williams would not have accumulated 608 days in […]
I was motivated to write this article by seeing a video show of a recent discussion on the Uttrakhand UCC anchored by my friend Kapil Sibal, senior advocate, Supreme Court, MP, and former Union Minister, with 3 prominent women as panelists.
That India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the oft-projected image of a leader putting in backbreaking 18-plus hours of work every day, could spare over three hours for a podcaster was the first striking thing about his much-discussed engagement with Lex Fridman.
The surge in the development of AI based on LLMs (Large Language Models, a type of artificial intelligence that can process, understand, and generate human language) is a massive trillion-dollar experiment.
John Gruber is not mincing his words.
What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC ( worldwide developer community) was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis. The Apple that commissioned the futuristic “Knowledge Navigator” concept video in 1987 was the Apple that was on a course to near-bankruptcy a decade later. Modern Apple — the post-NeXT-reunification Apple of the last quarter century — does not publish concept videos. They only demonstrate actual working products and features.
India is facing an unprecedented strategic challenge as China aggressively expands its military and economic influence across the Indian Ocean. Through a calculated mix of deep-sea ports, military bases, and infrastructure investments, China has successfully encircled India, tightening its grip on crucial maritime chokepoints. This is not just an economic game—this is a matter of military dominance and national security. If war were to break out, India could find itself surrounded, outmaneuvered, and dangerously vulnerable in its own neighborhood.
A train, the Jaffar Express, travelling from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, to Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in
Pakistan, was hijacked on 11th March 2025, along with 400 passengers, near the Bolan pass, leaving 6 security personnel dead.
The Balochistan Liberation army has claimed responsibility.
The great Hindu festival of Holi, known as the festival of colors, is falling shortly, on 14th March. It will be celebrated with great gaiety, fervor, and enthusiasm in large parts of India, particularly by the youth.
But it is in the region called Braj, which is the region around the city of Mathura in UP, that it is celebrated with particular revelry, festivity, carousal, liveliness and exhilaration.
This is the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan (called Ramzan in the Indian subcontinent), which began on 28th February 2025, and will end on 29th or 30th March (depending on the visibility of the moon).
During this month practising Muslims fast from the time of ‘sehri’ in the early morning, to the time of ‘iftaar’ in the night. In this
period they neither eat nor drink anything, and spend a lot of time in prayers.
I know this article will upset many Hindi protagonists, but that does not matter. I am not a popularity or publicity seeker (whatever some people may think), and I often say things which make me very unpopular. I say things which I believe to be true, whether that pleases people or hurt them.
The truth is that Hindi is not the common man’s language in India, not even in the so called Hindi-speaking belt. The common man’s language is Hindustani (also called khadiboli).
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin in a recent vitriolic outburst and fulmination has lashed out against the three-language formula in the National Education Policy, 2020, calling it Hindi colonialism.
In suspending 25% tariffs on all goods from Mexico today, President Donald Trump seems to signal that when it comes to trade his bark is worse than his bite.
We are all Indians, but do we know what is India? I am presenting five points for consideration.
(i) India is broadly a country of immigrants, like North America. About 93-94% people living in India are not the original inhabitants of India. Their ancestors came from outside, mainly from the North West.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took his gloves off as he directly addressed U.S. President Donald Trump as the latter’s “dumb” tariffs kicked in at midnight on Monday.
Many views have been expressed about U.S. President Trump’s recent meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky, in which he rebuked and lambasted the latter.
It feels like a lifetime even if it has been only over a month since the inauguration of Donald Trump as the POTUS. Unfailingly, every single day, we wake up with another ‘what now?’ moment. Trump, the ever-media-savvy consummate populist, gobbles up column inches as the Press covers every antic, foible, and admittedly a lot of idiocy, on the wavefronts of the Trump tsunami at the White House and on Capitol Hill.
The problem with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is that he has developed the aggressive righteousness of someone who has been egregiously wronged. People like that tend to exude an air of moral superiority which is fine within a limited circle of friends and admirers. In a larger setting, especially one that involves a head of state that has bankrolled your country in a matter of speaking, it can be seriously damaging. That is what happened in Zelensky’s now spectacularly disastrous meeting with President Donald Trump.
Microsoft is shutting down Skype. It will go offline in May 2025.
“We’ve learned a lot from Skype over the years that we’ve put into Teams as we’ve evolved teams over the last seven to eight years,” Jeff Teper, president of Microsoft 365 collaborative apps and platforms, said in an interview with CNBC. “But we felt like now is the time because we can be simpler for the market, for our customer base, and we can deliver more innovation faster just by being focused on Teams.” (CNBC)
By Justice Markandey Katju- (Justice Markandey Katju is a former Judge, Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman of Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own.) These days, the rage and infatuation all over the world is about AI (Artificial Intelligence). Many people claim it is a revolution, and are rhapsodizing and […]
The Oval Office pummeling of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky by President Donald Trump and Vice President J D Vance signals for now an end to any peace deal with Russia and potentially exposes Kyiv to more destruction.
I was always a great admirer of the Afghan people, and have written several articles about them.
I can hardly think of any people who have suffered so much in history as the Afghans. They were invaded by some of the greatest powers on earth–Alexander the Great, the British, the Russians, and the Americans, but never surrendered to anyone.
