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With voting in phase 1 of India’s election completed, I wonder what our founding fathers & mothers would've made of electoral democracy that is India

India’s general elections commenced this week. This year’s elections are being held from April 19 to June 1, with results being declared on June...

20.04.2024 20

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

New York Times vs OpenAI: Is there a case for copyright?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reconfiguring our lives and forcing us to question whether only human beings are capable of sophisticated...

06.04.2024 10

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

Simultaneous elections will force political leaders to shift focus from constant electioneering to long-term governance

“The survival of our democracy and the unity and the integrity of the nation depend upon the realisation that constitutional morality is no less...

16.03.2024 20

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

EU law is the first of its kind, provides a way to imagine the regulatory regime for artificial intelligence in the future

On March 14, the European Parliament passed into law the first comprehensive regulatory regime for artificial intelligence, laying down “harmonised...

16.03.2024 10

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

In the contemporary era, it is innovations in artificial intelligence that will transform what constitutes intelligent life

As a species, human beings have always been deeply innovative. Each major innovation has led to a reimagining of how we live. In the early 1900s,...

02.03.2024 10

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

Landmark judgment will help restore people's faith in democracy

Written by Jagdeep S Chhokar The Supreme Court’s judgment in the electoral bonds is a perfect example of the “sentinel on the Qui Vive” doing...

17.02.2024 10

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

'Kathaal' does what a good film should do, makes the viewer think

Contemporary Bollywood (Hindi) to Tollywood (Telugu) and Mollywood (Malayalam) amongst others — all our “mainstream” film industries and their...

17.02.2024 6

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

The future of water must not be that it is simply unaffordable to many of our species

When I think of stocks being traded, I think about shares of companies being bought and sold. However, my rather conventional understanding of shares...

03.02.2024 40

Indian Express

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For that matter, what does it mean to be a woman who is a runner or a biker or a wrestler or an athlete or a cricketer?

What does it mean to be an Indian woman who is a runner? To earn a living practising an athletic craft, in a country where simply being outdoors, for...

23.12.2023 10

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

Annual exercise of selecting a word of the year offers a handy guide to what was topmost on our minds

The Oxford Dictionary word of 2023 is “rizz”. Catchy and stylish with a substantial cool quotient, “rizz” is derived from “charisma”. It...

09.12.2023 10

Indian Express

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Sam Altman’s removal put both the development of AI and the fate of Microsoft at stake

The last few days have seen a tornado sweep through the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). On Friday, November 17, the board of OpenAI (the...

25.11.2023 20

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

By the turn of the century, not only will India’s population have substantially declined, it will also be much older

What is the future of humanity? Will we grow, will we thrive or will we slowly perish? Are we expanding or contracting as a species? And what is the...

04.11.2023 7

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

How can we unlock more private-sector funding to face the climate and development crises?

In June, more than 100 countries as well as representatives from global private sector entities gathered in Paris to affirm a single goal: No country...

21.10.2023 8

Indian Express

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Banksy as an anonymous artist pushes more legal boundaries

The famous graffiti-street artist Banksy (known as ‘Britain’s unlikeliest national treasure’) is being sued for defamation for over 1.3...

21.10.2023 10

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

We shouldn't have invited Pakistan to play in India, after the grievous loss suffered by the families of our soldiers

On September 13, 2023, Colonel Manpreet Singh, Major Aashish Dhonchak of the Indian Army and Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Humayun Bhat of the...

30.09.2023 30

Indian Express

Menaka Guruswamy

When process becomes punishment, it is likely that this will result in persecution of the accused

In the past few columns, I wrote about the State’s plans to introduce the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita , 2023, to replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860...

16.09.2023 10

Indian Express

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