January 2025

And now it is Mahakumbha! In the land of the crowd, crowd management should have come to police forces and the governance mechanism is a natural manner. This expectation remains belied and the issue keeps surfacing in one form or the other. To call it endemic would not be out of place. We have had […]

Is the nation just an AI bystander, or has it been on the IT benches for decades? Some might say, this has happened with most of the technologies; the mobile revolution, internet, penetration and UPI notwithstanding. What progress have we made in hardware in the last few decades, while we have been singing paeans of

It has long been said that getting hacked is not an option, it is only when it will happen. The truism that emanates out of it is, “Getting hacked in the new normal.” It is turning out to be a harsh reality with every passing day. It is in this context it is imperative to

IBM Watson brought AI into public knowledge, was unveiled in 2011. It was developed on the game show Jeopardy, where it defeated human champions. Later it evolved into a powerful AI platform used for various applications. The story of Demis Hassbis and DeepMind is all too well known. The Alpha series has done yeomen service

While we are celebrating our 76th Republic Day, we stand proud for what we have as a republic and a country thus far. A time to remember the country’s milestones, the ones who contributed to it and also make aware all Indians of journey / achievements, currently where we positioned and the country’s trajectory as

It was on 30th of Nov. 2022 the AI genie was out in this world, in the form of ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI, which started getting users by the millions. Very fast it became a rage, thought to be a fad till then, AI made its entry into our day to day existence in

Whatever might be the reasons thereof, there is an unison of thought in the acceptance of the fact that there has been marked political debasement in the last couple of decades. Everything happening inside however much repulsive and crass is acceptable to the political class. Their interface with the outside world slowly started reflecting this

Pressure cooker education with a mercenary goal for a hefty price is coaching, which has become the norm in this country. What a change in the academic scenario in this country, the schools have lost their relevance. For more than a decade we have heard of “Dummy Schools,” these are not the coaching centres, but

When a technology transforms to a general purpose technology in this modern world, it is next to impossible to guess its progress and the direction it would take. No one knows which companies will take the lead and which tech leaders would decide its future trajectory. It is no gainsaying that the lead of a

If the world is up for grabs, the battle is bound to be fierce, engaging, full of surprises, see-saw many times, any number of competitors, and a roller coaster ride till the final winner is decided. At the end there can be many winners, who knows. It might also happen that a long battle of

Video footage of the right quality and coverage emanates out of a CCTV network, which is meticulously technically planned and operated, as per the requirements. It is much more complex than it sounds, and video analytics are coming into play in a big way. There are endless moving parts in this system, which has to