TK Arun

TK Arun

TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
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AI Disruption: A Wake-Up Call for Indian Education

Proportionately more computer-related workers in India do programming work than in the US. Does this foretell doom for those seeking an information technology job in India, after completing a degree in engineering? If so, the implications would be profound, and negative. Engineering, for many, is a ticket to the organized workforce, social mobility into the middle class, and, in the case of some, physical mobility out of the country and into the land of opportunity abroad. Does AI mean a roadblock to all that?

Modi Courts Trump While Keeping India’s Trade Defenses Up

US president Donald Trump would be horrified if told that he is proving Lenin right, but that is what he has been doing in the eight weeks since he assumed office. Obviously, he is not vindicating everything that Lenin said, just the observation that there are decades in which nothing happens and there are weeks in which decades happen. Trump has been making decades happen.

Trump’s Trade Fallacies: From Tariffs to India’s GST

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has called out US President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports into the country, saying the import duties would not be paid by some tooth fairy, but by American consumers, and so amounts to a tax on US citizens. This is wholesome fact-checking.

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