Regulating Social Media: Why Accountability Is Better Than Bans
Protecting young users and democratic discourse requires platform accountability, not age bans that are hard to enforce and easy to evade.
TK Arun
TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
Beyond the Data Centre Boom:Rethinking India’s AI Strategy
Storing foreign data in India is neither necessary nor sufficient to develop Indian AI, and is guaranteed to create power shortages and spread Delhi-like air pollution across the country
Beyond the US: India’s Opportunity to Champion Global Rules
What are India’s options in the ‘Brave New World According to Trump’? ‘Modi understands he must make me happy,’ said Trump, in the context of India reportedly reducing oil imports from Russia. Nations must toe the line the US president sets. Or they will pay a price: direct military intervention in the western hemisphere; higher tariffs on exports or some form of sanctions elsewhere.
Green Power for Farms: India’s Next Reform Frontier
Here is a wish list of policy reforms that India desperately needs, and will give coherence to what has already been implemented. Some have been promised by the government but have not been delivered. Some merely need to leverage existing policy infrastructure and institutions.
Selective Regulation: Why Power Escapes but Gig Workers Don’t
What do you call someone who comes down like a tonne of bricks on ambitious youngsters with career aspirations but crumbles like a cookie in the face of a market-leading company flexing its dominance? The rest of the world terms them bullies. In India, we call them regulators.
Making Renewables Work: Why India Needs Storage, Not Just Scale
India continues to add renewable power generation capacity without any coherent strategy for its full utilisation, often ordering RE generation to back down to maintain grid stability.