Shakil Ahmed India’s criminal justice system confines 4,34,302 of its 5,73,220 prisoners without conviction the largest undertrial population in the world. This article examines the structural governance failures driving this crisis: an acute judicial capacity deficit, a bail framework that punishes poverty,…
TK Arun India promised tax certainty through grandfathering. The Supreme Court’s Tiger Global verdict undermines that. It’s the government that must restore credibility. It is a mystery why the government did not address, in the Budget, the damage done to India’s tax credibility…
TK Arun Trump lied about everything—inflation, jobs, economic growth, tariffs, immigration, and Democrats’ disposition towards the US—in his State of the Union speech. At a campaign speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi once said that King Purushottam (Porus, the Greeks called…
T K Arun AI will enable new human activity not imagined hitherto, to realise that potential, education must train young minds to develop critical thinking and imagination Israel has bombed the 365 sq km of Gaza into death, devastation and…
TK Arun AI sovereignty is not about apps or agents. It rests on GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, chip fabrication, political will, and the capital to fund long-term risk. The Artificial Intelligence Impact summit is on in Delhi. There is natural interest…
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. A vital deficit is a policy for storing renewable power, which is intermittent and missing from action for much of the day, forcing reliance on thermal power as India's mainstay.
TK Arun Beyond concessions, deal improves market access, strengthens strategic signalling; it could catalyse India Inc’s adaptation to era of AI and machines that embody AI. It will come as a surprise only to the politically naïve that the India-US…