Shadow Warrior by Rajeev Srinivasan

The Dr B S Harishankar Memorial Lecture, Bharatiya Vichara Kendram, Trivandrum, 27th August 2024.

A Malayalam version of this has been published by Janmabhumi newspaper at https://janmabhumi.in/2024/0…

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Here’s a new AI-generat…

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After this fortnight, it…

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It can be argued on several grounds …

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The attack by Hamas on …

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On the one hand, there is massive propaganda from the west, ably supported by native sepoys, that India is on the verge of some genocide of Muslims. 

On the other hand, last month, the Speaker of the …

* It’s illegal. There is a constitutional right to worship. Even more so there is a right to equality to all citizens. 

* It’s immoral and criminal. To call for genocide. This is not free speech. This…

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I wrote ten years ago on Rediff.com (‘The g…

Here’s the video:

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I had the disconcerting experience of being on the ground …

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The optics for P…

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Considering that India a…

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Generative AI, as exemplified by chatGPT from Microsoft/OpenAI and Bard from Go…

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The…

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In Malayalam, the terms are “kireedom …

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There …

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There has been a whole…