A new faith in empathy is spreading through academia, technology and politics. The promise sounds humane, but the politics beneath it may be far less innocent than its advocates imagine.

The controversy over the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has exposed how AI has embedded itself into both the writing and judging of literary fiction—and the implications this holds for human creativity.

India’s digital rise depended on foreign infrastructure and supply chains. AI is pushing energy, chips, and compute to the centre of the race, and India still lacks enough of all three.

Space is turning into an operational arena where economic control, military leverage, and geopolitics merge, and the US and China are setting the agenda and pace. Where does that leave India, underpowered and slow-moving?

Draft IT Rules shift online speech control toward Ministries, allowing direct takedown orders to users and making platform advisories binding. Compliance pressure pushes platforms toward pre-emptive removal of political and critical content.

Here’s how. 

AI styling tools may flatten personal taste into a narrow, brand-driven aesthetic, but active negotiation with the algorithm, grounded in self-knowledge and history, can preserve agency.

Courts are holding social media platforms like Meta liable for harming children. India, with 25 crore adolescents and weak regulation, must act now—bans and legislation are no longer optional.

Physician-scientist says her book—about living a career in science—is for women who are currently making a career in science happen.

From gaming to social media, children’s digital exposure is growing fast. Practical steps and education are key to safe, mindful tech engagement.

The scientist-author speaks about the realities of building a career in science and the resilience needed to navigate failure, uncertainty, and structural barriers.

This exhibition pairs portraits of women mathematicians and physicists from around the world with their personal stories, with the aim of inspiring young women, who remain under-represented in the sciences.

At the Artificial Intelligence Impact Summit 2026, the message was clear: India wants to run your AI, not build its own models—a strategy that locks it into the lowest layer of the global stack.

The deals were flashy. But the ground reality? Overcrowding, long lines, and a city clogged solid. India wants to lead on AI, but it just has not figured out the basics yet.

India’s six-day AI summit produced a US technology pact, a non-binding global declaration, and record investment pledges. Critics said the hard questions went unanswered.