Internet brought millions of eyeballs to comedy and anyone who was called funny in school is now on YouTube. Comedy is not a funny business anymore, writes Aniketh Kulkarni.
The Stephen Colbert whom I had adored for his late-night talk show might just have been the ephemeral product of his feelings for a Republican president he immensely disliked, writes Latha Velu.
Like Neil Armstrong’s ‘one small step’, the retreating American boot has become a symbol of ‘one giant leap’ for the people of Afghanistan - into the dark ages, writes Kunal Bahuguna.
Governments in the past were able to achieve consensus. Modi's style of politics has made the political spectrum bitter with no room for negotiation, writes Dr Sudha Saryu Malhotra.
Indian PMs have always hoisted the tricolor from the ramparts of the Red Fort. Other locations can be Hampi in Karnataka, Lothal in Gujarat, or Nalanda in Bihar, writes Kaushik Mukherjee.
Govts, markets and societies alike will have to adjust and transform. Central bank digital currency’s entry is the onset of real fintech disruption, writes Neha Baid.
While the present ruling party’s love affair with conservatism has just begun, the void for a truly liberal party in national politics has widened with the fall of Congress, writes Balaji Alagurajan.
Two questions are pertinent: Why does the Trump administration keep making the same mistakes on the peace proposal? And what does a hurried peace plan mean on the ground?
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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