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Watch CutTheClutter: Argentina’s Javier Milei on ‘mental virus of woke ideology’ & rise of the far-Right

In Episode 1594 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta analyses the Argentinian President's speech at World Economic Forum in Davos & its broader implications.

Ola CEO ditches Microsoft’s Azure over ‘woke pronouns’, to shift to Ola’s Krutrim for cloud services

The decision came after Bhavish Aggarwal took exception to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn's AI chatbot referring to him as 'they'. He also encouraged other developers to move away from Azure.

US colleges are now raging battlegrounds—hitting cash flow, student culture & campaign

US campuses are not just seeing a rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. They're in the middle of a cultural war, where a broader political attack is aimed at ‘woke’ ideology.

‘Woke, opinionated, next Gurmehar Kaur’ — Twitter bullies force Aashna Lidder to close account

Twitter users trolled Aashna Lidder, daughter of Brig L.S. Lidder, who died in the chopper crash in Coonoor Wednesday, for being ‘radical left’ and ‘woke’, deleted tweets later.

Don’t rush to cancel wokes in McCarthyist panic. Keep 5 things in mind

Wokes have been called illiberal, online lynch mobs, an intolerant new religion and 'souped-up' Communists.

Adichie’s attack on ‘woke language’ is on point. But Right-wing cancel culture is real threat

Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie's three-part essay is what millennials get to hear from Gen Z and boomers suffering with over generalisation of the new generation.

Is Obama right to say ‘woke’ progressives & call-out culture hurt centrist liberal leaders? 

Former US President Barack Obama lashed out this week at “woke” progressives advising them to “get over that (call-out culture) quickly”.

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Piyush Pandey brought the language of small towns into ad agency corridors: Prasoon Joshi

Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.