Opinion
Ruchir Sharma's column: AI 'boom' should not prove to be a 'bubble' due to rising debt burden
Warnings about America's growing debt have been made since the 1970s, but none of the warnings proved to be true. However, now the unbridled debt is beginning to matter. Last month, it started selling government bonds around the world. And its first tangible effect may be that rising interest rates on US bonds put the brakes on the AI boom. If you look back at history, you will find that every major economic-bubble came to an end when the cost of credit for the companies at its center increased significantly. This includes the railway crisis that unfolded in the 1800s. In the last century, all
Pt. Vijay Shankar Mehta's column: How much information and how much knowledge is there in education
This is the time for a flood of information. AI contributed more to that. Now no one has anything to do with knowledge. All the work is going on with the information that is getting immediately. But remember that information prevents us from knowing. So what do we have to know? What are we human for, what is the difference between us and an animal - it will be called knowing correctly. And today's technological age will stop you in this. Be careful or else it will be difficult to know life, even if the whole world knows. Tulsidas ji has written a line – Hari Sevakhin na vyap abidya, Prabhu i
N. Raghuraman's column: Understand Gen-G, they're not as bad as you think
'May I come in', the HR person looked up from his desk and shook his head. The candidate came in, sank into the chair and sat down without trying to sit up straight. The HR person waited for a few seconds for him to take out the AirPods. When he did not do so, he asked to take out the AirPods and asked why he liked the job of cashier. He said that 'it is a part-time job and it is okay according to what I want to do in free time. I can go out with my friends, go on holidays and do other such things.' His answers, tone and body language had sent a clear message to the entire selection panel: he
N. Raghuraman's column: Love and good things are effective even in small amounts
As a child, playing on the street – especially when the weather was not very favourable – was never an easy task. After running around for an hour, we would be drenched in sweat and desperately looking for something to quench our thirst. The roadside dump quenched our thirst, but our body seemed to be asking for something else to regain its lost energy. In short breaks of two or five minutes, we would run home, use the courtyard washroom, wash our hands quickly, and pick up whatever we could find by putting our hands in the jar on the shelf. This was the rule of almost every Sunday. Most o
Rita Kothari's column: The voices of small towns are beginning to be heard in our stories
In his novel 'Ten Kilometres from the City', Nilesh Raghuvanshi describes a life far away from Bhopal that is thriving, full of difficulties and challenges, but also very deep and philosophical. The journey between this town and the city – oblivious to any other life outside its borders – is determined by the storyteller's bicycle. Like a narrator and a record, this bicycle is one of the last traces of the place, which has now transformed from an unrecognizable, neo-liberal and ordinary extension of the city that is difficult to identify. In the novel, childhood memories of bicycles begin
Pt. Vijay Shankar Mehta's column: If you have cultivated food, then understand that half of the meditation is also done
Many pairs are famous in this world. Similarly, there are some pairs of nature and conduct, which should be properly coordinated. Such as wisdom with knowledge, virtue with modesty, non-violence with truth, peace with happiness, joy with love, morality with character. And this harmony will fit right only when we understand it with the soul. We should all put so much pressure on our body, control the mind so much that we travel towards our soul. Some people say that it is difficult for us to meditate, so an experiment can be done – become aware of your diet. Food has a deep impact on mental h
Brahma Chellani's column: China's giant dams will prove to be a water-bomb for the world
Do you know which place China has chosen to build the world's largest dam? It is one of the most complex geopolitical and seismically unstable regions in the world. Just a few kilometers from the border with India, China is building an unprecedented project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. It is the world's highest-flowing major river. It is called the Brahmaputra in India. This huge dam will also leave China's Three Gorges Dam far behind in terms of power generation capacity, which is currently the largest dam in the world. Its reservoir will hold a huge reservoir of water above the pop
Ashutosh Varshney's column: A new political language has emerged in favour of women
Addressing young women in Pune during the 'Students' Goonj programme a few days ago, Rahul Gandhi said that in India, the ideal woman is put in three categories, she is seen only as a daughter, wife or mother. Rahul further said that there is nothing wrong in being seen as one of these, but it cannot be your only identity. Many women are excellent professionals, whose ambitions and dreams go beyond these traditional roles. But their efforts to achieve their goals are often filled with the obstacles that society and the thinking that drives it in front of them. It is necessary to fight against
N. Raghuraman's Column: What do you need to do today to be part of the 2030 workforce?
Your colleague on the assembly line of GE Appliances' 1.1 million square foot cooking-appliance plant in the US could be a form of physical AI. Don't mistake it for a two-legged human-like robot. I'm talking about industrial automation and physical AI, where machines are getting better at feeling, reacting, and completing complex physical tasks. Six-axis robotic arms flip giant stoves, glue glass cooktops to metal frames, and program control boards. Humans and machines are in a race to build a unit every 15 seconds, working together. The entire operation is monitored and data is constantly tra
Virag Gupta's column: AI is not free, expensive deal of data centers is also included in it
In the upcoming mid-term elections in the US, the issue of damage to water, energy and the environment from data centers has started gaining momentum. After heavy opposition, work on projects worth $ 130 billion in about 75 data centers has stopped in just 3 months. Since large data centers are necessary to earn huge profits from the AI revolution, they are now being tried to be installed in India. That is, there is an atmosphere of enthusiasm in India about those that are being banned in America. There is a lot of garbage in cities, but no one wants to build a garbage dump near their home. Am
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