The missing human touch
Zubair Hamid Parray We are now living in a tech-savvy world filled with objects like smart phones, computers and tablets that have become an integral part of our life. It is now hard to imagine our lives without artificial intelligence. The progress that we have made from mobile phones to smart phones and computers to […]
Dunbar’s magic number and my sense of guilt!
Desh Bir Robin Dunbar, the anthropologist and psychologist, whose research found that the maximum number of people a person can have in a very well knit network of friends and acquaintances does not exceed 150. He claims that this is universally true. He must be legitimate in his enunciation since it is based on scientific […]
Complexities of social media
Mohammad Rizwan Bhat Social media has proved to be a huge revolution in taking human creativity and talent to a whole new level. A plethora of platforms have been and are being created daily to bring artists from every field to limelight. Many artists owe their careers to a virtual blessing called social media. There […]
The UPI moment for personal data
Anil Padmanabhan Last week India launched yet another ambitious plan to fundamentally alter status quo. This time with the intent of empowering individuals and small enterprises through their personal data. The Account Aggregator (AA) framework, enabling this monetisation of personal data, was launched at a virtual event hosted by iSPIRIT, a group of technology evangelicals […]
The rebound
Asad Mirza Pakistani government at the moment seems to be in a quandary. The manner in which it wanted to exploit the Taliban victory in Afghanistan has rebounded threatening to reinforce religious fundamentalists inclinations in Pakistan itself. US President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan was due to the realisation that religious […]
Erosion of values in our society
Syed Mustafa Ahmad, Syed Mehroosh The erosion of values in our society is a collective mourning for us. Every nation has some values that helps it to reach the pinnacles of glory and to remain apart from others. Till today, no nation has consciously or unconsciously, has trampled up on these to be called as […]
Spine surgery: Minimally invasive procedures revolutionising treatment outcomes
Dr Ayush Sharma With the transformation and development India has seen in the fields of medical science, technology, economy and others, India is already in the making of one of the major superpowers of the world. Neuroscience has seen such a vast progress and expansion in the last few years and the kind of treatment […]
A moment to cherish
N J Ravi Chander I spent countless hours playing outdoors during my childhood days in Bengaluru. Like most children, I aspired to make it big someday. So I worked hard, jogging, exercising and pumping iron, to keep fit. The hard yards paid rich dividends as I bagged medals and trophies in school and college. My […]
The Love for Definitions and Definition of Love
Fahid Fayaz Darangay When we think of anything, any action, any feeling, any choice, any behavior and even any relation that is abstract and can’t name with subtlety we try to define that. That is where that abstractness losses its being universal to everyone. Where there are definitions, there is irrelativeness.] One thing according to […]
E-waste, a greater threat than pandemic
Vijay Garg We are still not free from the corona pandemic. From now on, there is increasing concern about another epidemic in the future about which environmentalists have already warned us. Experts have warned that if e-waste and other medical waste reaches the forests from homes, the consequences will be dire and will hold for […]
