Somewhere in Ballia, kids are showing their grandparents the planets through a telescope.

BREAKING: Judge quickly grants temporary restraining order in Harvard University case involving its international student program.

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In California, an explicit AI image might be a crime. In Texas, maybe not. If it's “affectionate”... maybe a pass in VA. I wrote about the fractured legal mess around deepfakes & what it means for victims, politics & platforms: bit.ly/3ZIl02S #AI #deepfake #techpolicy

My piece on AI moderation at X was cited in this thoughtful (and timely) Carnegie Endowment report on digital democracy & governance: bit.ly/4kIHVn0

A serious comment on India’s capital and infrastructure growth-Whose Growth Is it, Anyway? Understanding India’s Infrastructure Push- by Anisha. You can read entire story of reality of Capex and PLI in my books Budget 2025-26 and Dream Dented. thewire.in/government/ind…

Fabulous piece by Anisha our very own alum from FLAME University Whose Growth Is it, Anyway? Understanding India’s Infrastructure Push m.thewire.in/article/govern…

Over Rs. 54 trillion spent in public capex, but private capital still lagging -- who's really gaining from India’s infrastructure push and "growth" model? My story for The Wire -- thewire.in/political-econ… #India #infrastructure #economy

Whose Growth Is it, Anyway? Understanding India’s Infrastructure Push Anisha Sircar✍️ thewire.in/political-econ…

The Indian government’s record Rs 11.5 lakh crore capex aims to supercharge connectivity and growth. But with private capital lagging and concentration among a few players, where is this public money really going? Anisha Sircar✍️ thewire.in/political-econ…

Fascinating deep dive into where exactly the government’s capex goes by Anisha

for the past year my (former) colleagues Business Insider and i looked into the true costs of data center buildout across the country. bit by painstaking bit, we pieced together a database of permitted data centers & docs of water use + tax incentives. the series is rolling out🧵

Amazon boss says AI will replace jobs at tech giant bbc.in/4labOfY

"Women perform more than half of the labour that keeps the world running. And yet, most of women's working time (60%) is unpaid, compared to only 21% for men. And of all the unpaid care labour that is performed in the world, women do most of it: on average 3x more than men."

BREAKING: An early U.S. intelligence report suggests U.S. strikes only set back Iran’s nuclear program by a few months, AP sources say. apnews.com/article/iran-n…

China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

India is not the 4th most equal country in the world. We re-did correct & comparable calculations: India ranks 176 (& not 4) out of 216 on income inequality. On calorie consumption inequality, it ranks 102 out of 185. I explain this in The Wire m.thewire.in/article/econom…

An excellent explainer on how Jane Street manipulated India's markets. Ujval Nanavati, The Morning Context. themorningcontext.com/yesterday/jane…

NGO collects data on public toilets. NGO gets probed for why and how NGO collected data.