December 5, 2023
Hello! Pratik and Digbijay here in Bengaluru. If you spent the whole of last week pouring through the chaotic developments capturing the twists and turns in the Sam Altman-OpenAI saga, you’re not alone. The entire tech world from Silicon Valley to India was glued to the drama as we followed the events unfold on Elon
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Not long ago, I heard a Tory grandee giving a speech in support of a political rookie. As the occasion demanded, he offered some advice. Life in politics would be hard, he warned, but success was possible: just look at Screaming Lord Sutch and the Official Monster Raving Loony party. You might think that the
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The first Pilgrim colonists who arrived in North America in November of 1620 failed in grand ways. Later generations—especially the Founding generation—learned valuable lessons from those failures. We should be thankful. Death In the Fall of 1621, with help from the local Wampanoag tribe, there was a harvest, which meant food for hungry colonists living
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To figure out how to make an mRNA vaccine, the team at Afrigen Biologics had to “start reading and learning”. (Jay Caboz) The $5 billion (about R92 billion) needed every year for the next four years for tuberculosis vaccine research is the only way to give future generations a shot at ending TB, experts at
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ONE of the imperatives that came out of the global pandemic was digital transformation. While many organizations had already begun their digital transformation journeys long before the pandemic, that unprecedented disruption accelerated most everyone’s programs and underscored the importance of building resilience through digitalization. The journey is a long and costly one, though, regardless of
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It would be an understatement to say that October was a momentous month for China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Beijing celebrated the initiative’s 10th anniversary by holding the third Belt and Road Forum; around the same time, its signature high-speed railway (HSR) in Indonesia became operational. The launch of “Whoosh,” the Jakarta-Bandung HSR, on
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Mauricio Pochettino said Chelsea’s victory at Tottenham on Monday proved he has matured as a manager in the years since his first spell in England. A frenetic 4-1 win in north London came amid two red cards for the hosts as emotions threatened to spill over in a manner reminiscent of the so-called ‘Battle of
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Torey Lovullo, who this year managed the underdog Arizona Diamondbacks into Major League Baseball’s championship series, played only briefly in Japan, but has credited the injury-hit final year of his career with opening his eyes to different possibilities within the game of baseball. One part of the Diamondbacks puzzle this year was Lovullo bringing in
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While the latest “strong” US jobs report and “cooling” CPI inflation have been touted as promising, a closer look reveals more complexity, and many American families continue to bear the brunt of DC’s failures over the last three-plus years. The payroll survey’s net gain of 336,000 non-farm jobs is a popular headline, as the figure
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Robin Gurien was a lone voice at the start of the discord. Gurien, a communications professor at Cal State Fullerton, stood before Santa Ana Unified school board members last April to share concerns about the district’s plans to adopt two new ethnic study courses for high school students. One, under the rubric of world geography,
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