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AI replicating same conceptions of gender roles that are being removed in real world
There is nothing inherently empowering or sexist about technology. It just reflects the values of its creators.
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Lacking a clear strategic framework, Modi’s foreign policy is coming apart
It is now clear that the heft of the Prime Minister’s persona alone or the goodwill he enjoys cannot drive India’s external engagement.
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A passage through Europe
Prime Minister Modi’s outreach to Europe has injected pragmatism in a relationship which was adrift for some time. Now the proverbial ball is in Europe’s court.
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Modi can’t take India-America ties for granted with US President Trump
New Delhi is going through the motions of pretending everything is normal. President Donald J. Trump’s decision to torpedo the Paris Climate Change Agreement is yet another manifestation of the US decision to walk away from the very world order that it constructed and benefited from in the last 70 years.
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How a US Non-proliferation failure became a global cyber security threat
Though the devastating WannaCry ransomware attack was a failure on the NSA’s part, current UN cyber norms are far too weak to hold any international actor – let alone the US – responsible.
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Countering China’s submarine operations in South Asia
The expansion of PLA Navy submarine activity in South Asia is quite in keeping with a powerful navy’s need to familiarise itself with alien operating conditions.
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North Korea and a crisis in the making
The Trump administration is egging China on to take action against its proxy, using its considerable leverage with the North Korean regime.
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The long arc to Ankara
It was a visit which had been in the making for quite some time. But when it eventually happened, few in India and abroad took note of it, with the result that nothing much changed as a consequence.
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India’s autocratic streak of democracy
Last week in a conversation triggered by Yogi Adityanath’s style of governance by fiat, a colleague argued that India cannot function with the liberal democratic system. It needs a dose of authoritarian rule to transform itself.
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Niti Aayog’s ‘Vision 2032’ disappoints
Three years ago, when the Planning Commission was transformed into Niti Aayog, expectations were high. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the chief ministers of states spent most of Sunday deliberating over the plans and prospects for India in the next 15 years to 2031-32. The third governing council meeting of the Niti Aayog seems to have been an underwhelming affair, judging from the two presentations put up on its website. Why this despondency?
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