Where AI meets everyday life and creativity.
We can predict technology and work in two categories. The first is catastrophic: AI will take all the jobs, unemployment shall increase, the economy we know now is over. This view is generated out of gradual fear, but it has been wrong about every previous technology wave — electricity, computers, the internet — and the … Read more
Meera is a third-year student at a private engineering college in Nagpur. Last semester, she spent three evenings writing a literature review for her mini-project. Her batchmate Siddharth spent two hours on the same task, submitted something better, and spent the rest of those three evenings watching cricket. Meera didn’t suspect Siddharth of anything. She … Read more
Arjun works at a mid-sized IT services company in Pune. He has seven years of experience in Java development, a decent salary, and until about eighteen months ago, he had a reasonable confidence that his career was on solid ground. Then his company started a project to automate the works his team handled. Not just … Read more
There are two types of “AI skills” articles being written in 2026. The first type makes a list of things that sound impressive — machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing — and attaches salary numbers that apply to maybe 500 people in the country. Useful if you’re a PhD student choosing a research direction. … Read more
Something strange is happening in how people learn. Ten years ago, if you wanted to learn something completely new — say, data analysis, or conversational German, or how to read a financial statement — you had two realistic options. Find a course and spend weeks going through it at the course’s pace. Or find a … Read more
Most conversations about AI in India focus on tools, income, and productivity. Very few talk about the rules that are quietly being written in the background — rules that will determine how AI is used, who is accountable when it goes wrong, and what rights ordinary Indians have in an increasingly AI-driven economy. That conversation … Read more
Let me start with something most articles on this topic won’t tell you. The question “will AI replace my job?” is the wrong question. Not because it doesn’t matter — it absolutely does — but because the way it’s framed makes people either panic unnecessarily or dismiss the concern entirely. Both reactions lead to the … Read more
Rajan runs a medical store in Coimbatore. He’s 44 years old, finished his commerce degree in 2003, and has never once thought of himself as a “tech person.” He manages his shop on Tally, uses WhatsApp for supplier orders, and has a basic Facebook page his nephew set up two years ago that he hasn’t … Read more
UPSC preparation is a long game. For most serious aspirants, it stretches across two to four years, consuming evenings, weekends, and the mental bandwidth that other people spend on Netflix. The sheer volume of the syllabus — history, geography, polity, economy, environment, ethics, current affairs, and the optional subject — is genuinely staggering. ChatGPT doesn’t … Read more
A few years ago, knowing how to use AI was a cool party trick for tech enthusiasts. Today, it is quickly becoming a basic workplace requirement, right alongside knowing how to send an email or use Microsoft Word. You don’t need a degree in computer science or coding to survive the changing job market. The … Read more