The novel coronavirus and the virus of new cold war
Some of the brickbats that western media and the governments are hurling at the Chinese is racist. Most of it is a continuation of the new cold war that Trump and co. have unleashed on China
India’s data protection bill: from protecting data to a surveillance state
India’s Personal Data Protection bill provides some protection against big digital companies, but none against big government. The objective is a surveillance state where any criticism of the government would be considered sedition
Ministers play hide-and-seek in Indian parliament over Pegasus
Replies in India’s parliament by two ministers ducked the question whether a government agency used the spyware Pegasus to hack citizens phones
What is the Indian IT minister hiding on WhatsApp Hack?
Instead of ordering a criminal investigation into the hacking of WhatsApp platform and citizens’ smartphones, the Indian IT minister Ravishankar Prasad is hiding behind the plea that ‘others did it first’
Quantum computers bring uncertainty knocking at our door
Google’s Sycamore has shown that a quantum computer can do a functional computation and that quantum computing does solve a special class of problems much faster than conventional computers
Rakhigarhi skeleton DNA: Indus Valley people not Rig-Vedic Aryans
New research has debunked purist far-right wing arguments about the settling of the Indian subcontinent and proved the role of migration and cross-cultural exchange in the growth of civilization
Amazon fires, Bolsonaro’s white nationalism and crony capitalism
The Right only denies global warming because its climate ‘science’ has ceded before capitalists.
Tech for democracy in the brave new digital world
If we can choke off the funds that can be spent on buying ads on digital platforms such as Google and Facebook, we would then have some amount of control on our elections