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In the Facebook era, there used to be a relationship type which often would flood groups with discussions: 'complicated'. The relationship we have with our devices is like that; the only difference is we don't see many discussions going on around this.Aft

Once you finish college or uni, there are a few people you will probably not see anytime soon in your life. Not a few, probably most.Near our college, there used to be a queue of shops. You would get assorted Indian breads (rotis) and different curries. T

Recently, I was on a call with a friend. Just a normal catch-up.The first ten minutes of our conversation went really badly. It was rather morbid.We were talking about how everyone we knew was doing. It was one piece of bad news after another. Death, hear

In one of the recent episodes of Lenny's Podcast (with the head of Instagram), Lenny made a comment about AI and strategy. He had expected AI to be good at strategy, but that hasn't been the case.I never thought AI could be good at strategy. Even though t

When you leave your country for a certain amount of time, what do you miss the most? Probably your family, friends, and the community you had in your country?But for many non-resident Indians (NRIs), there is something different.Recently, I was talking to

There is a meme template that is quite popular in Bengali circles. People post videos of flooded roads with sarcastic captions like "London today." There is a history behind that. It dates back to 2011, when the then CM announced she wanted to make Kolkat

On 12th June, the US government banned two variants of the LLM Claude - Fable 5 & Mythos 5. Only for foreign/non-US nationals. This raised many questions related to AI sovereignty.AI sovereignty, loosely speaking, is the ability not to be entirely depende

It was almost 17:30. A chilly overcast day. Our train just reached Liverpool. The Liverpool Lime Station particularly. Outside of the Liverpool Lime Street station, there's a poster. It reads: "Open, Proud & Welcoming." You can't miss it.This was one of t

My Garmin strongly suggested that I should not do any exercise that morning. Poor sleep history, high stress, and the whole dashboard was red. But I went for it anyway, into Kensington Park on our 3rd day in the city.It ended up being one of the best runs

I have a habit of skimming through election manifestos. They are not written in the stars, and a huge chunk of what's promised never gets implemented anyway. But they give you a directional read on how a party thinks about socio-economic problems.I rememb