Wimbledon 2024: Krejčíková’s Resurgence and Alcaraz’s Ascent
Tennis at the highest level is all about character, attitude, and the frame of mind on the court. That is[…]
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Author: bala.sunderosho
Presidential Debates: A Mirror to America’s Political Soul.
At the outset, it was a relief that the first presidential debate between Biden and Trump, held at CNN Center[…]
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Fifty years of William Peter Blatty’s “The Exorcist”. Remembering the book and the movie.
Last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the classic horror film “The Exorcist,” written by William Peter Blatty and directed[…]
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Ruminations on AI, and Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s intimate and brilliant memoir chronicling the story behind the emergence of Generative AI.
A few months ago, during one of our daily conversations, my mom asked me out of the blue: “What is[…]
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Philosophy, Swami Chinmayananda, and revisiting a post from yesteryears.
Some coincidences are difficult to ignore. Human beings are, by nature, meaning-seeking creatures, and coincidences lend themselves to discovering patterns.[…]
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Elections, democracy, the Modi phenomenon, and his inevitable march to victory in 2024.
(Note: When I finished writing the essay, I realized that this is my 600th published piece. I began writing these[…]
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The Genius of TM Krishna, announcement of the Sangita Kalanidhi award, and the fractious and baseless protests within the musical fraternity.
The Madras Music Academy is to Karnatik music what Carnegie Hall is to Western classical music. The Academy is the[…]
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Randomness and the roll of the dice: Meditations on Yudhishtra, Probability, and Black Swan events.
(Note: this picture is an AI-generated image. It took several interactions with the Dall-E engine to get this scene right.[…]
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From Plato’s Pen to the Digital Realm: Socrates and the Enduring Dilemma of Writing
The Greek Philosopher Socrates never wrote a single sentence in his lifetime. What we know of him, his philosophy in[…]
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s beautiful biography of Murthy and Sudha’s eternal love and the founding of Infosys.
It is time someone wrote the love story of Murthy and Sudha, and I am glad that the acclaimed novelist[…]
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