Partha Sinha

Himanshu Jangra row: When the room laughs, cruelty gets a pass

June 16, 2026 17:15 IST

It is the audience laughing in the dark. It is the viewer forwarding the clip with a shocked emoji. It is the platform watching outrage and entertainment merge in the analytics. And it is also me, scrolling late at night, appalled by what I am seeing but watching until the end

Language does not reflect reality. It edits it.Subscriber Only

March 02, 2026 06:00 IST

From spinning a new meaning for 'humbling' to coining the term 'adulting', we invent words not because reality has changed, but because our tolerance for naming it plainly has thinned.

What if AI is the most human thing we ever built?Subscriber Only

November 24, 2025 07:10 IST

The miracle of LLMs is not their accuracy. It is their music. When a model hallucinates, it is doing what we do when truth alone feels insufficient.

In the age of algorithms, we need to pause for poetrySubscriber Only

October 23, 2025 09:07 IST

Poetry endures because it refuses perfection. It carries within it the human crack, the breath that falters, the moment that slips between sense and sound. In its imperfections, it mirrors us.

The lesson from Jimmy Kimmel: In the workplace, there is no free speechSubscriber Only

September 20, 2025 10:54 IST

A company can silence you in the name of brand safety or culture fit, and still claim to be defending freedom. The law keeps you out of prison, but it does not guarantee you a primetime slot or even the courage to raise your hand in a meeting

Bengaluru stampede: No villains, no terror, but the unbearable weight of unmanaged emotionSubscriber Only

June 05, 2025 12:28 IST

India is built on the crowd. We don’t just gather — we perform our existence in multitudes. But we still design our cities like we expect everyone to stay politely indoors until further notice

At IITs, we train students in quantum physics — but not how to ask, ‘Are you okay?’Subscriber Only

May 06, 2025 07:36 IST

The IITs, for all their glory, are emotional deserts dressed up as intellectual oases