Is Living without Laughter really living:
In 1934 during America’s Great Depression President Franklin Roosevelt initiated something called the Public Works of Art Project. At a time when millions were desperate, hungry and depressed, the program...
A History of Negligence
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How to Rob the State Bank of India
The State Bank of India branch at Defence Colony has just opened. Like any important public service institution, the place is a flurry of hectic activity. The bank manager is...
Work from Home or Don’t work at all!
I recently read a short story in which a fledgling writer is hectored every day by his wife to get a regular job. Busy with a novel which he knows...
Art as Obsession:
In 1970 American artist Michael Heizer began building the world’s largest earthwork sculpture in a barren desert in Nevada. Heizer has spent the last 50 years on ‘City’ – moving...
Artificial Intelligence
Will the next Prime Minister of India be a robot? A BJP robot or a Congress robot, it is entirely likely that a few decades hence, the country’s most important...
An Unusual Architect
Some five years ago, I was directed by a hired tout to the DDA offices in Delhi’s INA Colony for the mutation of some family property. It was a blistering...
Reinventing Ourselves:
One of the real challenges faced by individuals in middle age is the dilemma of balancing a stagnant work life, with the need to reinvent oneself – to move into...
Memoirs of a Loser
Summary: “I was once an industrialist-businessman with my own profitable pharmaceutical firm which was once listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Last year, without telling me, my partners changed...
Art and the New Museum
July 18, 2024
Making Delhi Livable: Architects in the national capital
March 26, 2024
BV Doshi’s Office, Ahmedabad
February 23, 2024An Anthropologist in New York
November 23, 2023
AI, ChatGPT and the end of Intelligence:
September 30, 2023
Thinking Small
September 2, 2023