Author: TARUN GOYAL
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A Call for Restraint: When AI Outpaces Wisdom
The rapid development of artificial intelligence raises concerns about its potential misuse and harms akin to historical dual-use technologies. Executives are calling for collective restraint, fearing unilateral disarmament as technology knows no borders. The challenge is achieving coordinated governance before capabilities exceed wisdom, avoiding catastrophic outcomes that often define past arms races.
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माया मरी ना मन मरा : कांग्रेस (congress) की मृगतृष्णा
वैचारिकी : राजनीतिक टिप्पणी कबीर का यह दोहा तृष्णा की व्याधि पर था – “माया मरी न मन मरा, मर मर गए शरीर, आशा तृष्णा न मरी, कह गए दास कबीर।” पर आज इसे कांग्रेस की वैचारिक यात्रा पर आजमाया जाए तो पंक्तियाँ अजीब तरह सटीक बैठती हैं। सत्ता (माया) कब की छिन चुकी, शरीर यानी…
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आज के युधिष्ठिर के नाम: PM मोदी और SC/ST एक्ट का जुआ
धर्मराज की उपाधि सिर्फ न्याय से मिलती है, नीति से नहीं। युधिष्ठिर के रूपक में सत्ता, जातीय विभाजन और अत्याचार निवारण अधिनियम के दुरुपयोग पर एक वैचारिकी टिप्पणी।
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Two Tables, One Seat: India Between BRICS and G7
Vaichariki · Global Commentary There is a peculiar vanity in the belief that nations must, sooner or later, choose a side. It is the vanity of a world that came of age during the Cold War and has never quite recovered the habit of binary thinking. New Delhi, to its considerable credit, has declined the…
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BRICS 2026 New Delhi Declaration: India’s Quiet Triumph
After two failed consensus attempts in 2026, India’s BRICS chairship delivered something few expected: a unanimous, 140-paragraph New Delhi Declaration. Inside it – a written Chinese and Russian reaffirmation of India’s UN Security Council aspirations, an unhedged condemnation of the Jammu and Kashmir terror attack, and a string of quieter wins from GIFT City to…
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The Fault Lines of BRICS: A House Divided Against Itself
BRICS has the numbers to resemble a new pole of global power: nearly 40% of world GDP, almost half the world’s population, and three major powers at its core. But beneath the summit photographs lies a deeply divided bloc, strained by the India-China border dispute, Gulf rivalries, the Iran question, the Nile dam conflict, and…
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Pax Indica : The Golden Ages of India and the World That Came to Her Shores
For centuries, India was not a peripheral land on the edge of the world economy but its center – home to vast trade networks, world-class learning, and a reputation for wealth so enduring that scholars, merchants, and refugees kept arriving from every direction. This is the story of how a subcontinent once produced a quarter…
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The Silk Route : How One Road Built Empires, Broke Byzantium, and Still Runs the World
The Silk Route | How One Road Built Empires, Broke Byzantium, and Still Runs the World Statecraft Explained · Trade, Empire and Geography The Silk Route Built Empires How one trade corridor made and broke empires for two thousand years, why the fall of Constantinople sent Europe looking for Bharat by sea, and why Beijing…