Month: August 2020

Science and Technology

Of Technology Biases and Ethics

How Bias can creep into Algorithms. And why ethics is important in Artificial Intelligence. By Prosenjit Datta, former editor of Business Today and Businessworld magazines Technology per se may not have feelings but it can suffer from two human failings – biases and improper ethics. As the Indian government and private sector prepare to use Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Text Analytics, Deep Learning … Continue reading Of Technology Biases and Ethics

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Education should break walls not make them

Independent thinking and doing while also finding avenues to connect and collaborate is needed in education. By Maharshi Sanket Education can change a lot in the world. However, I believe its ability to make a difference in the world is conditional. Education should be defined individually. By leaving the process of defining education to the whole community, we end up promoting singularity and not independent … Continue reading Education should break walls not make them

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Lighting the fire of a regenerative imagination

By May East, CEO Gaia Education Excerpts of a talk during the UN High-Level Meeting on Education ‘No really creative transformation can possibly be effected by human beings … unless they are in the creative state of mind that is generally sensitive to the differences that always exist between the observed fact and any preconceived ideas, however noble, beautiful, and magnificent they may seem to … Continue reading Lighting the fire of a regenerative imagination

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Urban India’s opposition to alcohol prohibition shows its ostrich-like & elitist attitude

When Andhra CM Jaganmohan Reddy announced liquor prohibition, India’s opinion-shapers again called it an intrusion. But few know the havoc liquor is wreaking. By Yogendra Yadav, national president-Swaraj India The Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy-led government’s decision to introduce prohibition in Andhra Pradesh has once again exposed an ostrich-like head-in-the-sand attitude of our opinion shapers. By and large, they maintain a conspiracy of silence on the nation-wide menace … Continue reading Urban India’s opposition to alcohol prohibition shows its ostrich-like & elitist attitude

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Make no mistake: Agriculture alone has the potential to reboot the economy

Agriculture, food, and trade policy expert Devinder Sharma writes: “My understanding is that only agriculture can reboot the economy, sustain millions of livelihoods, and reduce global warming.” At a time when Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz says that neoliberalism is ‘dead and buried’, and the world, as a result, is increasingly grappling with the gigantic problems of rising unemployment, gnawing inequality and climatic change reaching a … Continue reading Make no mistake: Agriculture alone has the potential to reboot the economy

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Bad Data and Policy Making

Policies are only as good as the statistics used for arriving at the decisions – and the Indian government has been found wanting in that respect. By Prosenjit Datta, former editor of Business Today and Businessworld magazines For a government that is extremely fond of repeating that Data is the New Oil, lack of proper, accurate and timely statistics is proving to be its Achilles … Continue reading Bad Data and Policy Making

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Hobson’s Choice

The state of the government’s finances leaves no real option but to go for second-generation reforms By Prosenjit Datta, former editor of Business Today and Businessworld magazines The daily rise in fuel prices makes the government seem both clueless and callous when crude oil is at a record low and consumers are battling job losses and income drops. But the truth is that the Finance … Continue reading Hobson’s Choice

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The Politics of Poverty in 2004

A review The Politics of Poverty – 1 Identification of the poor: The big question By Sachin Kumar Jain THE STORY OF HALKI BAI AND RAJJO BAI Residing in a hut in the village Ghandila of Seoni district in Madhya Pradesh is Halki Bai, an abandoned tribal woman. She works as a labourer and earns a meagre amount of Rs.15/- per day. For this, she … Continue reading The Politics of Poverty in 2004

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