The future of AI in journalism will depend on a balance between benefits and risk, and raising audience comfort, trust and news literacy.
From being custodians of public knowledge, governments are turning to architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to accountÂ
AI is reshaping the news ecosystem in the fields of search, fact-checking and personalised feeds. If used well, it can support journalism and strengthen democracy.Â
The Cockroach Janata Party’s protests reveal digitally driven mobilisation increasingly influencing governance while established parties retain enduring electoral dominance. (more…)
Youth protests across India transformed digital dissent into accountability, compelling unprecedented political concessions and democratic institutional reflection. (more…)
Political exclusion, economic uncertainty, security concerns and diplomatic imbalance mark Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s fledgling regime. (more…)
India’s attempt to balance ties with the US has turned into a tilt, still deemed insufficient by Washington. For India, it is all stick and no carrots (more…)
Digital platforms enable bursts of collective emotion. But stable political movements require repeated interaction, organizational continuity, and engagement after the emotional peak has passed. (more…)
Decentralised systems can endure only when sustained by a larger sense of meaning. But the meaning itself must remain alive through debate, discussion, and the possibility of disagreement. (more…)
The Supreme Court’s intervention in the West Bengal SIR dispute must not be so deep as to adversely affect the electoral process. (more…)
Using institutions to remove people’s names from the West Bengal electoral roll through an opaque bureaucratic process is fraught with negative consequences. (more…)
